A professional development plan is a tool for both indivduals as well as business or larger groups to use to plan for the future. It allows the user to direct their future in a way that will increase their chances for success. A professional development plan will incorporate what the user's main goal or asperations are. From here this main goal is broken down into even smaller goals, and set up a plan or strategy as to how these goals will allow the user to reach their main goal. During this process the professional development plan also incorporates the users beleifs, and values which he or she would not like to break in the process of ataining their goals. These steps will also be linked along with a time table to assure the user stays on the right path to attain their ultimate goal. Throughout this process self and or outside evaluations can be setup along the way to look back and ensure that the users professional development plan is being followed. As with any plan problems will come about, so the professional developement plan should incorporate solutions to those problesm when they arise. A simple template of the professional development plan may look something like this.
- Ultimate Goal or overal mission -
- Goals to accomplished to acieve mission -
- Steps to achieve goals or strategy -
- Values to be followed -
- Time table for goals each goal or subgoals -
- Self and peer evaulations to be made at specific time intervals -
- Problems that may come up or disrupt goal achievement -
- Steps to overcome problems when they arise -
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