steps to create a professional development plan
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A professional development plan is a specific (individualized or generalized) approach to enhance professional growth in a career or business. It’s simply a plan setup to help you (or a company) take the necessary steps to develop your professional life. And these six easy steps help you to create a plan specifically for you.TRANSCRIPT
STEPS TO CREATE APROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
1. Evaluate
What is your current professional standing? Employed, unemployed, working for a company, business owner? Now think about where you want to be professionally.
What steps will it take to get there?
2. Plan
Once you’ve assessed your current standing, it’s time to plan. Setting goals is a great way to ensure you reach your final professional destination. Start with the
biggest, most-outlandish career aspiration and then work backward plotting every smaller goal you will need to accomplish to work up to the main one.
3. Research
Now that you’ve set goals, research, research, research. Look up professional development courses, events, certifications and trainings that will help you achieve your goals. Make a list of where they’re offered, how much they cost and how long each will take. Then, go back to your goals and work each activity into a schedule,
taking into account your deadlines and the fact that you have other commitments, e.g. work, family, etc.
4. Execute
This step is simple. Follow along with the plan being as punctual as possible. You don’t want to throw off your entire plan because you didn’t keep up with your
planned professional development activities.
5. Analyze
Track and monitor your progress as you go. This will not only help you stay on schedule, but will keep you updated on how close or far you are from reaching
your target goal(s). You can reevaluate your plan at the end of every six months or one year, depending on your goals, to see if you’ll need more or less time and/or
if you need or don’t need to accomplish certain goals and professional development activities.
6. Remember
This final step is very important. Remember that nothing goes according to plan. As you follow along with your professional development plan be prepared for
curve balls and delays, but do not throw in the towel. Just because you made a plan does not mean it’s set in stone. Life happens and your plan(s) can and will
change as circumstances do.
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