Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Leadership, Self & Identity

Credit Points: 12.00

Course Coordinator: Dr Carol Janson Bond

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925

Course Coordinator Email: carol.bond@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 080.09.065

Course Coordinator Availability: On appointment

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

Course Description

This course is designed to help you discover and develop your unique leadership identity through self-awareness and reflection. You will explore the role of your formative characteristics and analyse their implications on your leadership development trajectory. Guided by resonant leadership theories, you will learn to lead from your sense of self, drawing insights from leadership across cultures, and contexts.

Throughout the course, you will engage in activities that map your leadership development trajectory, aligning your strengths and passions with the demands of the global commerce environment. You will also evaluate the impact of emerging technologies on leadership styles and reflect on the ethical, social, environmental, and economic implications of using technology in leadership. By considering diverse perspectives, including Indigenous viewpoints, you will develop a holistic understanding of what it means to lead ethically and sustainably. Through a combination of interactive assessments, including creative artefacts, simulations, and career mapping, you in this course will gain practical insights into the latest leadership and strategy challenges and opportunities.

This course will equip you with the skills to inspire and motivate others, think strategically, build strong teams, embrace diversity, and drive innovation. By the end of this course, you will have laid the foundation for a strong, lifelong leadership identity that empowers you to navigate the complexities of the digital landscape and contribute to a more sustainable future.

Career Development Learning

This course features career development planning and involves developing and reinforcing students' opportunity awareness through experience and emerging career direction. In this course, students will demonstrate their competence, through assessable learning, through:

(1) Examining the alignment between personal values/interests and professional practice opportunities to build transferrable skills,

(2) Articulating insight into career progression, opportunities, challenges, risks, trends and evolving worlds of work,

(3) Demonstrating professional skills in workplace contexts and scenarios, using a blend of digital and human skills, and

(4) Creating a critically engaged career plan informed by professional insights and personal experience.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Ethical Global Citizens (1A, 1B), Adaptive (3B), Expert (5), Critically Engaged (6)

If you are taking this course as part of a major, this course will complement the learning outcomes you are developing in your program.

CLO1: Identify and describe key components of leadership theories and models and compare their application in real-world commerce contexts. CLO2: Appraise and explain the implications of perception, influence, power and motivation on own leader identity and behaviours, reflecting on social, cultural and indigenous perspectives. CLO3: Critically assess and map your own leadership development trajectory, incorporating feedback, to align personal strengths and passion with global commerce environment. CLO4: Evaluate and synthesise diverse team perspectives on the interactions between emerging technologies and leadership in the future, considering local, national, and global commerce environment.

Overview of Learning Activities

This course is delivered as a blend of face-to-face activities and online learning. Learning will be supported through in-class and online activities such as: personal development activities, guest speakers/expert commentators, case studies, prescribed readings, practical tasks, seeking and providing peer feedback, and reflective praxis.

Overview of Learning Resources

Various learning resources are available online through MyRMIT Studies/Canvas: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/my-course/canvas

The lecture notes and workshop notes are posted on Canvas. RMIT Library provides extensive resources, services and study spaces. All RMIT students have access to scholarly resources including course related material, books, e-books, journals and databases.

Contact: Ask the Library for assistance and information on Library resources and services: http://www.rmit.edu.au/library.

Study support is available for assistance with assignment preparation, academic writing, information literacy, referencing, maths and study skills.

Additional resources and/or sources to assist your learning will be identified by your course coordinator and will be made available to you as required during the teaching period.

Overview of Assessment

The assessment tasks, their weighting, and the course learning outcomes to which they are aligned are as follows.

Assessment 1: 30% Linked CLO1, CLO2, MLO1, MLO2 Assessment 2: 30% Linked CLO3, CLO4, MLO2, MLO4, MLO5 Assessment 3: 40% Linked CLO1, CLO2, CLO3, CLO4, MLO1, MLO2, MLO4, MLO5

Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or in online forums through individual and group feedback on progress, outcomes and approaches, and by individual consultation.

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures, and instructions.