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Level 4 Diploma in Business Management

Assessing your own ability to improve: reflective journals and reflective statements

BM405 · Leading and Managing Teams — Week 14 of 16

CourseBM405
Week14 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Assessing your own ability to improve: reflective journals and reflective statements

  1. Reflective journals
  2. Reflective statements

What you will be able to do

  • 4.2 Assess own ability to improve knowledge and skills to be an effective leader and manager.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then discuss how they apply to this week’s topic and note one example from a real business.

Study materials

Videos

  • Reflective Writing | Gibbs' Reflective Cycle | English BSN | KMU, BSN, DPT, MLT, Radiology | PNC · YouTube · The NUML College of English · 15 min · for registered students
  • Reflective writing · YouTube · Academic Skills, The University of Melbourne · 6 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Writing Guide, 20.5: Looking Back, Looking Forward · PDF · OpenStax Writing Guide with Handbook (2021), 20.5: reflective writing about your own learning, pp. 673–678 · for registered students
  • Writing Guide, 3.5: Peer review and using feedback · PDF · OpenStax Writing Guide with Handbook (2021), 3.5 section on giving feedback and using it to revise your work, pp. 92–94 · for registered students
  • Supporting learners' agentic engagement with feedback: a systematic review · Open-access article · Winstone et al. (2017), Educational Psychologist. Review of how students can use feedback actively. · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Leadership versus management: inspiring people and planning…
  • Week 2: Leadership theories: trait theory, behaviour theories and l…
  • Week 3: Leadership theories: situational, contingency, transactiona…
  • Week 4: Management theories: management schools and approaches
  • Week 5: Team development and high performance teams
  • Week 6: Team development models compared: Tuckman, Adair and McGreg…
  • Week 7: Improving performance: SMART goals, training, appraisals, c…
  • Week 8: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Why improving performance matters to the individual and to …
  • Week 10: Motivation theories: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Herzbe…
  • Week 11: Vroom’s expectancy theory and the role of motivation in tea…
  • Week 12: Determining own capacity to lead: personal SWOT and leaders…
  • Week 13: Self-assessment tools: MBTI and emotional intelligence asse…
  • Week 14: Assessing your own ability to improve: reflective journals …
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Week 16: Final evaluation and project assessment
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