Work-based task 4

Work-based task 4

Task 4 will enable you to interact with the online resources provided which is only available to you for the duration of the programme.

This task requires that you:

  • Review the resources available for each of the three sections of this programme.
  • Watch a video in each section and answer questions created to enable you to reflect around the key messages in relationship to your own leadership role.
  • Complete a reflection log of your key takeaways from each of the three sections of the online resource.
  • Begin to think about your final self-reflection.

Leadership and leadership of self

Watch this video and answer the following questions, which can also be found in the downloadable reflection log. You can use this document to record your answers.

Team leadership: Martin Pratt

  • “If you want to create change, you have to start from a different place” – what are the three key elements Martin Pratt references to enable a strengths-based approach?
  • Reflect on how you could enhance your current practice in relation to the elements  identified in the video. List your three takeaways from review of leadership and leadership of self.

Leadership of teams and systems

Watch this video and answer the following questions, which can also be found in the downloadable reflection log. You can use this document to record your answers.

Team leadership: Annie Hudson

  • Annie Hudson identifies that there are three components of a team, what are they? Using your answers to the above question, please reflect on your current and desired team situations. List your three takeaways from review of leadership of teams and systems.

Leadership of change

Stephan Liebrecht says in his video that “stories are allowing you to transport a really complex set of circumstances with additional and emotional context and so they are really good vehicles to do this”.

The following resources will help you to identify how stories can achieve this. Please watch the video and/or read the article and then answer the following questions, which can also be found in the downloadable reflection log. You can use this document to record your answers.

Marshall Ganz’ framework, People, Power and Change

  • Marshall Ganz says that there are three ways in which we map the world, what are they, which part of the body do they relate to, and what does this mean? Marshall Ganz says, “it is sometimes necessary for Leaders to create anxiety?” – what are your views? List your three takeaways from review of leadership of change.