Personal Development Plan for Leadership: Tesco Procurement Manager

This report focuses on personal and professional development, emphasizing the skills essential for leadership roles, particularly within the retail sector. The author identifies Tesco as a target employer and a Procurement Manager role as a career goal. The report details the skills developed during the course, including time, funds, and manpower management, and outlines a professional development plan using SOAR and SMART frameworks. The SOAR analysis identifies strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results, while the SMART goals define specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound objectives for skill development. The report concludes that continuous personal and professional development is crucial for career advancement and uses the PDP as an effective framework to achieve leadership goals. The report also includes references to books, journals and online resources used in the research.

Personal Development for
Leaders

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Identification of company and role.............................................................................................1
Skills developed during the course and the contribution towards an organisation.....................1
Development of professional development plan and the possible benefits have by an
organisation.................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is one of the important concept that helps a
person in developing the skills, which are essential to give desired performance in an
organisation. For this purpose, by identifying the own capabilities and weaknesses, a person can
make plan to make improvement accordingly, for achieving better opportunities and growth in
career. (Personal and professional development. 2020). The organisation in which I want to
work in future, after completing the study is retail sector, because it provides a number of
opportunity for personal growth, like how to satisfy the customers, earning their loyalty etc. In
this regard, company which I seek to get employment is Tesco, which is considered as one the
top employer and shows better signs of running business in longer period. In this retailing
organisation there are exciting opportunities with the help of which, individual can see
significant growth in their career. In addition to this, primary reason for which I want to work in
retailing sector is that, it is one of the fastest moving industry. Tesco is an ideal organisation to
work. The role which I want to perform within an organisation is related to Procurement
Manager or Purchasing Manager.
The aspects which are covered in this report is related to identify those skills, which are
essential for working in a large organisation of retail industry. For this purpose, professional
development plan is built under this report.
Identification of company and role
I have completed the study in management field, where during academics, I have learnt a
number of concepts which is essential for managing a business, especially in retail sector, such
as time, money, manpower etc. Integrally all these have huge impact over the development of my
management skill. This would be the reason that I want to work for the organisation that belongs
from the Retail Industry. One of the ideal organisation in which I want to be placed is Tesco. The
reason is that Tesco has successive operations within this industry from many years and able to
carry on business activities in different countries. The role which I basically want to play within
an organisation is related to Procurement Manager. The reason is my previous experience along
with study of the managerial aspects. Getting employment as Procurement Manager within
Tesco is my dream that will help me in earning a better career opportunity.
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Skills developed during the course and the contribution towards an organisation
From the starting I have interested in management related activities. Whenever, I have
gained opportunity during academics to increase my management skills, I prefer to manage all
the different aspects simultaneously for completion of the work on time. This would be the
reason that I have decent skills along with that interest in respective field. During academics, I
have worked on a number of projects both in groups and at individual level, that helps me to gain
knowledge about skills which are essential for completing the same. Therefore, skills which are
developed includes time, manpower, funds management etc. The completion of projects along
with the management of time for study and other curricular activities, help me to build effective
time management skills that aid in completion of all activities on time. In development of funds
management skills, not only course knowledge helped but previous experiences gained from the
family also contributes in increment of the effectiveness of same. Through the use of these skills,
I can contribute towards an organisation in development of effective working culture where all
employees help each other in completion of work on time. Management of funds within an
organisation help to operate day to day activities continuously without any hindrances. This aid
in cost reduction along with continuation within operational functions.
Development of professional development plan and the possible benefits have by an organisation
Use of personal development plan has significant contribution in the development of
professional aspects within an individual (Priest and Middleton, 2016). The same is used by me
where SOAR help to identifying personal attributes which are strong or weak along with future
aspirations. Afterwards, SMART goals are going to set for future development (Clinton, 2018)
(Carver, 2016). In last, professional development will be made that carries all the activities
related to the development.
SOAR
Strengths
 Analytical Skill
 Strategic thinking
 String negotiation skills
Opportunities
 A number of opportunity can be gained
by working in Tesco for career
development
 Persistence of organisations in retail
industry is quite high in comparison to
others. So, lots of job opportunities will
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be available in future to attain growth
Aspirations
 Short term: Development of analytical
and problem-solving skills in order to
effectively manage organisation supply
chain and sourcing capabilities.
 Long term: Development of
maintaining long-term relationships
with vendors and suppliers.
Results
 Feedback from the peers and
employees is the effective framework
that aid to ascertain the actual result
regarding the development
On the basis of the above SOAR analysis, it has been identified that the professional
skills which are needed to be developed by me are problem-solving and analytical skill along
with maintenance of long term relationship with suppliers and vendors (Byrne, Crossan and
Seijts, 2018).
For further development of these skills along with working upon them, SMART
framework will be used (Bubb and Earley, 2018).
Short term
Key component Objective
Specific Problem-solving and analytical skill
Measurable Through ascertaining impact over organisation
after 3 months
Achievable Development of all different skills that exist
related to problem-solving and analytical skill
along with maintenance of long term
relationship.
Realistic To get the most cost-effective deals and make
significant reduction to procurement expenses.
Time-Bound 3 Months
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Long term
Key component Objective
Specific Negotiating and strategizing with vendors and
suppliers.
Measurable Through determining impact over organisation
after 1.5 year
Achievable Focus over maintaining long term relationship
with vendors as well as suppliers in order to
procure cost-effective deals.
Realistic Help to make reduction in organisational
procurement expenses.
Time-Bound 1.5 years
Professional Development Plan
Goals Skills or
competencies
Resources Activities Status
Short term Analytical skill Use of different
relatable materials
along with attendance
of professional
seminars
Try to apply within
inter departmental
functioning
On going
Long term Long term
relationship with
vendors as well as
suppliers
Guidance from the
peers and
professionals related
to the deletion
Imply through
creation of
simulated
situations
On going
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CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that personal and professional development
is necessary exercise which is required to perform on continuous basis. This will provide an
opportunity regarding the development of new skills along with improvement in professional
career. SOAR is the effective tool for personal development plan that integrally help to
determine professional skills for career development. PDP is the effective framework that help in
carrying development activities effectively along with their completion on time.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bolden, R., 2016. Leadership, management and organisational development. In Gower handbook
of leadership and management development (pp. 143-158). Routledge.
Bubb, S. and Earley, P., 2018. Leader development-it's personal!. Professional Development
Today. (20.1). pp.14-22.
Byrne, A., Crossan, M. and Seijts, G., 2018. The development of leader character through
crucible moments. Journal of Management Education. 42(2). pp.265-293.
Carver, C. L., 2016. Transforming identities: The transition from teacher to leader during teacher
leader preparation. Journal of Research on Leadership Education. 11(2). pp.158-180.
Clinton, R., 2018. The making of a leader: Recognizing the lessons and stages of leadership
development. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc..
Priest, K. L. and Middleton, E., 2016. Exploring leader identity and development. New directions
for student leadership. 2016(149). pp.37-47.
Online
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