Leadership Development Plan

-TWO PAGE REFLECTON SUMMARY-SHORT TERM and LONG TERM PAGES COMPLETED•Think about your long-term career goals. Where would you like to be career-wise in three to five years? Write one long-term career goal in SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely) format that expresses where you would like to be in three to five years. This goal is placed in the LDP template section entitled Long-Term Career Goal.• In support of your long-term career goal, you will identify and list five to six skills that you will need to acquire to enable you to be an effective leader and to make progress toward the achievement of your long-term career goal. These skills are placed in the Short-Term Skills Development section of the LDP•Complete this leadership skills gap analysis. •The GAP Analysis Form has four major sections. From each major section of the GAP Analysis, select a gap you would like to work on reducing during the next 10 weeks that will help you toward the achievement of your long-term career goal.•Place each of the four Gaps you identified from the GAP Analysis in the LDP’s template table. The LDP template table has a separate space for each of your four Gap goals. The LDP template table also requires you to list activities you will undertake to reduce each of your four GAP goals during the next 10 weeks.•Consider all appropriate activities that would help reduce each of the four GAP goals. These activities might include conferences, books, free online classes, mentorship, coaching, observation, professional associations and groups, networking, volunteering, journaling, and so forth. Select the appropriate actives related to each of your four GAP goals and list them with each of the four goals, as appropriate, in the LDP template table associated with each of the four GAP goals.