PERSONAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Goal:

The Personal Leadership Development Plan project was designed to assist course participants in visualizing, conceptualizing and organizing a path for developing, implementing and enhancing their leadership skills and potential.

Description:
The project is an organized roadmap for developing and enhancing leadership skills over the period of the next one to three years. The key to success is setting goals, careful planning, getting a coach or mentor, and follow-through and persistence. This is for you personally and should include both personal and professional goals and improvement plans. This exercise should mirror the strategic planning you do for your unit or organization every 2-5 years. This exercise should be repeated every 1-3 years. The plan itself should be reviewed at least every three months to be used as a benchmark for self-improvement. The key question is: How am I doing in relation to the goals I have set for myself? To get optimal use of the plan you should: be self-critical, but do not dismiss your strengths; think big, but keep realistic; be specific in your goals. Please remember that this exercise is more for your benefit than for a course grade, so make the most of it

This exercise should allow you to think strategically (big and broad), tactically (focused) and operationally (specific task planning).

Project Organization: Include the following sections. You may add others, but do not exclude these. You can be creative here. This should end up 3-6 pages.

1. Paper Title Page

2. Current Roles: List in bullet form (e.g. Nurse, Unit Manager, Brother)

3. Personal Vision Statement: Use format discussed in August Intensive. This is in paragraph form.

4. Personal Mission Statement: Use format discussed in August Intensive. This is in paragraph form

5. Personal Core Values: Can use bullets or paragraph

6. Self-Analysis: Personal SWOT analysis. Bullet form with brief explanation as needed. To include:
a. Personal Strengths or core competencies: What am I good at?
b. Personal Weaknesses or areas for improvement: What do I need to improve on?
c. Opportunities: What are the some things in the external environment that could be opportunities for me if I take advantage of them?
d. Threats or challenges: What are the major external threats or challenges that I may face in next one to three years?
e. Resources: What resources do I have to call on that I can leverage to reach my goals?
f. My Ethics? How will I behave in the workplace when faced with difficult decisions?

7. Personal Goals: Bullet form. Next 1-3 years. Be specific with specific targets. Divide these into Personal and Professional goals.

8. Plan and Strategies for reaching Personal Goals: List. Be specific here.

9. Other components: Optional but you can be creative.