Effective Leadership Plan Report - Leadership Module, Semester

This report presents a comprehensive personal development plan aimed at achieving leadership excellence and starting a business within five years. It emphasizes the importance of self-assessment, goal setting, and the cultivation of key leadership qualities such as honesty, hard work, and confidence. The plan outlines specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals, focusing on gaining experience in the automobile industry, completing education, and securing financial resources. The report details strategies for overcoming challenges, building essential skills, and leveraging personal strengths to achieve professional success. The plan includes a phased approach, detailing actions for each stage of the process, from education and industry experience to business planning and execution. The author emphasizes the need for continuous self-evaluation and adaptation to ensure the plan's effectiveness in achieving long-term goals. The report's conclusion reinforces the importance of a well-defined personal development plan in achieving professional and personal success.

Running head: EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP PLAN
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Name of the student:
Name of University:
Author Note:

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Executive summary
The aim of this report is to discuss the importance of personal development plan. In order to
excel in professional life and carry out responsibility of an organization, there are some
factors which one need to incorporate in psychology. The goal here is to start a new business
within 5 years’ time. In order to start a new business in highly competitive market, the
physical and mental strength should be unmatchable. As a student of university, my goal is to
complete my study within a year then enter the automobile market as an employee of an
international automobile company. This will help me to gain ample knowledge about the
operation of these companies and the competition environment so that I can have adequate
knowledge. This personal plan will help me to start by business and run it successfully.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................1
Aim:............................................................................................................................................1
Factor Discussion:......................................................................................................................2
Honesty:.............................................................................................................................2
Hard work:.........................................................................................................................2
Confidence:........................................................................................................................3
Setting Goals:.........................................................................................................................3
Plan:........................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................5
Recommendations:.....................................................................................................................6
References:.................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction:
Procedures of personal development plan is based on the learnings, reflections,
knowledge, values, awareness for the betterment of career, education, relationship and self-
improvement. Personal development is used for identifying opportunities for aligning job
duties with the employee’s personal goals (McKenzie, 2017). This helps to invest in yourself
so that one can manage oneself effectively regardless of what life may bring in the way.
Personal development plan is the key component for excellent lifestyle. It creates self-
awareness, sense of direction, improved effectiveness and focus, help to increase motivation
and gaining greater resilience (Drucker, 2017). With the improved personal development
plan, more fulfilling relationship can be grown and ability to manage oneself in the variety of
situation is increased.
Personal development begins with the identification of personal values beliefs and
purpose of the goals which have been set to achieve. Chasing own objectives and goals lead
to personal fulfilment and pleasure. Great opportunities for self-improvement and learning
are provided by personal development process. This process gives scope for having sense of
direction which helps to focus on the quality rather than quantity (Gresh et al., 2016). With
pure sense of direction one can eliminate all the distractions of the goals and get more clarity
about the goals.
Aim: the aim of this report is to build a personal development plan which will help to
transform the weaknesses into strengths within next five years. This PDP aims to identify
factors in order to gain all-inclusive experience in the automobile industry, learning to
research productively and efficiently so that a new business can be started and 360-degree
development of self and career.

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Factor Discussion:
Personal development is a lifelong process. This is the only way that helps people to
assess their qualities and skills, consider their aims in life and set goals to realize as well as
maximize their potential (Perusse et al., 2015). Through proper identification of personal
skills, one need to set life goals that can enhance employability prospects, raise confidence
and lead to more fulfilling as well as higher quality of life. The plans for making relevant,
effective and positive life choices.
Honesty: the idea of honesty gives ultimate power. This helps one to build confidence, cuts
through the deceptive people and makes one to be attractive as well as high-status (McGrath,
2014). It gives a lot of creative energy and makes the leaders authentic to the employees.
Honesty completely contradicts the idea of white lies, omission of information and self-
deception. Maintaining honesty is quiet hard in some situations. In business there are many
attractions for increasing the productivity of firm but most of them are unethical. The quality
of honesty in the leaders, help them to avoid such elusive matters and do right thing in right
manner (Ward, 2016). Therefore, it can be said that this quality will help to assess the right
way for gaining new experiences and starting new business at right time. financial factor is
another aspect which will test the honesty without which I shall not be able to start my own
business.
Hard work: hard work is considered to be the key of success. However, very few people can
put in adequate productive work before they receive anything in return. This is how they are
distinguished from the hard workers (Cottrell, 2015). For hardworking one needs to be
focused as well as consistent in their work which means not to indulge in distractions for a
long time. It is the process of being patient and believing the process and changing own
approach to get the best result ultimately. Hard work helps the leaders to strategize to
incorporate new things with the initial vision. It helps to build discipline which will have

