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The document outlines a personal development plan to become a program manager. It discusses that a program manager oversees multiple projects aligned to achieve major organizational goals. The key skills required are leadership, problem-solving, negotiation, conflict management, expertise in PMO tools, risk analysis, and team building. The plan is to gain experience through school projects, internships in varied industries, and working on project teams to develop these skills over 15-20 years, with goals like improving communication, getting project management jobs, and eventually leading large programs and departments.

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Personal Development Plan

The document outlines a personal development plan to become a program manager. It discusses that a program manager oversees multiple projects aligned to achieve major organizational goals. The key skills required are leadership, problem-solving, negotiation, conflict management, expertise in PMO tools, risk analysis, and team building. The plan is to gain experience through school projects, internships in varied industries, and working on project teams to develop these skills over 15-20 years, with goals like improving communication, getting project management jobs, and eventually leading large programs and departments.

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Personal Development Plan

The future career I would like to pursue is to become a program manager. A program manager
will manage multiple projects with assistance from a project management team. A program
would be a group of projects that aligns itself with a major goal of the organization. For instance,
a program to transform a major firm will be considered as a program. I would like to manage
such a program that provides an overall transformation of the firm. The base of such a role is
having wide experience in project management under different project sponsors and types of
projects.

The major skills for such a role are as follows:

Leadership

Leadership means influencing or motivating people so that they can help the management to
achieve the common goal. The leader need to lead with an example to the team. In a team,
whenever someone struck with a problem a leader should help that person or guide that person
to solve the issue or problem with the full efficiency

A problem-solving and visionary approach to solutions

Persons with the negotiation skills have the capability to pursue a diversity of solutions to
problems.

Persons with skills can attention on resolving the problem, which might be a itemization in
communication, to advantage both sides of the issue.

Negotiation skills

Effective negotiator must have the abilities to work together as a team.

Negotiation on both ends of the issue must work together to reach an pleasant solution.

Conflict management

The five conflict management styles are:

 Accommodating
 Avoiding
 Collaborating
 Compromising
 Competing 

Mastery in PMO tools

PMO refers to the project management office. The key function of PMO is to define the project
management practices, rules and approaches. The most common purpose of such function is to
standardize the project management process within the organization. This tends to reduce the
manpower cost, increase reusability of systems, documents and processes.

Risk analysis and mitigation

Risk Analysis estimate the severity of the extortions faced by establishment’s system that need
defense and finally delivers a list of threats that organization must alleviate. Thus, the
organization could focus on the most essential threat initially

Organization and team building Skills

Mentioned below are the three team building skills

 Collaborative skills
 Building confidence
 Creativity, creative thinking and idea exchange

In an ideal case, a program manager would need close to 15-20 years of experience in
managing teams and different projects. Most of the skills that are needed to be a successful
program manager are soft-skills rather than technical skillset. As a program manager, I would
need to understand the challenges and solutions observed with the PMO tools. These tools
include project planning tools, budgeting, forecasting tool, collaboration, and trackers.
Remaining skills can be acquired only through experience. There will be cases where the
project manager will fail and studies show there is a high probability of projects taking more time
and cost than earlier anticipated. These experiences are vital to gain the skills needed to lead
such a major transformation.

To develop these skills within the degree program, I would need to take smaller initiatives and
projects on the campus to develop the mindset of the project manager. I would need to identify
leaders that will support such initiatives and find a team that is willing to work for the same. I
would need to convince every member of the team to contribute effectively to the team. Apart
from this, I would also need to take on internships at different firms to gather experience of
working under different models. Working with small shops, startups, and small scale industries
will give me additional insights to deal with different kinds of people. This will ensure I get
sufficient background when I apply for a project management job after studies.

The goals I would keep for myself to achieve this job would be as follows; these goals would be
the year to date from today:

Gather internship experience of working in projects

improve communication and presentation skills

get a job working as part of a project management team within next 1 year

understand the different project management models and tools within 1 year after joining the
team

Lea 5 or more projects by the next 5 years

Get the experience of working in different industries in the next 10 years

Develop team-building skills and built at least 3 different teams in different organizations

Work as part of the program management team in the next 10 years.

Lead a department of program managers and work in a fortune 500 firm within the next 15
years.

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