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In today’s dynamic business environment, leadership and mentoring are game-changers—core skills that elevate consultants from competent to truly impactful. This unit empowers you to develop these essential capabilities, helping you influence change, guide others, and drive purpose-led outcomes. You will explore the power of transformational leadership, learning how to inspire collaborative teams and confidently navigate change. At the same time, you will delve into the art of mentoring—a powerful, long-term approach to supporting growth and development in others while sharpening your own leadership identity. Through real-world case studies and critical reflection, you will examine values, motivation, personality, and the use of power to shape individual and team performance. You will also discover how culture and context influence the effectiveness of different leadership and mentoring styles. Importantly, this unit connects leadership and mentoring to global impact. You will explore how business consultants and organisational leaders—both internal and external—can align with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), turning businesses into catalysts for positive social change while still meeting stakeholder expectations. Whether you are looking to lead teams, grow talent, or drive sustainable business practices, this unit will give you the tools to lead with confidence, purpose, and impact.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Anti-requisite: MGMT29004 Transformational Leadership and Mentoring
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Personal reflection
Improve the clarity in assessment material
Re-develop the assessment criteria, information, and marking rubric. Develop this in collaboration with head of course.
Feedback from Personal reflection
Introduce an assessment item for group work
In-lieu of the take-home exam, group work assessment item can be introduced. This assessment can be linked to graduate attributes such as communication, leadership, research, and knowledge.
- Evaluate the impact of leaders and mentors in different organisational settings and actively reflect on how their practices can drive commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Assess how mentoring and leadership approaches influence employee development and client outcomes in consultancy settings.
- Apply established mentoring and leadership theories—individually and in teams—to effectively identify and address performance challenges and organisational change.
- Demonstrate the ability to interpret and effectively apply knowledge, skills, and concepts related to leadership and mentoring when working with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Critically analyse and reflect on cultural differences in leadership and mentoring and evaluate their implications for followers.
The unit does not link to any specific external professional accreditation.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 40% | |||||
| 2 - Presentation - 20% | |||||
| 3 - Take Home Exam - 40% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | |||||
| 2 - Communication | |||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | |||||
| 4 - Research | |||||
| 5 - Self-management | |||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | |||||
| 7 - Leadership | |||||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||