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great impact on the leader and the followers as well (Gould, 2017). Hard work therefore, is
essential to complete study in an effective manner and grow business in the highly
competitive automobile industry.
Confidence: Confidence is not a thing which can be learnt like sets of rules rather it is a state
of mind. Through positive thinking, training, practice, knowledge and speaking to other
people in the surroundings are the useful ways for improving or boosting the confidence
levels (Burnham, 2015). This comes from the feelings of wellbeing, belief in own capabilities
and acceptance of own self-esteem. Confidence is not static measure hence it convincers of
decrease depending upon performance roles, functions and difficulty of tasks. This particular
value can be adopted as well as improved. Though the means of planning and preparation,
having positive thoughts, being assertive all the time, gaining experience and avoiding
arrogance (Tattum & Tattum, 2017). Hence it can be said that confidence is essential factor
which will help in entering the automobile industry and gain ample experience to start a new
business.
Setting Goals:
Setting goals is the key factor to attain success (Clifford et al., 2015). Having clear
and well defining goals can help me to improve collaboration and teamwork, making others
understand the actual objectives or the direction of the business thus the business grow. I
shall have the goals written down with the set dates of accomplishment that gives me
something for planning and working for. It is the external representation of the inner desires
which constantly reminds me of what to be accomplished (Betts, Kapushion & Carey, 2016).
There are common patterns of workings towards achieving goals where I amy get
demotivated but the achievable goals will help me to focus as well as visualize for connecting
him better with my internal desires and keep me motivated. Setting SMART goals are

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important to evaluate the capabilities and keep one on appropriate track for achieving them
(Chan, 2017).
Specific: I shall start a new business in the automobile industry where I shall be the leader
Measurable: I shall measure my progress by keeping track of how much experience about the
industry I have gained
Achievable I shall improve assessment quality through various leadership theories
Relevant: I shall improve my collaboration and teamwork experience to be an efficient leader
Timely: I shall complete these within 5 years.
Plan:
Setting SMART goals is the initial step to visualize the desired situation. The chief
matter is to identify the right path to accomplish them successfully. I have set these goals as I
have dreamt to be a successful entrepreneur in the next 5 years. As I am a university student
now, my first step will be to pass out with brilliant result so that marks do not become a
barrier in achieving my aim. Therefore, I need to complete my masters first so that I get the
opportunity to apply in the renowned automobile companies. This is mandatory because,
marks are vital to judge the range of my study as well as quality and values. Through good
marks, my seriousness and hard work will be reflected. Moreover, with regular studies I need
to groom myself so that I can am not let down in the interview. This an implicit fact that
whatever profession I choose I need to know how to communicate which will not be there if I
am not confident about my views and thoughts. This process of learning effective
communication style and confidence will keep me motivated to face all type of challenge.
One of the most vital challenges of reaching goals is that the due date is far away
therefore, many people either feel demotivated or put off taking any action until it is too late

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(Ennico, 2018). This is the reason why I want to look at the amount of time I have and the
goals I want to achieve then create mini goals which will gradually take me towards my big
goals that is to start a new automobile company. During the procedure, I will be specific on
the elements will be needing to reach the mini and big goals within the particular time frame.
This is the reason I have specified my action of colleting masters within a year, getting three-
year experience in the automobile industry for three years then plan as well as research for a
few months then start the business in the next year. To complete all these, I need to take
regular actions hence I will make the list of tasks each day so that I can be gradually move
towards my goal. After completing my education, my immediate plan is to enter a global
automobile company so that I can have a knowledge about the operations of this particular
industry. Global company will give me host of new opportunities. First of all, every
necessary fact about the core operation of the industry will be clear to me. Secondly, if the
company works globally, then I will be getting opportunities to work in a cross-cultural
diversity. Finally, in the organization, I will get the scope to face real life scenarios which
will help me to enhance assessment skills. I want to start a business of my own this is the
reason why I would like to gain enough knowledge about this industry.
My big goal is to start new business hence money is the mist necessary fact. This is
the reason why I have to plan or strategies to find a perfect sources of capital. Without capital
I cannot start my new business in the industry as there are numerous expenses associated with
business. There can many ways to get loans but for this I need to be competent enough to
repay the debt. Therefore, I need to have an apt and dependable background based on which I
will get the money. I have decided to mortgage my property to get the loan. In the process of
developing myself and moving towards the goals, I will be following or keeping track of my
daily actions myself so that I can evaluate how well my plan is working.

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Conclusion:
Therefore, it can be concluded that personal development plan is one of the most
important factor that helps the individuals to find the personal strengths and weaknesses.
Through this, the persons set specific goals and plan accordingly to accomplish them
successfully. Starting a business is not an incident of a day. For doing this one need to plan
many things as there are various barriers which prevent the development process. Personal
development plan not only helps to identify personal SWOT but helps to find the ways to
bring balance in them. Setting goals in respect to time helps one to keep motivated in the
process and avoid all the distractions in life. The SMART goals are combined with values
like honesty, hard work and confidence (Ennico, 2018). Proper understanding the importance
of these values and their impact on the development plan ease the situations and help the
persons to achieve their goals effectively.
Recommendations:
I need to have proper resources like money and time in the process to reach my goal.
Time is mandatory because nobody has control on it. Wasting precious minutes can definitely
have huge effect on my plan. Therefore, I will be preventing other distractions to steal my
time and develop new skills. In addition to this, I need money without which I will not be
able to start the business which is the chief goal of my life. I need to understand my strengths
which I can improve at any point of life. I need to recognize my opportunities and threat
and take immediate action to nullify the negatives in me.

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