Individual Personality Development Plan

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Individual Personality Development Plan Jiahui Sun University of Denver

Individual Personality Development Plan Introduction: I still remember my mother has told me choosing a job you are desired to do and have interests in it is very important. Im always thinking about these words when I think about my future life. Actually, I have had the desire to be a person like my father who is my role model and runs his own business very well for a long time. The reason for this thought is very easy. Because my father is a successful businessman, he can give whatever I want easily and give me a happy family. Just because of this, I want to be a person like him. However, my thought is changing while Im growing up. For sure, I still want to have a job related to business, but I make my vision specially. I want to have a job related to the fashion business. I make this decision by thinking about my mothers word and combining my desire and interests. To be a businesswoman is my desire; however, I like fashion, and I want it to be a part of my whole life. Therefore, to be a fashion brand marketing director is my career goal for now and future. In order to reach this goal and make my vision come true, I need to know myself specially and have a clearly awareness, strategy and discipline. To make everything ordered, an individual personality development plan is very necessary.

A. Personality Development Opportunities

To make the plan ordered, first, self-awareness is very important. I can only define my strategy and discipline after I know what my strengths and developmental areas are. However, for me, Im sure I know these very well. I have strengths on dutifulness, cautions and artistic interests, but I need to improve myself on the areas of cooperation, activity-level and imagination. Knowing myself specially and Improving my developmental areas while continue working on my strengths, I can improve myself comprehensively. Strengths: The first strength of me is dutifulness. Im a person who has a strong sense of duty and obligation. For me, I feel dutifulness is very important for a person either as individual or a team member because I believe no pain, no gain. As a result, when I receive a work, I pay one hundred percent attention to do it carefully and finish it on time. I arrange my schedule ordered to make sure I dont delay in something. As I doing these, I have made myself become a reliable person. Second, Im friendliness. Like what the IPIP-NEO paper describes about friendliness, friendliness people make

Individual Personality Development Plan friends quickly and easy to form close relationship. They treat friends genuinely and openly, and they can let their friends feel comfortable with them. I do all of these things naturally. Its like I was born with optimistic. I like to make friends and stay with my friends. I may concern about their problems and help them as much as I can when they are needed. I dont feel boring when they complain something or talk their sadness to me. I think friend is a very important group for me in my life. If I dont have friends anymore, I wont achieve either my life or career goals successfully. Third, I have abundant artistic interests. I like both art and nature beauty with all my heart. I like to observe peoples appearance and mannerism because I believe everyone has their special beauty no matter inside or outside. Absorbing the different beauties from different people no matter they are in the real life or on the fashion shows, I make my own style and create my particular aesthetic foresights. Also, I like to travel to different places to see their particular natural and human landscapes. It makes me feel my life in this world is colorful. These three strengths are showed obviously in my life. Because of them, I have gained a lot of worthy values and memories in my early life; moreover, they make my goals further.

Developmental Areas: However, when I state my strengths, my weaknesses which include low ability on cooperation, low activity-level and shortage of imagination also show obviously. First of my weaknesses which is a serious problem for me is low ability on the cooperation. Even though Im an optimistic and friendly person, I dont like to work with people initiatively. For some reasons, I dont think working with others is more effective than working individually, and I dont like to deny my own needs to get along with others. I always think in my way and want people agree with me. Its a little difficult for me cooperating with others to accomplish tasks. Secondly, Im low in activity-level. Although I always say I like the busy life which I can involve in many activities and move about energetically, I cant make it come true in my real life. I almost never finish the homework at the first several days when the professor assigns it. Also, I always give myself an excuse to have rest or delay to do something unnecessary. Its like I become far away to the busy life but live in a relaxed and slow pace. Thirdly, Im short of imagination. I cant understand why a person with high artistic interests is lack of imagination; however, Im this person. In fact, because of my slow pace of life, I leave myself in a position that just to adapt the real life but not to change it or to have an ideal imagination

Individual Personality Development Plan of it. Like, I wont imagine that one day I will become a princess and married with the prince or I will become a super model because I just know it will never come true.

Resources: By going through all my particular strengths and weaknesses, I clearly know my real position now. To accomplish my goals and be successful, only stating weaknesses is not enough, I also need to make an effective strategy to help myself reach the goals. I need the knowledge reserve, participation on special activities, academic training, personal training, work experience and on-the job training to help me to improve both my strengths and developmental areas. B. Individual Assessment Short-Term Development Path Objectives (1-6 months): In order to achieve my life and career goals, in the first 1-6 months, for knowledge, I need to do well in my classes in next two quarters, and read more books to spread my thought. I also need to join more activities to improve my cooperate skill. Last but not least is that I need to try my best to adapt the life in America. I not only need to improve my English skills but also need to involve in American students life so that I can both improve my cooperate skill and increase my activity-level.

