Assignment 10

ADMG 372 Final Paper - Professional Development Plan & Philosophy Paper

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Paper Standard

Write a 7 page paper using APA standards (7 pages, plus any cover page or reference page used).

• Professional Development Plan Part I – 2.5 pages

• Professional Development Plan Part II –2.5 pages

• Leadership Philosophy –2 pages

• Cover page

• Reference page

Professional Development Plan

Part I: Identifying skills, values, and interests.

1. What profession interests you the most?

List current technical, interpersonal, and decision-making skills and strengths for pursuing your selected profession. Relate to your MBTI results and other information you’ve learned about your talents and preferences.

1. What are your external limiting factors?

Discuss areas that impose limitations on the type of job you selected.

Examples include health concerns, geography (location), willingness to relocate, travel limitations, relationship restrictions.

1. What are your internal limiting factors?

Review your MBTI, The Big 5 and Emotional Intelligence areas. (You may also apply other factors you’ve learned while reflecting on leadership concepts.)

What restrictions do you recognize from the inventories you critically analyzed; e.g., introvert or extrovert, procrastination, technical skills, interpersonal skills, decision-making skills?

Examples:

• Discomfort working with teams.

• Discomfort working alone.

• Procrastination.

• Communication Skills.

• Persuasion skills.

• Listening skills.

• Conflict resolution skills.

• Writing Skills.

1. What is/will be most important to you in your work?

Examples of guiding principles: Must agree with the organization’s mission, must be allowed innovation and risk taking, need to be part of a team, must honor family values for a balanced professional life, etc.

1. What things are “must haves” for you in a job? (What values guide you?)

Examples may include level of pay, flex time, on-site daycare, health insurance, promotion opportunity

Part II: Your Goals and Plans:

1. Short-Term (present through graduation). See table following for an example.

Your plan includes: realistic, specific measurable goals; plans for achieving those goals; and approximate dates for each plan. Add a table for this section. Your planning objectives and dates need to match your goals.

1. Long-Term ( Post graduation 2-3 year plan). See table following for an example.

Leadership Philosophy:

Goal:

To create a Leadership Philosophy you can use to guide your actions, behaviors, and attitudes in any leadership position you are placed in (voluntary or involuntary).

Purpose:

To put into practical terms how you might change, modify, improve, and share your leadership style/vision with others. An effective leadership philosophy is different than your personal purpose, values, and valued behaviors. While your leadership philosophy is built upon the foundation of your personal purpose and values statement, it is specific to your leadership efforts (in the workplace, in a community organization, wherever you are taking a leadership role). We can change who we are as leaders by simply changing our philosophy of leadership.

Your Leadership Philosophy should Include the Following:* Be sure to use leadership concepts and definitions from the textbook as well as other academic sources. Ensure you use and define your unique leadership style and concepts to formulate each section of your leadership philosophy.

The objective of the leadership philosophy paper is to reflect on what you learned about yourself in terms of principles, values, and your leadership style and then communicate your personal leadership philosophy in written form to a target audience of followers (real or proposed).

1. Heading

1. Introduction Paragraph: Purpose of paper, how paper is organized.

1. Identify what your goals for the organization are.

Note: If you do not have a specific/current organization to refer to for this section, then write about the organization you envision for yourself in the next few years. Here is where you can lead into your leadership principles with a discussion of vision, mission/purpose.

1. List your leadership principles and corresponding definitions of each.

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Examples (Note – This is one person’s approach. Definitions are needed for each):

• Follower relationship to their work.

• Leader’s relationship to the followers.

• Staff relationship to the organization.

• Team building.

• Leadership Imperatives.

• Leadership style.

• Technical and Operational Competence.

• Position on caring for leaders and led.

• Moral Courage.

• Position on Discipline.

• Resource Management.

1. Summary Paragraph

Overall Paper Heading & Format, Organization of paper, Grammar, Spelling, APA citations & Reference page.

Formatting must be correctly done in APA style.

Total Points:

60

Short & Long Term Table Formulation Example

Goals

Plans

Target Date for accomplishment

Short Term:

1. Secure Internship

2. Graduate with a 3.5 GPA

3. Begin Exploring Career Opportunities.

1. Apply for two internships

2. Meet with instructors at least two times each quarter; do work by deadlines, etc.

3. Attend two job fairs.

1. May 2016

2. Ongoing.

3. May 2016

Long-Term:

Take the GRE & earn at least following scores:

1. Verbal Reasoning: 600 (out of 800).

2. Quantitative Reasoning: 600 (out of 800)

3. Analytical Writing: 5 (out of 6).

1a. Register for GRE.

1b. Purchase study guide.

1c. Research test-taking tips.

1d. Study the study guide.

You grasp the idea!

1a. May 2016

1b. May 2016

1c. May 2016

1d. May 2016