CAREER GROWTH ACCELERATOR - 2025/6

Module Overview

Our career growth accelerator module is a series of mandatory workshops and activities designed to equip future responsible leaders with the strategic tools, self-awareness, and influence skills required for career acceleration and growth in a dynamic and competitive environment. The module aims to engage students in a structured process of career discovery, mentoring, critical personal reflections, brand articulation and provides the opportunity to use our global MBA Alumni network for career leverage.

Through guided exploration of individual strengths, values, and leadership identity, students will develop a clear, actionable roadmap aligned with their long-term career aspirations.

The module integrates executive-level career coaching strategy, industry mentor, recruiter feedback, and a range of practical techniques for navigating organisational politics, securing high-impact roles, and positioning yourself for future leadership opportunities.

Module provider

Surrey Business School

Module Leader

SOTUNDE Deji (SBS)

Number of Credits: 0

ECTS Credits: 0

Framework: FHEQ Level 7

Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A

Module Availability

Year long

Prerequisites / Co-requisites

None

Module content

Indicative content includes:

¿ Building an Innovative Mindset
o Understanding Leadership Identity, Strengths & Career Direction
o Career and Leadership Assessment
o MBA Talent Mapping
o Personal Branding
¿ Career Foundations & Self-Discovery
o Developing Real-World Skills & Building High-Value Industry Relationships
o Industry-specific career coaching
o Networking and Mentor Matching
¿ Mastering Influence
o Negotiation and Influence
o Leadership deal-making & stakeholder persuasion
¿ Career Acceleration & Future Leadership
o Positioning for High-Growth Career Moves & Future Executive Roles
o High-impact career narratives for executive interviews
o Mapping career shifts & global MBA hiring trends

Assessment pattern

Alternative Assessment

N/A

Assessment Strategy

The assessment strategy is designed to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate and submit evidence of their potential career growth and impact during the MBA programme.

The module is assessed using a personal portfolio made up of a combination of mindset self-assessment, career foundation portfolio, impact casebook, career commitment pitch and action plan launch pack

Summative assessment

1. Building an Innovative Mindset (Self-reflective assessment/Mindset Map)
2. Career Foundations & Self-Discovery (Career Foundation Portfolio)
3. Mastering Influence (Career Impact casebook)
4. Career Acceleration & Future Leadership (Career Launch pack ¿ Action Plan)

Formative assessment:

Students will receive a range of feedback responses from faculty/facilitator (1-2-1), from peer learning/peer pods, and through discussions during the facilitated sessions.


Feedback
Feedback will be provided in the following forms: Written feedback on all the submitted personal portfolio made up of a combination of mindset self-assessment, career foundation portfolio, impact casebook, career commitment pitch and action plan launch pack. This will be provided by a first marker and the moderator in the context of the marking rubric uploaded on SurreyLearn.

Module aims

• Help students identify their career and leadership strengths and create a career roadmap
• Enhance awareness of career growth mindset, values, behaviour and leadership competencies
• Help students develop real-world skills and build high-value industry relationships
• Help students with positioning themselves for high-growth career moves and future executive roles

Learning outcomes

Methods of Teaching / Learning

The learning and teaching strategy combines a range of delivery methods in a blended way that combines theory, experiential learning and critical reflection (self and peer) to facilitate awareness in the development of key leadership skills.

The learning and teaching methods include:
¿ Active participation-based workshops and activities
¿ Scaffolding with faculty-led coaching, mentorship with regular check-ins
¿ Gathering and compiling evidence of career plan using self-assessment inventory tools/techniques
¿ Supplementary theory, captured content, or reading
¿ Discussions/Guest speakers engagement
¿ Reflective prompts, peer exchange and mentor feedback
¿ Attending networking events, speaker series, careers fest and leadership conferences
¿ Presentations, group discussions, peer learning (peer pods)
¿ Participating in concrete experience - live simulations, role-playing scenarios

The delivery is structured as follows:
¿ In-class: workshop, seminar, discussions, guest speakers series, simulations
¿ Outside classroom: Networking, visitations, conferences, 1-2-1 coaching
¿ Guided group work: working in groups on the tasks, discussion with peers and facilitator(s).

At the end of the module, students must submit components of their portfolio at various scheduled stages of the programme. The portfolio is made up of a combination of: mindset self-assessment, career foundation portfolio, impact casebook, career commitment pitch and action plan launch pack. The assessment strategy is designed to ensure the learning outcomes are assessed on different levels.

Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.

Reading list

https://readinglists.surrey.ac.uk
Upon accessing the reading list, please search for the module using the module code: MANM600

Other information

Surrey Business School, Master of Business Administration programme is committed to developing graduates with strengths in Employability, Digital Capabilities, Global and Cultural Capabilities, Sustainability, and Resourcefulness and Resilience. This module is designed to allow students to develop knowledge, skills, and capabilities in the following areas: Global and cultural capabilities: The module provides students with an opportunity to develop an in-depth understanding of diverse cultures and cultural sensitivities and enhance their ability to develop effective cross-cultural competencies. Digital capabilities: Students will use a range of industry-leading digital assessment tools/techniques/software to capture a snapshot of their self-report inventory and identify their personality and leadership blind spots to evaluate their career growth mindset, values and behaviour, Emotional Quotient (EQ) competencies and stress/reactive tendencies. Students will also be expected to participate in collaborative and peer reviews using appropriate communication technology, as well as creating visual presentations and a compelling impact casebook/action plan of their career development. (Digital Portfolio) Employability: Students will have extensive documentation of evidence (co-curricular credentials/transcripts) of their career development skills, leadership traits, high-value industry relationships and progressive transformation. Resourcefulness and resilience: The use of a module design focuses on the scaffolding of ongoing self-assessment, profiling, preferred styles, and behavioural traits with an emphasis on learning as an essential element of career growth.

Please note that the information detailed within this record is accurate at the time of publishing and may be subject to change. This record contains information for the most up to date version of the programme / module for the 2025/6 academic year.