Development Center - Individual Development Reports

Development Center - Individual Development Reports

The Role of the Learner

Definition: Learning is a continuous process based on personal motivation to construct meaningful experiences. These experiences will facilitate understanding and competency in addressing situations in which the outcome is not fully known.

What is an Effective Learner?

§ Demonstrates Self Motivation
§ Sets Standards and Holds Themselves Accountable
§ Exhibit Natural Curiosity
§ Listens Carefully
§ Is willing to Take Risk
§ Invests Time & Energy
§ Acknowledges What is Not Known
§ Draws from Different Sources

How to use the Enclosed Report?

§ Read the entire Report carefully
§ Highlight Ideas that can quickly be put to use
§ Do Not Try too many ideas at once
§ Arrange A Time And Place to meet with your Manager / Coach
§ Have an One- On –One Conversation
§ Focus on Performance Improvement
§ Describe Behaviors That Need Changing
§ Reemphasize Your Strengths
§ Develop An Action Plan
§ Establish A Follow – Up Date to Review Progress

Simulations
Projective Technique

Through these exercises, participants can express their Self by projecting themselves in different situations through sentence completion. It also contains an exercise to stimulate participants to open out and present themselves symbolically through pictures, graphs, charts etc. in the form of a presentation to the observers on “Self”.

Case Study

This intensive exercise is a lay out of the challenges being faced by an organization. It gives the current position of the organization on various issues ranging from HR issues to survival in a competitive environment. Participants are expected to do the SWOT analysis of the organization and give their detailed plans on “The Way Forward / Turnaround Plan” for the organization.

Role Play

In this exercise the participant’s takes on a typical role from an organizational set up. They promote their respective ideas and interact to arrive at a common framework wherein organizational goals rise above the individual goals.

Mini Dairy Project / Binodia

The participants study the feasibility of a given project and provide recommendations on how the project can be pursued. The teams are split into two and one team debates for and the other against the Project being taken up.

The Binodia case study is to study a newly explored country and find opportunities of business for their organization in this country.

Leadership and Decision Making Styles

In this exercise participants will be briefed about the five different decision making styles. They will work individually on four different cases and will choose the decision style they think appropriate for each of the cases. Next the syndicates are formed and each syndicate will discuss to arrive at consensus on the Leadership / Decision Making Style.

Group Feedback
Each candidate gives a candid feedback on the strengths and areas for improvement to every other team member.

Entrepreneurship

“Ability to see the business and improvement opportunity, sizing them, and converting them into workable propositions”

Overall Indication and Observations on this competency:

Basic Developing Competent Mastery Role Model
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

· Finds different business opportunities and opportunities for improvement in familiar and unfamiliar situations· Ambitious, there is desire in him to excel· Makes recommendations for converting opportunities in to workable· Understands the business environment fairly well· Needs to improve the financial implications· Demonstrates need to influence others · Demonstrates initiative and drive

Strategic Thinking and Implementation

“Ability and drive to create organization direction in terms of vision, mission, goals, strategies, values”

Overall Indication and Observations on this competency:
Basic Developing Competent Mastery Role Model
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

· Identifies some of the business variables, analyses them· Tries to make projections · Takes overview considering multiple factors· Considers short term and mid term perspectives· Can create organization direction, however needs support to analyse· Works out strategies for growth· Can go beyond specialization · Makes financial implications, needs support to get greater understanding · Considers details

Innovative thinking and application

“Ability to find variety of options both divergent and convergent and making them to work”

Overall Indication and Observations on this competency:
Basic Developing Competent Mastery Role Model
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

· Identifies multiple options in known areas, goes beyond his specialization sometimes· Flexible · Considers different perspectives· Being judgmental at times · Self reliant · Positive self image· Expresses fully – to the extent dominates sometimes

Customer Orientation

“Committed desire to identify customer needs and work towards exceeding their expectations relentlessly, with love, to build long-term relationship for repeat orders”

Overall Indication and Observations on this competency:

Basic Developing Competent Mastery Role Model
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

· Understands the needs of the customer and works towards meeting the same· Can go beyond his call of duty to serve his customer· Openness · Willing to consider others view, if they are in line with his thinking· Understands business processes · Helpful, Co-operative· Makes good presentation· Strives to arrive at quick close, may or may not be mutually acceptable· Desire to add value to customer · Action oriented , Target oriented

Decision Making

“Identifying issues, analyzing them, defining the problems, specifying decision goals, defining criteria for evaluation, identifying options, evaluating the same, making a choice and implementing”

Overall Indication and Observations on this competency:
Basic Developing Competent Mastery Role Model
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

· Considers the key issues and finds relationship· Takes overview considering multiple factors , shows concern for details · Tries to define decision criteria in group situations · Considers short term and mid term perspective. · Takes risk · Can relate concrete and abstract data

Leadership and Team Development

“Ability and will to create team direction, and synergy aligning, inspiring, influencing, developing people for High Performance

Overall Indication and Observations on this competency:
Basic Developing Competent Mastery Role Model
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

· Can articulate and create team direction , with some support· Tries to influence others to accept his view point, however tries to impose on others , if his views are not received well· Takes initiative and tries to integrate people and processes· Generally composed , looses cool if the going gets tough· Collaborates · Assertive, sometimes aggressive· Decisive, Self confident

Relationship and Relationship Networking

“Ability to relate and create rapport for lasting bond with people both within and outside the organization”

Overall Indication and Observations on this competency:

Basic Developing Competent Mastery Role Model
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

· Understands the need of others, may or may not consider if they are not in line with his way of thinking · Tries to impose his views in group situations sometimes without using logic· Network with external agencies · Takes responsibilities · Demonstrates achievement drive

Change Management

“Ability to foresee change in business variables and working towards adapting to the emerging conditions”

Overall Indication and Observations on this competency:
Basic Developing Competent Mastery Role Model
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

· Anticipates changes in his areas of operations · Considers some of the changes and challenges in the overall context of Business · Can work out change management process with support· Flexible , willing to experiment· Can implement change · Can influence others , Self Confident & responsible

Global Mindset

“Positioning products and services to be globally competitive”

Overall Indication and Observations on this competency:
Basic Developing Competent Mastery Role Model
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

· Considers some of the factors influencing global business· Looks at opportunities in unfamiliar global situations· Tries to understand the needs of the customers · Helpful, Supportive to customers (external)· Demonstrates need to excel· Can go beyond boundaries· Influencing · Positive · Adaptable

Managing Work Pressure

“Ability to ride through varying demands on the job and produce results by being calm and composed”

Overall Indication and Observations on this competency:
Basic Developing Competent Mastery Role Model
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

· Generally maintains cool , however can be quiet imposing· Result oriented · Target oriented , can manage non- reporting relationship· Customer oriented · Tries to influence others to accept his view point· Decisive , may or may not find mutually acceptable solutions· Ambitious · Achievement oriented

· Recommendations:Mr X was very active and participative in all his exercises . He likes to interact and take initiative to drive the processes. However sometimes he can be quiet imposing, in team workTo facilitate his growth it is recommended that 1.0 He should attend an advanced course in marketing and sales management 2.0 Leadership and Team development 3.0 Course on General management 4.0 Should attend a course on finance management 5.0 He should also attend a course on Innovation & Decision making.

Individual Development Plan

Developmental Action Start Date End Date Behavior/ Competency Focus