Scenario
As a team manager, you have recently completed training on professional growth and leadership, which you will need to turn around and implement with your team members. You are directly responsible for a team of 10 employees, and you will be creating a growth development plan for each member of your current team as well as future professional development plans for your team as a whole.
Instructions
As part of your team development plan, you will need to complete each of the following deliverables in one document.
1. Team assessment and reflection on the findings.
- For your team assessment, each member was given an EI assessment; the results are as follows:
- Name: John
- Self-Awareness: Low
- Self-Management: Medium
- Social-Awareness: High
- Relationship Management: High
- Name: Samantha
- Self-Awareness: High
- Self-Management: Low
- Social-Awareness: Medium
- Relationship Management: Low
- Name: Alex
- Self-Awareness: Medium
- Self-Management: High
- Social-Awareness: Low
- Relationship Management: Low
- Name: Bada
- Self-Awareness: Low
- Self-Management: Medium
- Social-Awareness: Medium
- Relationship Management: Medium
- Name: Anthony
- Self-Awareness: Medium
- Self-Management: High
- Social-Awareness: High
- Relationship Management: High
- Name: James
- Self-Awareness: Medium
- Self-Management: Medium
- Social-Awareness: High
- Relationship Management: High
- Name: Kelly
- Self-Awareness: Low
- Self-Management: Medium
- Social-Awareness: Medium
- Relationship Management: High
- Name: Cassie
- Self-Awareness: High
- Self-Management: Low
- Social-Awareness: Low
- Relationship Management: Medium
- Name: Mary
- Self-Awareness: Low
- Self-Management: Low
- Social-Awareness: Low
- Relationship Management: Low
- Name: Fatima
- Self-Awareness: High
- Self-Management: High
- Social-Awareness: High
- Relationship Management: High
1.Reflect on the findings for your team. In what areas does your team have strengths based on this assessment? In what areas does your team have weaknesses based on this assessment? What are the opportunities for growth and development for each of your team members, and why did you identify these areas for growth and development?
2.Create a list of Social Awareness strategies for your team. How would you incorporate these into your team strategy? Identify any team members who could be a mentor to other members. How would you incorporate mentoring and modeling into your plan? What sort of training/support might these mentors need?
3.Prepare a self-management strategy for the following individual team members: Samantha, Bada, and Fatima. How would these strategies differ and why?
4.Develop a relationship management strategy for the following individual team members: Alex, Cassie, and John. How do these strategies differ and why?
5.Develop a time management plan for your entire team as a whole. How would these plans differ per team member (individual versus team), and why?
6.Reflect on how your personal learning and growth development impacts you as a leader to the team. How does self-awareness enable you to be more effective?
