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Professional Development Plan

Anibal Vera Tudela
LDR531
August 11, 2016
Dr. Lisa Miller

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Professional Development Plan

Leadership is necessary to develop organizations of any nature whether in business,
public sector, or in sports. Yukl (2013) states that leadership connotes images of powerful,
dynamic individuals who command victorious armies, direct corporate empires from atop
gleaming skyscrapers, or shape the course of nations (p. 1). Leadership also have not one
definition because it depends of the field in where the leader operates. Therefore, different types
of leadership rely on the personality and behavior of each. To take full advantage of every type
of leadership and character, we developed a professional plan. Professional Development Plan
contemplates the goals, skills, and competencies of each member (Duke.edu, 2016). This paper
includes a development plan for Team C members, analyzing their leadership styles, behaviors,
and how they can develop a successful organization.
Defining Leadership Characteristics
The present plan is based on individual DISC assessment for Anibal Vera Tudela, Ryan
King, Toni Bates, and Robert Diaz (see Appendix A) in where is noted the leadership style of
each team member. Anibal Vera Tudela, the author of the paper, show a predominance
dominance style, like a dominant position, Anibal is motivated by biggest goals in where put his
attention preferring to perform activities from the beginning to the finish. Also, he is reticent
with people who represent an obstacle to the development of any project. Anibal is identified
with the producer sub style. He has the ability of face challenges and develops better facing
situations that require perseverance.

Ryan King shows an interactive style with "the helper" sub style. As the helper, Ryan is
motivated for friendships; he is not comfortable pressuring others or indicating what they must

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do. He also enjoys making friends; Ryan communication is casual, he shows patient for
developing a task, and is extremely sensitive to criticism and to show his feelings. On the other
hand, Toni Bates shows a cautious style with a "The assessor" sub style. Toni is motivated to
accomplish her goals with excellence. Toni is a quick thinker, and she can do various tasks
simultaneously. She also has the characteristic of evaluating approach to people and works. She
is direct and strong when need communicate something to her workers that she is not agreeing.
Robert Diaz shows a steadiness style with the "go-getter" sub style. As the go-getter,
Robert is motivated doing tasks step by step, and one after another, needing to finish one by one
to star the next task, even though it has a complicated nature, he is very direct when he has to
perform a particular task. Robert performs well in short term plans; he can identify everything
that concerns to that projects. He is good developing their job and very successful even when he
do that task by herself.

Opportunities Based on Individual Styles

In this case, an organization is develop oriented to fulfilling the objectives of a group;
these targets are designed to obtain the highest grades, for this purpose it is necessary to establish
efficient communication channels, responsibility for the development of the papers every week
and submit them before the time indicated.
As is noted before, each team member has different characteristics that will define their
performance and participation to achieve the objectives. Thus, is found that Anibal is motivated
by accomplishing great goals, Ryan is motivated by friendship, Toni is motivated by
accomplishing goals with excellence, and Robert is motivated by tasks one after another.

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The team has trained and designed to fulfill the objectives members, Anibal leading the
team, Ryan promoting interpersonal relationships, Tony reviewing the work every week and
Robert developing specific tasks.
Individual Strengths
To fully develop this plan the strengths of each member is exploited, these strengths help
to avoid delays, miscommunication or misunderstanding. Anibal is a natural leader, has an extra
energy to accomplish the goals, knows administrate and direct people, and is versatile. Ryan is
optimistic, can persuade others, has motivation, and is enthusiastic. Toni is good solving problem
and planning, she can systematize the work, and is dependability. Robert is a good listener, he
likes to perform in teamwork's, is reliable, and follow-through. Knowing these strengths the team
can establish direct task to everyone to develop the plan oriented to the primary goal.

Analysis
Besides the strengths shown, each member has weaknesses that need to be minimized.
For this purpose, it is necessary to carry out feedback to help detect these weaknesses and
corrected in time. At this respect, the web of Duke University (2013) pointed that use a
Performance Log for tracking, recording and providing feedback from the staff member (para.
13). In the University of Phoenix is used Team Log and Team Evaluation to feedback the
performance of each member, the information provided help to the team to improve week by
week the performance as a group.

Conclusions

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Professional Development Plan is critical to every organization which it requires having

strong leadership and seeks to optimize the performance of their members. In this case, Team C
counts with different leadership styles which try to optimize to avoid weaknesses and put each
member in a function according to their personal characteristics. Thus is found different styles of
leadership like dominance, interactive, cautious, and steadiness. Dominance to lead the group,
interactive to consolidate synergy, careful to check and feedback, and steadiness to control every
step of the tasks.

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References
Duke.edu. (2016). Professional Development Plan. Retrieved from
https://www.hr.duke.edu/managers/performance/development/
Yukl, G. (2013). Leadership in Organizations (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
Prentice Hall.

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Appendix A: Team C Strengths and Weaknesses

Anibal Vera Tudela

Ryan King

Toni Bates

Robert Diaz

Strengths
High energy

Weaknesses
Impatience

Leadership

Insensitive to others

Administration

May take yourself too seriously

Juggling
Persuading

Poor listener
Disorganized

Optimistic

Careless

Motivating

Exaggerates

Enthusiastic
Planning

Poor follow-through
Perfectionist

Dependability

Critical

Problem Solving

Unresponsive

Systematizing
Listening

Oversensitive

Teamwork

Slow to begin action

Reliability

Poor at goal setting

Follow-through