Personal Development Plan for Leadership: Self-Insight, Strengths, Weaknesses, and Objectives

This report discusses the importance of personal development plan to be a good and efficient leader of the current business organization. It describes the key strengths and weaknesses of the personal qualities based on the leadership self-insight quizzes. It analyses the vision for personal development as a leadership and developmental objectives. It details the process of development of decision making through SMART actions, the needed resources for implementing plan and how the plan can be properly applied.

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Executive summary
This report has discussed the importance of personal development plan to be a good and
efficient leader of the current business organization. This report has described the key strengths
and weaknesses of the personal qualities based on the leadership self-insight quizzes. Based on
the feedback of others, the information on behaviors has been detailed. This report analyses the
vision for personal development as a leadership and developmental objectives. It has detailed the
process of development of decision making through SMART actions, the needed resources for
implementing plan and how the plan can be properly applied. This report has also detailed the
feedback on leadership behaviors and process of updating development requirements through
review and recommendation from the mentors. It would be fundamental and useful tool for my
future as leader and manager how to improve and apply to workplace and stakeholders. This
report has found ethical, transformation, follower leadership and emotional leadership to be the
focus for developing leadership plan.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Body:................................................................................................................................................3
1. leadership self-insight quizzes..............................................................................................3
2. key strengths and weaknesses...............................................................................................7
3. More information on behaviors............................................................................................7
4. Vision for developing as a leader.........................................................................................8
5. Developmental objectives.....................................................................................................8
6. Development of decision through action..............................................................................9
7. Resources needed to implement plan.................................................................................13
8. Feedback on leadership behaviors:.....................................................................................14
9. Review and revise the plan in future:.................................................................................14
10. Recommendations and revisions.....................................................................................15
Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................15
References......................................................................................................................................17

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Introduction:
The aim of this report is to discuss the personal development to become an efficient
leader. Leadership Self-insight in this report is based on a short self-assessment quiz which can
be helpful to identify the strength and weakness. Proper reflection on the outcome of each quiz
can make one understand the scopes of improvement. This report also aims to identify some
practical actions that can be taken to improve leadership ability and identify the process will be
effective for growth as well as behavioral change. It is the aim of this report that the persons can
build self-awareness as well as identify their leadership attributes. Through the action plan, the
objectives of growing leadership skills will be grown. This action plans will represent strengths
and weaknesses and opportunities to improve (Anderson & Sun, 2017). By going beyond
personal leadership development needs anyone consider the future challenges which usually the
individuals and organization can face. This report will be discussing leadership self-insight
quizzes, key strengths and weaknesses, more information on behaviors, vision for developing as
a leader, developmental objectives, development of decision through action, resources needed to
implement plan, feedback on leadership behaviors, review and revise the plan in future and
revisions of the plans.
Body:
1. leadership self-insight quizzes
I have taken the personality test in order to find out my leadership qualities. I have seen
that ethics is one of the most important things that people need in life. It is for this reason that I
wanted to take a test and understand my ethical maturity level. One of the important theories that
I have learned here is the Immanuel Kant’s Ethical Theory of doing the right thing (Hawkins,
2017). This mainly helps the leaders in taking the right decision by making sure that no unfair

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mans is being used. The leaders have to make sure that they are not overlooking the welfare of
the employees.
In the Ethical maturity test, I have score 7 out of 10. These means that I possess a middle
ground in ethical maturity. However, I have several strengths like I can state the values and
principles which guide my actions, I take responsibilities of my mistakes, I am able to forgive
and forget others, I have the quality of trusting others and giving them a chance, I am a person of
words and I can reflect on my mistakes and try to change my actions according to it. However,
my behavior is not very consistent in my actions which is one of my most important weakness.
This self-insight is often helpful as this will help me in creating a positive environment in the
workplace.
I have also taken the transformation leadership test where I have seen my strength and
weaknesses in two different aspects. I have score in the develops followers into leaders 5 and
inspires followers to go beyond their own self-interest 3. This means am a good follower and my
leader practice transformational skills and maintain leadership responsibilities and group work. I
personally feel that the leader himself have to be fair in order to create a change or a vision for
all his followers. Among the strengths I have identified that I am a good follower whose leader
listen carefully to my concerns. As I can understand his values and enthusiasm regarding our
mission, I can encourage myself seeing him. He provides feeding back on my actions and taught
me to develop my capabilities and provide a positive attitude towards the future. However, what
I have identified to be the weaknesses from this test is the issue of developing my strength,
fostering clear understanding of my values and beliefs and plans of future. The transformational
leaders to me will be helping me to gain commitments to my dreams but this was not present in
my leader.

