Professional Development Plan Week 2
Marcia Scobey
Professional Development Plan
LDR/531
May 18, 2015
Prof. Sandra Griffin
Professional Development Plan This professional development plan will help determine the need of the team, and to help us improve. Learning Team c has done a DiSC Assessment to better develop this team. This plan is to also show myself as a leader that I can be flexible with the different personality types and know what I need to do to get my team or that individual to improve their goals. This is also an opportunity for me to focus on any weaknesses that I may have and to improve on my strengths to make sure team C is able to grow. A professional development plan documents the goals, required skill and competency development, and objectives a staff member will need to accomplish in order to support continuous improvement and career development (Duke Human Resources, 2013). To prepare a plan, it is important that a leader or manager knows what type of success they want for their team. Goble & Horm said, “To maximize your professional development opportunities, it is important to set goals, plan for and seek professional development opportunities, map a career path, and acquire ongoing knowledge and skills” (2010, p. 88).
Style Types
The DiSC Platinum rule is a behavioral style assessment that breaks down ones behavior into four categories: dominance, interactive, steadiness, and cautious. As a team, we took this assessment and this information will provide the characteristics of each person. There are seven members on this team, four members including myself follow under the cautious style; while one is steadiness and the other is dominance. According to the assessment results, “The Cautious style are analytical, persistent, systematic people who enjoy problem solving. They are detail-oriented, which makes them more concerned with content than style…the C Styles are task-oriented people who enjoy perfecting processes and working toward tangible
Professional Development Plan
LDR/531
May 18, 2015
Prof. Sandra Griffin
Professional Development Plan This professional development plan will help determine the need of the team, and to help us improve. Learning Team c has done a DiSC Assessment to better develop this team. This plan is to also show myself as a leader that I can be flexible with the different personality types and know what I need to do to get my team or that individual to improve their goals. This is also an opportunity for me to focus on any weaknesses that I may have and to improve on my strengths to make sure team C is able to grow. A professional development plan documents the goals, required skill and competency development, and objectives a staff member will need to accomplish in order to support continuous improvement and career development (Duke Human Resources, 2013). To prepare a plan, it is important that a leader or manager knows what type of success they want for their team. Goble & Horm said, “To maximize your professional development opportunities, it is important to set goals, plan for and seek professional development opportunities, map a career path, and acquire ongoing knowledge and skills” (2010, p. 88).
Style Types
The DiSC Platinum rule is a behavioral style assessment that breaks down ones behavior into four categories: dominance, interactive, steadiness, and cautious. As a team, we took this assessment and this information will provide the characteristics of each person. There are seven members on this team, four members including myself follow under the cautious style; while one is steadiness and the other is dominance. According to the assessment results, “The Cautious style are analytical, persistent, systematic people who enjoy problem solving. They are detail-oriented, which makes them more concerned with content than style…the C Styles are task-oriented people who enjoy perfecting processes and working toward tangible
References: DiSC Platinum Rule Assessment. (2015) Retrieved from: https://uopx.assessments.ws/reportcontents.asp?id=318800&EU=QvXyiMXAfT7rmMbwfxhufA%3D%3D Goble & Horm. (2010). p. 88 Robbins & Judge. (2013). Organizational Behavior, Fifteenth Edition, eBook Collection, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey; Published by Prentice Hall.