B204 Making it Happen! Leadership, Influence and Change

Day School 3 May 2014, Birmingham, Cardiff

Welcome back!

• ‘Domestics’–Register, name badges–I.C.E–phones

• Breaks–Food and drink–flexible to suit your needs

Agenda

• Review of progress• Where we are in the module• The Evidence Based Initiative• TMA 05 and the EMA questions• How do you get a good mark?• Review some EMAs• Close.

Experiences of recent TMAs

Which jelly baby are you?

Why?

What have you realised?

Where do you want to be?

What are you going to do about it?

Study calendarB204 13J

Your EBI. In a small group, discuss..

• What is the change that you are leading?• Which ideas or concepts from the leadership,

change and context theme literature will you be using? (evidence)

• How will you know if your actions have made a difference, or not? (evidence)

• What are the limitations of these readings? (criticial thinking)

• 20 minutes

TMA 05 and EMA

• In a small group, review the questions• What are these tasks about?• What is the difference between them?

• 20 minutes

How do you get a good mark?

• In a small group, discuss what you have to do to get a great mark

• 10 minutes

• Be prepared to feedback

How to improve your mark

• Understand the question• Answer each part of the question • Use the learning to drive your work• Meet the learning outcomes• Communicate your points well. Ask someone to

proofread your work• Provide sufficient and accurate referencing• Critical thinking. Show you see some limitations too.• Authenticity. Novel thinking

Harvard referencing

• Which bits of the technique are difficult?• What can we do about this?

EMA

• In a small group, review the sample EMAs

• Agree some strengths and weaknesses of each assignment

• 20 minutes

Evidence Based Initiative

Questions

Important Dates

• TMA06 • EMA• No extensions on TMA 05 or the EMA

• Good luck! • Do contact me any time in future xxx