You are required to develop a Management Skills Learning and Development Action Plan that describes the skills, resources and other requirements you’ll need to further your career aspirations and development. In this plan we ask you to lay out your career goals and career opportunities as well as your learning and development plans. The action plan should be in four (4) parts, as outlined below. The report will evaluate the appropriateness of your learning goals, how well you justify your plan using course theories and how closely your plan links to your analysis. In other words we are assessing your ability to assess the strengths and weaknesses of your skills as well as your ability to develop a plan to improve your management skills. You are also required to invite a mentor (peer or more experienced employee) to assist with this development plan and complete the self-assessment surveys on the management skill areas you choose to develop in this plan. Compare the differences between your self-assessment and the assessment of relevant other(s). You may also want to include your mentor in determining how you will measure the success of your action plans. Each learning goal (or sub goal) should have a series of concrete steps or actions that the person will take to move towards the goal.  Actions should be actual behaviors. Use an action verbs (explore, examine, utilize, demonstrate, apply, analyze, define describe, interpret, prove, illustrate, distinguish, propose, devise, construct, defend, compare.)  Each action should be associated with one or more resources and with evidence.Resources are anything that can be used to realize the actions to be taken towards the learning goals, such as a mentor or coach, books, courses, travel and the Internet, Note: once a resource has been applied to a goal it is often helpful to rate the effectiveness of the resource.

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