Part C - Development Plan

Throughout the semester we have discussed many skill/knowledge areas that contribute to career and leadership success. Create a plan to develop a minimum of two of the skill/knowledge areas below. Select skills that you think will be most useful for where you are at in your career and leadership development. The development of these skill/knowledge areas will contribute to your career and/or leadership success. You may select the same topic as you did in Part A, but you do not have to.

Professional/career development (LO1 & LO10) Communication (LO1) Personal brand (LO2) Stress management (LO3) Time management (LO3) Conflict management (LO3) Any leadership theory (LO4) Building trust and relationships (LO5) Building a high performance team (LO5) Diversity and inclusion in the workplace (LO6) Coaching/developing people (LO7) Motivating/empowering others (LO7) Change leadership (LO8) Vision (LO9)

For each skill/knowledge area that you select, you must:

1) Seek advice from two other people you respect about how to develop the skill/knowledge area. o What was their advice for developing your selected skill/knowledge area?

2) Identify a minimum of three practical steps to develop each of your selected skill/knowledge areas. Plan to actually complete these steps during or after the semester or your program is complete.

o Utilize the advice you received, conduct your own research, and gather others opinions and experiences to identify practical steps for developing your selected skills.

o For example, practical steps could consist of attending onsite or online workshops or training, volunteer work, reading materials, talking to topic area experts, conducting informational interviews, becoming a member of a professional organization, continuing education, etc.

o Be as specific as possible: For example, stating that you will attend webinars is too vague. Actually find the webinar and state what it is, why it will be helpful to your development, how to sign up, the cost, and when you will attend.

o Be as specific as possible: For example, stating that you will pay more attention to how you communicate with others is too vague. State your detailed plan. Will you journal daily to reflect on your interactions?

o Provide justification for these practical steps (i.e., how will these steps aid in the development of your selected skill).

o Develop a plan for executing these practical steps (i.e., how will you actually accomplish these practical steps? Create a timeline). Executing these steps will likely occur after the semester is complete and could be planned for over the next couple of years.

o Consider applying the SMART goal planning concept for each of your development activities.