MBE7052 - Team Working and Development

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Critically explore theories of: team working, personal development, leadership and management.
Critically examine a range of strategies and approaches to improve the performance of self and others across diverse organisational contexts.
Critically appraise your role as a manager and reflect your role as an effective manager/leader.
Review how coaching and mentoring could be used within your team to improve performance.
Create a professional development plan for yourself and your team.

Content:

The module focuses on the managing oneself and relationships with others. Management issues are addressed in the context of values-based organisations whether in the public, voluntary, or community sectors or social enterprises. Apprentices are introduced to management and leadership theories and relevant policy frameworks in order to facilitate critical reflection on aspects of their management and leadership role. The modules have been developed in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In particular goal 4 (ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all) and goal 9 (build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation).

Apprentices will explore time management, leadership and communication skills, assertion, and negotiation skills. The apprentices will examine teamwork and how to build engagement in their team and develop an agile and collaborative culture of high performance.

The apprentices will discuss coaching and mentoring and how they have led and influenced people and been able to build constructive and trustful teams who are confident to take risks when appropriate and who are able to respond to and provide constructive feedback and challenge.

The apprentices will assess their own personal development and analyse how they provide development opportunities for their team. They will discuss their own approaches to accountability and responsibility for driving continuous improvement and how they establish an open, high performing working environment.

The apprentices will assess examples of coaching and mentoring techniques that they have implemented to improve the success of an individual or team which led to a positive change. An analysis of the role of the leader and managerial effectiveness, managing/leading across organisational boundaries objective setting, time management, schools of thought regarding leadership and management and organisations will be analysed along with management learning and development: learning styles and cycles, reflective practice, management development, management and leadership styles and personal development plans.

The module will discuss behaviour and why people behave as they do, theories of motivation and their implication for managers, organising work of others, types and use of power and influence, leadership and management and leadership styles. Managing performance:

effective working in multi-disciplinary, multi-agency groups and teams, team roles, performance management, setting objectives, feedback, formal appraisal, approaches to training and development and dealing with poor performance with also be examined. Apprentices will assess how to choose a team and managing conflict.

The Knowledge, skills and behaviours assessed by the Senior Leader Apprenticeship for this module are:
K10 Organisational/team dynamics and how to build engagement and develop high performance, agile and collaborative cultures
K18 Coaching and mentoring techniques
S4.2 Establish the value of ideas and change initiatives and driving continuous improvement
S15 Give and receive feedback at all levels, building confidence and developing trust, and enable people to take risks and challenge where appropriate.
S16 Enable an open culture and high-performance working environment and set goals and accountabilities for teams and individuals in their area.
S17 Lead and influence people, building constructive working relationships across teams, using matrix management where required.
S18 Optimise skills of the workforce, balancing people and technical skills and encouraging continual development.
B2 Take personal accountability aligned to clear values.
B5 Seek continuous professional development opportunities for self and wider team.

Learning and Teaching Information:

The sessions will be organised in 3 8-hour teaching blocks. Lectures will deliver core theoretical frameworks, followed by tutorials and personal exercises for reflection and development. Tutorials will be designed to support learners to be self-directed in additional research and with particular emphasis on research within their own employing organisation.

The module will present students with selected scenarios for basic analysis in order to develop both analytical competence and the ability to identify and apply appropriate techniques in a range of typical situations.

The module will make use of case studies and developing business trends and so the nature of the topics and exercises will vary. Students will be provided with, and/or directed to, relevant reading and additional questions/ exercises to support their progress through the module material

Lectures
Hours: 24
Intended group size: Cohort

Workshops and seminars
Hours: 16
Intended group size: 25-30

Guided independent study
Hours: 160

Further details relating to assessment
Students will be offered formative feedback throughout the module in order to help them to achieve successful coverage of the apprenticeship standard’s KSBs in conjunction with the modules aims and outcomes. This will be done via formal sessions and also via online interactions on the Moodle platform and the use of tools such as email and Microsoft Teams.

Assessment:

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Paula Reynier
Level - 7
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 7AP7AP7AP

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