Checkpoint: Task 3 - Personal Development (7001V1)
Please complete Task 3 (in your previously submitted assignment, containing Tasks 1 and 2) and upload here, taking into account feedback (if any).
Task 3.1
Using at least two different analysis frameworks, assess your own leadership skills against those required by the organisation now and in the future, and identify areas for development for the next three years.
AC 2.2. Construct a personal development plan to direct leadership development.
NB. You may complete this task by means of a comprehensive personal development plan with SMART objectives and tangible outcomes that have also been reviewed and updated, with the starting point taken as the commencement of your current CMI studies.
Guideline word count: 120 - 130.
Guidance: here you should construct a personal development plan that will support your leadership development. This can be in any format but as a minimum could include the following:
- Identified learning needs
- How those needs may be met
- Any resource implications
- Milestones
- Dates for review and completion
Task 3.2
Determine the methods most appropriate to meet each of these development needs, showing that you understand your personal learning style by the completion of an appropriate analysis exercise.
Guideline word count: 120 - 130 words.
AC 2.3. Devise an implementation process for the development plan to support the achievement of strategic ambitions.
Guidance: This assessment criterion follows on from 2.2 and, in a narrative format, it explains how you plan to put the plan into action.
In your narrative you could include some of the following:
- Implementation strategy
- Reviewing and updating the leadership development plan
- The review and evaluation process
- The continuing professional development CPD) process and lifelong learning
Task 3.3
Describe how and when you plan to meet these development needs over the next three years and detail the outcomes you hope to achieve as a result of the development plan.
Guideline word count: 120 - 130 words.
AC 1.3. Assess the relationship between existing, required and future skills to achieve the strategic ambitions.
Guidance: in order to complete this criterion, it is suggested that you answer this after some period has elapsed between developing the plan so that you have carried out some of the activities in it. In your response you could assess the following:
- The achievement of outcomes of the plan against personal objectives
- The achievement of outcomes of the plan against the strategic objectives of the organisation
- The achievement of outcomes and relevance of the plan against an emergent business strategy and any changes that may have been made to the plan
- Any issues that may have prevented the achievement of outcomes
Task 3.4
Describe at least three actions you have taken to develop your leadership skills in the last six months and analyse the progress you have made as a result. Review the impact of recent external influences on strategic goals and identify what new challenges these present for leadership skills development, updating the plan with new actions required.
Guideline word count: 220 - 230 words.
AC 3.3. Review the leadership development plan.
AC 3.4. Update the leadership development plan.
Guidance: building on the responses to the previous criterion you can reply in narrative format, supported by a revised personal development plan. Any supportive narrative might address:
- Review and update processes
- Peer reviews and feedback processes including 360-degree surveys
- Revised personal goals and aims