PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Personal Development Plan



Personal Development Plan

My Goals: Where do I want to be by the end of this period?

I have been working and studying hard in parallel with working on the assignments and case studies that I have been given by my university. This has enabled me to use my time more efficiently, but one problematic consequence is that my reflection on both assignments has also taken place in parallel. With some of the work I have produced over the past six months, I have sometimes not known which assignment to place it into, as with some minor change of emphasis it could easily fit into either. As far as possible, I have sought to resolve these difficulties without duplicating material in the two assignments, and without cross-referencing between them (Anderson, 2006,, 2).

What do I want/need to learn?

I have several problems with the task and the way in which it is worded here. I believe that I provided this information in the first assignment in this module. There would seem little point in reproducing large parts of that assignment here. Instead, I intend to briefly summarise the key points identified in that assignment, and then go on to describe the issues raised in the work I have done subsequent to that assignment. The fact that much more space will be given to the latter areas does not imply that the former is less important, only that it has already been covered in greater detail elsewhere. What I describe here is not, as far as I can manage, my preferred approach to Christian leadership. I am by nature sinful and lazy: what I prefer varies from time to time, but is frequently at odds with what I believe to be right. I may prefer chocolate, but I eat far more fruit and vegetables because I believe that is the right choice. Instead, what I describe is an attempt to be accurate and honest about my approach to leadership. It aims to be a description of what I actually do, given that what I am trying to do is to get it right (both Biblically and pragmatically) and implement the best approach to leadership for me in my present circumstances (Anderson, 2006,, 2).

As required, the programme I am to develop here is about my personal development, not just my leadership development. I assume that the main emphasis needs to be on my leadership development, as the leadership module is the context and reason for producing this assignment, but alongside this I also need to give weight to other factors to produce a holistic programme.

Thus, the scope of this assignment is not only the work I do with my staff and trustees, but it also includes my spiritual development, my work-life balance, protecting my physical health, and other aspects of my Christian ministry, both in the work context and outside it. As the leader of a ministry, the scope of my work is everything: I have to take responsibility for everything ...