What Does This Unit Mean?
This unit is about developing yourself as a strategic leader and manager.
The unit requires learners to evaluate their current capabilities, identify the skills and behaviours needed to achieve future ambitions, and develop a structured plan for personal and professional growth.
The learner is also expected to evaluate how leadership style, organisational culture and employee welfare contribute to achieving strategic objectives and organisational success.
In simple terms, this unit is asking:
“Can you evaluate your current leadership capabilities, develop yourself as a strategic leader and demonstrate how employee welfare contributes to organisational success?”
What Competence Does This Unit Require?
You are expected to demonstrate that you can:
- Understand the strategic direction of your organisation.
- Evaluate your role in supporting organisational objectives.
- Identify the leadership and management skills required to achieve future ambitions.
- Develop and implement a leadership and management development plan.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of your personal development activities.
- Reflect on your leadership style and its impact on organisational performance.
- Understand the relationship between employee welfare, organisational values and strategic success.
- Promote a positive employee welfare culture.
The learner should demonstrate how they evaluate their current role, responsibilities, capabilities and future development needs in relation to the organisation's strategic direction.
What to Prepare
Prepare a report, presentation or project that evaluates your current leadership and management capabilities and identifies the skills required to achieve your future strategic and professional ambitions.
Important Context
The report must be based on your actual role, responsibilities, organisational context and career aspirations. Generic descriptions of leadership theories alone will not be sufficient. You should demonstrate how your current and future capabilities relate to your organisation and support your evaluation with relevant workplace evidence where appropriate.
Your Report Should
- Evaluate the strategic direction of your organisation and your role in supporting its objectives.
- Evaluate the leadership and management skills required to operate effectively within your organisation.
- Assess the gap between your current capabilities and the capabilities required to achieve your future ambitions.
- Identify development priorities that will support both organisational and personal objectives.
Supporting Workplace Evidence
The report should reference relevant organisational evidence where appropriate. This may include organisational objectives, job descriptions, appraisal records, competency frameworks, development reviews, performance records or other relevant workplace documents.
Assessment Criteria Covered
1.1
1.2
1.3
The learner should demonstrate how leadership and management development opportunities are identified, planned and implemented.
What to Prepare
Prepare a report, presentation or project that explains how you have planned and implemented your leadership and management development.
Important Context
The report must be based on your actual development activities and professional goals. Generic personal development plans or leadership models alone will not be sufficient. You should demonstrate how your development activities are linked to your organisational role and future ambitions.
Your Report Should
- Evaluate opportunities available to support your leadership and management development.
- Develop a personal development plan that supports your strategic and professional ambitions.
- Explain how the development plan has been implemented.
- Explain how the implementation process supports meaningful improvements in your leadership and management capabilities.
Supporting Workplace Evidence
The report should reference relevant organisational evidence where appropriate. This may include personal development plans, training records, coaching records, mentoring activities, appraisal records, development reviews, qualifications achieved or other relevant workplace documents.
Assessment Criteria Covered
2.1
2.2
2.3
The learner should demonstrate how development activities are reviewed and how improvements in leadership and management effectiveness are evaluated.
What to Prepare
Prepare a report, presentation or project that evaluates the effectiveness of your leadership and management development activities.
Important Context
The report must be based on your actual development activities, outcomes and workplace experiences. Generic reflections on leadership theories alone will not be sufficient. You should demonstrate how your development activities have influenced your performance and contributed to organisational objectives.
Your Report Should
- Evaluate the extent to which your development objectives have been achieved.
- Evaluate the impact of your leadership and management style on achieving organisational objectives.
- Evaluate how your leadership approach may need to vary in different organisational situations.
- Review and update your personal development plan based on lessons learned and future requirements.
Supporting Workplace Evidence
The report should reference relevant organisational evidence where appropriate. This may include appraisal records, performance reviews, feedback records, development reviews, updated development plans, management reports or other relevant workplace documents.
Assessment Criteria Covered
3.1
3.2
3.3
The learner should demonstrate how employee welfare influences organisational culture, values, performance and strategic success.
What to Prepare
Prepare a report, presentation or project that evaluates the impact of employee welfare on organisational values, culture and strategic performance.
Important Context
The report must be based on your organisation's actual employee welfare arrangements, management practices and workplace experiences. Generic descriptions of wellbeing or employee welfare programmes alone will not be sufficient. You should demonstrate how employee welfare contributes to organisational performance within your own organisation and support your evaluation with relevant workplace evidence where appropriate.
Your Report Should
- Evaluate the impact of the organisation's commitment to employee welfare on strategic objectives.
- Explain how employee welfare influences organisational performance and achievement of objectives.
- Evaluate how employee welfare contributes to organisational values, culture and employee engagement.
- Explain how employee welfare supports the achievement of long-term organisational ambitions.
Supporting Workplace Evidence
The report should reference relevant organisational evidence where appropriate. This may include wellbeing initiatives, employee surveys, absence data, engagement surveys, welfare programmes, management reviews, strategic plans, performance reports or other relevant workplace documents.
Assessment Criteria Covered
4.1
4.2
4.3
Important Note for Learners
The competence requirements outlined above describe the practical workplace activities, systems, processes and records that may be used to demonstrate competence against this unit.
As this is a competency-based qualification, learners are expected to demonstrate that they can apply their health and safety knowledge and skills within their own workplace or working environment.
In addition to the competence-based assessment criteria, this unit also contains a number of knowledge-based assessment criteria. These are typically assessed through:
- Written responses
- Professional discussions with the assessor
- Assessor questioning
In most cases, the knowledge-based assessment criteria relate directly to the same workplace activities, systems and processes described above. Learners will therefore often find that the workplace evidence gathered to demonstrate competence also helps them prepare for and satisfy the knowledge assessment requirements.