Transformational leadership

BSBLDR801 Lead personal and strategic transformation

This unit is about analyzing and improving your personal leadership style and professional competence, and about leading organizational transformation and learning for strategic results. It applies to leaders or managers working in organizations where learning is used to build capability. Their effectiveness is based on professional expertise and personal integrity, and they set an example for others.

This unit focuses mainly on your ability to lead, including reflection on how you lead your team during your project implementation, and observation during change management. You need to show that you:

 

How you will be assessed

In this unit, you will be assessed through

 

Practical

You will be assessed in the workplace. You need to show that you have:

  1. Reflected on your skills in development, personal leadership style and self-management, and made specific improvements.
  2. Applied leadership styles and approaches appropriate to individuals, the results you seek, and the context.
  3. Set an example of collaboration, and encourage it in others.
  4. Given strategic leadership during a change.
  5. Managed workplace relationships effectively
  6. Analyzed relevant legislation, information and intelligence sources.

CA RE

 

Interview/assignment questions

RK

  1. Personal leadership
    1. Describe your system of planning your personal development. How effective is it? What changes are you contemplating?
    2. Describe the six main leadership styles. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each style?
    3. What is emotional intelligence? How does it relate to individual and team effectiveness?
  2. Your organization
    1. What legislation affects your organization? (E.g. OHS, environmental issues, equal opportunity, anti-discrimination, industrial relations)
    2. Explain your organization’s mission, purpose and distinctive values
    3. Explain your organization’s objectives, plans and strategies
    4. Describe your organization's structure.
    5. What is the purpose for choosing that particular organizational structure?
    6. Outline your methods for collecting data about your organization.
    7. Explain how to do a scan of external environment, including social, political, economic and technological developments.
  3. Change management
    1. Explain how to lead an organization through change.
    2. What are main stages of organizational change?
    3. What is the best way to manage each stage?
    4. What are the main obstacles to change and how do you overcome them?
    5. What is your organization’s system for responding to change in customer or market conditions?
    6. To what extent is that system built in? (That is, is responsiveness built in or is it an optional extra?)

Note: Your assessor may also ask you a variety of what if questions.

 

Detailed requirements

1. Regularly review your abilities as a leader. El 1/PC, RS

Do self-assessments of your learning style, leadership style, emotional intelligence, and decision-making style.

Assess yourself using the following questions:

  1. Do you get results as a professional in your position?
  2. Have you found ways of creating a climate that encourages people to receive and give effective feedback?
  3. Are you achieving your personal development objectives and priorities?
  4. How accurate are your assessments of yourself?
  5. Are you building your self-confidence?
  6. Do your recognize your personal emotional responses in context?
  7. Are you accessible to people? Adaptable to change? Decisive? Flexible?
  8. Reviewing your capacity as a role model, can you build trust, confidence and respect of diverse groups and those with whom you work?
  9. Can you build an effective organizational and workplace culture?
  10. How effective are you in taking responsibility? (E.g. clarifying who is to be accountable for a decision or action before its execution, going through the line manager.)

 

2. Lead in a transformational manner El 2/PC, RS

  1. Take transformational and transactional leadership in your context
  2. Show empathy in your personal communications and in your day-to-day leadership role.
  3. Be consistent in your leadership. Include people and respect people’s individual differences.
  4. Manage work-based relationships effectively
  5. Show self-control so you can positively shape interpersonal relationships. Control any of your potentially disruptive emotions and impulses (e.g. anger, insensitive or inappropriate responses in the context, etc.)
  6. Evaluate your personal leadership style and apply what you learn to your particular context.
  7. As a leader, integrate your emotions and your thinking. (Facing a challenge affects both how you feel and what you think. For example, you might think through your personal and other team member's responses to given situations, and you need to have a suitable emotional response as well. The way you think through problems and plans is both emotional and rational.)

 

3. Be an example of collaborative thinking and cultivate it in others El 3/PC, RS

  1. Think though issues:
  2. Communicate and think together as a team:

 

4. Give strategic leadership during change processes El 4/PC, RS

  1. Convey your organization’s direction and values positively to those with whom you work.
  2. Analyze the impact and role of your leadership during organizational change.
  3. Analyze and confirm the capacity and competence of your staff. Can they do their jobs adequately? Even more, can they contribute to change processes and plans?
  4. When people have problems or pose risks during periods of change, develop solutions where they can communicate better and learn what they need to know.
  5. Adopt a leadership style and develop approaches to best respond to the impact of change on people and processes

 

5. Other.

  1. Manage tasks and contingencies on the job.

 

Code for unit reqts:
CA: Conditions of assessment
El/PC: Element & criteria
RE: Required evidence
RK: Required knowledge
RS: Required skills