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Your Personal and Professional Development Plan

Your Personal and Professional Development Plan (PPDP) should be a living document. As you
progress through the programme, you will document important moments in your transformational
journey and record important insights, accomplishments and completed goals. In the final weeks of
Learning and Leading in a Dynamic Era, you will reflect on your values, principles and goals, create an
action plan to achieve these goals, and plan for your future as a leader; these are the goals of your
PPDP.

At the same time, you should not feel bound by the constraints of only looking forward. As you will
discover in Learning and Leading in a Dynamic Era, great benefits can be derived from reflecting on the
past, as well as on the present and the future. Accordingly, you will return to your PPDP throughout this
programme, stopping in each module to re-evaluate goals and action plans so that they accurately
reflect your development as a leader and so that you can create realistic timelines and set yourself up
for success rather than disappointment. If it takes you more or less time than you originally predicted in
order to accomplish a goal or meet a milestone, that’s simply a cause for an adjustment. The iterative
process of revising, reflecting and adjusting is precisely what makes your PPDP a living document.

In each module, there will be new knowledge and new perspectives that you were not aware of before.
You will integrate that into your PPDP. You will address questions such as the following:

 What am I learning in this module that is helping me to shape what I already know and what I need to
know?
 What other managerial and knowledge gaps has this module revealed?
 How has it helped me to create new goals?
 How will I integrate content from this module into the professional aspect of my PPDP?

For this module, you will work on your PPDP in three phases. In Unit 5, you will complete Phase 1,
Values, Principles, and Goals, and Phase 2, Your Action Plan, and submit this document for feedback
from your Instructor. You will complete Phase 3, Reflecting on Your PPDP, in Unit 6, and submit the
completed PPDP as part of your Final Project for grading.

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Phase 1: Values, Principles and Goals

Note: For this section of the PPDP, you can use the values, principles and goals you created in your Unit 4
Shared Activity 2 and Individual Assignment 1.

Goal # 1

Statement of your personal value

What principle emanates from this value?

What goal did you derive from this value?

Goal # 2

Statement of your personal value

What principle emanates from this value?

What goal did you derive from this value?

Goal # 3

Statement of your personal value

What principle emanates from this value?

What goal did you derive from this value?

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Phase 2: Your Action Plan

For this section of the PPDP, you should create action plans which you will utilise to achieve each of the three goals
listed above. You will first submit this document to your Instructor for feedback in Unit 5. For the Unit 5 submission, be
sure to fill in the information for Phase 1 as well as your action plans for Phase 2. Phase 3 will be completed in Unit 6.

You can type your goals, objectives, milestones and steps directly into the white boxes below. If you are confused
about the different components of your action plan, please refer to this unit’s media presentation and the example
action plan in the week’s learning resources. Also, note that this table is intended as a guide but is flexible in order to
best meet your needs. If, for example, you need to meet three milestones to accomplish an objective rather than two,
feel free to add an extra row to the table. Similarly, you may need only two objectives for a particular goal rather than
three. Add and delete rows as necessary until this action plan is customised to your particular goals.

Note: You can delete the text in the boxes below and replace it with the information described

Goal # 1: Type Goal Here


What is the first objective needed to achieve your goal?

Type Your First Objective Here

Start Date End Date

Milestone # 1 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Milestone # 2 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

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Milestone # 3 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

What is the second objective needed to achieve your goal?

Type Your Second Objective Here

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Start Date End Date

Milestone # 1 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

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Milestone # 2 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Milestone # 3 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

What is the third objective needed to achieve your goal?

Type Your Third Objective Here

Start Date End Date

Milestone # 1 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Milestone # 2 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

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Milestone # 3 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Goal # 2: Type Goal Here

What is the first objective needed to achieve your goal?

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Type Your First Objective Here

Start Date End Date

Milestone # 1 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Milestone # 2 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Milestone # 3 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

What is the second objective needed to achieve your goal?

Type Your Second Objective Here

Start Date End Date

Milestone # 1 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Milestone # 2 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Milestone # 3 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

What is the third objective needed to achieve your goal?

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Type Your Third Objective Here

Start Date End Date

Milestone # 1 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Milestone # 2 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Milestone # 3 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Goal # 3: Type Goal Here

What is the first objective needed to achieve your goal?

Type Your First Objective Here

Start Date End Date

Milestone # 1 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Milestone # 2 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Milestone # 3 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

What is the second objective needed to achieve your goal?

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Type Your Second Objective Here

Start Date End Date

Milestone # 1 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Milestone # 2 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Milestone # 3 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

What is the third objective needed to achieve your goal?

Type Your Third Objective Here

Start Date End Date

Milestone # 1 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Milestone # 2 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Milestone # 3 towards accomplishing the objective MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY

Step towards accomplishing milestone

Step towards accomplishing milestone

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Phase 3: Reflecting on Your Personal and Professional Development Plan

You will submit this phase of the PPDP in Unit 6 of the module, being sure to submit the entire
document, including Phases 1 and 2. In future modules in this programme, you will continue to refine
and reflect on your PPDP, making any necessary revisions to encompass goals based on future
modules and material. Please be sure to save this plan so that you can use it in subsequent modules.

Use the space below for an approximately 500-word reflection in which you do the following:

 Describe how you came to select these values, principles and goals, and explain how you think they will
further your personal and professional development. You may wish to refer to your own transformational
story or other assignments completed for this module.
 Describe any obstacles you anticipate in achieving your goals and how you will mitigate them.

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