Importance Of My Leadership Development Plan

My definition of leadership is, having the ability to positively influence people and push the to be better and in the end accomplish the goal. The definition it self hasn’t really changed over the semester but I do feel like I learned some better qualities that leaders should strive to obtain. Like I have said before Leadership development is a continuously changing process where there is always something you can improve on. Looking at my development plan it was really about creating a plan to achieve more success in my areas of improvement that my peers and myself identified in my self-assessment. The specific skills that identified in my development plan that I wanted to improve on were my decision-making, command presence, public speaking/communication

I know after having the job of a trainer and getting to work on my more communication, I would like to improve on my organization skills. Looking forward I might want to seek a job that requires me to be more organized because it will be too late once on active duty. More specifically I am really looking to get a position on wing staff at some point because those positions require for so much information to come to you and for you to pass on. So it is imperative that while holding those positions you are keeping everything squared away because wing staff is what allows for the detachment to run. On another note I still think that my public speaking needs improvement and based on the fact that the current safety officer gives a lot of briefs, I think I could stand to gain a lot from that position or one with the same idea. Almost all jobs require for there to be some form of communication so I do not have to seek a specific opportunity for that. The last thing skill that I wanted to improve on was my decision making, and at the detachment itself there aren’t really any job that requires you to improve on your decision-making skills a whole lot. For that specific skill I will probably try to seek something outside of