Essay on Management and Personal Development
The elaboration of the personal development plan that meet leadership requirements starts with the definition of goals the plan is supposed to reach. In this regard, taking into consideration my skills and inclinations I would focus on five key areas of the development of my leadership skills and requirements. To put it more precisely, I would focus on the development of my communication, organizational, learning, team work, and leadership proper skills.
On identifying goals the plan is supposed to reach, I would focus on the elaboration of methods that can help me to reach the desirable goals. In this regard, training alone may be not enough and I may need sharing experience with other people, who have already got an extensive experience of leadership.
Furthermore, I would focus on the improvement of my skills using training and experience of other people, along with the study of literature dedicated to this problem. First, I would improve my learning skills, which are essential for my professional development and my development as a leader. I should to learn to acquire new knowledge and develop new skills without the assistance of educators and trainers. Instead, I should be able to learn on my own. For this purpose, I will need to learn to use new technologies, to obtain new information and to develop new skills using the information from diverse sources and my personal experience.
The development of organisational skills should involve my work in organizations and taking the leading position. However, I can focus on the team work, which can help me to develop my organisational skills along with my team work skills. At the same time, I need to learn to distinguish priorities in my personal and professional development. The accurate definition of priorities is crucial for the development of my organisational skills. In such a way, I will be able to focus on tasks, which are the most important for me at the moment.
The development of leadership skills proper will involve the learning of different leadership style as well as the study of my own personality because I need to choose the leadership style that is the most appropriate for me. On the other hand, I should learn to be able to adapt to the changing business environment and to changing situation within the organisation, where I work. Therefore, I should pay a particular attention to the development of flexibility in my views and openness to changes.
The development of communication skills is also very important to meet my leadership requirements because I have to be able to maintain effective communication not only with different people but also to develop communication within the organisation that is much more difficult than routine communication between people. At this point, the development of tolerance is very important for the development of my communication skills because I still have problems with accepting a standpoint different from my own. In other words, I have to learn to take into consideration opinion of other people and to negotiate to make my communication really effective.
Finally, I will have to learn tolerance for my team work skills because my leadership inclinations lead to the aggressive leadership style, which increases the risk of conflicts in teams, where I work. In this regard, I should also focus on the development of effective conflict management techniques to make my team work effective and to become a true leader, who can encourage and motivate his subordinates and prevent conflicts within the team.
As I implement the plan, I should assess and evaluate the implementation of the plan. On the ground of my assessment of the implementation of my plan, I can introduce changes to improve my plan or to meet new leadership requirements, which may arise in the course of my professional and personal development.
Methods used for the assessment of outcomes of the personal development plan against the personal work objectives
The methods used for the assessment of outcomes of the personal development plan may be different but I would focus on the development of clear criteria of my successfulness in terms of meeting my strategic goals, which I have defined in the plan. I have a set of skills, which I have to improve. Therefore, I should analyze my progress in the course of the implementation of the plan. I should make notes to point out my progress in my personal development and in meeting leadership requirements. In addition, I can use interviews involving people, who know me good enough to be able to make objective and accurate judgments on my progress. I can collect the information from interviews and analyze it. After that I can compare it to my personal self-assessment and make conclusions concerning my progress.
Evaluation of the impact of learning against the achievement of strategic goals
At the same time, the evaluation of the impact of learning against achievement of strategic goals is very helpful in regard to the assessment of my progress and improvement of my leadership skills to meet leadership requirements. In this respect, it is important to place emphasis on the fact that the learning has a considerable impact on the development of personality and, naturally, on the development of leadership skills. In fact, it is important to set correct objectives, which I have to reach to make the process of learning not only successful but also useful in regard to my professional development. In actuality, the evaluation of the impact of learning on my personal and professional development should involve the detailed analysis of my skills and knowledge which I had before and which have acquired in the course of learning. For instance, I should compare my progress each three months to reveal the impact of learning on my personal and professional development. At the same time, I should also distinguish the impact of learning from my personal experience, which is not related to learning.
