Catatan : Leadership Devt Plan

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Potential leaders look inward to assess their suitability and readiness for leadership. They begin to do the work necessary for creating their leadership development plan, a map that guides individuals on their journeys to fulfill their leadership potentials.

Leader Devt Plan (LDP) keeps one disciplined, focused and motivated to accopmplish what they need to in order to grow in their leadership abilities.

Individuals design their plan to acquire skills and experiences that make them valuable to their organizations.

LDP 3 basic activities :
1. Assess yourself and your environment (preplanning)
2. Set goals, objectives, and actions (planning)
3. Plan to sustain your development (planning )

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ASSESSING SELF & ENVIRONMENT

It involves assessing yourself as a leader, establishing a vision of yourself in the future, and identifying obstacles on you leadership journey; values, leadership style, motivators and key competencies

Four steps to define values :
1- Make a list of everything important to you.Whatever value;  - and +.
2. Repeat step (1) but be more selective.
3. Pick out five most important and them in order of importance.
4. Define what each value means to you.

Assessing leadership style.
It grows out of you values. It is the way you interact with people  to give direction. implement plans and motivate others. Styles : authoritarian, participative and delegating.

On making decisions :
1. Authoritarian TELLS employees
2. Participative INVOLVES employees
3. Delegating EMPOWERS employees.

Good leaders adapt their styles to suit specific situations.

MOTIVATORS
- Compensation, titles, perks, social status, helping others, doing a good job, winning , etc.

Assess with four steps as with values.

KEY COMPETENCIES : aggregations of knowledge, skills and abilities that leaders possess.
Key compentencies : developing others, challenging status quo, modelling desired behaviours, getting the job done

DEVELOPING others :
encourage ppl to take ownership of their jobs, improve their skills and knowledge, learn to make good decisions, and take responsibility for their actions.

CHALLENGE STATUS QUO :
challenge the accepted way of doing thing - pioneering spirit, taking risks and showing courage in the face of adversity

MODELLING DESIRED BEHAVIOUR :
-  Walk the talk. Don't ask people to do things you wouldn't do yourself. Exemplify the desired behaviors for others.

GETTING THE JOB DONE
Act ! Try new ideas, create action plans and get things done.

ESTABLISHING YOURSELF IN THE FUTURE
Visualise what you become in the future .
Approaches :
- imagining your future
- talking to people to find out what they think a leader should be
- do some long-range planning.

Start with focused daydreaming. Think about your legacy. Project your mind out to the end of your career.

Summarize the vision. Easy to remember. Think of something or someone that symbolizes it.

Talk to other people about it. Ppl can provide feedback about things you might want to change about yourself as you go forward. It enables you to gain info that can help you progress. To become a leader
that others will follow, you need to know what other think a good leaders is.

IDENTIFYING OBSTACLES

- Internal and external,  within and out of  control.

It's fruitless to fret over barriers you can't control. Focus on the ones you have some control over.

3 proven techniques :
1. Decide what you are willing to give up to eliminate obstacles.
2. Identify hidden opportunities that could help you face the obstacle.
3. Chunk the problem into manageable pieces so you can deal with each smaller piece separately. You could also compromise. This would enable you to accomplish two seemingly devergent tasks or goals at once.