As you know, part of training and development of employees includes creating development plans for them. Developments can help show what the employee excels at, what can be improved, and sets up a training plan for them.

Using page 391 as a guide, please create a development plan for yourself. Think of your current job, past job or current situation to complete this assignment. For example, in section "next assignments," you could say "obtain a job at xx" or list the next step in your career path at your current company or a past one.

Please write this assignment like a "form." In other words, it shouldn't look like an assignment you turn in for a class, it should be a formal "form" a company can use.

Development Plan

Competencies Please identify your three greatest strengths and areas for improvement Strengths

• Strategic thinking and execution (confidence, command skills, action orientation)

• Results orientation (competence, motNating others, perseverance)

• Spirit for winning (building team spirit, customer focus, respect colleagues)
Areas for Improvement

• Patience (tolerance of people or processes and sensitivity to pacing)

• Written communications (ability to write clearly and succinctly)

• Overly ambitious (too much focus on successful completion of projects rather than developing relationships with Individuals Involved in the projects)
Development Goats Please desalt* your overall career gaols

• Long-term: Accept positions of Increased responsibility to a level of general manager (or beyond). The areas of specific interest include but are not limited to product and brand management technology and development, strategic planning, and marketing.

• Short-term: Continue to Improve my skills in marketing and brand management while utilizing my skills in product management strategic planning, and global relations.
Next Assignments Identify potential next assignments (Including timing) thot would help you develop toward your goofs.

• Manager or director level in planning, development product, or bran management. Timing estimated to be spring 2017.
iTraining and Development Needs List both training and development activities that will either help you develop in your current assignment or provide overall development

• Master's degree classes will allow me to practice and Improve my written communications skills. The dynamics of my current position, teamwork, and reliance on other Individuals allow me to practice patience and to focus on individual team members' needs along with the success of the projects.