Scenario
The organization you work for as a director of leadership andlearning is looking to create an adaptive leadership toolkit to helpimprove employee leadership skills and behaviors over the next twoyears. To begin this work, you conducted a personal leadershipself-assessment to take a leadership inventory of yourself. Now that youknow areas that you can improve upon as a leader, you decided to createa personal development plan that will identify actionable steps towardimproving these areas you’ve identified. Your intensions are toincorporate your personal development plan into the adaptive leadershiptoolkit to serve as an exemplar that can be used by all people leadersin the organization.
Prompt
Leadership behavior: Based on the results of yourpersonal leadership self-assessment, describe the leadership behavioryou scored lowest in and explain how developing this could have apositive impact on your ability to lead.SMART Goal: Apply SMART goal setting to create apersonal development plan that aligns with the leadership behavioryou’re looking to improve. Keep in mind that your personal developmentplan will be used as an exemplar for the adaptive leadership toolkit inMilestone Two. Your SMART goal should address the following:“S” Specific: Your goal must be specific.i) State your personal development goal.ii) Describe the reason for this goal.iii) Describe the objective(s) needed to ensure this goal it met.“M” Measurable: Your goal must be measurable.i) Describe the metric(s) that will be used to determine if you meet this goal.ii) Describe the metric(s) that will be used to measure performance of meeting objective(s) along the way.“A” Achievable: Your goal must be achievable.i) Describe the tools and skills you will need to achieve this goal.ii) Describe who needs to be involved to allow you to be successful in achieving this goal.“R” Relevant: Your goal must be relevant.i) Explain how this goal can be linked to an overall business objective.ii) Explain how this goal will increase your knowledge and improve your overall performance as a leader.“T” Time-Bound: Your goal must be time bound.i) Provide an overall timeline for the completion of this goal.ii) Provide tangible deliverable(s) with due dates that support the objective(s) you indicated above. MBA 530 Module Six Assignment
Personal Development Plan Template
Complete this template by replacing the bracketed text with the relevant information.
First and Last Name: [Insert text.]
Date: [Insert text.]
Goal Description: [Insert your personal development goal and the objectives that describe
successful completion of this goal.]
Leadership Competency: [Insert the leadership behavior or skill that will be improved upon
completion of this goal.]
Category
S: Specific
M: Measurable
A: Achievable
R: Relevant
T: Time Bound
Explanation
What do I plan to accomplish?
What do I plan to achieve?
What is the reason for this
goal? Why is it relevant?
Example: Ensure a
development plan, with
specific deliverables, is jointly
developed with all of my
direct reports.
What metric(s) will be used to
determine if you meet the
goal? If more than one
milestone is included, provide
the metric that will be used to
measure performance.
What tools and skills do I
need to achieve the goal?
Who needs to be involved for
me to be successful? What is
my motivation for wanting to
achieve this goal?
How is this goal linked to an
overall business objective?
How will this goal increase my
knowledge and improve my
overall performance?
Provide tangible deliverable(s)
with due dates if more than
one milestone is included.
Provide the final due date for
completion of this
development goal.
Response
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