Personal and Professional Development Plan: Leadership Training

This report presents a personal and professional development plan, outlining a process of self-analysis, reflection, and appraisal of strengths and weaknesses. The plan includes three stages: personal analysis, setting goals, and defining personal objectives. The analysis identifies areas for ...Read More

Personal and professional
development

 The aim of creating a personal development plan is to
document a process of self-analysis, personal reflection and
honest appraisal of your strengths and weaknesses. With the
help of this plan it will become easy to evaluate the value of
leadership and management training which is received by me
in order to consider my future leadership development.
 Personal and professional plan has three stages that are
personal analysis, setting goals, and personal objectives.
Aim

Strengths
 I gained confidence through proving that I can easily
manage all the work under the pressure of my
supervisor.
 My personal administration in the company and basic
skills are good and my detailed knowledge is generally
sound for my level of training.
 Having the opportunity to lead a team over an extended
period of time, I demonstrated that I have the ability to
provide clear direction and manage people to achieve
specific tasks whilst under pressure.
Area for further development
 It is not easy to maintain the work/life balance and to
maintain physical fitness while carrying out academic
studies. Due to this reason I lost my physical fitness.
 It is important for me to take more time in planning a
task before keeping my view in front of subordinates. To
provide the solution not the problem. My planning
process is not upto the mark and improvement need to
make in it.
 In order to build my confidence in command I need
more experience of team management in different
scenarios
 Opportunities
 The company formal annual appraisal process will
provide a source of guaranteed feedback.
 Demonstrate to my employer that I have had both
structured management and leadership training and
experience of leading teams to achieve specific tasks.
 Also to highlight that I have been exposed to a more
structured approach to analysing problems which will
structured approach to analysing problems which will
assist me in providing clear solutions will be of value to
the quality of my work for the firm I work for.
 I can call on the support of my line manager to give me
 Threats
 Lack of time.
 Lack of monetary resources
Personal analysis

What do I want
to learn?
What do I have
to do?
What support
and resources
will I need?
How will I
measure
success?
Target date for
review?
Greater depth of
knowledge in the
business
activities
Get to know my
department team
and build their
confidence and
trust in me.
Advice from my
Line Manager and
team feedback
1
Formal and
informal
appraisal.
2.
Self-appraisal.
Within 3 months
Stage 2 setting goal

Improve my
personal fitness.
Allocate specific
evenings
during the week
for fitness
training and
allocate time at
Advice from Gym
Fitness
Improved fitness
levels will
be self-evident.
Improved Personal
Fitness
Within 2 month
Widen my
understanding of
leadership.
Learn from the
more by
observing
experienced
managers. Gain
their
friendship and
trust. Senior colleagues
Mentoring and
performance
appraisal.
During
development
programmes.
Within 6 months
Cont…

Accomplish business
skills
For this I can conduct
complete compulsory
organisational
training
Secure bonus and
benefits as it is
appropriate
Within 7 month
To build confidence as
a leader
Through leading any
functional project and
build credibility and
experience as a
leader.
For this purpose, line
manager can support
To make improvement
feedback can be
taken from team
member.
Till the end of the
project
Communication skill To attend seminar and
conference
Lecturer classes Through taking review
from supervisor.
In 3 months
Problem solving skill Though learning
different problem-
solving theories and
watching seniors
Though looking
negative and positive
impact of solution
In 2 month
Cont.

To complete manager course in respect to become eligible for engaging in complex business
project
However, few goals cannot be accomplished in next two years.
It is important to have responsibility for a important cross functional project at work.
Medium term goal (For 2 to 3 years)
Through taking a responsibility for leading and managing a team for supporting a
challenging business.
To get engaged in the support of some function of a cross functional project team which can
provide a important business exposure.
Long term goal (more than 3 years)
To gain promotion for middle management and for gaining a support of work colleagues and
senior manager.
To give a responsibility to manage a team of large number of people (It is done to become a
head of department)
Personal objective

 To evaluate the personal and professional development plan
 The learning process can be states as cyclical process
in which it is essential to find out a development goal and
initiate the action which is required for reaching the goal.
Therefore, evaluation can be done on the basis of things which
is learned by me while carrying out all the PPD activities.
Further I will analyse that my progress is to short and ahead of
schedule this will help me in evaluating my personal and
professional development plan.
Evaluation of personel and
professional development plan

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