Advanced Diploma of Leadership and Management: Assessment Report

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Advanced Diploma of Leadership and Management
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Table of Contents
Assessment Task 1...........................................................................................................................3
Assessment 2.................................................................................................................................18
1. Why are interpersonal skills important in a leadership role?.............................................18
2. How can you encourage participation through your leadership?.......................................18
3. What are the benefits of networking?.................................................................................18
4. How can you ensure you get the most out of your networking event?...............................18
5. What risks do you need to be aware of the/plan for at work choose an example relating to
your workplace? List the possible consequences and explain how you can limit the risk........19
Assessment 3.................................................................................................................................20
1. How can you communicate your organisation’s mission and goals?.................................20
2. Why is it important, as a leader, to be able to influence groups and individuals?.............20
3. What is involved in building a team?.................................................................................20
4. What can you do to support a team?...................................................................................20
5. How can you demonstrate personal and professional competence?...................................20
References......................................................................................................................................21
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Assessment Task 1.
Activity
1A Select the organisation of your choice and define or indicate if your
organization has objectives, values, and standards. Are they part of the
organization's strategic direction?
Objectives Values Standards
To provide clean
and fresh air for
everyone.
Radic8 adopts
values of
technology.
Standard of Radic8 are the ways
that govern their internal
external behavior.
Enable people to
take control of
the indoor
environment.
Quality – providing
superior quality
products to the
world.
Standards are the rules of
Radic8 (Pedersen, et.al,2018).
They want that
people should
adopt healthy
living habits.
Style and
affordability –
They make a
product which suits
the lifestyle of the
person.
Standards are stern and
yielding.
Selected organization is the Radic8. In the strategic objectives of the
company, there are two segments one is financial and other is customer
objectives. In financial strategic objectives, they are aiming to exceed
15million GBP in the year 2018. Their customer strategic objectives
define that they want to develop a new customer base for targeting a new
market. Currently, their management is adopting various theories,
principles, and methods to acquire the market share. With this knowledge
they also need the latest market research so they can (management of
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Radic8) can apply that principles (Welford, 2016).
1B Using chosen workplace examples, complete the following:
Describe links between organisational objectives, values and
standards, and the responsibilities.
These all are inter-link among each other. As when objectives and values
for the department of Radic8 decide than they should also assign the
responsibility to the management. For example, when any department is
responsible for doing the task but they don’t have the proper authority to
make a transaction. Then their productivity will be distributed
(Mosey,2017).
Reference the agreed policy or procedure.
Radic8 works on the policy of delegate responsibility and control access.
They believe management should give responsibility to the department
and in addition to this management should have proper control over
granting users.
Detail any relevant media and
language used to communicate.
T.V channels, social media,
newspaper, magazine, etc.
Detail any methods used to
validate the receipt or
understanding of the message.
Web form validation –The aim of
this method is to provide adequate
information to successfully
complete the task(Hanson,et.al,
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2016).
1C What is the importance of stating clear expectations of internal groups and
individuals?
The main importance is that this keeps the employee's focus and team members
can mitigate the tension. When the internal expectation is stated clearly that it
allows the team members to work in the open environment. This can succor the
employees in the accomplishment of their goals.
How would you explain the expectations, in a manner which builds
commitment to the organization?
Radic8’s team should define clearly the specific expectation. For example,
instead of saying “We want to increase the sales”, they should say “We want to
increase the sales by 12% for this quarter”. This is called as clearly defining the
goals and expectations. Setting realistic goals also helps in building commitment
as these goals are seems possible to achieve (Irawanto, 2015).
1D Provide expectations and issues involved in the examples provided below.
Examples What are the issues/expectations?
Environmental
management
The major issues they cover in the environmental
management are to eliminate waste and emissions, to
minimize those activities that destroy the natural
resources.
Workplace
health and safety
Workplace health issue they are facing is that
employee is not following proper hygiene policies.
Company is expecting that employee should carry
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sanitizers to reduce the risk of health problems.
Product safety The product safety issue is they are developing new
technology to add more safety and cleaning air
features in their products. Radic8 is expecting that at
the end of 2019 they will able to conclude such
technology that will make the product more secure and
easily to use (Giacumo, 2016).
Service They provide products like Hexi to, VK Blue, VK 002,
VK001, etc. These all are the products which control
the indoor environment and clean small particles from
the air. They are an expectation for acquiring the new
market at the end of 2019.
Values and ethics They values are to provide the quality products to the
customers and also provide them properly after sales
services. Their moral ethics to maximize the profit
within their moral boundaries.
1E Explain your views or provide examples from your workplace on
communicating results of incidents to relevant groups and individuals.
Who needs this
information?
Relevant groups and
individuals
Dynamic changes internal or external can affect the
functioning of an organisation (Martinez, 2017).
What is the information
that needs to be
communicated to
relevant groups and
individuals?
Management should provide the timely update to
the team members because business changes are so
dynamic and if any update for the new policy is
missed then it can impact the operations of the
business.
How can the incident be In every organisation level of management are pre-
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communicated to other
staff?
establish. It means for the low level employee,
lower level management takes cares for their
decision. Same happens with middle and top-level
management. In case lower level employees are not
satisfied with the decisions of lower level
management then they have a right to approach to a
higher level of management.
What limitations may
exist for communicating
with relevant groups
and individuals?
The major limitation that may exist is the
communication barriers. In every company, there
should be effective communication among every
level of management (Lurati, 2018).

2A Complete the following table:
Reflect on your workplace for examples or reference.
Suggested area Your comments or suggestions
What examples are
there of a culture of
trust, confidence, and
respect with
communication from
appropriate workplace
senior management?
