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Level 6 Diploma in Business Management

Assessing Individual Development Needs

BM601 · Leadership and People Management — Week 7 of 16

CourseBM601
Week7 of 16
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This week’s topics

Assessing Individual Development Needs

  1. Skills gap analysis
  2. Personal development plans
  3. 360-degree feedback mechanisms
  4. Competency framework mapping
  5. Lecture 50: Development Planning: GAPS Analysis
  6. Lecture 25: Assessing Leadership Behaviors: Multi-rater feedback instruments
  7. Competency Mapping

What you will be able to do

  • 3.2 Discuss how development needs of an individual employee can be assessed.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: discuss how development needs of an individual employee can be assessed.

Study materials

Videos

  • Competency Mapping · YouTube · MBA Planet · 25 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Organizational Behavior, ch. 8.1–8.2: Appraisal systems and techniques · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 218–232 · for registered students
  • Principles of Management, ch. 11.6: Talent development and succession planning · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 315–326 · for registered students
  • Introduction to Business 2e, ch. 8.4: Employee training and development · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 263–265 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Leadership Fundamentals and Managerial Differences
  • Week 2: Leadership Styles in Organisational Contexts
  • Week 3: Motivation Theories and Strategic Alignment
  • Week 4: Reward Systems and Organisational Leadership
  • Week 5: Monitoring Employee Engagement and Workplace Performance
  • Week 6: Planning Performance Monitoring Systems
  • Week 7: Assessing Individual Development Needs
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Evaluating Appraisal and Assessment Systems
  • Week 10: Team Building Models and Organisational Benefits
  • Week 11: Conflict Management and Resolution in Teams
  • Week 12: Applying Leadership and People Management in practice: case…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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