Personal Development Plan

Leadership Track

Name Shubhrendu D. Sardesai

Team Team – 12
Cohort MBA Cohort
Hult DNA – Competencies & Skills

You have received feedback throughout this term from peers, colleagues and family. What
insights do you have about how others perceive you?

Behavioral Practice My Interpretation of the Messages From My Peers

Thinking Embraces change

Communicating Speaks and listen skillfully

Team Building Fosters collaborative relationships

The feedback I received from my teammates was not only very

Overall helpful but also pleasantly surprising. As per my teammates and
my friends, I am an easy-to-go person and hence for them, it
becomes very comfortable to communicate with me. Also, I am
pretty flexible in my approach and happy to listen to
suggestions.

How do you evaluate the alignment between how you see yourself and how others see you?

What were you already aware of? What surprised you?

As a person, I’m passionate about
learning new things and a very light-
hearted and sportive one. All these
aspects help me become a person who
embraces change and makes
relationships fast.
I was not very sure about my listening skills. I
never thought that I might be a good listener but
that is one of the important feedback I received
from my team members.

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Priorities, Goals, and Vision
Which of the Hult DNA skills represent your three most important development priorities?

Development Demonstrate dynamic thinking

Priority #1

Development Present ideas effectively

Priority #2

Development Inspires productivity

Priority #3

List and describe a specific, measurable, and actionable goal for each development priority and
the ideal timeframe by which you will achieve it.

Goal for By the end of the year, I need to come up with either a new
Development business idea or an awareness point and a white-paper on it that
Priority #1 would help the manufacturing industry as I wish to get into a
consulting job in the manufacturing domain.

Goal for I would join the Toastmaster club and work on my presentation
Development skills and by the end of the course, I must be able to confidently
Priority #2 present an idea to a large group of listeners.

Goal for I have experience in multiple software technologies and by the end of
Development the academic year, I would like to inspire at least 5 of my peers to learn
Priority #3 new technologies that can help them in their career.

Action Plan

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Identify at least three potential barriers to achieving your goals. You might think about barriers
that would be specific to each goal or overall barriers. What might make the development
process difficult for you?

Barrier I lack strong public presentation skills that are very important for a
consulting role.

Barrier Due to Covid-19, it is difficult to attend in-person

presentations/toastmaster’s workshops for presentation skills.

Barrier I need to overcome my tendency to become impulsive and

impatient while working on critical tasks.

List at least two meaningful actions you can commit to in order to achieve your goals for each
development priority. Initially consider actions that you can practice each day and/or each
week. The Hult Development Guide can be a “thought starter” for your action plan.

Actions for 1. I need to manage my time and be mindful of any lapses

Priority #1
2. I need to be in constant connection with my teammates/friends
who can help me to improve communication and business
understanding

Actions for 1. Join Toastmaster’s online initiatives for presentation skills

Priority #2
2. Listen to the experts on social media platforms about how to
improve public speaking

Actions for 1. I need to be mindful of the risks due to Covid-19 and make sure
Priority #3 that no action of mine should expose me to it

2. I need to learn a bit of meditation that can help me overcome

my impulsive tendency and keep me calm

Describe how you and your team will benefit when you achieve your goals and make your
visions a reality.

Benefits of Making Your Visions a Reality

1. Being in touch with friends who can help me in improving my communication would

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 help me prepare for my dream consulting job/s and also this would allow me to interact
with my peers in a better way.

2. Most of my classmates in HULT are international students and better presentation

and communication skills would sure help both the parties to connect better with each
other.

3. Better communication would help me to improve my in-class and online learning.

4. Meditation would help me to keep myself calm and avoid panic in stressful situations.
This would not only help me personally but also help my teammates while we would
work on team assignments collectively.

5. Meditation and awareness about Covid-19 would any health-related complications

and will keep my peers safe too.

Accountability

How will you know when you have been successful? For each developmental priority identify
the evidence that could be offered.

Priority Evidence

A new business idea or By the end of March 2021, I should be able to come up
improvement idea with a white-paper on current processes in the
manufacturing industry and how to improve the same.

Presentation skill I should be a member of a Toastmaster (Boston Chapter)

improvement club and by the end of this academic year, I should be able to
present my business paper in a larger forum.

Spreading awareness about I should be able to train at least 5 people on the

technology technological front by the end of July 2021.

You will be more successful if you invite others to hold you accountable for your action plan.
Consistent reinforcement of new behaviors is needed to improve, but there might be many
innocent reasons why things slip. These might include lack of comfort with new behaviors,
simple lack of awareness of all the ways that old behaviors kick in, procrastination, or declaring
victory before the game is won.

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A good way to invite others to hold you accountable is to give permission to ask simple
questions every week that will cause you to reflect on your actions and (re)commit to your
vision. Name the person/people who could ask you the two questions below.

Accountability 1 Accountability 2

Person/People: Thiago Santos Person/People: Stefano Sanzo and Tram

Question 1: Have you come up with a new
business plan or an improvement option in the
manufacturing domain?
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Question 2: Have you joined Toastmaster or
any other club that will help you to improve
your presentation skills?