My Personal Leadership Development Plan

This is a written report that I did for my Leadership in Digital Context class. This paper mainly talks about my expectation for my future career.

Personal Leadership Development Plan

Digital leadership entails using a firm’s technology assets to meet specific business goals. In particular, an effective digital leader should lead, educate, inspire, and empower his or her followers. Throughout the semester, I have learned numerous things that have nurtured my career. Most importantly, I have understood my strengths and weaknesses. The paper focuses on my professional skills and experiences, core values, social media strategy, short and long-term goals, and personal mission statement.

Being a social media influencer in the fashion industry requires special skills, talents, or personality traits. They include effective communication, being talkative, hardworking, learning customers’ needs quickly, and the ability to create and maintain trusting relationships. I am suited for my career since I meet the majority of the above-stated skills, talents, or personality traits (Henry, 2012). For instance, my personality characteristics or skills that are beneficial in my career include fast-learner, hardworking, effective communicator, and the ability to understand what clients want. The leadership competencies appropriate for a social media influencer in the fashion industry are creativity, effective communication, goal-oriented, digital marketing skills, excellent customer care services, agility, and flexibility. I can gain experience by connecting with fashion experts, renowned digital marketers, social media influencers, and reading materials available on the Internet.

My core values are friendship, love, joy, happiness, and power. Love means treating others warmly. Happiness and joy depict fulfillment, welcoming, and making others joyous. Friendship means building and maintaining relationships. Power is the ability to influence others such that they can do what I authorize them. Love will contribute to my career success since individuals will feel my affection. Happiness will foster my expression. Joy will bring out the best part of me. Friendship will promote trusting relationships that will help me learn more relevant things. In addition, power will make me an effective leader who gets things done correctly. Some of my core values, such as happiness and love, might conflict with the dominant values of my profession. For example, it can be challenging to love individuals who are problem creators. Moreover, I cannot be happy when some people fail to adhere to my instructions.

My social media strategy entails obtaining appropriate knowledge, skills, and experience in fashion and beauty and maintaining an active social media presence. My core values significantly contribute to the success of my career. Additionally, my vision is to be an effective transformative leader who can lead others well and develop a personal connection with them (Dutta, 2010). Since I am friendly, innovative, mature, easy-going, and like justice, I believe I have what it takes to be one of the best social media influencers in the fashion sector. My leadership brand is to be a powerful, influential, happy, and adaptable leader. I want to leave a legacy that free-thinking, creativity, hardworking, goal-oriented, and innovation are what a person needs to succeed in the fashion and beauty industry.

After thinking thoroughly about my life priorities and goals that I want to achieve, I came up with the following three primary goals. First, my short-term goal is to acquire essential knowledge and skills at school and finish successfully within the predetermined period. I will do everything to learn crucial things that can help me to succeed in my career. I will know when I have reached my goal since it will be possible to make significant contributions to fashion and beauty. In addition, I will complete all school activities and pass my exams. Achieving this goal is very possible with commitment and effort. I have the right resources. I will ensure to get what I do not have from experts that I will connect with for proper guidance. The goal is significant since it is a step toward succeeding in my career. Indeed, it will change my life positively. I will meet this goal within my time in the school. Every activity I participate in contributes to my overall goal achievement, which is why I am always committed and self-motivated.

My mid-term goal is to create my personal brand as a social media influencer. I want to have an active social media presence. I want to try new things in fashion and beauty and show my outcomes to my fans on social media networking platforms, such as TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter (Nashville Film Institute, n.d.). I will know my brand is growing through an increase in the number of my social media followers. My products will start going viral and many people will reach out to me. Specifically, achieving this goal is feasible with focus and commitment. I have numerous resources to meet the goal. I am planning to connect with renowned social media influencers and borrow some concepts from them. The goal is significant in my life and meeting it will make me happy. I will also have gained more skills and experience in my career. I will achieve this goal after I reach a specific threshold for my social media followers.

Furthermore, my long-term goal is to work for LVMH Fashion Company. I want to be the best social media influencer who works for a large fashion company. I want to create a good reputation and gain skills and knowledge to deal with wealthy clients and fashion enthusiasts. I will know when I achieve the goal after getting hired at LVMH. I will do everything to be the best at LVMH. Realistically, more effort and commitment are required to meet this goal. I have the proper resources to start working on the goal. However, I will continue searching and getting what I need to go to the next level. Working at LVMH will foster my reputation in the fashion and beauty sector. I will be happier and ready to serve clients from different parts. I will achieve the goal after getting employed at LVMH.

For my first goal, I will accomplish all school activities, attend fashion workshops, and get outstanding grades in all my courses. When it comes to accomplishing my mid-term goal, I will register on relevant social networking platforms, maintain an active presence, and showcase my creativity to the world through the Internet. In particular, my long-term goal requires me to be consistent in fashion and beauty, connect with the right people, and apply for job opportunities at LVMH. Moreover, I need to participate in numerous company events to understand it better and increase my chances of being hired. One of the obstacles that might hinder me to achieve my short-term goal is the lack of focus on my studies. I will overcome this obstacle through active participation in all class activities. The primary challenge that might interfere with meeting my mid-term goal is copyright and patent issues. I will refrain from claiming ownership of other people’s fashion designs even if I use their products (Nashville Film Institute, n.d.). In addition, the primary obstacle to getting employed at LVMH is the lack of proper connection. I will ensure to meet and spend time with individuals who I can learn crucial things from and nurture my career. The crucial stakeholders that would help me meet my short-term goal are professors, colleagues, librarians, instructors, and parents. For my mid-term goal, they include fans, photographers, and followers. Finally, for my long-term goal, the important individuals are LVMH staff and fashion experts, especially those who have worked at LVMH.

My personal mission statement is: To inspire positive changes through creativity, innovation, love, happiness, and respect for human dignity through fashion and beauty (Andrews, 2021).

To conclude, my goals, core values, and mission statement align. They focus on promoting my success in fashion and beauty, which is my dream career that I was born ready to pursue. In particular, the school has been vital to making me understand what I need to achieve in my career. I have learned that when setting goals, it is significant to ensure they are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely. Additionally, my personal mission statement is what makes me strive, focus, and overcome challenges that might disrupt me from meeting my goals. For sure, it was not easy to come up with the best mission statement that describes me in relation to what I want to be. Nevertheless, I was surprised how a good mission statement can guide an individual to achieve set objectives. Overall, this exercise has been significant since it enables me to understand areas that I need to improve to achieve my career goals.

References

Andrews, A. (2021). The ultimate guide to writing your own personal mission statement. Retrieved from https://andyandrews.com/personal-mission-statement/.

Dutta, S. (2010). Managing yourself: What’s your personal social media strategy? Harvard Business Review.

Henry, A. (2012). Should I keep my personal and professional identities completely separate online? Lifehacker. Retrieved from https://lifehacker.com/should-i-keep-my-personal-and-professional-identities-c-5898370.

Nashville Film Institute, (n.d.). How to become an influencer? Everything you need to know. NFI. Retrieved from https://www.nfi.edu/how-to-become-an-influencer/.