Reflective LeadershipLaajuus (5 cr)

Learning objectives

This course will increase competences for different kinds of contexts where leadership (including self-leadership and distributed/shared leadership) is needed. It is useful for those students that act as leaders, yet students do not have to be in a leadership position when taking this course.

Contents

- Leadership approaches
- Critical leadership research
- Leadership in context
- Becoming and being a leader
- Beliefs about human nature (Ihmiskäsitys)
- Knowing your people
- Leadership development
- Well-being of a leader

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

Depending on the implementation learning takes place in contact lessons, independent studies, teamwork and online-studies. The course includes the assessment of one’s own learning.

Recognition of prior learning (RPL)
If students have acquired the required competence in previous work tasks, recreational activities or on another course, they can show their competence via a demonstration. The demonstration must be agreed with the course teacher. More information and instructions for recognising and validating prior learning (RPL) are available at https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/recognition-learning Look at "Instructions to students (master)"

Learning materials

Materials will be published in the implementation plan.

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No prerequisites.

Assessment criteria - grade 1

Students reflect on their own leadership and recognise their development needs. The student sets goals for developing her/his leadership and creates assessment methods for self-evaluation. They recognize different approaches to leadership. The student provides added value for their own leadership by participating in a dialogical development process together with other people.

Assessment criteria - grade 3

Students reflect their own leadership from various perspectives in connection to leadership research. They recognise their own developmental needs based on an analysis and set reasonable goals and assessment methods for evaluating the progress. The student creates and learns from networks that will support her/his self-awareness.

Assessment criteria - grade 5

Students critically reflect on their own leadership from various perspectives in connection to leadership research and the data they have gathered. They set context-dependent goals for leadership development. Students recognise their development needs and creates assessment methods to evaluate continuous development. Students increase their self-awareness in a constructive way, is able to assess, utilize and deepen feedback created in dialogical networks they have created.

Further information

When the implementation type of the course is contact, online or blended it is required that the student is present during those teaching hours that are marked in the study schedule. If you are absent more than 25%, your grade will be lowered by one. If you are absent more than 50%, the course is failed.