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Unit 2 — Leadership Theory
The leader's role (communication, planning, organisation, conducting and evaluation) and the theories that explain leader behaviour: the leadership continuum from autocratic through democratic to abdicratic; Conditional Outdoor Leadership Theory, which matches task or relationship orientation to how favourable conditions are; situational leadership, which adjusts direction and support to a group's readiness; and transactional versus transformational leadership. Servant, feminist and contingency leadership were accepted on the 2024 paper.
Unit 2 — Leadership Qualities and Approaches
Attributes of effective leaders, core competencies such as environmental stewardship, safety and risk management and technical ability, sources of power, and hard, soft and meta skills; group- and task-oriented leadership through SMART group and individual goals; equity issues such as gender, age and disadvantage; decision making and its link to problem solving, with formal models (rational, DECIDE, naturalistic, creative) and experience-based judgement; and reflection techniques from journals to dyads and solo experiences. Section B may also ask about risk management, preventing emergencies and the Australian Adventure Activity Standards from Unit 1.
Unit 3 — Group Management
Individual needs through Maslow's five-level Hierarchy of Needs, alongside group and task needs; Tuckman's stages of forming, storming, norming, performing and transforming and the leader techniques suited to each; conflict and the five resolution techniques (avoidance, accommodation, competition, compromise, collaboration) with their benefits and drawbacks; and communication: verbal, tactile, auditory and visual channels, one-way and two-way communication with transactional feedback, barriers such as semantic, internal and external noise and overload, and facilitation and listening skills.
Unit 5 — Human–Nature Relationships
Values for nature (cultural, recreational, social, aesthetic, economic, educational, scientific, spiritual) and how values shape attitudes and beliefs; sense of place and sense of space; how Aboriginal people, colonial settlers, industries and recreationists have experienced Tasmanian environments and how those relationships changed over time; Peter Martin's Signposts to Nature; how leaders facilitate connection; and anthropocentric, biocentric and ecocentric worldviews. Threats to wilderness are studied historically (Lake Pedder, the Franklin), in the present (population growth, climate change) and as future management problems for iconic places such as Cradle Mountain, the Overland and Three Capes tracks, Wineglass Bay and Blue Derby.
Units 1, 4 and 6 — Planning, Ecological Sustainability and the Individual Outdoor Leadership Project
Unit 1 covers GO PREPARE planning, communication systems, weather, navigation, risk management (causal factors; real, perceived and absolute risk; risk analysis and management plans), emergency procedures and health and wellbeing. Unit 4 covers sustainability issues, Leave No Trace, stakeholders, and management strategies such as permits, track rerouting, closures and infrastructure, with track and water monitoring. Unit 6 is the Individual Outdoor Leadership Project, a led activity of at least one hour and a reflective report.
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OXP315118 Outdoor Leadership Level 3 course document, Version 4 (accreditation renewed with amendments from 1 January 2026; current for 2026), read with the OXP315118 External Assessment Specifications Version 1.2 (February 2022)
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