Leadership Development: A Personal Growth and Action Plan Essay

This essay presents a personal leadership development plan, outlining short-term and long-term goals for enhancing IT, negotiation, presentation, and communication skills. It addresses past experiences, current opportunities, and future aspirations, emphasizing a commitment to work-life balance and health. The plan includes specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART) goals, supported by an action plan with target dates for achieving milestones in confidence building, group interaction, and client engagement. The author reflects on the importance of continuous self-improvement and adaptability to thrive in future professional endeavors. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering study tools and solved assignments for students.

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Contents
Answers for task 2......................................................................................................................2
Your past and background......................................................................................................2
Short term and long term plan................................................................................................2
Opportunities that are available to me now and in future......................................................2
Personal and financial goals...................................................................................................2
Desired work life balance.......................................................................................................3
Health.....................................................................................................................................3
Personal development plan.....................................................................................................3
Action plan.............................................................................................................................4

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Answers for task 2
After taking the feedback, I come to know several things about me. The most important thing
is that I come to know about my strength and weaknesses. The weaknesses therefore can be
eliminated by preparing personal development plan. The major weakness has been found in
my technical part and in my communication skill on personal level.
Your past and background
From my past background, I can say that I have learnt several things and some basic
guidelines. I learnt how to give respect to others and how to talk with different persons with
different personalities. In order to grow myself more, I have chosen this subject. I have learnt
so many things and current learning in order to become a better person in future. I personally
believe that a person is effectively required to work on their communication skill which is
most important to gain the attention of other people.
Short term and long term plan
1. IT skills: I have observed that the growing information technology plays a significant
role in monitoring system of health care organisation. My plan is to learn different skills such
as communicating, gathering knowledge and data collecting. In the world of technology, I
believe that it is necessary to work on technology learning from now so that it will become
easy to work on innovative technologies in future while working in future.
2. Negotiating policy: It is true that negotiating skill in the health care organisation is
necessary. Team members are required to negotiate with their schedule to monitor the
condition of patient.
3. Presentation and communication skills: workers effectively need presentation skills in
order to communicate with the patient. Presentation skill is also requiring so that patient
come to know about their disease easily. On personal as well as professional level, I come to
know that communication skills are required.
Opportunities that are available to me now and in future
Presently, I have the opportunity to develop my communication skills a leader by ensuring
communication with different people. In future also, I will enhance my leadership style by
implementing the diverse leadership style that I am learning now. I also have the opportunity
to eliminate the difficulty for cultural barrier by ensuring close interaction with the different
cultural group. In future, I will have the opportunity to work in different companies.

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Therefore, I will prepare myself effectively from now only so that I get the opportunity to
work in good company.
Personal and financial goals
My personal goal is to develop my leadership abilities and skills by expanding theoretical
knowledge in health care setting. My major goals in this regard are to eliminate the
weaknesses and enhancement of my strength through leadership development plan. Sharing
both success and failure with my members is also my personal goal. A compare to the
personal goals, I would also like to work on the financial goals such as fund management,
utilising my money in productive things. In the future also, I would like to make proper
priority for money that I am spending.
Desired work life balance
Work life balance is most significant concern that includes appropriate and effective
prioritizing between lifestyle (leisure, family and health) and work. For me, both the factors
play a major role as each one depends on other in some or other way. My lifestyle and work
moves parallel with each other. I do not want to give priority to one fact whenever work
needs its priority. I always give my best and whenever my lifestyle requires priority, I also
give best in it. In this way, I will ensure myself to always keep the proper balance between
my personal as well as professional life.
Health
I will always keep health my first priority. Not only physical health will be my priority. I will
also ensure to take less stress. I believe that healthy diet always helps in boosting the energy
level. I will not bother about the things that are going wrong. Rather than it, I will ensure
myself to know the reasons behind those deviations. For keeping health as first priority, I
believe that enough sleep is most important. I personally believe that sleep and mental health
have personal relationship that keeps in making the personal healthy physically as well as
mentally.
Personal development plan
Skills Target skills Development
opportunity
Time
frame
Evidence
Priority one IT skills To bring Development Duration By using

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improvement
in learning
different
information
technology
uses
of knowledge
by using
computer,
tracking,
gathering
knowledge as
well as
information
collecting
is six
months
different IT
technology
and
evaluating its
result with
the prior
results.
Priority two Developmen
t of
negotiation
policy
Taking more
responsibilit
y in the
organisation
Development
of
responsibility
in the
workplace
Minimu
m 1.5
years
Taking
feedback
from top
level
Presentation
skills
Undertaking
some
projects
Working on
more
presentation
projects
Presenting the
opinion of
other
effectively
Minimu
m 6
months to
1 year
By getting
the feedback
from patients
regarding
their
understandin
g about
presentation
Communicatio
n skills
Working in
more group
projects in
the
organisation
Development
of some group
projects and
leading that
team through
effective
communicatio
n
Minimu
m 6
months
By getting
the feedback
from team
members
Action plan
Smart goal setting Short term goal Evidence of Target date

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achievement
Specific Building confidence by
involving with the
professional, confident,
as well as some
experienced people.
From my colleagues, I
come to know that
sometimes I am not
confidence while taking
with senior person.
Through
comparison of past
and present results
and asking people
about my speaking
skills
The target date for
this goal is 6 May
2020.
Measurable Ensuring proper
discussion regarding
the experience of some
other efficient people
and involvement in the
presentation at
organisation
Recording videos
regarding
presentation. This
will help me in
comparing my
speaking skills.
The target date for
this goal is 6 June
Achievable By putting my whole
efforts in voluntary
activities related to
some task. On personal
level, I will also take
part in activities that
will be coming at my
university.
Group interaction
and my
achievements of
participating in
different activities.
Group interaction
with cultural
background people
will be ensured in
order to keep the
diverse and
innovative
thinking.
The target date for
this goal is 6th
December.
Realistic Personal development
through building of
short term goals that
Tracking the
working time-to-
time so that any
The target date for
this goal is 30th

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will further assist me in
career to achieve the
long-term goals.
deviation will
come to know.
April.
Time framed Ensure meeting with
the clients by deciding
specific time frame.
By knowing the
perception of client
through their
repetitive services
from me.
The target date for
this goal is 6th July.