How to Build a Personal Career Development Plan
A career development plan should connect where you are with where you want to contribute next.
Define your current position
Record: current role; responsibilities; strengths; skills; achievements; experience; challenges.
Review yourself
Explore: natural gifts; values; interests; preferred contribution; areas of energy; areas of frustration.
Define the next direction
Deeper expertise; leadership; a new role; a new industry; entrepreneurship; broader responsibility; greater flexibility; a different form of contribution.
Identify the gap
What does the next direction require that you do not yet demonstrate?
Build development actions
Projects; mentoring; targeted courses; stretch responsibilities; reading; professional communities; practice; job shadowing.
Create evidence
Do not merely learn. Produce evidence that you can apply the capability.
Review
Review the plan periodically and adjust it when your goals, circumstances, or work environment change.
Your career is more than your current job title. Understand your natural gifts, skills and values, then use them to make more intentional career decisions.
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