Follow Up Resources
Professional Development Planning
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Manual
Resources
Guidelines to professional development planning:
- Consider the skills, knowledge, and competencies that represent great performance in your current role and/or a role to which you aspire.
- Based on your annual performance goals and feedback from your supervisor, mentor, and peers, select at least two areas in which you would like to develop. You may focus only on your current role, or you might select one area that applies to your current role and one area that is more aspirational.
- Write specific goals describing how/what you want to change or improve.
- Ask yourself: What can I do differently/better that would make the greatest positive impact in my work? What development priorities will give me the greatest leverage in improving my individual leadership and management competencies or organizational performance?
- To be completed in tandem with your annual performance goals and in collaboration with your supervisor.
Templates
- Professional Development Plan Template
- Individual Development Plan Template
- CompassPoint Professional Development Plan
- CompassPoint Competencies & Signature Themes
Blogs
Books
- Strenghtsfinder by Tom Rath
- The Talent Development Platform: Putting People First in Social Change Organizations by Heather L. Carpenter and Tera Wozniak Qualls