Personal Leadership in Practicing Effective Team Dynamics Learning Plan

Personal Leadership Analysis + Learning Plan
This is an individual assignment. Do not collaborate with your peers on this.
Purpose: The specific goal of the Personal Leadership Development Plan (PLDP) is for you to create a high impact plan that identifies what you will do during the Spring semester to further develop your capacity to lead. Through this assignment, you will be demonstrating your understanding of concepts learned throughout class. In particular, you will demonstrate your grasp of the following:
an understanding of the core leader skills/behaviors covered in this class
self-awareness of your strengths and weaknesses with regard to core leader skills
how to build a plan that will further your capacity to lead
Format: This paper should be no more than four pages in length (single -spaced, 11 point font, with one-inch margins; page constraints do not include cover page, references, or appendices). See the general tips below regarding page length of each section of content. These are general guidelines, to give you a sense of relative length/depth of each section.
Content: The content of your plan should include the following:
Part 1: A clear and specific developmental goal that spells out a very narrowly defined and specific behavior that you want to be able to learn do (more effectively or more often) by the end of your Spring semester. The behavior you pick here should be much, much narrower than the big skill buckets we covered in class. I want you to get really fine-grained here. Describe a very specific behavior in a way that you can (and I can) visualize you engaging in it. In addition to defining the developmental goal, it is important that you communicate to me why you have chosen this particular behavior, among the many possible leader behaviors we covered in class. (~ 1.5 pages)
Be sure your explanation includes at least the following two things:
why this behavior is important to leader effectiveness, in general; and,
why this behavior is important to furthering your effectiveness, more specifically. That is, how this behavior relates to both your strengths/weaknesses and your career aspirations (you can use either immediate career aspirations such as your internship, upon graduation, or longer-term career aspirations; the choice is yours)
HINT: Your explanation should be clearly supported with insights from the myriad sources you have been exposed to throughout the semester. The kinds of things you should draw from to support your explanation include: the leader skill buckets at the heart of this class; any assessments you’ve taken this semester; concepts from readings, class discussions; personal reflections from class experiences or class assignments; feedback you have received either in class or outside of class this semester. You do not have to mention every single one of these sources, you just need to adequately support the logic of your explanation – any of these could be among the sources you use as support.
PART 2: A concrete, achievable, high impact plan of action (~ 1 pages) that will help you achieve that developmental goal, which should include the following:
At least two “experiences” that you will leverage as your “practice field”for developing this particular skill/behavior; that is, two activities or experiences that you know you are going to do or take part in during the Spring that you are going to take advantage of as a place to practice your new behavior. Tell me why this experience is well-suited as a practice field. Tell me when/where/how you will incorporate your practice of the new behavior into this activity or experience.
At least two “formal” sources of learning you will use to generate ideas for the specific new approaches/behaviors you will practice; “formal” sources can include written sources (i.e. books, blogs, websites) or courses. Be specific here – give me the actual source/reference, such as the title of a book, or the url of a webpage.
At least two specific methods you will employ to learn from others before/during/after you practice your new behavior/skill; that is, will you ask someone to observe you and give you feedback? Will you watch someone else in action first and reflect on what seemed to work or not work and why? Will you ask someone for coaching advice?
PART 3: A method to help hold you accountable (~ .5 page). To help insure that you stick to your development plan in the midst of the high performance demands of the semester, what will you do to help hold yourself accountable for executing this plan? This can take many shapes and forms, and should be tailored to what works best for you. It could include having an “accountabilibuddy”, blocking dedicated time on your calendar, a set reward (or punishment) schedule for activities accomplished. The choice is yours. Create at least one method and share it with me. Be sure to tell me why this method is best suited to you.