Personalized Growth Plan

Personalized Growth Plan

Leadership Insights:

Leadership Tips: Simple, on-the-job self improvement ideas to strengthen your leadership skills

Stress: A dozen strategies to reduce on-the-job stress

Leadership Articles: Leadership and team development insights by Jeff Appelquist

Time Management: Strategies and activities to help business leaders manage their time

Leadership Styles: Overview of the frameworks, theories, and styles of leadership

Leadership Power: Six types of power for business leaders

Delegation: Understanding the skill of delegating effectively

Decision Making: Understanding sound decision making

Personalized Growth Plan: Design and begin a personalized leadership growth plan

Communication Tips: Leaders know how to communicate effectively

The Power of Praise: Meaningful praise is a powerful and important motivator

Understanding Feedback: There are five main categories of feedback

Leadership Responsibilities: A team leader's responsibilities to his or her team

Leader/Team Tension: Leader behavior that can weaken team cohesiveness

Create a Personal Leadership Growth Pan

Consider developing a personal leadership growth plan. Look over the list of skills that have been introduced in this booklet (listed below). Select three that you feel need attention; then build them into the Planning Chart that follows:

Leadership Skills

ü Find a vision

ü Establish team values

ü Set norms

ü Identify expectations

ü Nurture collaboration

ü Build trust

ü Conduct effective meetings

ü Make meaningful decisions

ü Manage conflict

ü Problem solve efficiently

ü Set goals

ü Plan effectively

ü Share information

ü Communicate successfully

ü Coach others

ü Train for competency

ü Give productive feedback

ü Mange change

ü Assess performance

ü Build a leadership growth plan

Leadership Skills to Improve	Growth Objective(s) for each Skill	Activities	People Who can Help	Indicators of Success	Timeline
Example: Meeting Facilitation	To conduct team meetings where more people participate	1. Ask selected team members for honest feedback. 2. Have the H.R. Director critique a meeting 3. Read literature on facilitating good meetings.	H.R. Director & peers	15% increase of team members speaking at meetings by the end of the quarter.	1. Obtain feedback after the first three meetings. 2. Have a critique by the fourth team meeting. 3. Try at least one new strategy every two meetings.
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