PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTION PLAN

Personal Development Action Plan

Personal Development Action Plan

Introduction

Increasing Managerial effectiveness as well as personal effectiveness is shown to be important not only from a business point of view but also from the influences of our personal achievement and satisfaction from our personal life. As the most theories suggested personal changes in attitudes, values and believes are cognitive and behavior driven. Thus altering or increasing our personal effectiveness requires firstly our cognitive decision to undergo through the process.

It has been also stipulated that positive attitude and personal awareness have a significant influence to our successes.' Personal Development Action Plan is the process of achieving organizational objectives, within a changing environment, by balancing efficiency, effectiveness and equity, obtaining the most from limited resources, and working with and through other people' (Naylor, 1999: p.6). The increase complexity of the working environment and the increase need for better performance highlight the importance of the individual growth and learning processes. This action will ensure the adequate and appropriate corresponding between the organizational and the personal/managerial competences. Everyone has the ability to become abundantly successful. Some of the most successful people in the world attribute their success to writing personal action plans in one form or another.

Discussion

I believe that dynamic and fast developed working environment demands for skillful and high potential personal traits and skills. Under these circumstances, performance excellence becomes personal and organisational comparative advantage. Many researches suggesed that, Performance of the manager depends considerably on how well his/her multiple roles are played. In turn, how well these roles are played by the managers of an organization influences the performance of the organization, widen the concept of the managerial competence through join learning and the interaction among people in the organisation. "If employees can help employees maximize their personal effectiveness and success, it than follows that companies would stand to gain as well" (Updegraff 2004 p.43). The learning process through relationships when they wrote, it is through our relationships (intrapersonal; inter-personal; intra-organisational and inter-organisational) that we achieve all of our important personal, organisational and societal goals.

Team work strategies

In order to increase team performance it is essential to understand the human dynamic and the members personalities types through : systems thinking where "human dynamics looks at people as distinct learning systems . In my opinion the use of the mental model which helps to make the distinctions clearer so the individuals actions and words would be understood according to the context. This assures greater mutual understanding and empathic communication, shared vision.I think that Vision must include peoples' needs, team learning and awareness of differences.

Feedback can be used to measure self communication performance. Therefore training with this model will develop a receptive attitude and encourage feed back. In my opinion, cultural seminars, multiple communication channels and diversity training can help team members of different nationalities to build better relationships with their colleagues (Barczak & McDonough, 2003).

Furthermore, Programs relating to listening skills featuring modules such as evaluating emotions have been deemed important in developing ...