Leadership Module
Leadership 360-Review
Individual Assignment – Your Personal Development Plan
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Date of submission: _______________________________________________
SUBMISSION: 29 April 2013
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Planning stages
Description
4 Field Analysis
Your Leadership Strength & Development Targets
Personal Development
Planning Worksheet
Creating your Personal Development Plan
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Personal Development Planning
Personal Development Planning can be defined as “a process that helps you to think about your
own learning, performance and/or achievements and to plan for your personal career
development”.
The primary purpose of a PDP (Personal Development Plan) is to help you to recognise your
strengths and development areas and to identify and plan your learning. It is your responsibility
to plan your learning, to act on the plans and to generate evidence of what you have achieved.
A PDP is a tool to analyses your needs and to:
identify your required areas for development
list what learning activities you are going to undertake to achieve this development
state how the development links in with your individual needs, as well as those of your
business
This document will help you to produce a PDP and analyse your needs and to:
define development aims and objectives
identify what is needed to achieve these aims and objectives
analyse and understand your strengths and weaknesses
indicate the evidence that will demonstrate achievement of your learning
Progress International, 2012 1
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Progress International, 2012 at: http://www.progressint.com/
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The Personal Development Planning Process
Step 1 – Identifying Your Leadership Strengths and Development Targets
You have just completed your meeting on your 360 review report. You can now consolidate your
meeting discussions and reflections on your key strengths and key development targets.
You can use the four field analysis template in table 1 and the following questions:
1. Four field analysis - Conduct a four field analysis of your 360-review report to identify your
most important and less important areas of strength and development (Table 1)
2. Key strengths - How can you use your strengths to help you as a leader? In what kinds of
situations do these strengths serve you well? In what situations might these key strengths be
less useful?
3. Key strength reflection - What steps could you take to leverage your key strengths to carry
out course work team projects for knowledge society pillars development in your
organization and country context?
4. Key development targets – Why is it important to develop these targets – to do these things
differently? How will they help you to be a more effective leader? What can get in the way of
your achieving your development targets? How might you overcome these barriers? How can
you use your strengths to help you?
Key development target reflection - How can you minimize the risk particularly when starting
a new practice or behaviour as part of your leadership development target? How can you
mitigate against obstacles in your organization or country context when introducing country team
projects for promoting Knowledge Society Policy dialogue?
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Table 1: Consolidation Worksheet – Four Field Analysis
More Important
Key Strength Effectiveness Areas
B.
Less Important
Strength Challenges Areas
C.
Key Development Targets
D. Development Target Obstacles
Weaknesses
Strengths
A.
Reflection
Reflection: My leadership role from the perspective of the Knowledge Society building
mission. Consider where you can cross the institutional / sector borders and create
opportunities for Knowledge Society policy discussions in your position.
Adapted: Yukl and Manus in Lepsinger and Lucia (2009) 2
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Lepsinger, R. and Lucia, A.D. (2009) The Art and Science of 360-Degree Feedback, 2nd Edition, San Francisco,
Jossey-Bass
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Step 2 – Creating Your Personal Development Plan
You have now looked at, interpreted and consolidated findings from your 360-degree feedback
report. Now that you have a clearer picture of what your development targets are, it is time to
look at how you will reach them. This will be critical in assisting you to develop your
coursework country team projects and reports for Knowledge Society pillar development.
Developing Your Personal Development Plan
Consolidate your development targets, learning tactics and strategies into a development plan
(short term and longer term) (Table 2) using the following questions:
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Development Goal – What will be your leadership development goal? How can you get
there in the short term (the next 3 – 6 months)? How can you get there in the longer term?
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Criteria for Success: What standard will you define for measuring when you have
successfully reached your target?
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Strategies: What change strategies will you integrate into your plan that will support you
in your short term and longer term development?
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Actions/ Next steps: What action steps and learning tactics will you develop for each
change strategy?
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Resources: What resources will you need to achieve your development goal? Who are
the people that you can call upon to assist you in the implementation and monitoring of
your plan?
Sharing Your Personal Development Plan
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Time frame: You should complete your personal development plan within a week of
completing your 360 review meeting.
Sharing with Your Supervisor: After developing your plan you should share it with
your supervisor. You can use the plan to clarify with your supervisor your areas,
strategies and actions for short and long term leadership development as a result of the
360-review.
Signing: After sharing your plan with your supervisor you and your supervisor can sign
the plan as a register of your commitment to your personal leadership development
during the ALICT programme (short–term commitment) and after the programme (longterm commitment)
Moodle: You will have one month to upload your leadership Development Plan in your
Moodle file. The final date for uploading your plan in Moodle will be April 29th
2013.
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Table 2: The Personal Development Plan Worksheet – consolidating 360-degree analyses of development
targets, learning tactics and strategies.
Area of Development:
1. Development Goal
2. Criteria for success
3. Strategies – short term (3-6 months)
Actions/ Next Steps
4. Strategies – longer term
Actions/ Next Steps
Participant Signature: ________________________________________________
Date: _______________________________________________
Supervisor Signature: ________________________________________________
Date: ________________________________________________
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