Question

1.Suppose you are implementing a new employee developmental plan. You are requested to design a complete form that you would use to implement this new program. Ensure that it contains all of the elements of a good developmental plan including employee’s personal particulars.

2.Now you are required to establish a personal developmental plan for yourself by filling ALL required information in the form that you have designed in Task 1. In your personal developmental plan, you have to cover the following items: a. Identify any THREE of your strengths and areas for improvement each

b. Based on the results in (a), set THREE objectives for your own development

c. How can your developmental objectives be achieved

d. Recommend appropriate measurement and standards for evaluation of your achievement of developmental objectives. Justify your recommendations and write your answers in a separate paragraph from your form.

Answer 1

1.

Name

Employee experience : Fresher/Experienced, # of years

Education

Current role

Long term objectives

End of Year 5 - e.g. PMP Project management professional certified project manager

Trainings/support needed to achieve long term goals

Target date of completion

Success criteria

Short term objectives

End of Year 1 (2)  

Trainings/support needed to achieve short term goals

Target date of completion

Success criteria

Key strengths

Key areas of improvement

2.a.

Key strengths

- Good communication skills

- Good written skills - creating business cases, proposals etc

- Good time management - always meet the deadlines

Key areas of improvement

- Need to develop presentation skills for senior management meetings

- Need to build active listening skills to be able to deal with customers

- Need to grow financial accounting skills to work on budgets, proposals etc.

2. b, c

1) Improve understanding of and experience with handling financial documents like budgets, accounts etc. - Completion of Project management for beginners Level 1 course (includes finance accounting component)

2) Better listening skills to be able to take on more independent work with customers - Attend and clear Active listening training and Cultural diversity training

3) Improve public speaking skills to be able to present content to senior management - Join internal Toastmasters' group and get to level 3.

2. d

1) The course will provide a basic grounding of financial concepts to be able to start working on financial accounting aspects. Post clearing the certification exam , they require you to complete a 3 month temporary part-time role within the IT Finance department that will allow me to work under the supervision of the Finance managers and learn financial accounting on-the-job. The managers will provide a sign-off of completion once they are satisfied that I can single-handedly manage the creation and review of budgets for new projects.

2) The Active listening course provides a practical aspect which will have me engage with customers as part of the extended sales and marketing team. In this part-time role I will have the chance to view up-close how the firm deals with customers. The Cultural diversity classroom training includes several hours/days of working with the european and asian branches to build experience in dealing with people of all cultures.

3) Toastmasters' club offers multiple levels of achievement with 3 being the required level to be able to present effectively to senior management within the firm

These activities will be done outside of the normal duties but with permission from the immediate manager to ensure that I will be on the track to assume solo project management duties by year 3 and will be able to seek certification by year 5.