Assignment

You have been a senior manager for a number of years and have decided that your next career move should be to or take responsibility for an aspect of strategic management in an organisation. Some interesting posts have been advertised recently and you have registered with a recruitment agency Harris Hall, which specialises in senior positions.

Task 2

The second part of the file enables you to manage the development of your own personal knowledge and skills in leadership and strategic management. This will support achievement of personal and organisational vision and strategy. This audit must be done in the context of an organisation where you are employed, where you work in a voluntary capacity, where you wish to gain employment or where you are studying. You must:

• carry out an audit of your own personal leadership and management knowledge and skills. The knowledge and skills identified must facilitate the creation and achievement of organisational vision.

• set objectives to meet your personal development needs in the context of strategic organisational needs

• prepare a personal development plan to develop own leadership and management skills to support the creation of organisational vision and strategy

Extension activities:

To gain a merit grade:

• justify how objectives and the plan selected for personal development support achievement of organisational vision and strategy.

To gain a distinction grade you must:

• carry out appropriate personal development activities to develop knowledge and skills identified in the audit,