Essay BSBLDR801: Lead Personal and Strategic Transformation – Leadership Styles – Management Assignment Help

Assignment Task:

Purpose:
This sheet enables assessors to determine a student’s competency for each unit based on all assessment tasks submitted.  It also provides evidence to ASQA that the student has been assessed appropriately, after the student’s assessment is destroyed after the mandatory 6 months retention period.  Under the Public Records Act, this sheet must be retained for 7 years.

Unit Description and Application 

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to analyse and improve personal leadership style and professional competence and to lead organisational transformation and learning for strategic outcomes.

It covers leading transformational practices, cultivating collaborative practices, completing ongoing professional development and providing strategic leadership in a dynamic context.

It applies to those who use cognitive and creative skills to review, critically analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge, in order to generate ideas and provide solutions to complex problems. They use communication skills to demonstrate their understanding of theoretical concepts and to transfer knowledge and ideas to others.

Assessment Task 1:

Written Questions:
1. Describe the following leadership styles and provide two examples of situations in which each style might be effective:

• Dictatorial style
• Autocratic or authoritarian style
• Democratic leadership style
• Consultative leadership style

2. Describe the personal development planning methodology.

3. Briefly outline three (3) techniques used to collect data when evaluating business opportunities.

4. What does PEST analysis stand for? Describe the process for external environment scanning relating to social, political, economic and technological developments using a PEST analysis.

5. Explain emotional intelligence and its relationship to individual and team effectiveness.

6. Explain what you understand by organisational change or transformation.

Assessment Task 2- Unit Project:

Scenario

You are to assume that you have recently been appointed as a General Manager for a vocational training organisation that delivers training to students.  Your assessor will provide you with the business plan of an RTO for this assessment, as a case study. (attachment on Moodle)

You may use the business plan given to you, or select the plan of another training organisation of your own choice. 

However, the organisation must be based in Australia and be registered with a regulatory authority such as the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), the Victorian Registration and Quality Authority (VRQA) or Training Accreditation Council (TAC) in Western Australia.

In addition, the organisation’s business plan must be comprehensive and cover the following points:

• relevant legislative and regulatory context of the organisation
• organisation’s mission, purpose and values
• organisation’s objectives, plans and strategies, including for staff learning and development

You must attach a copy of the organisational plan you have used. 

You must ensure you have the necessary permission to use the organisational plan unless it is published for public use. 

Task A: Research the following requirements for your selected RTO and write a report on your findings:

1. State the mission, purpose and values of the selected organisation.
2. Outline the selected organisation’s objectives, plans and strategies.
3. Determine and discuss the commonwealth and state legislative and regulatory context relevant to the RTO/ organisation you have selected and provided a brief note on how they affect the organisation’s operations.
4. Research and analyse the information you have gathered from the organisation’s business/ strategic plans and other intelligence sources such as industry reports provided in your readings, and identify the requirements for the following qualities and competencies for a leader in the VET industry:

• professional competence 
• personal development objectives and priorities
• ability to role model
• ability to build an effective organisational and workplace culture
• operational accountabilities and responsibilities