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a) My score in the act of followership is 6, which is a high score. I think that I have all
the qualities that make me a good follower. As per the opinion of Ford and Harding,
(2018) the follower leadership theory is one of the most important theory that has to
be undertaken by the individuals for getting a successful profession in the future. I
personally feel that being a follower is very important in the initial stages of the
career. Unless and until I can be an ideal follower I cannot really be a good leader in
the future. I have to prove myself a patient follower. For being a successful leader in
the future one has to be a patient follower and listener (Obholzer & Miller, 2018). I
need to respect my boss or my leader and listen to all his ideas and opinion so that I
can develop a good followership. However, I lack in proper and independent decision
making power. So, I need to develop on this aspect and be bold enough to
communicate my ideas to my boss or my leader.
b) My score is less than 7 in all the questions of the emotional intelligence test. This
helps in knowing that I am not really well versed with the art of controlling my
emotions. I am also not well versed in maintaining a good and healthy interpersonal
relationship. However, I have to work on this aspect if I want to become a successful
manager in the future. I have to maintain a very good relationship with my bosses and
my co-workers as well. This will help me to become an empathetic leader in future. I
will be able to handle the interests of my employees in a careful and empathetic
manner. The transformational leadership theory is one of the most important theories
that help in shaping the personality of the leaders. As per the opinion of Ayoko and
Chua, (2014), transformational leadership will help the leaders in making their teams
much more efficient and organized. The leaders will be able to create a change or a

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transformation for their followers. I have to keep this in mind that there can be many
situations where I will have to work as per the situation. Following the situation
theory will be helpful in understanding those situations.
Focusing on my leadership style
As far as my leadership style is concerned, my main focus is to become more consistent
and stronger in the actions and decision-making process. In addition to this, need to enhance
management skills to mix with people and building network. I have less relationship
management skills that will definitely bother me to become a transformational leader in the
future. I am an independent thinker as the score of the power of followership test has been
showing and get engaged effectively which are positive sign for the leadership style. I have a
relatively strong leadership orientation toward initiating structure behavior which shows a
positive prospect in me to become an efficient leader. This is the reason why I need to reduce
the number of mistakes and negativity in me and transform them into positives.
2. key strengths and weaknesses
According to the leadership quizzes, I have found enough of my strengths as well as
weaknesses. I know I lack many of the strengths that I need to be a transformational leader
therefore, I have pointed out them very carefully otherwise I will never be an effective leader in
near future. I can state the values and principles which guide my actions, take responsibilities of
wrongs, I am able to forgive and forget others and give them chance, as well as myself. I am a
person of words and I can reflect on my mistakes to change my decisions for getting better
results. I effectively point out what my leaders do and do not which make me a good follower.
By pointing out the weaknesses of my leader’s fault I will be able to prevent myself to do the

