BSBLED401: Assessment 3 - Flounder & Associates Mentoring and Coaching

This assignment solution for BSBLED401 Assessment 3 focuses on developing leadership skills within a legal firm scenario. The assignment requires the student to record team member competencies using a provided form, reflecting on feedback from previous mentoring sessions. The core of the solution involves creating a comprehensive mentoring and coaching plan, addressing specific learning and development areas such as management and self-development, and setting mentoring goals. The plan includes proposed coaching activities and a schedule of mentoring meeting dates with review dates, aiming to improve team performance and individual growth. The solution also includes a layout plan for the mentoring and coaching sessions, ensuring that every teammate feels valued and their objectives are met, demonstrating the ability to identify and implement learning opportunities within a team.

BSBLED401: Assessment 3
What you need to do
For this assessment you will finalise a learning plan, record competencies for a team member
and develop a mentoring plan.
This assessment allows you to demonstrate your skills and knowledge identifying and
implementing learning opportunities for others.
Scenario
You are the team leader at the busy legal firm, Flounder and Associates. You are responsible
for the learning and development of the small administrative team you lead.
Part of your role involves providing coaching and mentoring assistance to facilitate individual
and team achievement of competencies. The role also requires you to give and receive
feedback.
Task 1
Record team member competencies
In Assessment 1, you developed a form to record your team’s competencies.
Using the form you created, record the details for the team member you worked with on the
learning and development plan.
Submit your completed form for this task.
Answer:
Team Member Competencies
1 Excellent file management
2 Good cost manager
3 Manager
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Task 2
Mentoring and coaching plan
Last year, you held mentoring and coaching sessions for the team.
As a group, the team provided the following feedback about last year’s mentoring:
 The sessions were helpful, however you did not seem to have time to conduct them
on a regular basis
 Minimal team consultation and input was sought
Keeping this feedback in mind, reflect on the learning and development plan you finalised in
Assessment 2. Identify an area where a mentoring opportunity exists, then develop a
mentoring and coaching plan which includes:
 Learning and development area
 Mentoring goal/s
 Coaching activities
 Proposed mentoring meeting dates
 Review dates
For this task, you will continue to work with the team member you collaborated with in
Assessment 2. You will conduct the mentoring and coaching session in Assessment 4.
Answer:
Mentoring and coaching is very crucial to teammates. This is because it helps them,
understand as well as learn from the mentor and the coach. Besides, this gives all the
teammates time to learn from one another as well as ask questions that they need answered.
Given the feedback given by teammates that I worked with and those that I mentored and
coached, it is clear that the mentoring and coaching sessions were very helpful. However,
there is need to further coach them and invest more time in these sessions as they require
more coaching as well as personal sessions. As a result, there are mentoring opportunities that
still exist within my teammates. For instance, the learning and development areas that need to
be touched on include the issue of management as well as self-development. The mentoring
goals that should be achieved upon investing on the available mentoring opportunities are to
ensure that every teammate feels appreciated and served at a personal level (Magni et al.,
2019). In addition, another objective of the mentoring session is to ensure that the
management and self-development objectives of the teammates are met. The coaching
activities will include participating in management roles as well as development roles in
groups as well as individually. The proposed mentoring dates will be every Thursday.
Reviews will be made after every two weeks.
Layout plan:
Mentoring and Coaching Plan
Name:
Date:
Learning and
Development
Area
Mentoring goals Mentoring
meeting
dates
Coaching
activities
Review
dates
Management and
self-development
areas
Ensure that every
teammate feels
appreciated and served
at a personal level.
Ensure that the
management and self-
Thursday Management
roles.
Developmen
t roles.
After every
two weeks.
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development objectives
of the teammates are
met.
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Checklist
I have:
 Recorded the team member’s competencies
 Developed a coaching and mentoring plan
If you are unable to complete this task for a specific reason, please contact your teacher to
discuss alternative arrangements for demonstrating your skills and knowledge.
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Reference
Magni, M., Ahuja, M. K., & Maruping, L. M. (2018). Distant but fair: Intra-team justice
climate and performance in dispersed teams. Journal of Management Information
Systems, 35(4), 1031-1059.
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