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SBUS41410

Academic Year 2024/2025

Personal Impact & Presence (SBUS41410)

Subject:
Business
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Professor Joe Peppard
Trimester:
Autumn and Summer (separate)
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Pass/Fail (GPA Neutral)

Curricular information is subject to change.

This module explores the importance of personal impact and the ability of leaders to communicate authentically and influence effectively as key skills in business alignment. It focuses on understanding how exceptional leaders influence their companies as well as the people around them. This is a dynamic and interactive module addressing advanced skills of business communication. Key elements of this module include authentic leadership – experiences and passions that inform your leadership; self-awareness; values, ethics, and standards; life balance and leadership through purpose.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module, students should be able to:

• Establishing your purpose:
o Identify the optimal conditions for improving your performance
o Explore the role of purpose in leadership
o Develop personal statements of purpose.

• Developing your presence
o Explain the concept of presence and its role in leadership
o Identify and apply a wide range of tools that can contribute to the development of presence.

• Making an impact
o Identify obstacles to presence and impact, and strategies for overcoming them
o Explore tools for impactful, persuasive communication
o Learn how to perform at your best in situations of critical importance, and in adverse situations.

• Personal performance planning
o Provide a reflection opportunity and a structured process for personal performance planning
o Develop a detailed plan for achieving goals that are consistent with your sense of purpose, and for strengthening your personal impact and presence.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Specified Learning Activities

60
Autonomous Student Learning

40
Lectures

16
Total

116

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The module has a detailed study guide. Students are required to complete the module pre-reading or pre-work prior to attending the seminar sessions. The sessions themselves will be a combination of lectures, group discussion, in-class presentations, case study discussions and classroom exercises. A heavy emphasis in the seminars is on teasing out the implications of theory for practical application in a workplace context

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Reflective Assignment: Learning Journal. Week 15 Pass/Fail Grade Scale No

100

 Yes

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Written feedback to be provided within 20 days of assignment deadline.

Name Role
Ms Siobhan Lane Walsh Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
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