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same. I score high in the emotional intelligence test which supports my behavioral trait. This will
help e to manipulate more people to act according to my own vision which is one of the most
important strengthen of the transformational leader. Finally, I have a strong leadership
orientation toward initiating structure behavior.
Among the weaknesses, I have pointed out my inconsistency in the thought process and
actions. This will be ruining all the planning and actions in the future. I also do not have proper
control over my behaviors like anger which can reduce my popularity as leader among my
employees. I cannot go beyond self-interest but think about my decisions and my objectives so
that I can bring others to my path. Finally, I am not good at relationship management which will
definitely bother me in the real-life incident like building connection with the stakeholders of the
company.
3. More information on behaviors
From the personal reflection, causal conversations, informal interviews and previous
performance evaluations I have identified more information about my behavior. To the people
around me who have good observation and understanding of my nature have always praised my
communication skills. They have also pointed out that I need to develop skills that will make me
to follow others. The follower leadership skills will be helpful in starting my career as I will not
know everything about the companies where I will join but learn gradually. From the feedbacks
of the family members I have the habit of shifting blames on others on certain occasions. This is
opposite to the ethical behavior in oneself. I lack critical thinking, courage, collaboration,
awareness and diplomacy. The people who have shared their thoughts about my behavior have
also stated that I am not consistent in maintaining relation with others. In order to become a

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leader with ethical and moral support, I need to enhance follower skill, ethical, intelligence and
leadership skills to manage myself and become a transformational leader.
4. Vision for developing as a leader
I want to be a leader with high emotional intelligence who can sense the situation along with the
behavior and expectations of the others. Follow the demand of the subordinates and manipulate
them ethical to achieve the organizational goal. I want to posses the strength of the
transformational leader with high enthusiasm and positivity so that I gain loyalty and mental
attachment of my followers.
5. Developmental objectives
objective measurement
1. To increase my ethical and moral
decision making and actions
I will ask for feedback from the others like
colleagues, family members, friends and
managers whether the ideas are acceptable.
2. To have qualities of transformation
leaders
I shall be measuring whether this have
increase collaboration, communication,
enthusiasm and innovation in the company
3. Increase my follower leadership skills I shall measure this through team appraisals
and feedback or reviews from the senior
managers.
4. To be more emotionally intelligent I shall measure this through my self-
awareness, self-management, social
awareness and relations management in the

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group tasks.
6. Development of decision through action
Objectives Actions Time Budget
To be a follower of
effective leadership
 Attaining seminars
and trainings to
increase listening
mentality and
reducing interruption
and imposing my
solutions for two
months.
 Listening to the
views of the team
members attentively
in a meeting or
conference with a
week of joining the
organization
 To increase
community relations
to gain more
customer base and
 Within
January
2019
800 AUD as
fees to the
mentors

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bring varieties on the
products offered.
 Asking guidance
from mentors.
 Watching online
Videos like Youtube
to find how the
leaders must be
responding in a
specific situation.
To be capable of
increasing emotional
intelligence
 Learning the methods
of assessing different
types of situations
through enrolling in
the personal
assessment trainings
and courses
 Increasing emotional
intelligent with
improved motivation,
empathy, social
skills, self-regulation
and self-awareness
 Within
December
2018
1200 AUD
as fees of
the study
course.

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skills
 Reading business
magazines and books
 Gaining theoretical
knowledge by
reading journals of
business and
management and
how they are
connected with
emotional
intelligence
 Developing
appropriate
understanding of the
others around me
 Consulting with my
colleagues to
comment on the
improving
assessment process.
 To improve
transformationa
 Attending leadership
coaching Research
 Within
March of
1200
AUD as

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l leadership
skills
Centre
 e.g. Dale Carnegie
Training Centre
 The curriculums such
as
 Leadership/ People
Skill/ Presenting/
Customer/
Organisational
Development Skill,
etc,
 By learning and
sharing others
leadership skill with
CEO
 Regular after reading
books journals to
discuss and which is
related successful
story of CEO who
has excellent
leadership skill and
experience
2019
 (3 times
per week)
fees of
the study
course.

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 Becoming more
ethical
 Studying situation of
business these days
 Knowing ore about
the unethical
incidents and how
they have affected
the companies.
 Watching Video’s
online which has
become the easiest
way to know about
the unethical
incidents and how
they can be
prevented.
 Within six
months
 6 times
per week
500
AUD for
watching
online
videos
and
news
7. Resources needed to implement plan
In order to implement the plan to be an effective leader, I need to both human as well as
non-human resources (Anderson & Sun, 2017). The human resources include the guidance of the
mentors and experts of business and management who will guide me to understand the critical
aspects of leadership. I shall be taking part in the personal development courses where these
mentors will point out the factors of business which can affect me professionally. These experts
will help me to identify the strengths of mine through various tests so that I can be ensured with

