Unit 7 Leading and Managing People (D/650/4823) Assignment Brief 2026

Unit 7 Leading and Managing People Assignment Brief

Unit Aim

Learners will develop knowledge and understanding of the concepts, principles and skills needed to lead and manage people.

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Indicative Content 

LO1 Understand the key elements of leadership and management

• Difference between management and leadership, e.g.:
• Leaders inspire and motivate, whereas managers plan, organise and coordinate
• Senior managers will set mission, vision, strategy and objectives in conjunction with the organisation’s board of directors; leaders will inspire employees to meet these
• Skills and qualities required for effective management:
• Interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate and motivate
• Ability to create a vision
• Ability to organise and delegate
• Ability to plan and think strategically
• Ability to problem solving and make decisions
• Commercial awareness.
• Ability to mentor
• Skills and qualities required for effective leadership:
• Interpersonal skills
• Approachability
• Ability to inspire
• Ability to communicate and motivate
• Ability to create a vision
• Ability to influence
• Positivity
• Empathy
• Delegation
• Abdication of responsibility

LO2 Understand how employees are led and managed

• Management theories e.g.:
• Frederick W. Taylor
• Henri Fayol
• Max Weber
• Elton Mayo.
• Ludwig von Bertalanffy
• Douglas McGregor
• Leadership theories e.g.:
• Great Man
• Trait Theory
• Contingency
• Situational Leadership Theory
• Transformational Leadership Theory
• Transactional Theories
• Behavioural Theory
• Key employee performance indicators, e.g.:
• Absenteeism
• Punctuality
• Meeting targets, e.g.: sales
• Productivity
• Employee turnover
• Revenue per employee
• Profit per employee
• Managing newly recruited employees, e.g.:
• Induction
• Probation period
• Mentoring
• Build positive working relationships
• Managing teams and team performance, e.g.:
• Ensuring a balance of team skills and qualities
• Maintain communication
• Communicating objectives
• Regular progress meetings
• Foster a trust culture
• Celebrate success
• Managing employees working remotely, e.g.:
• Regular one to one progress meetings
• Tracking progress
• Being flexible
• Setting expectations
• Ensuring contracted hours are met
• Regular communication opportunities
• Prompt response to employee needs
• Celebrate success
• Managing conflict:
• Talking with the parties involved
• Focus on behaviour and events, not on personalities
• Listening to all parties
• Identify points of agreement and disagreement
• Prioritise the areas of conflict
• Develop a plan to work on each conflict

LO3 Understand how managers and leaders support employees

• Approaches to developing employees, e.g.: developing employee strengths
• Listening to employees
• Providing constructive feedback
• Open door approach
• Employee welfare
• Buddy systems
• Foster a trust culture
• Support for employees working remotely, e.g.:
• Setting expectations early to encourage healthy work schedules
• Daily ‘virtual huddles’
• Regular video meetings which are short, but focused
• Tracking employees’ progress
• Listen and act on employee concerns
• Offer praise and feedback
• Support for teams, e.g.:
• Ensuring clear communication
• Listening to concerns about fair workload within the team
• Ensuring clarity of team roles
• Ensuring team members have opportunity to give their views
• Offer praise and feedback

LO4 Understand how employees are motivated

• Motivation theories e.g.:
• Maslow
• Herzberg
• McClelland
• Vroom
• Porter and Lawler
• How employees are motivated, e.g.
• Use of targets
• Use of reward systems, e.g. remuneration package, bonuses
• Senior managers will set mission, vision, strategy and objectives in conjunction with the organisation’s board of directors; leaders will inspire employees to meet these
• Managers use process, leaders use creativity
• Managers use a structured approach; leaders are more spontaneous Managers sympathise; leaders empathise

LO5 Review own leadership and management skills

• Obtaining feedback on personal skills from peers and others
• Assessing own leadership skills
• Assessing own management skills
• Development planning to improve personal leadership and management skills

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