Personal Development Plan_A2781

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Personal Development PlanSri Rama Chandra Nagubandi

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Contents

1.1 Introduction ..........................................................................................................3

1.2 Time lime...............................................................................................................31.3 Life Dimension......................................................................................................4

1.4 My Career Objectives............................................................................................4

1.5 Where I See My Management Strengths..............................................................4

1.6 Where I See My Management Weaknesses.........................................................5

1.7 New Insights Gained from Exercises in Management Text...............................6

1.8 Management Areas Where I Need to Improve.....................................................8

1.9 Personal Actions I Plan to Take to Improve Skills and Abilities.......................8

1.10 Summary and Conclusions..............................................................................111.11 Appendix............................................................................................................11

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1.1 Introduction

My name is Sri Rama Chandra Murthy Nagubandi and I am from India, where I lived for

most of my life, benefiting from a warm and supporting family, and a city which provided

me with a sound education and opportunities for personal growth.

Since my earliest school days I have been interested in the pursuit of knowledge and truth,

a search which was inspired by my parents and enhanced by my teachers and professors.

This has stayed with me into adult life, and I now find myself realizing the importance and

beauty of such ideas and principles. Rather, I hope to inspire a creative and positive way of

dealing with the various problems that are a part of everyones lives. Concepts of trust and

responsibility have been central to my life and are, I hope, evident in everything that I take

on, from my school-life and my various employments and activities. In all these things I

have come to understand the importance of respecting others.

I am a well-organized, highly motivated individual who enjoys the challenges of working

in a fast-paced office environment. I work well under the pressure of deadlines, and I havebeen involved in many group projects.

1.2 Time lime

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1.3 Life Dimension

1.4 My Career Objectives

To obtain a Information Technology Director position with a dynamic corporation likeApple, Google, or Deloitte where I can use my energy and skills to develop, motivate, leadand encourage employee productivity, improve operations, increase profitability, and

enhance value of organization.

1.5 Where I See My Management Strengths

Direction and Strategy: Anticipating future trends; providing a clear vision for the future

of the organization; creating strategy, goals and objectives for getting there. Proactive and

able to set own action plans and build consensus with business and cross-functional teams.

Follow Through and Accountability: Managing the details of initiatives and projects;insuring that skills and resources are available to do the job; tracking and measuring

progress.

Conflict and Negotiation: Monitoring personal defensiveness; striving for understanding

and win-win outcomes; appropriately challenging others.

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Developing and Mentoring Others: Managing the development and performance of

others; communicating clear expectations; providing effective feedback.

Diversity: Accepting and relating to a broad range of people from different backgrounds;considering the ideas and world views of people with different perspectives; attracting

diverse talent.

Complex Systems: Balancing multiple demands and trade-offs; tolerating uncertainty and

ambiguity; understanding how the parts of the organizations fit together; understanding theorganizations culture. I am having experience in leading large global teams through

complex program and project tasks, detail-oriented, delivery-focused and able to motivate

teams. I am having extensive experience with project proposals, timeline determination,budget estimation, staffing plans, and experience with global delivery model including

offshore development.

Collaboration: Developing and engaging community partners; tapping into and

empowering community networks; appreciating community differences.

Self Management: Varying approaches to different situations; operating from a valuecenter; balancing priorities; maintaining composure; learning from experience.

Teams: Promoting a positive environment in which teams may develop and work; defining

team purpose; encouraging team cooperation.

Change: Creating positive change; building support for change; considering concerns andinterests of others when implementing change

1.6 Where I See My Management WeaknessesCommunication: I am not effective at listening and two-way communication; makingarticulate presentations and written reports; managing the media.

Decision Making: I will delay the decisions in desire to make the best decision. In truth,there really is no way to know which the best decision is. I would like to consideralternatives and often base my decisions on rational data and search for decisionsbased on the information available. I need to improve my decision making forunstructured and unique situations.

Task Oriented Leadership: I am task oriented leader always directs my subordinatework activities towards goal attainment, giving instructions, spend time planning,emphasize deadlines and provide explicit work schedules of activities.

Build Synergy: Need to improve how to build synergy so that parts interact to produce ajoint effect that is greater than sum of parts acting alone.

Delegating: More often I am delegating the work without proper authority. I am learningto give up some control so that my colleagues can do their jobs more efficiently.

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Conceptual and Human Skills: I need to improve to look at organization as whole andrelations among its parts and ability to work through other people and to work effectivelyas group member.

1.7 New Insights Gained from Exercises in Management Text

After reviewing my exercises, I was surprised in some areas but felt most of the responses

agreed with my own responses. I have definite areas to target for improvements which are

listed below.

Self Test Area My Desired Result Actual Result Improvement

Manager

Achievement

As a manager need to get

things done through others,

facilitate and co-ordinateothers

Focus is as

Individual

winner.

