Postgraduate Course: Professional Development (CMSE11606)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This online skills development-based course is designed to help MBA students enhance their leadership capability and professional competence as well as their potential to develop strong employability skills and their ability to successfully pitch for promotion or apply to new senior executive roles in a range of organisations.
An underpinning tenant of the course will be to develop students' ability to reflect on their learning using appropriate tools and techniques to produce a meaningful and viable learning agenda which will also help develop their critical thinking ability, identify their strengths and weaknesses and explore different approaches and ideas towards their thinking and learning on the MBA programme. |
| Course description |
Academic description
This course provides an opportunity for students to reflect upon and develop a deeper sense of self-awareness (both intellectually and emotionally) of both personal strengths and development needs.
The course is aimed at increasing knowledge, critical thinking skills, confidence and competence across a range of key personal competencies which have been identified as critical for MBA employability. These include effective teamwork, leadership, and the ability to communicate and present with influence and impact.
Outline content
The Professional Development course content is focused across the following areas:
Influencing skills
Understanding your Strengths (includes online assessment)
Developing Your Emotional intelligence (includes online EQ assessment)
Teamwork and Belbin theory (following Belbin online assessment)
Leading High Performance Teams
Skills and Awareness in Productive Conversations & Giving Feedback
Managing Conflict
Communicating with impact
Student learning experience
Professional Development aims to enable students to gain self-awareness through a better understanding of themselves as individuals, team members, leaders, managers and learners). Pre-recorded lectures and online tutorials are supported via a range of online diagnostic tools and independent directed reading.
Students will be encouraged to apply the studied models and ideas covered to their own work experience.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Flexible |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 16,
Online Activities 10,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
72 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% individual |
| Feedback |
A minimum of one piece of formative feedback will be provided per course. This may be offered asynchronously via discussion boards and emails, and synchronously in tutorials.
Feedback on assignments will be provided within 15 working days of submission. Summative marks will be returned on a published timetable, which will have been made clear to students at the start of the academic year.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate a high level of self-awareness and the ability to assess personal development needs and take accountability for developing action plans to address these.
- Understand and critically evaluate key business models relating to the competencies of effective teamwork, leadership and communication.
- Demonstrate enhanced skills and increased confidence in networking, relationship building and giving/receiving feedback.
- Work effectively (as both team player and leader) within non-hierarchical and diverse functional and cultural teams.
- Communicate and present with influence and impact in a public forum.
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Reading List
Stein S and Book H (2011) The EQ Edge (3rd Edition) Emotional Intelligence and Your Success.
Stephen R Covey (2020) 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Dweck, Carol S (2012), Mindset |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
C1 Meaningful Interpersonal Interaction
C2 Effective Emotional Intelligence
C3 Authentic Leadership
C4 Ethical, Responsible and Sustainable Business Behaviour
C5 Appropriate Communication
C6 Understand and Make Effective Use of Data
C7 Creative and Entrepreneurial Practice
C8 Personal and Professional Competence
C9 Academic Excellence
C10 Intellectual Curiosity |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mrs Amanda Singleton
Tel: (0131 6)50 2444
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Course secretary | Ms Sarah Yaxley
Tel: (0131 6)50 3475
Email: |
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