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Leadership and Professionalism

Professional Development Plan (PDP)

This assignment has two parts. In the first part you will be guided through a process to identify your personal purpose, discover your ‘why, write a career vision, and apply the ‘Hedgehog Concept'. The goal of this part is to bring clarity to your purpose and how you can live your purpose through your career.

For part two, you will identify development activities that will help you live your purpose in your career, become a more effective leader, and achieve your career vision.
Formatting guidelines:

• APA Style (7th ed.) cover page - Use this link as a guide.
• Length: Follow the suggestions for each question/activity.
• Responses to Part 1B and 1C will be recorded including audio-visual of you. Instructions are provided in Part 1B.
• You do not need to cite or reference course materials which were provided to you by the instructor. However, if you choose to utilize any source other than course materials, which were provided to you by the instructor, you must properly cite sources in-text as well as on a reference page. Please use this link for citing and referencing help.

Part 1 - Purpose and Vision

A) Your Personal Purpose
(Click on the link below to access resource on the Sask Polytech Library website)

1) After reading the introduction and chapter 1 of Discover Your True North, respond to these questions:
a) Looking for patterns from your early life story, what people, events, and experiences have had the greatest impact on you and your life? (3-5 sentences)
b) In which experiences did you find the greatest inspiration and passion? (2-4 sentences)
2) Reflect on the challenges you have faced in life and describe how they have and/or could help you develop as a leader. (3-5 sentences)
3) State your personal purpose in one sentence. Then, describe your purpose in more detail and explain why it matters to you. (3-4 sentences)
Questions for ‘Part 1 - A' adapted from chapter exercises by George, B. & Gergen, D. (2015). Discover your True North.
B) Discover your ‘Why' (video recorded responses)

You will video record (audio and video of you are required) and submit your responses to Part 1B and C using Zoom. Include all responses for Part 1B and C in the same recording. Follow these instructions:
1) Prepare your responses to Part 1B and C before you begin recording.
2) Open Zoom on your device and start a ‘New Meeting'.

3) Click the ‘Record' button and then click ‘Record to the cloud'.

4) Once your response is complete, click ‘Stop Recording'.
• You can also pause and resume recording.
5) Select ‘Yes' and then end Zoom meeting.
6) You will receive an email from Zoom. Copy the link and passcode near the bottom of the email and paste it in your submission document under Part 1B and C.

The recording should be 2-3 minutes long. Any content over the 3-minute time limit will not be included in the submission. See recommended response lengths for each question.

Your ‘why' is a specific way of stating why you do what you do, your purpose, or your reason for existence. Discover your ‘why' by following the three steps outlined in the ‘Sinek_2017_Find Your Why' PDF document in the LO9 content folder on Brightspace.

1) State your one-sentence ‘why' statement and explain why it is meaningful to you. One minute.

C) Your Career Vision (video recorded responses)

Include your responses for this section with your recording for Part 1B. You will submit one recording that includes all responses for Part 1B and C.

1) Creating and understanding your career vision can provide insights about your motivation to lead and guide your development efforts in a direction congruent with purpose/why.
a) What is your career vision? Ensure vision statement includes elements of the five characteristics of an effective vision. You can write and read this statement. One minute.

b) Briefly explain why this is your career vision. Provide insights into significance, motivation, and rationale. One minute.

D) Your Hedgehog Concept

1) Apply the ‘Hedgehog Concept' to your life. Use the guidance provided in the LO9 PPT slides. Answer the following questions:
a) What are you deeply passionate about? (2-4 things)
b) What can you be the best in the world at? Explain. (1 thing)
c) What drives your economic engine (i.e., how you want to make money and long- term financial goals)? Explain.
d) Identify 3-10 jobs and/or careers paths that fit within the intersection of these three categories. Jobs or careers should be unique from each other. Conduct research online and talk to others to find jobs/career paths that you may not be aware of.

Part 2 - Development Plan
Throughout the semester you have discussed many skill/knowledge areas that contribute to career and leadership success. Create a plan to develop a minimum of two of the skill/knowledge areas below. Select skills that you think will help you live your purpose and achieve your career vision:

• Professional/career development (LO1 & LO9)
• Communication (LO1)
• Personal brand (LO2)
• Stress management (LO3)
• Time management (LO3)
• Conflict management (LO3)
• Any leadership theory (LO4)

• Building trust and relationships (LO5)
• Building a high-performance team (LO5)
• Diversity and inclusion in the workplace (LO6)
• Coaching/developing others (LO7)
• Motivating others (LO7)
• Leading others through change (LO8)
• Vision (LO9)

1) State each skill/knowledge area.

2) Seek advice from two other people you respect about how to develop each skill/knowledge area. What was their advice for developing your selected skill/knowledge areas?

3) Identify a minimum of three practical steps to develop each of your selected skill/knowledge areas. Plan to actually complete or start these steps within the next 6 months.

o Utilize advice you received, conduct your own research, and gather others' opinions to identify practical steps for developing these skills.
o For example, practical steps could consist of attending onsite or online workshops or training, volunteer work, reading materials, talking to topic area experts, conducting informational interviews, becoming a member of a professional organization, continuing education, etc.
o Be as specific as possible: For example, stating you will attend webinars is too vague. Actually find the webinar and state what it is, why it will be helpful to your development, how to sign up, the cost, and when you will attend.
o Be as specific as possible: For example, stating that you will pay more attention to how you communicate with others is too vague. State your detailed plan. Will you journal daily to reflect on your interactions?
o Provide justification for these practical steps (i.e., how will these steps aid in the development of your selected skill).
o Develop a plan for executing these practical steps (i.e., how will you actually accomplish these practical steps? Create a timeline). Executing these steps will likely occur after the semester is complete and could be planned for over the next couple of years.
o Consider applying the SMART goal planning concept for each of your development activities.