Management

Developing Leadership (LEAD)

Module code: N1076
Level 6
15 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Workshop, Lecture
Assessment modes: Coursework

This module invites you to consider your leadership skills. You’ll explore traditional and contemporary models of leadership, focusing on:

• reimagining leadership for a sustainable future
• developing the mindset, knowledge, and skills to lead with purpose, creativity, and integrity.

You’ll observe and practice leadership through the development of a sustainability project, covering:

• contemporary environmental, social and economic challenges
• a real sustainability issue or concern
• key concepts to develop an innovative solution.

You’ll receive guidance and feedback from external business partners to help shape your ideas into robust and credible proposals.

The module concludes with a live pitch event, where you’ll present your project to a panel of business leaders and industry experts. This experience will:

• develop your leadership and employability skills
• challenge you to engage with sustainability as proactive changemakers
• enhance your career development.

Module learning outcomes

• Demonstrate systematic understanding of leadership theory and its relevance to contemporary businesses
• Devise and sustain arguments in relation to contemporary issues in leadership
• Demonstrate coherent and detailed knowledge informed by current research of key leadership theories, approaches to leadership and negotiation in diverse contexts
• Describe and comment on challenges faced by leaders in contemporary business