Need to shift my

perspective to

become a excellentmanager

New Style orOld Style

Manager

Theory Y Theory X Plan to move toTheory Y

Management style.Evaluation ofStyle

High Score in Political Skills Scored low inPolitical Skills

Need to improvepolitical skills to

move up in the

organization.

Security or

Autonomy

Would like to work in

Autonomy organizationwhere freedom and

autonomy is greater

Bureaucratic

Organization

Like to work in

organization thatgives importance for

human resources

perspective and needto look and improve

my sense onautonomy.

Managerial

uncertainty

Open mindedness and

independent thinker. New

ideas, new thinking and newways of working

I am surprised to

the results that I

am fitting instable

environment

rather changinghighly uncertain

environment

Need to improve my

skills in uncertainty

Rate your

GlobalManagement

Potential

To score 81-100 Scored only 75 Lack skills such as

language andimproving skills in

different cultures.

Ethical Work

climate

Ideal Score 30 Actual Score 29 I would like to

contribute to improveethical work climate

in my organization to

work towards

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Self Test Area My Desired Result Actual Result Improvement

organization ethics

instead of personal

ethics.

Strategy

Strength

Strategic formulator and

Implementer

Strategic

Implementer

Need to Improve my

score asImplementer

StrategicThinking Blue

Prints

True Strategic thinker Starter in Strategicthinking

Need to attendindustry conferences

and read industrial

journals and need to

understand practicesoutside my

organization

How do make

decisions

Top Manager New Manager and

to some extent

senior Manager

Need to move

towards openness,

diversity of viewpoints and

interactions with

others.

Making

Important

Decisions

Rational and Intuition Linear Decision

Maker

Need to move

towards the balanced

approach byconsidering both

rationality and

intuition asimportant

components of decision making

Personal

Decision Style

Analytical Directive and

conceptual

-

Leadership

Beliefs

Non Hierarchical Belief Position and Non-

Hierarchical

Balanced

Need to move

towards Horizontal

structure to improveleadership skills

Are youinnovative

Innovative Averageinnovative Skill

Improve my work byseeking new ways to

do things

Is your companycreative

Highly effective Moderatelyeffective

Need to help myorganization to reach

Highly effective

organization

Ready to

implementPersonal Change

High Score Transitioning

stage

Move faster

HR Work Moderate Work orientation Low Skills Improve my HR

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To ensure that I am making every effort to specifically address my weak areas, I am going

to discuss and I will develop an action plan for implementing actions and behaviors into

my daily routine. I have already started working on trying to be more direct with everyonethat I interact with. If I can overcome this obstacle, I feel that the other goals I am working

toward will be much easier to achieve. This plan will be in constant evolution and will be

an everyday endeavor. If I can take the baby steps, I feel that I can achieve the goals that Ihave set.

I will need to make a conscious effort to be more open and be considerate of others ideasand questions. I will have to overcome the idea that I cant always win everyone over to my

side. I will have to become more assertive by being willing to voice my opinion when

necessary and make an effort to work more closely with those I disagree with or have

conflict. And, also read self development books to build capacity. By distinguishingbetween critical and non-critical tasks I will be able to act without unnecessary delay.

Practicing how to deliver articulate presentations at conferences or in my work place will

also help me to do better. This objective is more of a long term goal that is attainablewithin the next two years this development process I hope to address these issues with each

and every person I work with as well as my family and friends. I hope to remain consciousof my weaknesses and faults throughout every day activities as to prevent them from

resurfacing. I also plan to get feedback from those I work with as to my development.

Skill Current Status Target Proficiency Time Scale

Communication and

Listening

Skills

Competent enough for

present status but notprofessional standard

I will exhibit active

listening techniques byfocusing my full

attention on someone

while they are talkingand following their

comments with questions

and statements of

clarification.

I will refrain from show

stopping responses

By the end of theacademic year

Team

working

Skills

Poor dislike

working in teams,

hate trusting mymarks to others; hate

having to compromise

my ideas

Reliable and positive

team member; competent

team player. Considermyself as part of the

team and quickly want to

gain respect from theteam.

By the end of the

academic year

ProjectManagement

Professional

Not Certified CertifiedBy the end ofsecond year

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Certification

Gender and

Cultural

Skills

Moderate

understanding ofFemale Managers and

Cultural differences

Read Articles on Gender

dynamics and behaviorand closely understand

the differences betweenfemale and malemanagers.

Cultural Skills: Need toimprove my cultural

skills by attending

cultural differenceclasses and read

professional books on

cultural variations across

globe and learn tointeract better when

meeting people from

different cultures

By the end of

second year

DecisionMaking

Poor in MakingDecisions in

unstructured and

unique situations and

delay in decisionmaking.

Be timely - Being ableto make decisions within

the required time. Not

spending too much time

analyzing andconsidering each

decision.

Resolute - This means

having the firmness and

willpower to stick toeach decision long

enough to see it bear

fruit.

Flexible - To have the

flexibility to change

directions and decisionswhen it is discovered

that the initial judgment

may not be the right one.

