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Assignment: Professional Development Plan for Your Team

Competencies

A. Evaluate the effect of individual personality, behaviors, and values on personal and professional relationships.
B. Analyze the importance of adjusting individual behavior as it relates to personal and professional goals.
C. Create individual strategies for self-management.
D. Evaluate the importance of affecting and managing relationships.
E. Evaluate time management tools that can impact individual well-being and relationships.
F. Demonstrate an awareness of individual thought processes and learning.

Scenario

As a team manager, you have recently completed training on professional growth and leadership, which you will need to turn around and implement with your team members. You are directly responsible for a team of 10 employees, and you will be creating a growth development plan for each member of your current team as well as future professional development plans for your team as a whole.

Task

As part of your team development plan, you will need to complete each of the following deliverables in one document.

Question A. Team assessment and reflection on the findings.

For your team assessment, each member was given an EI assessment; the results are as follows:

1) Name: John
2) Self-Awareness: Low
3) Self-Management: Medium
4) Social-Awareness: High
5) Relationship Management: High
6) Name: Samantha
7) Self-Awareness: High
8) Self-Management: Low
9) Social-Awareness: Medium
10) Relationship Management: Low
11) Name: Alex
12) Self-Awareness: Medium
13) Self-Management: High
14) Social-Awareness: Low
15) Relationship Management: Low
16) Name: Bada
17) Self-Awareness: Low
18) Self-Management: Medium
19) Social-Awareness: Medium
20) Relationship Management: Medium
21) Name: Anthony
22) Self-Awareness: Medium
23) Self-Management: High
24) Social-Awareness: High
25) Relationship Management: High
26) Name: James
27) Self-Awareness: Medium
28) Self-Management: Medium
29) Social-Awareness: High
30) Relationship Management: High
31) Name: Kelly
32) Self-Awareness: Low
33) Self-Management: Medium
34) Social-Awareness: Medium
35) Relationship Management: High
36) Name: Cassie
37) Self-Awareness: High
38) Self-Management: Low
39) Social-Awareness: Low
40) Relationship Management: Medium
41) Name: Mary
42) Self-Awareness: Low
43) Self-Management: Low
44) Social-Awareness: Low
45) Relationship Management: Low
46) Name: Fatima
47) Self-Awareness: High
48) Self-Management: High
49) Social-Awareness: High
50) Relationship Management: High

Reflect on the findings for your team. In what areas does your team have strengths based on this assessment? In what areas does your team have weaknesses based on this assessment? What are the opportunities for growth and development for each of your team members, and why did you identify these areas for growth and development?

Question B. Create a list of Social Awareness strategies for your team. How would you incorporate these into your team strategy? Identify any team members who could be a mentor to other members. How would you incorporate mentoring and modeling into your plan? What sort of training/support might these mentors need?

Question C. Prepare a self-management strategy for the following individual team members: Samantha, Bada, and Fatima. How would these strategies differ and why?

Question D. Develop a relationship management strategy for the following individual team members: Alex, Cassie, and John. How do these strategies differ and why?

Question E. Develop a time management plan for your entire team as a whole. How would these plans differ per team member (individual versus team), and why?

Question F. Reflect on how your personal learning and growth development impacts you as a leader to the team. How does self-awareness enable you to be more effective?

Question G. Which big questions about this competency remain for you?

Question H. How do you think this competency may connect to others in this course?