Develop your 5-year personal, professional development plan

Planning your Personal Professional Development

Factors that influence your 5-Year Plan

Career Planning is an essential skill for the 21st Century

Where are you now?

Where do you want to be?

How do you get there?

How do I put a Life Plan together?

• Less job security
• Up is not the only way
• Technical knowledge and skills obsolescence

• The state of higher education
• Your institution's strategic plan
• Your department's goals
• Your personal performance review

what is it about your work

that is worth

the investment of your life?

• Your Life Plan

Where do you want to be?

www.michaelhyatt.com

www.thinkyourmoney.com/goal-setting-worksheet.html

• Visualization exercise for clarity on what matters most.
• A five-step program for identifying where you are NOW and how to get to where you want to be.
• A weekly and quarterly process for keeping your life on-plan and in the direction of your highest priorities.
• Planning templates to support your plan.

Planned Happenstance

We do not always need a plan to create a career.

Instead, we need a plan to act on happenstance

– to transform unplanned events into

career opportunity.

-http://plannedhappenstance.com

Elevate your game:

Develop your 5-year personal, professional development plan

Midwest Regional

March 2013

What is professional development?

A) something other people need

B) something I don’t have time for

C) something I wish I had more time for

D) something I’m responsible for cultivating in

the people who report to me

E) a process and a way to create your own destiny

getting there…

Start walking!

what's one

step you will

take?

Pick an action step and get it done!

Reflect…

Repeat!

who do you rely on?

IDENTIFY PEOPLE WHO CAN HELP YOU…

Reality checks

Brainstorming

Mentoring

Networking

where do you look?

Jenny Mehmedovic

Assistant to the Provost

University of Kansas

how have you

developed YOUR

self-awareness?

CURRENT SNAPSHOT IN TIME

Self-knowledge

Current skills assessment

StrengthsFinder2.0

getting there….

Where do you want to be?

DREAMING BIG

Application of strengths

Gap analysis of current vs. future skill-set

Tips and Tools for Your 5-Year Career Plan

Carry out a career review

For each position:

• Reasons for taking the job
• What you most enjoyed
• What you enjoyed least, and the major frustrations you experienced
• Reasons for moving on

did you learn anything that would modify your dream?

www.job-search-mentoring.com/career-development-plan.html

Excel timeline template

Life Plan

Values and Aspirations

Where are you now?

THINKING OF ACTION STEPS YOU CAN TAKE…

Right now (achievable in 2 weeks or less!)

Future horizon (strategic directions/goals)

How to start a 5-Year Plan

• Start at where you want to end
• Does it fit your life plan?
• Assess where you are now and how you got here
• Plan your next steps

www.resumup.com

when will you be considering a move?

• not sure
• immediately
• within 1 year
• 2-3 years
• 4-5 years
• 5-9 years
• >9 years

http://www.careers-advice-online.com/support-files/sample-career-development-plan-worksheet.pdf

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/MWRC10_202068.pdf

5 Year Plan

Strategies and Goals

1 Year Plan

Tactics and

Opportunities

THANK YOU

which of the following opportunities interest you?

• Attending a residential immersion program
• Attending a conference
• Presenting at a conference
• Volunteering to read proposals or moderate sessions
• Joining a discussion group

jmehmedo@ku.edu

785-864-4532