Leadership and Professional Development: Assessment 2 - BSBMGT605

This assessment, submitted by a student, is a comprehensive self-evaluation focusing on leadership skills and professional development. It begins with a reflection on the student's past experiences, highlighting challenges and their impact. The assessment then outlines short-term and long-term professional goals, detailing plans to enhance communication, analytical skills, and build professional relationships. It also identifies current and future opportunities for growth, including financial and personal goals. The document further explores the student's desired work-life balance and health maintenance strategies. A significant portion is dedicated to a personal development plan, which is specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound. The plan includes detailed activities, support resources, target dates, and potential barriers for each development objective, such as improving communication and decision-making skills. Finally, the assessment provides an action plan, outlining strategies and resources to achieve the identified goals, and references relevant leadership literature to support the analysis.

PROVIDE LEADERSHIP
ACROSS THE
ORGANISATION
Assessment 2

Your past and background
My past was very critical, I have faced various difficulties in my life. I realized my
life has faced certain challenges in which, this was like source of major inspiration for me.
My background consists of lots of struggle and hard-work, in which I faced critical situation.
Your short and long term professional goals
 Short term(for 1 year) professional goals: My shorts term professional goals
comprises of developing of communication skills, analytical power, developing major
personality along with enhancing the power of the knowledge and information to
build personal exposure. In context of skills and traits, communication perfection is
very necessary to build personality of self.
 Long term ( for 3-5 years) professional goals: My long term goals comprises of
building long term relationship with other professionals people for the major purpose
of building big career for the personal life and also enhancing to be raised for business
for longer period of time. These long term goals will be helpful in establishing of the
career at a greater level and also continue it for higher duration of time.
Opportunities that are available to you now and in future
There are humongous opportunity available with first of all, in regards to the
developing and also learning new level of skills, competencies and traits in context of
developing my own level of work or accomplishing dreams or objectives. Opportunities are
here divided into two different categories:
Now: Currently, I have an opportunity to enhance my level of skills, competencies
and traits in this current time. My focus in on bringing it to growth stage.
In future: I have bigger opportunities such as establishing long term relationship
with business leader's and other valuable person, in order to generate the level of professional
attractiveness at a bigger and optimized stage.
Financial and personal goals

 Financial goal: My financial goals is to generate financial wealth, investing in the
more assets to maximize my wealth at an optimized stage. This goal will be happen
with support of an effective strategies which are majorly required in context of
financial terminology.
 Personal goal: Also, my personal goal is to develop myself as a growing leader with
the major purpose to growth business durability for longer period of time. My
personal is consist of development of self to grown into the career and also led
effective development of my personality for building career in longer period of time.
Your desired work life balance
My desired work life balance is majorly associated with my dedication towards the
working and needs to be continue with the major comparability and comfort.
Your health
I used to maintain my health by doing health work, going to health practices
institutions and maintain health as per doctor practices or suggestions.
Measure of personal performance against competency standards
My personal performance is highly more that expectation and I also realized that I
have put up up my 100 percent. Still, my competencies says that my skills are highly
demanding to raised up to standard level to accomplish desired objectives.
Personal Development Plan
(This plan should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time specific.
The plan should include objectives that are linked to your personal and professional
objectives)
Developme
nt
objectives
(long term
and short
term goals)
Activities needed
to achieve
objectives
Support/resources
needed to achieve
objectives
Target
date
Potential
Barriers

My
development
objective is
to enables my
Communicati
on skills
Various activities such
as stage interaction
and taking mock
interviews are
basically necessary
Microphones, books
and verbal talking are
some of the resources
to enhance this skill
at an greater and
opportunistic stage of
time.
2 months Lack of
resources
and lack of
time.
The second
development
objective is
to enhances
Decision
making
power of me
In order to make this
skill perfect, it is
necessary for me to go
through role play,
simulation and case
studies, so that defined
goals of decision
making will be
enhanced and also
raised at an optimized
stage of time.
For this resources,
such as the planning,
direction and
controlling will be
used to led growth of
the decision making
into the given period
of time.
4 months Lack of
supports and
lack of
required
knowledge
and info
Action plan
Identified goals
(same as long term
and short term
goals in the above
table)
Future career
options
Strategies and resources
to achieve goals
Time frame
Communication
skills
I have major
expectation career
development
expectation with
help of this skills or
competencies
Regular practices,
learning and enhancing
speaking competencies
over the longer period of
time.
For this frame of
2 months will be
required and also
personality will
also grow at an
optimized stage

References
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Gentry, W.A. And et. al., 2011. A comparison of generational differences in endorsement of
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Lussier, R., 2011. Management fundamentals: Concepts, applications, skill development.
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