Personal Development Portfolio: Change drivers for your own organization

 One of the central propositions offered by this module is that the sustainable success of any organisation will depend on the quality of its interactions with the competitive environment in which it is required to operate and, in turn, on the quality of interactions between the firm and the people who work for it. The material studied this week provides a strong indication that the character of those key interactions will be subject to significant change with the passage of time. Therefore, one critical aspect of your Professional Development Portfolio (PDP) is to ensure that your own capability profile is constantly updated with the attitudes, skills and abilities needed to meet organisational expectations in that regard. For this entry in your PDP, you are therefore required to identify the current range of change drivers that are relevant to your own employment situation and to document the implications of those change drivers in terms of your own professional development. To complete for this PDP Assignment: Reflect on the current status of your employing firm and its competitive positioning in the industry with which it is associated, and then answer the following questions. Answers need only be brief, and using short, bulleted statements is encouraged. •What are the key factors for success for firms operating in this particular industrial sector? To what extent is your current employing firm successful in meeting the requirements of those key success factors? •What do you believe are the likely change drivers that will impact on the nature of those success factors? Will the impact of those change drivers create opportunities or threats, or both, for the firm? •What specific role in the management of change will be assigned to you over the medium term (the next 2-5 years)? What are the key attitudes, skills and abilities needed to successfully fill that role? •In what specific attitude, skill and ability areas do you believe you need to improve your performance? What specific changed behaviours do you plan to instigate, between now and the conclusion of this module, that will assist in achieving the necessary improvements?