Leadership Development as a 5 Year Journey

If you were to go to a bank or venture capitalist and ask for funding to start your new business, they would never accept a one-year business plan.

A proven best practice to improve as a leader is to create and follow-through on an Individual Development Plan (IDP). An IDP usually defines what you want to get better at and why and how you’re going to get better.

Studies on goal attainment prove over that over that people with written, specific plans are more likely to achieve their goals.

Most IDPs are written for a one-year time horizon, sometimes even less. I’m wondering if that one-year default time-period needs to be challenged.

by Dan McCarthy

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