An Example Of My Personal Leadership Development Plan

Personal Leadership Development Plan

Leadership is the key element for engineers to become successful in their professional life. Having high technical skills and creative ideas is not enough to success in engineering profession because it is difficult to convert the skills and ideas into deeds without working with talented people. Leadership traits enable the engineer to mobilize the people to achieve challenging goals. To have the power to influence the people, engineers should create plan to develop their leadership skills. As a result, I follow many steps to develop my personal leadership plan which are defining key component to make a leader, conducting self -assessment tests, and evaluating strengths and weakness while taking the leadership

The first test is 16 Personalities which give the result based on the main traits that form the personality type. Based on the result, I am considered as a “The Commander” (ENTJ-A) and my role is the analyst. ENTJ-A is the abbreviation of the main traits that form my personality which are extraversion, intuition, thinking, judgment and assertiveness. The main strengths of this type of personality are self-confidence, strategic thinking, charismatic and inspiring while the main weakness are the stubbornness, poor handling of emotions and ruthlessness. After conducting the second test, the result shows the same strengths but different weakness. The strengths are the faith, Leadership, determination, problem Solving and risk taking while the weakness is the teamwork. This test gives me %64 of integrity. The third test give the high five strengths by considering me as deliverer, strategist, analyst, focus expert and commander. The Keirsey assessment tools indicate that I am considered as a Guardian who is serious and quite in their workplace while a fun person outside. Also, Guardians respect customs, traditions and laws to bring the stability in the modern life. Lastly, the VIA character test shows that the hope is main strengths of my character besides other traits such as the ability to provide wise council to others, fairness, social intelligence and curiosity. In my opinion, I agree with most of the results expect the the level of integrity in the second test because it is difficult to measure the integrity through answering the questions only. In my opinion, the reputation and the strength of the relationship between the leader and follower can reflect the level of integrity and