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Question: Your Leadership Development Plan (LDP) Essay is due in Week Six. You completed a brainstorming exercise called an Odyssey Map earlier in the session and submitted a substantive draft of your LDP for peer review in Week Five.
The Final Essay is worth 100 points.
The LDP is a simple plan with 5 categories of questions designed to stimulate you to think about your highest aspirations, the goals you want to achieve, and the paths you want to take to realize your dreams and contribute to our world. Be specific and goal-oriented in addressing these questions.
5 Areas to Address in Your LDP:
Values and Strengths: What are your key strengths and values? How do these align with your major and professional goals? How do you want to further develop these strengths and live these values through college and your career?
Learning Goals: Review your degree audit and the requirements for your degree. Do you have any questions about what you need to do to graduate? What are your learning goals while you are at BPU? What will you do to achieve these goals? What academic challenges are you concerned about and what steps can you take to support your development in these areas? Are there any gaps in your skills that you'll want to address for the future? What kind of graduate training and or certifications are you also considering pursuing as part of your goals?
Career Development: What did you learn about your career interests and aptitudes from your Odyssey plan, your SDS Career Assessment, and the Predictive Index Analysis? What additional information would be helpful to you and how can you get it? What specific career resources will be helpful to you as you prepare for your future career? Are there people who would be helpful to meet? Organizations to join? Events you could attend? What specific goals can you set now to help you achieve your career goals?
Work, School, Life Integration: What interests do you want to cultivate in your life outside of school and work? How can you engage in your BP Community and your home community, in order to promote a sense of belonging and support? How can you get to know your faculty, peers, and advisors? What strategies can you use to healthily manage the integration of your work, school and personal priorities?
Leadership Development: What is your personal definition of leadership? How do you want to grow as a leader? What are some specific ways to achieve this goal? Describe at least three things that you learned about leadership in WEL220 that will help you become a better leader.
Review and incorporate these resources into your Leadership Development Plan:
Leadership Autobiography
Odyssey Map
Reflections and discussions from this class
SDS, Predictive Index, and Emotional Intelligence Assessments
"About Me" Essay
Bay Path Degree Audit
Sullivan Center for Career and Life Planning (SCLP) Website
Other support resources (E.g. Tutor.com, Hatch Library, Academic Support Services, etc.)