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my personality traits and work more on to overcome the negative emotions. These mentors in the
development course will help me to make me understand how to make decisions without being
shatters by the negative effect of the situations and grow my communication skills at the time of
argument. Beside these, I would also join the meditation classes which will help me to grow my
attention and memory. Among the non-human resources, I will need guidance materials from
business management books, journals, periodicals. I need help of the online tests and courses so
that I can get the news of the actual business process of the firm as well as rival companies so
that I can effectively make strategies based on the data. Moreover, I need fund to pay for the
specialist trainings. I also need time to implement the actions.
8. Feedback on leadership behaviors:
After I complete my courses and trainings I need to measure the progress of my
development. In this regard, I will communicate with my mentors who will be revealing my
weaknesses and strengths after the course. They will detail how much I have overcome the issues
which presented my personal behavioral growth during this course. In addition to this, I shall
indulge in different tests and skills assessment tools to easier my growth to become an effective
leader. However, the behavioral growth will be identified by my friends, families and others
around me. The changes in me will be pointed out by them as they know all the traits in me
therefore, they can see the changes in me through these courses. Moreover, according to our
organization policy of Human Resource Department which have to evaluate group members
twice a year from each their boss and coworkers in various parts such as leadership skill, ability
to solve problem and kindness, etc. So sometimes we have to consult and discuss how to
improve and measure each member’s changes with other department members such as peers and

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pervious colleagues to get feedback. So I can check my changes to compare before and after with
them therefore, I will collect the feedback from them to measure my progress.
9. Review and revise the plan in future:
Reviewing as well as revising the strategic plan for personal development growth is
necessary in an annual basis. This is due to the fact that the needs of qualities always keep
changing in the human beings. With the change of time, one needs to change their priorities
hence I need to monitor my strategic plan (Yahaya & Ebrahim, 2016). In order to review my
strategic plan, I need to ensure that the activities are kept within the parameters of the desired
strategic objective and aims. Based on this I need to update the skills to serve the requirement of
the organizations I would join. I must ensure that the activities are consistent with the leadership
vision of mine as well as the requirement of the company (Ward, 2016). I order to increase and
maintain the capabilities and skills, I need to keep the internal as well as external changes under
review that may require the adjustments to the strategy of the organizations or affect the ability
to achieve the objectives.
10. Recommendations and revisions
After I continued my plan with my mentors they have brought some changes in the action
plan. First of all, my action plan did not have any action prescribed to increase the inner strength
and confidence in me so that I can face any type of adverse situation in the business which is
very much common now a day. Therefore, they recommended me to increase confidence to face
challenges and solve different types of real-life problems gradually. According to the leadership
theories, effective leaders aim to solve the problems regarding maintain connectivity with people
for a long time. Therefore, it is essential for a leader to maintain good connection with the
employees, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders. Hence, I need to take actions for

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maintaining a good and healthy interpersonal relationship and grow transformation leadership
skills. This theory is important as based on this I will grow capabilities to see the challenges from
different points of view and identify probable solution to all types of problems within a desired
time. Finally, my plan does not have any action to increase my knowledge through follower
leadership theory and ethical theory of doing the right thing about the business process and the
changing nature of the companies in this global business context. This is the reason why I need
to incorporate measures in my action plan which will enhance my knowledge about the business
techniques of the famous leaders in the business and know how the problems can be solved.
Conclusion:
Therefore, it can be concluded that leadership is one of the most essential factors in the
current business settings. However, it is not a very easily task to perform. For being a good
leader, one need to have a huge number of skills and personality traits which can be supportive
of developing leadership skills in the people. There are expectations from the employees,
suppliers, shareholders and all the associated people according to which the leaders actually
perform. This is the reason why personal weaknesses are to be overcome and transformed into
strength. By revising the skills and reviewing them quarterly or annually can help people to face
complexities associated with business. Through the action plans the weaknesses will be
transformed effectively.

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