Influence: - exerting effective tactics for persuasion.
Leadership: exciting and guiding individuals and groups (Emotional Intelligence Competencies, 2005).
The focus of my Individual Development Plan is to work on increasing my leadership skills. Leadership skills are important in both the academic world as well as in the business world. Those people who have strong leadership skills tend to be very successful at whatever they do. I really want to work hard at improving my skills so that I can be seen as a strong leader in everything that I do. The first thing that I need to do in developing my plan is to pick the specific things that I want to work on and then come up with an action plan on how to go about working on them. I also need to decide on the time frame that I am going to set down for working on my action items and determine if there are any costs involved with them. Once this is all done then the plan needs to be documented so that I can keep track of my progress as I move forward.
Developmental Objectives: What do I need to do to work towards my goal?
1. I need to work on my oral communication skills.
2. I need to work on my team building skills.
3. I need to work on conflict management skills.
Developmental Activities What things I need to accomplish to reach my goal
1. Volunteer to give a speech about a topic in class or take a communications class in order to improve my skills.
2. Volunteer to lead a team-based project so that I can improve my skills surrounding teams.
3. Attend a seminar on conflict resolution so that I can better learn how to deal with conflict.
Proposed Dates
1. speech -- this semester or class next semester
2. This semester
3. Over the summer
None for speech, tuition for class
2. None
3. Cost of seminar
Date Completed
Creating an Individual Development Plan is a great way for a person to really look at where they are and where they would like to go. Once they have developed a path to follow they can then begin to work on the necessary skills that it is going to take to get them there. Picking a couple of specific skills to focus on and achieve is a great way to not only improve but to feel a sense of accomplishment at the same time. An Individual Development Plan is a really good way to help a person accomplish the goals that they have set down for improvement.
Creating my Individual Development Plan made be take a hard look at what leadership skills that I have and analyze them for strengths and weaknesses. These made me realize where I needed to improve and let me develop a way to do that. I know have a set of action that I need to implement and hopefully when I have completed it I will improve my kills that will make me a better leader.
References
Emotional Intelligence Competencies. (2005). Retrieved February 6, 2010, from Potentials
Unliminted Web site: http://kartikvyas.com/articles5.html
How to Write a Great Individual Development Plan (IDP). (2008). Retrieved February 5, 2010,
from Web site: http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2008/11/how-to-write-great-individual.html
Jacobson, Don. (2008). Using IDPs to Leverage Strengths. Retrieved February 5, 2010, from GovLeaders.org Web site: http://govleaders.org/idp.htm
Van Wagner, Kendra. (2010). What Is Emotional Intelligence? Retrieved February 5, 2010, from About.com Web site:
http://psychology.about.com/od/personalitydevelopment/a/emotionalintell.htm
