Personal Development Plan
Personal Development Plan
Working with your feedback
Once you have worked through the feedback contained in your International Profiler Report you are ready to create a “Personal Development Plan” for yourself. Like all such action plans, this is designed to help you bring about change, but in this case it should be aimed specifically at improving your readiness and effectiveness to work internationally. The tables below will help you to go through three steps to arrive at such a plan: Step 1 - The requirements of your current and/or future role Step 2 - Identify your strengths and development areas Step 3 - Build up a SMART action plan to bring about change and development
Step 1 - The requirements of my role
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Hopefully, this will have made you more consciously aware of strengths that you may raise to the level of conscious strategies in certain international settings. It will also have highlighted some areas of development that you may need to focus on to be as effective as possible in international and cross-cultural environments. Using the dimensions from the International Profiler, identify three areas of strength that the feedback has made you more aware of, and how you might consciously use them more to your advantage in the future: Area of Strength Ways to use it more …show more content…
The plan you make should be a SMART plan, i.e. 1 Specific Is your goal well-defined? Avoid setting unclear or vague objectives; instead be as precise as possible. Instead of: “To listen more” Make it specific: “To use the next meeting of the European marketing managers as an opportunity to practise listening behaviours and to reinforce this by writing a detailed minute of the meeting” 2 Measurable Be clear how you will recognise when you have achieved your goal. Using numbers, dates and times is one way to represent clear objectives. Instead of: “To find out about South Africa” Make it measurable: “To use the internet and the local library to identify and read key references and make notes on the history, economy, and politics of South Africa. This to be completed by the end of next month.” 3 Attainable Setting yourself unrealistic goals will only end in disappointment. Make your goals challenging, but attainable. Instead of: “Learn German by Christmas” Make it attainable: “Register with a language school and attend classes to learn German on a weekly basis for the next 12 months. Then review progress and set new goals” 4 Relevant Ensure that any development actions that you plan are directly relevant to the international context that you are currently, or will be, operating in. Test them for relevance against the answers
Working with your feedback
Once you have worked through the feedback contained in your International Profiler Report you are ready to create a “Personal Development Plan” for yourself. Like all such action plans, this is designed to help you bring about change, but in this case it should be aimed specifically at improving your readiness and effectiveness to work internationally. The tables below will help you to go through three steps to arrive at such a plan: Step 1 - The requirements of your current and/or future role Step 2 - Identify your strengths and development areas Step 3 - Build up a SMART action plan to bring about change and development
Step 1 - The requirements of my role
Start by thinking about …show more content…
Hopefully, this will have made you more consciously aware of strengths that you may raise to the level of conscious strategies in certain international settings. It will also have highlighted some areas of development that you may need to focus on to be as effective as possible in international and cross-cultural environments. Using the dimensions from the International Profiler, identify three areas of strength that the feedback has made you more aware of, and how you might consciously use them more to your advantage in the future: Area of Strength Ways to use it more …show more content…
The plan you make should be a SMART plan, i.e. 1 Specific Is your goal well-defined? Avoid setting unclear or vague objectives; instead be as precise as possible. Instead of: “To listen more” Make it specific: “To use the next meeting of the European marketing managers as an opportunity to practise listening behaviours and to reinforce this by writing a detailed minute of the meeting” 2 Measurable Be clear how you will recognise when you have achieved your goal. Using numbers, dates and times is one way to represent clear objectives. Instead of: “To find out about South Africa” Make it measurable: “To use the internet and the local library to identify and read key references and make notes on the history, economy, and politics of South Africa. This to be completed by the end of next month.” 3 Attainable Setting yourself unrealistic goals will only end in disappointment. Make your goals challenging, but attainable. Instead of: “Learn German by Christmas” Make it attainable: “Register with a language school and attend classes to learn German on a weekly basis for the next 12 months. Then review progress and set new goals” 4 Relevant Ensure that any development actions that you plan are directly relevant to the international context that you are currently, or will be, operating in. Test them for relevance against the answers