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5 Steps To Continuously Move Your Personal Development Plan Forward

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Hi, and welcome to the Leadership Done Right YouTube channel! Whether you are trying to obtain your ideal life, become a highly successful leader, pick up a new skill, develop a new hobby, or improve in some other way, it is very important to have a personal development plan.

Quick Recap

This is the fourth and final video in the Personal Development Plan Series. Before we get too far into this video, let’s do a quick recap. At this point, you’ve watched videos 1-3, determined why you need a personal development plan, developed your personal development plan strategy, and determined how to implement your personal development plan.

Now, you are implementing your plan by following these six steps.

  1. Review/Create Your Goals
  2. Prioritize
  3. Set Deadlines
  4. Take Action
  5. Get a Mentor
  6. Monitor Your Progress and Reflect

I hope you are making great progress on your plan and everything is working nicely for you! I also hope you are having success and reaching your goals! So what now?

How To Implement Your Personal Development Plan?

5 Steps To Continuously Move Your Plan Forward

In this video, we are going to discuss five steps you can take, to continuously move your plan forward.

1. Make Your Personal Development Plan a Priority

Often corporations and large organizations spend a significant amount of time and money on their strategic plan to move the organization forward. The plan is often developed over weeks of meetings, retreats, and mid to senior level management focusing their own time to create the perfect strategy.

Once the strategic plan is completed, it is often a modern-day masterpiece that details exactly how the organization will move forward! But what often happens after that is quite discouraging to say the least. The strategic plan is created and then left on the desk, shelf, or some other location and never looked at again until the next powwow to create the next strategic plan. What a sad waste of time, energy, and effort! [Read more…] about 5 Steps To Continuously Move Your Personal Development Plan Forward

How To Implement Your Personal Development Plan?

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Hi, and welcome to the Leadership Done Right YouTube channel! Whether you are trying to obtain your ideal life, become a highly successful leader, pick up a new skill, develop a new hobby, or improve in some other way, it is very important to have and implement your personal development plan.

This is the third video in the Personal Development Plan Series. In this video, we are going to answer the question, “How Can You Implement Your Personal Development Plan?”

Quick Recap

Looking back at the previous two videos in this series, once you have identified your ideal overall health; your lifetime dreams, goals, and objectives; the details of your Personal Development Plan; and education and other training required to complete your plan, it is time to implement your personal development plan! So how do you do that?

Implement Your Personal Development Plan

In this video, we are going to discuss six steps you can take to implement your Personal Development Plan.

How To Implement Your Personal Development Plan

1. Review/Create Your Goals

Once you have you created your Personal Development Plan, it is time to turn the plan into action steps. The way to do that is to follow Step 1 by Reviewing and/or Creating Goals to go along with each point in the plan. Make sure the goals are SMART Goals and follow the proper goal-setting methodology as outlined in my goal-setting YouTube series. [Read more…] about How To Implement Your Personal Development Plan?

5 Time Management Strategies to Improve Your Leadership

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When you are dependable, reliable, trustworthy, and/or in leadership, people ask you to do many things. If, however, you let others plan your time, you will never reach your goals or do what is important to you. Even though you possess great leadership qualities, your time is still limited. Therefore, it is extremely important to know time management strategies to make the most of your time. In this post we’ll discuss five time management strategies to help you make the best use of your time.

Five Time Management Strategies to Improve Your Leadership

Time Management: Start with a Time Study 

Before we get to the time management strategies, however, it is important to know where you spend your time. Perform a time study to determine exactly what you do with your time. For the next week or two, write down exactly what you do with every hour of every day. You can even get more granular if you would like by tracking half or quarter hours. Once you track your time, summarize the results to categorize where you spend your time.

Five Time Management Strategies to Improve Your Leadership - Prioritize

1. Prioritize What’s Most Important To You!

First, prioritize what is most important to you. That gives you parameters for saying yes and no to various requests. A few examples of common priorities are:

  • Family
  • Faith
  • Employment/Career
  • Hobbies
  • Health

When prioritizing, remember that every time you say, “Yes,” you are also saying no to things in the future. It is not always bad to say, “No,” when the “no” gives you more time to focus on what’s most important to you. [Read more…] about 5 Time Management Strategies to Improve Your Leadership

How To Use Leadership Resources Effectively

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From my experience, one leadership challenge many face is learning and understanding their own limitations.  As a first-time leader, you may have the desire to make big changes and do everything you feel a leader should do.  Shortly after you start trying to make every change you envision, you will realize that you can’t do everything all at once. It is because you don’t know how to use your leadership resources effectively.

Leadership Resources

There are many leadership resources available to each leader. Their leadership resources, however, are in the form of human,  natural, or capital resources. To use those resources effectively, you must do the following two things.

Prioritization

Because you can’t do everything right now, you must understand what needs to be done now and what can be done later. You must prioritize effectively. One thing that really helps me to prioritize is writing a to-do list.  The list shows “what” I need to.  From there I use the quadrant system taught by Stephen R. Covey in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to create my priority list.  I separate out what is important and what is not, versus what is urgent and what is not. [Read more…] about How To Use Leadership Resources Effectively

Learn To Prioritize Effectively

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How do you prioritize effectively?  In life there are many choices that must be made on a regular basis. There are choices in all aspects of life including family, work, religious activities, education, etc. All the choices alone may seem insignificant, but they lead to the type of person you are as a whole.  When making choices it is very important to prioritize effectively so you make the most effective use of your time. A little while back I heard a speech given by Dallin H. Oaks.  He spoke about how to prioritize effectively and make correct choices. He spoke about the difference between good, better, and best choices.How can you prioritize effectively?

Prioritize Effectively

To prioritize effectively, it is important to think about what activities, tasks, responsibilities, etc. are most important to you and deserve your time.  So how do you decide what is “important?”  I use a simple criteria to define what is important and where I spend my time.  I define things I can do as good, better, and best.

Good

There are many good things that one can spend time on.  A first step to prioritize effectively is to identify what is even worth an ounce of your time.  In the speech Dallin H. Oaks gave, he said, “We should begin by recognizing the reality that just because something is good is not a sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.”  There are so many good things we can do with our time.  When I prioritize, a good thing is something that falls under a the thought that, “some day this may be something I will do, but today is not that day and right now is not a good time.” [Read more…] about Learn To Prioritize Effectively

Maintain Balance In Social Media

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A little while back I heard a story from a friend of mine that struggled to maintain balance.  The story was about a leader that was dedicated to what he did that he became the very best in his field.  The leader made impressive breakthroughs because he spent so much time working.

His dedication caused to spend long hours at the office.  During that time his children grew up and he and his wife grew apart.  Once his children were grown, they didn’t even feel they knew him.  He was so focused on his work that he didn’t maintain balance in his life and lost his wife and children in the process.  They didn’t die, but he was not part of their lives.  He became a workaholic.

He didn’t maintain balance.  He spent so much time working that he lost sight of what was truly important in life.  He didn’t set aside any time for himself, his family, or anything else important to him in life.  So where did he go wrong?  Wasn’t he dedicated to his work and became very successful?  He failed to maintain balance.

Maintain balance in social media.

Maintain Balance in Social Media

Social media is different than regular work life for most people, but it is just as important to maintain balance.  Within social media there are many platforms.  You can have a blog, be on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+, etc.  That’s just a few of the many platforms that you can use.  Once you get on a social media platform, there are many things you can do.  You can connect with many people and could spend your whole day communicating with others on that platform.  If you got on every social media platform that exists, you could spend every minute of every day on a social media platform.  It can be a challenge to maintain balance. [Read more…] about Maintain Balance In Social Media