Medium-Term Development Path Objectives (6-12 months): After finishing this short plan, I need to have an improvement in my training level. Now I need to think about how I can improve my developmental areas specifically. Besides learning more knowledge not only from the books but also from the society, I need to pay attention in every little thing. I need to think more about others and do every little thing more active such as finish the homework as soon as possible, do review and preview everyday and exercise every day. I also need to involve in some clubs to improve my cooperation ability and increase activity-level. Trying to find a job on campus is also a good way for me to improve my developmental areas. It will not only help me to cooperate better with others but also can increase my imagination from the stress work. By thinking about the summer vacation is in this term, I schedule myself to have a charcoal drawing and dancing trainings in next summer. In order to increase my imagination, I need to gain more about the artistic knowledge and feelings. I need to make myself live in my world easily; however, when I am

Individual Personality Development Plan drawing and dancing, I can easily to use fantasy to create a richer world.

Long-Term Development Path Goals (1-3 years): In this last period, I will give myself a highly improvement. From the knowledge, only to know the concepts studied in the textbooks is far from enough. To think logically how finance and marketing apply in the business area and how can I turn the knowledge to the actions with skill and ease are the main purposes for my improvement in this three years. I need to absorb other classmates advantages and professors experience in the business area carefully from every class and group project. After I gain enough and well-knit knowledge, I need to find an internship in an investment bank or an international corporation to apply my knowledge rely on the actual situations. For this plan, I combine the academic training and work experience to give myself a deep improvement not only in cooperation but also in activity-level. Also, besides gaining academic training and work experience, I need to give myself a personal training in the art area. Because I want to work in a fashion brand, its absolutely that I need to have knowledge related to art and fashion. Due to the business school cant give me a training in this area, I need to do it by myself. I will give myself a drawing training in every vacation in the next three years. In addition, I will attend some fashion clubs on the internet with people who study in the art majors. By talking with them, I will know what academic knowledge I need to have necessarily and try to learn them by myself or by taking course training. By taking this plan, I will improve my cooperation skill, activity-level and increase my imagination and artistic interests together while Im learning the academic art skills.

C. Individual Personality Development Plan of Action Making a plan is very important for success; however, in order to make the plan more effective, the plan needs to be specific into actions. In my development plan, I pick three important actions to make them specifically. The three actions I pick are self-study, internship and participation on special project. First of all, I make a self study about drawing in the next three years. This training will be doing on every vacation. Every vacation is an interim milestone of this action. By improve my drawing skill every vacation, I will know what I need to study next time. This action is very helpful for me to

Individual Personality Development Plan increase my imagination and artistic interests. Also, it can help me to get an art major in the graduate program. Secondly, I need to accomplish two kinds of internship which are working in an investment bank and working in an international corporation in the next three years. I will choose to work in an investment bank first because Im majoring in finance now. I need to apply my knowledge to the actual situations to find my weakness and improve myself. This action will be finished at the beginning of the junior year. After I finish this internship, Im sure I will learn a lot about the business area and have a high improvement on my developmental areas. Then, in the senior year, I will begin my next internship which is related more close to my final goal. Because I have already done an internship, I know what I need to do and need to improve better than before. Therefore, this time, when I work in an international corporation, I need try to accomplish my tasks perfectly by treating myself as a formal member of the corporation. This internship will be finished at the end of my graduation. Thirdly, I want to run a special project which is to open an online shop to improve myself and help me to achieve my final goal. My purpose to do this project is to improve and check my business ability out of class. The main product I will sell is dresses, and the online shop will last for one year. There are three stages of this shops operation. In the first stage, my purpose is to arrange everything ordered without having any big mistakes. This stage will just last for one month. In the next stage, I will focus on how to catch the customers attention and how to choose the dresses. The dressed I choose needs to be special and pretty with high qualities. This stage will last for 3-4 months. In the last stage when the shop has already is on the right track, I will try to learn how to earn the highest profits. This stage will be the closest one to my academic knowledge, and it will last for the last 5-6 months. I think this action is very important for me because I not only can improve my activity-level in the first stage, check my aesthetic skill in the second stage but also can use my academic knowledge in the third stage; moreover, I can further know how to be a marketing director.

Conclusion: In conclusion, in order to achieve every goal in my life, doing an individual personal development plan is very important. It not only can help me to know my real position specifically but also can let me think and do every action logically and orderly. Being a marketing director in an

Individual Personality Development Plan international fashion corporation is not that easy. However, Im sure I can achieve my goal by following my plan step by step. Because of my interests, hard work and persistence, I believe there is one day I will have a big career in the fashion area.