GEOG4079 Leadership and Management in Practice
Innovation Report Briefing and Guidance
Checklist for submitting your Innovation Report.
1. Have you completed the cover sheet correctly and included a ‘wet signature’?
2. Have you met all the University of Nottingham marking criteria sufficiently? Make sure that you refer to the University of Nottingham criteria – available in this document on page 2.
For example:
• how and where have you engaged with a plurality of ideas,
• how have you challenged existing arguments,
• have you developed independent conclusions based on your evaluation of the evidence,
• is your proposal innovative, have you used the creative thinking techniques introduced on the module to develop your thinking, is your proposal original,
• is your report clear and concise,
• in what ways is your report persuasive and engaging?
3. Have you met all the ILM criteria sufficiently? Make sure that you refer to the ILM assessment criteria for each question – as shown throughout this document.
4. Have you included evidence of all your creative thinking and evaluation activities in the appendices? Remember that this can be done with photographs and/or screen shots of digital assets.
5. Have you included evidence of your stakeholder analysis activities (stakeholder map and impact/influence diagram) in the appendices?
6. Have you cited all your sources of information correctly within the text of your report?
7. Have you included all your sources of information (those you have cited AND those you have read) in the References section of the Innovation Report?
8. Have you met the word count for the University of Nottingham assessment correctly – remember that tables and the Appendices are NOT included in the word count.
Guidance for completing the Innovation Report
Use the guidance provided here to help you to focus your attention appropriately – this will help you to meet the University of Nottingham marking criteria AND the ILM assessment criteria.
University of Nottingham Marking Criteria for the Innovation Report.
This rubric is designed to guide you in the preparation of your Innovation Report
This assessment task particularly develops the. MSc ELM Graduate Learning Characteristic #1: “Can influence and facilitate change”, in particular, Characteristic 1.1 “Construct, articulate and an evidenced and persuasive argument”, and Characteristic 1.2 “Adapt the ways in which you present and articulate ideas and arguments for different audiences”.
You can use the questions in the checklist above to help you decide the extent to which you think you have met the aspects of assessment shown in the table below.
|
Aspect of Assessment
|
Needs
improvement
|
Satisfactory
|
Good
|
Excellent
|
|
1. Critically engages with a plurality of ideas and challenges existing arguments.
|
|
|
|
|
|
2. Develops independent conclusions based on evaluation of relevant evidence.
|
|
|
|
|
|
3. Offers innovative, original and creative ideas relevant to leadership development
|
|
|
|
|
|
4. The Innovation Report is written in a style that is clear, concise, persuasive and engaging
|
|
|
|
|
Section 1: Explain the importance of innovation for the University of Nottingham (ILM AC 1.1: 8 marks)
This is a really good place for you to demonstrate your levels of critical thinking and show how much you understand about the importance of innovation, with particular reference to the University of Nottingham. In terms of the University marking criteria you can show your ability to engage with a plurality of ideas, challenge existing arguments and develop independent conclusions based on relevant evidence with this answer.
In terms of the ILM you will need to make sure that you meet the pass criteria shown in the table below (and avoid the refer criteria).
|
Question
|
Marks
|
Refer
|
Pass/
Even better pass
|
|
1.1
Explain the
importance of
innovation for own organisation
|
8
|
The importance of innovation for own
organisation is not explained, or is
incorrect or inappropriate, or is explained in generic terms with no reference, or with insufficient reference, to own organisation
‘Innovation’ is merely defined or described with no explanation as to the reasons why innovation is important for own
organisation
|
A limited but sufficient and correct account of a narrow range of the practices
associated with innovation are provided that explain the importance of innovation for own organisation
A full and correct account of a wide range of the practices associated with innovation are provided that explain the importance of innovation for own organisation
|
Make sure that you relate your answer to the University of Nottingham and to the higher education sector. Include examples of innovative practices from the those provided in the lecture, recommended further reading and from your own personal investigations.
There is no need to explain what innovation is – the key part of this question is to explain why innovation is important to the University. See the table below for a reminder of what ILM is looking for when it asks you to explain something. Essentially an explanation should include discussion on reasons – in this case the reasons why innovation is important to the University.
|
Explain
How does it work?
|
Involves some description of a topic with an account of the practices associated with the topic. It may also imply some reasons for those practices, depending on context. Again, the level of cognitive skill involved will depend on the
complexity of the subject matter.
|
For the ILM this question is worth 8 marks (out of 100) so shouldn’t be more than two or three paragraphs of your report.