PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
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• Though no one can go back and make a brand new
  start, anyone can start from now and make a brand
  new ending. 
• Anonymous

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The purpose of this Development Plan is to help
you...

• Identify your passion(s)
• Draft a personal mission statement
• Define specific goals/objectives as it relates to
  your career development
• Create a measurable action plan to accomplish
  your goals/objectives

You and your mentor are welcome to use this Plan
as a tool in shaping your career development.
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FIND YOUR PASSION!

• Ways to discover your inspiration/motivation
• Epiphany - A pivotal, life-changing experience
  can create a sudden and intense awareness of an
  underlying passion an aha! moment.
• Change A major life change that alters ones
  view on life and causes closer self-examination
  as to the way one lives it. This examination
  challenges one to learn things about self that
  were previously unknown.
• Intuition One must be sense passion in order to
  identify it. Passion must be embraced fully, with
  fearlessness and strong conviction.
• Experience - Most uncover passion gradually as a
  result of day-to-day experiences. One gets
  glimpses of it--courtesy of intuition--but may
  not understand its significance or heed its
  influence. Unless attention is paid to those
  experiences, one is likely to disregard them. One
  must listen to and interpret lifes signals and
  translate them into action.
• Adapted and excerpted from The Passion Plan A
  Step-by-Step Guide to Discovering, Developing,
  and Living Your Passion by Richard Chang

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Personal Mission Statement

• Develop a statement or several statements that
  describe success for you professionally and
  personally.
• This may not be a quantifiable destination or
  goal, but rather a description of your personal
  and professional purpose or reason for being as
  you would like it to be.

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Ask Yourself

• What would I really like to accomplish in my
  life?
• What makes me the happiest?
• What am I truly good at?
• If I had a large sum of money, what would I do?
  Is it really the money that keeps me from
  pursuing that?
• What contribution can I make?
• What do I define success? What does it mean to
  me?
• What will my legacy be? How would I like to be
  remembered?

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Defining Goals/Objectives

• Broad, long-term aims that define a desired
  result associated with identified strategic
  issues.
• Targets for achievement through interventions.
• The purpose toward which an endeavor is directed
• Something worked toward or striven for

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• Goals and objectives should be S.M.A.R.T.
• Specific - Focused detailed definite precise
• Measurable - Course of action measurements
• Aggressive - Determined self-assertive
  vigorous tenacious
• Realistic - Practical prudent
• Time-framed -
• Short-term (six months or less) and
• Long term (more than six months)

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Objectives Worksheet (Example)
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Create an Action Plan

• Develop some specific steps to acquire the
  capabilities you need to move toward the
  achievement of your mission, goals and objectives.

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Short-Term Action Plan (Example)
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Long-Term Action Plan (Example)
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