Record notes during lectures, client engagement and tutorial activities.
Based on your portfolio of notes, write a reflective report looking at your key learning outcomes.
Discuss the implications for your future consulting career.
The diary should be no longer than 2000-words (+/- 10%), excluding any references or appendices.
Use a minimum of 15 academic sources when referring to the theories and models you have applied throughout the course and their impact.
Key Points:
Your evaluation should consider the qualities and skills required at each stage of the consulting process from initial entry and contracting through to the final evaluation stage. Where appropriate you should reflect on your own experience of change programmes, both in your work at the University and in any relevant work experience you may have undertaken.
Where appropriate you should reflect on your own experience as a team member of the consultancy group project (see Consultancy Group Proposal).
Link the qualities and skills you identify to the competencies required by consultants (change agents) and indicate how they were developed in you during your time on this course. Reflect on the advantages and challenges of key business analysis approaches, and their relevance to this.
Compare your own progress (i.e. reflective learning) against the skills and qualities that you have identified. Present a set of personal objectives in the domain of Business Consultancy and explain what exactly you will be doing to achieve these objectives. You may even want to reflect on the implications for your own CV and career development.
Example Table of Contents
Your submission is not restricted to, but could benefit from the format below:
Introduction (approx. 500 words): presenting the aim of the report, introducing the report structure, and summarising some key points (this should be finalised once the other sections have been written).
Main Body (approx. 1000 words, can include, but not restricted to the following points):
Using reflective models such as Gibbs’s learning cycle to structure and support your writing, analyse and reflect on the most significant learning you have undergone during the course.
Refer to a summary of your reflective diary either as a figure or in the appendix to briefly explain the overall learning, growth or change you have undergone on this course.
Discuss the implications for your future career related to consulting, whether you would like to working in consulting or otherwise as change agent.
Conclusion (approx. 500 words): summarise your main takeaways, and propose a brief action plan and key considerations for your future career and your learning overall.
Marking Criteria
Your submission will be evaluated against the following assessment criteria:
Use and justification of relevant theories and models: 20%
Critical thinking: 40%
Quality of analysis and academic and grey sources: 20%
Language, referencing and formatting: 20%
