Personal Development Plan

Learning plays a vital role for employee development as well as for the growth of the organisation. It is of paramount importance for stakeholders to be cognizant of the their organisation’s strategies and objectives in order to make provision of learning and development opportunities to support the strategic direction of the company. In order for CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank to be successful and maintain long term sustainability it needs to ensure that the strategic managers possess the professional and personal skills to accomplish the strategic goals of the organisation (Mavin et.al., 2010). The professional skills required to support the strategic goals of my organization are Conceptual Skills, Communication Skills, Interpersonal

With this said, I must learn and develop the professional skills required in order to achieve the strategic goals of CIBCFCIB. Most importantly, I exhibits effective personal skills highlighted in my personal SWOT Analysis such as excellent time management skills, leadership skills, committed to work and persistence and focus to achieve my goal that will allow me to come up the learning curve as quickly as possible to be an effective strategic manager. In addition, the SWOT Analysis allows me to identify my strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The intention is to help me in developing my career path where I take the maximum opportunity to talents and abilities. My Personal Development Plan is another advantage that will cement my opportunity to improve my communication skills, leadership skills and change management skills. Through workshops, seminars, cross training and coaching and feedback from my colleagues and manager are promising to achieve my long term goal aspiring to become an Operations Manager. A such, I will ensure that employees are provided with mandatory training and development in order to carry our their current functions

I am currently completing my diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership as a direction to the Master’s Degree in Business Administration. Being in this master’s program has allowed me to apply Strategic Planning, and Change Management principles in staff meeting whereby I was able to identify gaps in processes and suggested several process improvements to increase customer service and improve efficiency. These process improvements are aligned to the strategic goals of the organisation. On the other hand, not only does achieving my Master’s Degree permits me to be more marketable simply I can associate my advance learning skill tier of business terms such change management models to Directors and heads of management presentations at general staff meetings. I am enthusiastic to lead and manage a team being that I am well learnt and are capable to apply my own learning which is evident in proposing changes management models suggestion, process improvements and effective participation in staff meetings. Furthermore, through the planning process and identifying my key performance indicators, I am improving my interpersonal relationship skills to achieve the organisation goals. Recording and evaluating my progress has improved formulating my performance management plan in executing my core task