Create a leadership development plan (Business Topic: Leading For change )
Paper instructions:
Report task:

1. Explore the Central Michigan University (CMU) competencies model

2. Identify you current strengths and weaknesses as a leader (or potential leader) within the context of the CMU

3. Review the leadership theories explored in this course and describe how they relate to you and your leadership development (again in the context of the CMU model)

4. Create a leadership development plan

5. Seek feedback on your plan from an established leader. This leader can be anyone you know who holds a leadership position in an organisation (Preferably Singapore organization)

6. Describe how you have incorporated this leader’s feedback into your plan

7. Describe how you will achieve the developments set out in your plan

8. Describe how you will evaluate whether or not you have reached the level of development set out in your plan
These are simplified versions that are like a checklist of skills that make up each element.

Look through each of the five and then:

(a) decide which skills are relevant to you (in your emerging leadership role). Why these particular skills? What research literature have you read that helped you choose these skills?

(b) describe how you would develop these skills. Will it be by formal training? Self reflection? Mentoring advice from someone?

(c) design an evaluation scheme that indicates when you’ve reached adequacy or competence for each of your chosen skills. How can you measure a skill level? What tools exist already to do this?

Following are links to documents describing all the skills that make up each of the five elements in the CMU:
1. Social responsibility

2. Innovation

3. Leading others

4. Self management

5. Task management:
3. In this short video, Dr Rini Sjokri describes how she began the process of building her leadership skills.

View this and then consider whether you have similar issues to Rini.

What are Rini’s key areas of focus for her own leadership development? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p39zjFB7UqU