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SMBA6001: Leadership Practice and Development
2025 unit information
This course is about the development of leadership through practice. Ultimately, leadership is about what you do, not what you know. Your effectiveness as a leader is assessed by the behaviours you consistently manifest across time, not by the theoretical concepts in your head. For this reason, our orientation is behavioural: what does best practice leadership look like and how can you get better at doing it? Our face-to-face time will, to the largest extent possible, be focused on building your effectiveness at constituent leadership behaviours. We will do this by creating an environment where you will repeatedly practice these behaviours, receiving specific feedback from peers, coaches and faculty to accelerate your development. These behaviours originate from empirically based theories of leadership. Our intention with this course is for you to gain a solid grasp of these theories before class starts so that we can spend the maximum time possible building your effectiveness at these behaviours during class.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Business (Business School)
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Management Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand and assess your leadership journey against models validated by research, and apply this understanding to your leadership practice and development
- LO2. understand how you relate to others in teams context and in one-on-one interactions, and identify how this influences your ability to achieve your goals and manifest your purpose
- LO3. appreciate and work with different perspectives and become comfortable with complexity, uncertainty, and diversity
- LO4. demonstrate a consistent collaborative and constructive approach in dealing with others, and facilitate the engagement and contribution of others
- LO5. proactively manage your leadership development and career through identifying your life and career values and purpose
- LO6. apply reflective practice principles in your daily work and develop a life-long commitment to self-development.
Unit availability
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Semester 1 2024
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Block mode | Castlereagh St, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2024
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Block mode | Castlereagh St, Sydney |
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Semester 1 2025
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Block mode | Castlereagh St, Sydney |
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Semester 2 2025
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Block mode | Castlereagh St, Sydney |
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