The culture trust of this company is packed with
full of jobs for the jobs seeker. Radic8 provide job
opportunities to many people, as their new and
innovate projects always demand talented
resources.
What are some
examples of positive
role modeling existing
in your organization?
Outstanding quality of character, experiences in the
field area and dedication towards the work. These
are quality or features of a positive role model.
What examples are Example of effective communication skills is
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there to explain what
effective
communication is?
listening, clearly defining goals and concision.
Concision also makes a speech effective as this cut
down the unnecessary words while communicating
something to others (Gantt, 2016).
What are the benefits of
diversity for your
company/department?
Diversity increases productivity and creativity in
Radic8. It brings the more competitive advantage
that empowers the performance of an organisation.
2B Describe in your own words what you understand by the term
'globalisation'?
This is the process of the integration and interaction among all over the people,
government and companies worldwide. Globalisation increases the growth of
international trade that increases the GDP of the given country.
What are some examples of new technology in your work processes that you
can identify?
The hepa-type filter is the new technology that Radic8 uses in their product. This
filer cleans air technology and sterilize indoor air.
What are some of the benefits and potential challenges facing your
organization as a result of globalisation?
It increases the international productivity of the company, it enhances the
profitability and reputation of the company in the international market. This also
increases the market share holder and globalisation also succor Radic8 in getting
the upward curve in the profit & loss statements.
The major challenges that Radic8 is facing are the global competition from the
world. For fighting in this competition, they always need to make sure about
their innovative ideas and technology (Gantt, 2016).
2C Detail examples from your workplace of actions conveying flexibility.
Flexible employees are more valuable and flexible employee also tend to modify
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their approach to take the challenges to the assignment. This kind of workers
tend to take more responsibility. They believe by taking more responsibility they
will get more and more knowledge for the process of an organization. The
flexible employee should get recognized in the company because flexible
employee is willing to do whatever is necessary to get the task accomplished.
Detail examples from your workplace of actions conveying adaptability.
Sometimes in the Radic8 changes are dynamic and employee should have the
ability to adapt the new changes. An adaptable employee can work
independently well with the team and he/she show better results. Adaptability
should be the feature of everyone because not only in the company, life is also
very dynamic if someone gets rigid about their working process then they may
have to face the relevant consciousness (Donate, 2015).
Detail examples from your workplace of actions conveying accessibility.
Accessibility means to be able to reach, appreciate, understand and approach.
This the quality of good management guidelines. As, accessibility refers to how
something is designed, reviewed, read or understand. Accessibility encompasses
many alternative ways for solutions and is the best way as the on-going process
of working towards more people.
2D Give examples of a variety of leadership roles or actions that you would
consider require consultation and participation in the decision making.
-Supervisor
-Coach
-Visionary
These are leadership styles which are commonly used in Radic8. This leadership
style is responsible for providing direction and methods to achieve the goals
within the time frame. Leadership styles also help the team members in
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accomplishing the goals of the company (Lee, 2018).
Give examples of a variety of leadership roles or actions that you would
consider require consultation and participation in the decision making.
Describe who may be the relevant groups or individuals involved.
 Your details may include assessments, observations, questioning or
evidence gathered from the workplace.
 Draw on your workplace for examples, or as directed by the
instructor.
Workplace examples Consultation and participation in
decision making with appropriate
people
TESCO PLC Classical Approach to decision making is
used in this company. They talk with the
complete team before taking any decision
and collect the reviews from all over the
team members.
Sainsbury’s Behavioral Approaches used in this
organization where management does not
takes reviews before implying any
decision.
2E Complete a SWOT analysis of an example from your workplace of
leadership decision making where you have encountered or have knowledge
of:
 The needs and expectations of both internal and external groups
 Risk management plans for the decision made
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What is the workplace example of the leadership or management decision that
was made?
In the workplace leadership example, we choose is supervisor, visionary and
coach. These are the most popular and common leadership style adopted in the
companies. This leadership style helps the team members in knowing and
understanding their goals carefully (Beauchamp, et.al,2017).
SWOT analysis of this decision example
It's strengths
When the company takes a
decision after consulting with the
complete team they get the ideas
from another prospective.
It's weaknesses
When the company announces their
decision before then they might get
feared because their idea can be stolen by
some once.
It's opportunities
An organisation has the
opportunity to increase loyalty
among the employees of the
company (Lurati, 2018).
It's threats
An organisation gets feared sometimes
that their idea can get stolen or someone
can find a way to harm them as now they
know the new idea of the management.
2F Consider an example from your workplace of an important decision
announcement and detail what undertakings were employed to ensure that
your organisation was represented positively in the media and community.
When Radic8 announces that they will distribute their profit of this quarter
among the poor people of Africa. With this announcement, there image enhances
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and their sales ratio also increase as people start thinking that all the money will
benefit the poor population of Africa.
What example of an important announcement are you using?
Employee engagement programs, seminars, training staff, and development are
the important announcement programs that are currently using in the Radic8.
3A Job roles/descriptions and specifications. Does your organisation have a
standard job or position description/specification template?
Yes
Describe/discuss your organisations template and its features
Radic8 is using the specific job description template in which they describe all
the requirements, job profile, job conditions, duties, and responsibilities are
explained.
3B How can you ensure teams are well resourced?
Teams members are always occupied with the goal chart they need to
accomplish during the period of time. They always occupied with the latest
resources and technology. Team members have the proper authority to take and
demand more resources for the completion of the task.
What does delegation mean and involve?
It is believed that a manager can not perform all the task. In order to complete
the targets, the manager should delegate authority. Delegation means a division
of authority or responsibility. It means ensuring someone to complete the task
and objectives.
3C Using your own workplace analysis and knowledge, review the key elements
that make up your team. These key elements may be of an internal nature
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