Skill Audit Activist

2.1 Evaluate prior learning and work-related experience to identify personal strength and weaknesses in self-development.

In order to demonstrate my leadership development, I will complete an assessment of my personal leadership styles and behaviours, as evidenced through a series of validated self assessment methodologies and tools. My self reflection will include a summary of leadership strengths and weaknesses, in

Personal development planning is a structured and supported process. My personal development is assessed during my supervisions and my annual appraisal. These are an opportunity to assess my performance against relevant standards and to agree targets and outcomes for the future. I can also discuss my knowledge and understanding and achievements, exchange views about work practices and how I can improve.

Alongside the entrepreneur spirit, Innovation is the process of taking new ideas and implementing them into the market. Key word being “new”, an innovation can be sometimes viewed as the application to better solutions that meet new demand-requirements, inarticulated needs or existing market needs. Innovative ideas range from: goods, services, products, processes, services, technologies or ideas that create value for which customers will pay for. For an idea to be an innovation, it must be replicable at an economical cost and must satisfy a specific need. This means is that one must be ready and willing put their new idea to the test. On the other hand, there is recognition that “innovation is also critical to cultural, environmental, social, and artistic progress as well” (Bullinger, 2006). With this stated, high-tech innovation is ultimately the reason why we can be thankful for the many new conveniences of the 21st century. Although we might see the forefront of innovation being very prominent in today’s world, innovation is truly nothing new. From the start of modern man times, innovative ideas have paved the way for civilization to advance and develop into what we are today and at the same time, we have barely begin to chip away at the tip of the iceberg of our true human potential. Some scholars believe that innovation is a

An effective leader must have a plan for success. This includes a personal plan of growth as well as a professional plan for improvement. This paper will attempt to highlight my personal strengths and weaknesses as leader, identify the areas needed for improvement, and identify the leadership skills and practices that I will use to become an effective leader. This paper will also give an outline of the goals that I consider a priority and a timeline for this development. The overall result will be an inclusive leadership plan of development that I will use to grow myself as well as any organization that I work for in the future.

A modernized era has brought in midst of changes in every sphere of life . Often plethora of creative idea's or various approaches being

| 1.1 Explain the importance of continual self-development in achieving organisational objectives1.2 Assess current skills and competencies against defined role requirements and organisational objectives1.3 Identify development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs1.4 Construct a personal development plan with achievable but challenging goals

3.2 Personal development plan involves knowing the skills and knowledge I have and in what areas I need to improve on. My Development plan should be planned with my manager.

The reason I found Deliberate Development Plan most valuable is because when I first came in I did not have a mentor at all, let alone someone to give me a Deliberate Development Plan. I went on my own with no direction for a couple of years. It hurt my career and personal goals for a while

Avi) A PDP is a Personal Development Plan and is developed between you and your manager. Your manager will record information about your learning and development needs in work. It should include things like targets, agreed objectives and activities to meet them and standards that are required. All of this is built into

Engaged Learner- Participants must learn about the material and find other resources if they do not understand it, as well as create and prepare their own part of the litigation, such as the opening statement or direct examination.

date. In doing this I will highlight potential areas of development needed and will address these through Personal Development Planning. The rationale for doing this assignment is to enhance my professional development by undertaking an annotated reflective report.

He cites that planning forces one to develop an orientation towards the future and what to occur. Planning also reduces uncertainity by forcing leaders to look ahead, anticipate change and develop the mosyt effective response to the needs of the people. Thus the rarionale for development planning is to give direction inorder to progress. Planning towards development enables planners to choose beneficial projects for development. Thirwall (1999) denotes that plans hightt the strategic choices open to the policy maker in the knowledge that not all desirable goals are achevable simultaneously.

This paper presents personal development plan which I have formulated to identify my career objectives and improve my interpersonal and professional skills. Personal development planning includes a set of questions which try to identify career interests, potentials, and competencies, collect relevant information for future decision making, and personal development matrix to identify short and long term goals and their respective actions to be followed.

Any organization that wants to have a long-term competitiveness and productive outcome in business should consider developing efficient and vibrant managers. Companies like UPS, Pepsi Cola and other CEO’s recognize how critical it is to have a leadership development program to fill the lagging in developing new and current leaders who need the suitable understanding, talents, and capabilities that are necessary to assume positions of leadership. It goes without saying that every organization that wishes to stay on top of their market generate a continuous pipeline of future, and current managers that will be familiar with how to lead effectively in a global and local environment, and carry out the mission of their business. The goals and objectives of the organization must be formulated, implemented and evaluated to manifest its mandate. Our team in accomplishing this task will be using theories, models, and approaches that will help form the purpose and skill set of the future managers including the company itself. Leaders/Administrators that have the competencies to enhance growth and be able to bring about change are greatly in demand. The great Bill Gates once said in an article, “as we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others” (Josephson, 2012). As I reflect on the question how does my organization develop and hone leadership skills, performance reviews come to mind? Our organization’s leadership development team will be using a