RECENT ASSIGNMENT

Report: Personal Leadership Development Plan back to top
Value: 40%
Due Date: 12-Oct-2018
Return Date: 02-Nov-2018
Length: 3000 words (-/-10qo)
Submission method options: Alternative submission method
Task
This task begins as part of Week 1 and continues throughout the course, leading to the development of a personal leadership development plan (PLOP).
Leadership Self-insight: Every week you were asked to do a short self-assessment quiz from your text. You were asked to reflect carefully on the outcome of each quiz and to identify some practical actions you can take to improve your own leadership ability. The objective of this exercise was to help you to build self-awareness and identify leadership attributes that represent strengths and weaknesses and opportunities to improve. You were expected to go beyond your own leadership development needs and consider future challenges you or your organisation could face. What leadership skills would you need to address these challenges? You were also asked to discuss this issue with an experienced colleague and/or mentor.
PLOP requirements:
1. Bring together the outcomes from your leadership self-insight quizzes (700 words).
Interpret the results of the self-insight quizzes. You need to do this holistically and see how the insights from individual quizzes can be comprehensively presented. Consider the implications for leaders in
today's complex and turbulent environments. Acknowledge sources as required.
The purpose of this step is to gather information on your key leadership strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for improvement that you need to present as part of your PLOP.
2. Provide a succinct summary of your key strengths and weaknesses (300 words)
Include a brief summary of your key leadership strengths and weaknesses at the beginning of your plan (based the outcomes of your leadership self-insight quizzes). This can help to link your developmental
objectives and actions with your developmental needs. It is also a useful communication mechanism when you discuss your plan with a supervisor or mentor.
3. Assess the need for more information on your behaviours (300 words)
You may decide at this point that you need additional information from your colleagues on your strengths and weaknesses as a leader, rather than rely solely on the outcomes of reflection and self-assessment exercises. There are several options for doing this: causal conversations, informal interviews, previous performance evaluations. Consider how your perceptions of yourself are similar/different from the perception of your colleagues.
4.Articulate your vision for developing as a leader (25-50 words)
In one sentence, describe your aspiration as a developing leader. For example, you may wish 'to be a leader who is ethical, collaborative and continuously learning:
5.Specify your developmental objectives (125-150 words)
Write down your developmental objectives. These should be specific and written in a way that allows progress to be measured (e.g. 'to become a more effective team player, as assessed by my team members'). It
is recommended that you include 3-5 objectives in your plan
6. Spedfy actions to achieve each developmental objective (500 words)
For each developmental objective, describe the actions you plan to take in order to achieve them. These actions should be SMART (i.e. specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and linked to a timefra me).
They could be a once-off action (to establish a mentoring relationship with Anne Smith by 30 September, or an ongoing action is (to ask my colleagues for feedback on my leadership behaviours after major projects are delivered)
7. Describe the resources that you will need to implement your plan (300 words)
As you draft your plan, consider the resources you will need to fully implement it. Resources include assistance from key people (e.g. mentors and human resource specialists), time to implement actions, funds
(e.g. to pay for specialist training or a coach) and guidance materials such as books
8. Describe the mechanisms you will use to get feedback on your (200 words)
leadership behaviours and track your progress
Such mechanisms may include: discussions with mentors or feedback from peers
9. Describe your strategy to review and revise your plan in future (200 words)
Your plan will need to be reviewed and updated in future. Describe how and when you will do this. Annual reviews are typical. You may wish to link this review process to an existing one. For example, if you
currently have a professional development plan that is regularly reviewed as part of your organisation's human resource management system, you could link your leadership development plan to this system.
10. Discuss your plan with your supervisor/mentor. What recommendations were made? What revisions did you make? (300 words)
Check your draft plan and then finalise it.
You can use tables to present a part of your plan for example points 5, 6 & 7 above.
There are no prescribed number of references required for this assessment. Acknowledge sources that you use to help you with your leadership plan. You will need to acknowledge your text book and perhaps a few readings.
Online submission via Tumitin is required for this assignment. Details will be provided by your subject lecturer.