Personal Development Plan

Introduction to Assignment

This week we were required to complete a personal development plan for ourselves and to also include a presentation to an organization on the importance of having a training and development plan for its employees.

Video Presentation

Personal Development Plan

Competencies

Strengths

·       Learning strategies (selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things)

·       Critical thinking (using logic reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems)

·       Making decisions and solving problems (analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems)

Areas for Improvement

·       Communications and Media (Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. Including alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media)

·       Virtual training and teaching others (instructing others through the use of a virtual classroom)

·       Oral Presentation skills (presenting information in large face to face environments)

Development Goals

Long Term Goals: Accept a position of increased responsibility on the level of learning and development manager (or beyond). The area of specific interest is in performance consulting.

Short Term Goals: Continue to improve my skills in public speaking, while using my skills to design, develop, implement, and evaluate store sales training.

Training and Development Needs

The table below shares the training and development needs I will require to achieve my long and short term goals.

Development Ideas	Rational for Development
Executive Education (Tuition Reimbursement)	M.S. in Instructional Design and Technology – emphasis in Training and Performance (Walden University) The benefits to the organization are: I will further hone my competencies and skills by applying theory, research, creativity, and problem-solving skills to a variety of technology applications in order to help reshape the way information are created, integrated, and delivered. You will also develop the skills to assess, create, and manage training materials. The combination of these skills will help you to support technology-based training in educational institutions and corporate training environments. Through your coursework, you will gain the experience needed to efficiently and effectively use technology and multimedia tools, including Adobe Captivate and Adobe Creative Cloud applications (Walden University, 2017). Noe states Verizon Wireless tuition reimbursement program resulted in increased morale and helped to attract new and retain current employees (p 380). By completing this degree I could be considered an asset for the organization's succession planning strategy.
Mentoring Relationship	A mentor would help provide me with career support. For example, career support to include but not limited to, coaching, protection, sponsorship, and provide challenging assignments (Noe, 2013). What I could provide to the mentor is helping them develop their interpersonal skills, communication skills, and increase their self-esteem and worth in the organization (Noe, 2013).
Job Experience	New job assignments can help take advantage of my existing skills experiences, and contacts, while helping me develop new ones (Noe, 2013). This could support the short term goal above to build sales training for our salespeople.
Job Rotation	Job rotation would give me the opportunity to try a series of job assignments in various functional areas, which in turn will make the training courses I build stronger supporting my short term goal above. Noe states job rotation helps employees gain an overall appreciation of the company’s goals, increases their understanding of different functions, develops a network of contacts, and improves problem-solving and decision-making skills (p 389).