Developing Personal Development Tasks

Here are some suggestions you may use to design personal/leadership development tasks.

1. Presentation

·         Workshop

·         Seminar

·         Conference

·         Speaker

·         Audio tape

·         Videotape

·         Take notes

·         Summarize

·         Relate to other input

·         Do your own presentation

·         Apply something

2. Reading

·         Book (scan, ransack, study, etc.)

·         Article

·         Journal

·         Archives

·         Internet

·         Research

·         Mark (underline, highlight)

·         Take notes

·         Summarize in front

·         Distribute Summary

3. Demonstration

·         Find a mentor

·         Find a coach

·         Find a teacher

·         Find a friend

·         Model

·         Assist

·         Watch

·         Leave

4. Video (Movies, etc.)

·         Sources of lists

o        Recommendations

o        Books

o        Internet lists

·         Watch

·         Reflect

·         Answer Questions

·         Play “what-If”

·         Re-watch?

Leadership

·         Moby Dick

·         Hoosiers

·         Wizard of Oz

·         Bridge over River Kwai

Other

·         Dead Poet’s Society

·         Citizen Kane

·         Apollo 13

·         12 angry men

5. Journaling

·         Write regularly (daily, weekly, bi-weekly)

·         Write specifically

·         Write honestly

·         Review, reflect

·         Check attitudes

·         Change habits

·         Track perceptions

·         Increase behaviors

6. Questionnaires

·         Inventory

·         Preferences

·         Strengths/weakness

·         Feedback

·         Insight

·         Survey

·         Choose wisely

·         Check validity

·         Get Good interpretation

·         Apply thought-fully

7. Case Study

·         Biography

·         Ministry

·         Organization

·         Business

·         Trend or concept

·         Originate

·         Read for comprehension

·         Develop questions

·         Investigate

·         Answer questions

·         Reflect

8. In-Basket/Card Sort

·         See Questionnaire

9. Work Project

·         Select something that needs to be done and complete as your project

·         Plan

·         Organize

·         Lead (execute)

·         Feedback

o        Evaluate

o        Report

10. Games/Adventure

·         Plan a stretching activity

·         Alone or with a group

·         May require funding

·         Plan

·         Train / prepare

·         Organize

·         Lead

·         Feedback

·         Evaluate

11. Change a Habit

·         Find an inspiring motive

·         Plan for transition to new behaviors

·         Track Progress

12. Action Learning

·         Select a problem with significant impact

·         Gather a team to address

·         Work together for a set period to address the issues

·         Report findings to the organization