My Personal Development Plan
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Introduction Areas that need development Your strengths Your action plan Key contacts Resources Related guidance on businesslink.gov.uk
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To help ensure success for your business, a company owner needs to have a broad range of skills relating to management and leadership. Based on your current role and
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Lead change Excellent performance in this area results in being able to: • communicate your vision of the future, the reasons for the change and the benefits to everyone involved • make sure the people responsible for planning and implementing change understand their responsibilities • set and prioritise objectives for the change • identify strategies for achieving the vision and communicate them clearly to everyone involved • communicate progress to everyone involved and celebrate achievement • identify and deal with obstacles to change
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In order to improve in this area, you may want to get some advice on: • the main models and methods for leading organisational change and their strengths and weaknesses • principles and application of risk assessment • how to use different leadership styles and behaviours for different circumstances • the political, bureaucratic and resource barriers to change, and the techniques for dealing with these • how to use different methods of communication in various circumstances •
Action plan for own development: targets/goals, short term (up to six months), long term (minimum of 18
Step 2 is forming a powerful guiding coalition. Leadership will have to be on board and on the same page in regards to the change. Kotter and Cohen reveal the core problems people face when leading change. Their main findings are that the central issue concerns not structure or systems but behavior and how to alter it (Farris, 2008). The success of the changes will depend on the ability of the managers to show their commitment to change and motivate the employees to do the same. Without any process to track the implementation, the change can also fail.
Bi Design a template for a personal development plan (PDP) that you could use to improve
| 3.1 Discuss the processes required to implement the personal development plan3.2 Evaluate the impact of the personal development plan on the achievement of defined role requirements and organisational objectives3.3 Review and update the personal development plan
By reviewing and analysing the chart we can as employees identify where our areas of self development are needed.
This project plan will explain the overview of CP1, the target audience, and the goals for this project and when and how I plan to meet those.
Part 2: By completing this unit, you should now be able to plan for the resources required for personal professional development (Learning Outcome 2)
Organizations must respond to their internal and external environment. Therefore, organizational success heavily relies on leaderships ability to manage change. Unfortunately, many leaders struggle to effectively lead change initiatives. In fact, Ashkenas (2013, para. 1) reported 60 – 70% of organizational change initiatives fail to meet their objectives.
One of the most difficult obstacles in achieving personal self-development is the lack of a good action plan. It is not a difficult task, but requires learning to be efficiently executed. The result should be an effective practise to reach my goal. This is done by the inclusion of an Action Plan, which will assist in reaching my goal and narrow my focus and drive to achieve that goal. To enable me to create an Action Plan, I first need to list particulars of thing needed to do to accomplish my goal. This is done by
Leadership is critical when executing a strategic change initiative. By differentiating leadership and management, leadership styles and the key factors of change we can better understand what should be done to successfully lead change. Success is not obtained through leadership alone but by developing a group of individuals from all levels of the organization who work together as a team. . (Leban and Stone, 2007)
lead change initiatives which could lead to the change process to become challenging as there may be a
With the long-term goal of becoming a transformational leader, it is often useful to consider one's strengths and weak nesses across four dimensions. These include personal and professional accountability, career planning, personal journey disciplines and reflect practice reference behaviors and tenets. The intent of this analysis is to evaluate my strengths and weaknesses in each of these four areas. In addition, a discussion will be completed on how current leadership skill sets will be used for advocating change in my workplace. The conclusion of the paper will concentrate on one personal goal for leadership growth, including an implementation plan leading to its fulfillment.
To survive long term in competitive world, profit or non-profit organisations have required change according to the change business environment such as globalisation, technological changes and uncertain events. There are several models developed to manage and lead the change. These models are Lewin’s change model, Kotter’s 8-step model and action research. With the support of management I would like to follow kotter’s 8-step model to manage and lead to change in the organisation. By following the steps of these models
To create a development plan for myself, I carried out a skills audit so as to determine the gaps.
The impact of leadership style in the change process of an organization influences the performance; Leadership as stated by Martin, Liao and Campbell (2013) remains one of the most consequential contextual influencers of employee performance. Latson (2014) elucidated that some leaders may have the best intentions, but the impact will not be in alignment with the intension. But leadership trait is the ability to inspire, motivate and engage the followers to make the inspired vision happen beyond their normal capabilities (Mendez, Munoz & Munoz 2013). A change is the most frequent phenomenon of today's reality and a good understanding of how to manage the change process is very essential; Change is translation from one state into