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MMBA8075 – Leadership Excellence: Developing Professional Growth and Impact

2025 – Term 2, In person-scheduled-infrequent, City

General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and lecturer
Jonathan Robberts
jonathan.robberts@mq.edu.au
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Unit convenor and lecturer
Alison Pullen
alison.pullen@mq.edu.au
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Credit points Credit points
10
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Unit description Unit description

The Leadership Unit is designed to help develop the leader in you, equipping you to inspire and enable others towards change and impact. The unit offers various workshops and activities aimed at self-development, increasing consciousness, and transforming your understanding of yourself, others, and the world. By integrating leadership frameworks, theories, and concepts with practices and tools, this unit offers experiential learning like no other. It is highly recommended that students take it as their first in the MBA.

Important Academic Dates

Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • ULO1: Critically reflect on and analyse self-leadership skills to facilitate leadership development and growth.
  • ULO2: Diagnose and develop the leadership capabilities required to demonstrate leadership effectiveness and excellence in contemporary organisational contexts.
  • ULO3: Collaborate effectively to critically reflect on and analyse leadership from a practice perspective to increase the potential for impact.

General Assessment Information

Late Assessment Submission Penalty (written assessments) 

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a grade of ‘0’ will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical concern.  

For any late submissions of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, students need to submit an application for Special Consideration.

Assessment Tasks

Name Weighting Hurdle Due
Leadership Reflection 20% No One week after first block
Group Leadership Presentation 30% No During class second block.
Leadership Interview Report 50% No One week after second block.

Leadership Reflection

Assessment Type 1: Reflective Writing
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: One week after first block
Weighting: 20%

 

Reflection of up to 1,000 words. This assessment evaluates students’ ability to critically reflect on the leadership ideas and practices that they have learned in this unit

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Critically reflect on and analyse self-leadership skills to facilitate leadership development and growth.

Group Leadership Presentation

Assessment Type 1: Presentation
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: During class second block.
Weighting: 30%

 

A group presentation of up to 20 minutes. This assessment evaluates students' ability to critically analyse real-life leadership examples.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Collaborate effectively to critically reflect on and analyse leadership from a practice perspective to increase the potential for impact.

Leadership Interview Report

Assessment Type 1: Qualitative analysis task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 25 hours
Due: One week after second block.
Weighting: 50%

 

Leadership report of up to 3,000 words. This assessment evaluates students' ability to conduct interviews, synthesise the leadership insights shared by the study participants and present findings that demonstrate current understandings of leadership in contemporary contexts. 

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Diagnose and develop the leadership capabilities required to demonstrate leadership effectiveness and excellence in contemporary organisational contexts.

1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

  • the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
  • the Writing Centre for academic skills support.

2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation

Delivery and Resources

Delivery of this unit runs over two blocks. Students should cover the materials over a 10 week period to ensure sufficient reading is conducted to enable them to contribute to the class.

Students are required to participate fully during the block delivery.

All resources/readings are available on Leganto and the iLearn site.

The recommended text is: Keith Grint and Owain Smolovic Jones (2022) Leadership: Limits and Possibilities. London: Bloomsbury and is available through the library.

Policies and Procedures

Macquarie University policies and procedures are accessible from Policy Central (https://policies.mq.edu.au). Students should be aware of the following policies in particular with regard to Learning and Teaching:

Students seeking more policy resources can visit Student Policies (https://students.mq.edu.au/support/study/policies). It is your one-stop-shop for the key policies you need to know about throughout your undergraduate student journey.

To find other policies relating to Teaching and Learning, visit Policy Central (https://policies.mq.edu.au) and use the search tool.

Student Code of Conduct

Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/admin/other-resources/student-conduct

Results

Results published on platform other than eStudent, (eg. iLearn, Coursera etc.) or released directly by your Unit Convenor, are not confirmed as they are subject to final approval by the University. Once approved, final results will be sent to your student email address and will be made available in eStudent. For more information visit connect.mq.edu.au or if you are a Global MBA student contact globalmba.support@mq.edu.au

Academic Integrity

At Macquarie, we believe academic integrity – honesty, respect, trust, responsibility, fairness and courage – is at the core of learning, teaching and research. We recognise that meeting the expectations required to complete your assessments can be challenging. So, we offer you a range of resources and services to help you reach your potential, including free online writing and maths support, academic skills development and wellbeing consultations.

Student Support

Macquarie University provides a range of support services for students. For details, visit http://students.mq.edu.au/support/

Academic Success

Academic Success provides resources to develop your English language proficiency, academic writing, and communication skills.

The Library provides online and face to face support to help you find and use relevant information resources. 

Student Services and Support

Macquarie University offers a range of Student Support Services including:

Student Enquiries

Got a question? Ask us via the Service Connect Portal, or contact Service Connect.

IT Help

For help with University computer systems and technology, visit http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/offices_and_units/information_technology/help/. 

When using the University's IT, you must adhere to the Acceptable Use of IT Resources Policy. The policy applies to all who connect to the MQ network including students.

Changes from Previous Offering

Teaching staff changes.

Introduction of textbook and key readings.

Unit information based on version 2025.06 of the Handbook