1. Determining goals for personal leadership development
Lori Robinson
Zonta Club of Brampton – Caledon
District 4

2. “The only thing that is constant is change”
Heraclitus

3. Lifelong learning is the "ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated" pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. Therefore, it not only enhances social inclusion, active citizenship, and personal development, but also self-sustainability, as well as competitiveness and employability. Wikipedia

4. What is continuous learning?

7. 7 ways lifelong learning will benefit you
1. Remain relevant
2. Prepare for the unexpected
3. Boost you profile 
4. Competence leads to confidence
5. Sparks new ideas
6. Change your perspective
7. Pay it forward

8. Find a learning style that works for you
Visual Auditory Kinesthetic

9. Here are some questions to help us reflect on and self-evaluate our own performance as leaders:
1. What are you good at?
2. Who are you are serving?
3. What values do you hold?
4. How can you align your values and expertise with your actions?

11. Determining goals for personal leadership development

13. Step 1: Define What Generally Makes a Great Leader
Step 2: Take a Self-Assessment
Step 3: Identify Your Core Values
Step 4: Write a Personal Vision Statement
Step 5: Analyze What Others Think of You
Step 6: Identify Current and Lacking Leadership Skills
Step 7: Set Goals
Step 8: Write an Action Plan
Follow this step-by-step guide and you’ll have a leadership development plan in no time.

14. What Generally Makes a Great Leader

15. Take a Self-Assessment

16. Identify Your Core Values

17. Achievement
Advancement
Adventure
Affiliation
Affluence
Authority
Autonomy
Balance
Challenge
Collaboration
Community
Competency
Competition
Courage
Duty
Enjoyment
Fame
Friendship
Health
Helping others
Humor
Influence
Inner harmony
Integrity
Knowledge
Loyalty
Personal development
Responsibility
Self-respect
Spirituality
Wisdom

18. Write a Personal Vision Statement
Who am I ? To nurture growth and development in a respectful environment so that others realize their full potential through coaching by example.

19. Analyze What Others Think of You

20. Identify Current and Lacking Leadership Skills

21. Set Goals

22. Personal Leadership Plan Date:#
Goal
Deadline
Actions
Skills Needed
Knowledge
Progress 1 2 3 4

23. Remember: your finished personal development leadership plan represents where you are now and where you hope to go. Revisit your plan often, updating it and tweaking it as needed, so that it reflects where you are on the road to becoming a great leader.
Then, put them in order of importance and/or time it will take to achieve said goals. You now have a road map for achieving your goals and becoming the leader you want to be! To see what all of personal leadership development planning can look like once complete, see this example provided by Yale University.
Remember: your finished personal development leadership plan represents where you are now and where you hope to go. Revisit your plan often, updating it and tweaking it as needed, so that it reflects where you are on the road to becoming a great leader

24. How to learn something new every day:

25. Resources for continued learning:
·        Read magazines and online articles.
·        Analyze and critique case studies.
·        Subscribe to publications specific to your areas of interest.
·        Make time to connect with a global network of people using Skype, Social
Media and .
·        Attend training courses and events.
·        Listen to podcasts and watch TED videos.

26. “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and only cease at death”
So what???
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and only cease at death”
Albert Einstein.

27. Thank you for attending Lori Robinson robinson.lori@me.com

28. Lori Robinson
Zonta Club of Brampton-Caledon, ON, Canada Member since 1998
A newly semi- retired Human Resources - Health and Safety Manager., Lori Robinson has been responsible for the effective planning, organizing, directing and analyzing of the operations for the companies she has worked with in her career. Working in human resources her function has also encompasses organization design and development recruitment, training and development, performance management and health and safety. Lori has been a part time faculty member at Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advance Learning where she taught human resources and health and safety
Lori is currently a member of the Leadership Development committee and has served as governor , lt. governor, area director, and on the District 4 board as Amelia Earhart Fellowship Committee co-chairman. For two biennia, Lori has been privileged to be the Z and Golden Z Clubs international committee chairman ,