Personal Development Plan – Action Plan

Personal Development Plan – Action Plan

Through the course of life, we go through many experiences that help shape who we are today. To become a great leader, you must be able to cultivate your personal development plan, values, and S.M.A.R.T goals. Personal Development Plan also known as PDP enables you to self-assess and identify the areas of strength and the areas that need improvement. Through participating in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), self-assessments, and class discussions, I was able to gain a deeper understanding of the behavioral goals that I need to set in order to develop myself both personally and professionally.

Personal Development plan enables you to gain a deeper understanding of who you are as a person and why you do the things you do. Every individual is unique and possesses personal strengths that help differentiates us from one another. These strengths are a set of skills that an individual can either be born with it or can develop over time. Identifying your strengths is an important aspect in your existence as it can help you grow both professionally and personally. As a leader, in order to understand one’s skills, talents, and capabilities, it is critical to reinforce your own strengths and identify and understand each individual on your team’s strengths as they each hold different abilities that can assist in achieving the common goals.

The MBTI self-assessment test, displays sixteen personality types that provide an overview of who you are. According the myerbriggs.org, "Perception involves all the ways of becoming aware of things, people, happenings, or ideas. Judgment involves all the ways of coming to conclusions about what has been perceived. If people differ systematically in what they perceive and in how they reach conclusions, then it is only reasonable for them to differ correspondingly in their interests, reactions, values, motivations, and skills."