By the end ofsecond year

Leadership

Skills

Not good at

delegatingmonitoring and

change Leader

Confident leader who

can delegate with clearvision, on what the

group needs. Trusting

By the end of third

Year

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other people believe in

the abilities of others and

are flexible enough to

accept that everyone has

their own way of doingthings. As a Charismatic

leader like to inspire andmotivate the employees

to do more than they

would normally do.

Conceptual

and HumanSkills

Vision is now limited

to MiddleManagement Level

and need

improvement in

solving conflicts,coordinate and

motivate employees

Human Skills: Ability

to work throughemployees by motivating

subordinates in uncertain

situations and turbulence

situations

Conceptual: Defining

strategies for theorganization and

understanding external

environment, looking atthe long term future with

general environment

trends. Learning through

first observing the work

of a Top Managers andthen practicing the

application of the sameskill or set of skills

followed by feedback

and evaluation.

By end of the fourth

year and willcontinue to do that

future as well.

1.10 Summary and Conclusions

My plan will allow me to improve in the areas where others and I thought that I could use

some improvement. The document and plan will serve to be a fluid one and open tomodification when additional areas of weakness are identified... as they are sure to be. In

addition, I hope to carry this plan and what I learn from this experience with me into the

future regardless of where I choose to work. If I have to succeed in life and accomplish mygoals it is imperative that I continue to improve my ability to work with and lead others.

1.11 Appendix

I. INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT

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Chapter 1 Innovative Management for a Changing World

1. Are You Ready to Be a Manager? (p. 3)

2. Manager Achievement Manager Self-Test (p. 17)

3. Management Aptitude Questionnaire - Apply Your Skills: Experiential Exercise (p. 28)

Chapter 2 The Evolution of Management

4. Are You a New-Style or an Old-Style Manager? (p. 33)

5. Evolution of Style - New Manager Self-Test (p. 43)6. Security or Autonomy? - Apply Your Skills: Experiential Exercise (p. 55)

II. THE ENVIRONMENT OF MANAGEMENT

Chapter 3 The Environment and Corporate Culture

7. Are You Fit for Managerial Uncertainty? (p. 61)

8. Culture Preference (p. 81)

9. Working in an Adaptability Culture - Apply Your Skills: Experiential Exercise (p. 85)

Chapter 4 Managing in a Global Environment

10. Are You Ready to Work Internationally? (p. 89)

11. Are You Culturally Intelligent? - New Manager Self-Test (p. 110)

12. Rate Your Global Management Potential - Apply Your Skills: Experiential Exercise (p.117)

Chapter 5 Managing Ethics and Corporate Responsibility

13. Will You Be a Courageous Manager?

14. Self and Others - New Manager Self-Test (p. 132)

15. Ethical Work Climates Apply Your Skills: Experiential Exercise (p. 143)

Chapter 6 Managing Small Business Startups

16. Do You Think Like an Entrepreneur? (p. 147)

17. Social Competence - New Manager Self-Test (p. 158)

18. Whats Your Entrepreneurial IQ? (p. 171)

III. PLANNNING

Chapter 7 Managerial Planning and Goal Setting

19. Does Goal Setting Fit Your Management Style? (p. 177)

20. Your Approach to Studying New Manager Self-Test (p. 180)

Chapter 8 Strategy Formulation and Execution

21. What is Your Strategy Strength? (p. 201)

22. Your Approach to Studying, Part 2 (p. 203)

23. Strategic Thinking Blueprints (p. 227)

IV. ORGANIZING

Chapter 9 Managerial Decision-Making

24. How Do You Make Decision? (p. 231)25. Making Important Decisions (p. 239)

26. Whats Your Personal Decision Style? (p. 253)

Chapter 10 Designing Adaptive Organizations

27. What Are Your Leadership Beliefs? (p. 261)

28. Authority Role Models (p. 284)

29. Organic Versus Mechanistic Organization Structure (p. 291)

Chapter 11 Managing Change and Innovation

30. Are You Innovative? (p. 295)

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31. Taking Charge of Change (p. 306)

32. Is Your Company Creative? (p. 318)

Chapter 12 Managing Human Resources

33. Getting the Right People on the Bus (p. 323)

IV. ORGANIZING (continued)

34. What is Your HR Work Orientation? (p. 329)

35. Do You Want to Be an HR Manager? (p 351)

Chapter 13 Managing Diversity

36. Do You Know Your Biases? (p. 355)

37. Are You Tuned in to Gender Differences? (p. 371)

38. How Tolerant Are You? (p. 380-381)

Chapter 14 Understanding Individual Behavior

39. Are You Self Confident? (p. 387)

40. Whats Your EQ?

41. Personality Assessment: Jungs Typology (p. 415)

V. LEADING

Chapter 15 - Leadership

42. Whats Your Personal Style? (p. 421)

43. Interpersonal Patterns (p. 426)

44. What is the Impact of Leadership? (p. 447)

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