Leadership Development Plan Analysis

This assignment requires you to critically evaluate an individual leadership development plan. The document outlines the leader's identified weaknesses, such as nervousness and procrastination, and proposes strategies for improvement, including corporate training and self-study. It also details the rationale behind the chosen development activities, potential obstacles, and a proposed timeframe for achieving the desired outcomes. The assignment emphasizes self-reflection and the practical application of leadership development principles.

LEADERSHIP
ASSESSMENT
[PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN]

Exhibit A – Personal Development Plan:
Stage 1 – Personal Analysis:
Throughout my career, it has always been important for me to analyze my own strengths and
weaknesses (Sadri, 2012). My own strengths consist of my communication skills and the ability
to mix with other people. Moreover, I have the skill to understand the body languages of others.
These skills would work very effectively if I plan to become the manager or the leader of a
particular organization. However, I become quite angry when something does not work out the
way I wanted it to work out, or if anything changes that are not in accordance with my plan. I
hope that some changes are required for developing my weaknesses into strengths.
Another important aspect, which can be considered as a weakness of my personality is that I
procrastinate a lot about important things. This can be very alarming for some people who are in
the position of leadership. Moreover, it is a very bad sign for my whole career as well. I should
fix a time for everything, and it includes the improvement of those sections that dominates my
overall personality. Another important part of my personality improvement seems to be getting
the capacity to perform multitasking (Nahavandi, 2016). According to my experience, the next
generation would mainly survive by the multitasking of workers.
Stage 2 – Setting Goals:
Goals must be set within the minds of an individual for understanding those skills, which would
be important for me to becoming a leader. The leadership is a lot depends upon the creation of
certain measurable objectives, which would help me develop my leadership ability to the next
level (Ward, 2016). As I work by following the management rules and regulations, I can be
considered as a transactional leader because I would get the employees work by providing them
facilities and extrinsic motivation like incentives. However, I want to change myself into a
transformational leader. The goals can be defined as the use of leadership strategies within the
professional places.
I am mainly planning to use the Vroom-Yetton model of leadership in regards to any decision
related to the workplace to any particular industry. This particular model satisfies by purpose
mainly because it divides the leadership strategies according to the departments within a
company, which can make me successful as a leader. I would keep the group based leadership
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for the sales and marketing people, and the consultative leadership for the operations department.
However, the personal behavioral problems would mainly be overcome by me step by step with
the help of a psychometric assessment called the MBTI, which would help me understand my
internal flaws.
Stage 3 – Personal Objectives:
The SMART objectives for my developmental attitude is given below:-
 To change my rude behavior towards others and the habit of procrastination
 To change it in the exact amount that suits a leader, and become exceptionally polite in
dealing with others
 To achieve the objective by reading good information from online e-books, journals and
websites about the same subject
 To achieve the change of personality by using the psychometric assessment
 To complete the entire development within a period of 6 months
The best way to change my rudeness within the personality as well as increase my polite
behavior with others as an extra advantage within my communication skills can be developed by
collecting much information concerned with the subject from various sources (Ebbers &
Conover, 2010).
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Exhibit B – Contents of a Personal Plan:
Background Research:
Leadership Theories:
Leadership theories mainly suggest that leadership can either be autocratic or democratic.
Autocratic leadership is sometimes justified only if it is in the hands of transformational leaders
(McCALL, 2010). However, the Democratic leadership is justified in most of the business
organization. Nevertheless, for decision making within a hospitality industry, the Vroom-Yetton
model of leadership is often used.
Leader’s role model in change management:
The leaders are always expected to have certain qualities for making the concept of change
management plausible. The leaders should have good communication skills coupled with the
ability to win others in their way of thinking. Along with this, the leaders should have good
behavior, ability to understand subtle cues, and they should also be able to motivate the
employees by their positive views and statements.
Self-assessment using the appropriate benchmarking tool:
Identify and apply tool:
The MBTI assessment can be considered as the best tool for analyzing my personality that would
be suitable for the leadership skills. After solving the personality traits by the MBTI test, the
results that I have got is the debater (ENTP – T), which is not completely like a leader. The result
is given below:-
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According to the results, it can be interpreted that this is not a good leader who will always take
recourse to debates, but I need to motivate people more in doing the work that I want to do. My
turbulent identity is also required to be resolved before some proper step is taken about the same.
Reflection on test findings with cultural context:
If the same results of mine are analyzed from a cultural perspective, then it can be said that the
extroverted nature depicts my being brought up in a liberal atmosphere. My family was quite
liberal, and I was surrounded by a lot of friends by my side. My energy parameter is more
towards the intuition, and this indicates my creativity, which came from my exquisite knowledge
by studying different books and procuring knowledge. My thinking nature and the prospective
tactics in marketing mainly determines my rationality in the sales and marketing level.
Plan:
The personal planning of mine would mainly consist of opportunities that indicate my nature to
be extroverted in all the atmosphere. The rationale of my plan is becoming a good leader, but
some weaknesses are actually stopping me from becoming the same. It indicates my tensed
nature, my procrastination as well as my prospective strategy in marketing (Ebbers & Conover,
2010). As a leader, I must think I can conquer everything rather than thinking that finding
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conquerable clients is more helpful. My strategy of marketing also needs improvement in order
to motivate an entire team.
The measures that I am mainly taking for my overall development is the improvement of these
sections of my personality. I have some nervousness related to apprehensions about the future,
and something that cannot be controlled. Such apprehensions mainly come from my place of
birth where people mainly look for security (Nahavandi, 2016). However, as a leader, I should
focus more on the liberal views and take the challenge as a challenge and not fret about the same.
Resourcing would not be a problem these days due to the ease of access to all sorts of
information by the internet.
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Exhibit C – Individual Leadership Development Plan:
Development
Activities/Oppor
tunities
Rationale/
Relevance
Obstacles/
Challenges
Strateg
ic
Process
es
Involve
d
Timefr
ame
Basis
and
Measur
es
Resou
rces
I would like to
get an
opportunity for
working as a
deputy manager
at a particular
firm under the
close supervision
of another leader.
Moreover, I
would like to
receive a
corporate
training on the
personality
development for
the improvement
based on my
defects in the
personality. I
would also like
to get some free
time to study
The realistic
basis for the
selection of
these
opportunities
are twofold,
firstly,
working as a
deputy
manager in a
firm is not a
big deal
comparing the
amount of jobs
that are in the
offing these
days, and
secondly,
getting a study
time alone is
not a big deal
in regards to
the ample
There are some
specific
challenges that
I face in
regards to the
procrastination
of things, and it
is also related
to the tension I
face during the
stressful period
as well as the
unknown
events.
I would
take
some
training
from a
corpora
tion in
regard
to the
creation
of a
perfect
attitude
in
regard
to my
persona
lity. I
would
also
study
some
books
I would
take at
least 1
year to
solve
the
entire
amount
of
proble
m.
I would
measure
my
develop
ment
with the
help of
MBTI
assessm
ent once
again.
I
would
need
the
interne
t tools
for the
study
and the
access
to an
online
library.
I
would
also
have
the
corpor
ate
trainin
g
within
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mainly about the
aspects that are
becoming a
weakness of
mine to become a
proper leader in
the management.
amount of
time I spend in
leisure and
procrastination
.
related
to stress
control.
my
work.
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