Personal Leadership Development Plan Rev Jan 2015
Personal Leadership Development Plan
Introduction
Anyone can be an effective leader – given the right tools, skills, followers and situation (context). The purpose of the following assignment is to guide you through a leadership development process. You will be asked to analyze your current situation, your leadership skills, and your personal career goals to produce positive change and improvement in your leadership and influence competencies.
There are five sections to this plan:
1. First, you will describe your “career-leadership” goal for the 12-18 months following your current educational experience (e.g., move into supervisory position, manage a team, become department director, become project manager).
2. The way you approach learning is an important element of your development as a leader. Your analysis of how you currently learn along with ways to improve your learning style is the purpose of this section.
3. Based on your self-assessment of your leadership style and the three individuals who have assessed you, you will analyze the results so as to gain an understanding of patterns and trends of others’ perceptions and how that may or may not differ from yours. 4. Your network assessment will help you understand how you currently use networks for business and personal reasons and how you can improve their effectiveness to help you as a leader.
5. Lastly, you will then highlight two areas of improvement – your “Leadership Improvement Goals.”
Note: The process should take you several hours and be worked on over several days – thoroughness is key here, not only to your grade, but also to provide you with a useful document and development plan to take away from this course.
I will be happy to meet with you individually to discuss your plans and goals.
Section 1: Your Career-Leadership Goal
In the space below, respond to the following question. What leadership capacity do you want to attain within the 12-18 months after completing your
Introduction
Anyone can be an effective leader – given the right tools, skills, followers and situation (context). The purpose of the following assignment is to guide you through a leadership development process. You will be asked to analyze your current situation, your leadership skills, and your personal career goals to produce positive change and improvement in your leadership and influence competencies.
There are five sections to this plan:
1. First, you will describe your “career-leadership” goal for the 12-18 months following your current educational experience (e.g., move into supervisory position, manage a team, become department director, become project manager).
2. The way you approach learning is an important element of your development as a leader. Your analysis of how you currently learn along with ways to improve your learning style is the purpose of this section.
3. Based on your self-assessment of your leadership style and the three individuals who have assessed you, you will analyze the results so as to gain an understanding of patterns and trends of others’ perceptions and how that may or may not differ from yours. 4. Your network assessment will help you understand how you currently use networks for business and personal reasons and how you can improve their effectiveness to help you as a leader.
5. Lastly, you will then highlight two areas of improvement – your “Leadership Improvement Goals.”
Note: The process should take you several hours and be worked on over several days – thoroughness is key here, not only to your grade, but also to provide you with a useful document and development plan to take away from this course.
I will be happy to meet with you individually to discuss your plans and goals.
Section 1: Your Career-Leadership Goal
In the space below, respond to the following question. What leadership capacity do you want to attain within the 12-18 months after completing your