Planning your Personal Professional Development
Factors that influence your 5-Year Plan
How do I put a Life Plan together?
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?
- 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?
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
EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference
May 2013
getting there…
Start walking!
what's one
step you will
take?
Pick an action step and get it done!
Reflect…
Repeat!
IDENTIFY PEOPLE WHO CAN HELP YOU…
Reality checks
Brainstorming
Mentoring
Networking
who do you rely on?
where do you look?
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
Jenny Mehmedovic
Assistant to the Provost
University of Kansas
(and Shannon Smith!)
CURRENT SNAPSHOT IN TIME
Self-knowledge
Current skills assessment
StrengthsFinder2.0
how have you
developed YOUR
self-awareness?
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
THINKING OF ACTION STEPS YOU CAN TAKE…
Right now (achievable in 2 weeks or less!)
Future horizon (strategic directions/goals)
Where are you now?
Life Plan
Values and Aspirations
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
When will you be considering a move?
- not sure
- immediately
- within 1 year
- 2-3 years
- 4-5 years
- 5-9 years
- >9 years
www.resumup.com
http://www.careers-advice-online.com/support-files/sample-career-development-plan-worksheet.pdf
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/MWRC10_202068.pdf
1 Year Plan
Tactics and
Opportunities
5 Year Plan
Strategies and Goals
http://www.educause.edu/careers/advance-your-career-educause
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
&
ssmith@educause.edu
303-939-0328