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Personal and Professional Development Plan
Identifying Goals and Strategies for Your Success
Worksheets
IDP Planning Worksheet
Personal SWOT Analysis
Individual development planning is all about creating current and long-term goals for your job, and developing action steps towards accomplishing your plan.
Before you know where you want to go, you need to look at your current state – what’s working, what needs attention, how can the department benefit from your learning? A Personal SOAR analysis (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, Results) will help you in planning your IDP Goals.
Strengths
What are your greatest assets as they relate to the competencies you’ve identified?
Weaknesses
What areas have you identified that need improvement?
Opportunities
What possibilities exist to further develop skills, knowledge or ability related to the competencies you’ve identified?
Threats
What do you perceive as the major issues that have the greatest to have a negative impact on you both personally and professionally?
Aspirations
What do you hope your professional future will look like in relation to enhancing the 1 to 2 competencies identified?
Results
How will you measure your development in the 1 to 2 competencies identified?
Define what success means to you and determine what results you will need to attain your goals for success.
Consider the Following Skill Dimensions When Completing This Exercise:
Leadership
Learning Style
Team Management
Decision Making
Critical Thinking
Problem Solving
Communication
Time Management
Integrity / Values
Accuracy / Attention to Detail
Customer Service Orientation
Influence / Negotiation
Stress Management
Personality Type
Creativity
Project Management
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2009
Pre Assessment Personal SWOT Analysis
Strengths
Opportunities
· Proficient communication skills· Increasing frequency of startups.
· Emergence of online marketing jobs.
· Businesses
· Networking
· Professional references
· Patient and careful
· Extensive reader
· Quick learner and adaptor
· Team worker
· Leadership qualities
· Negotiation and organisational skills
You
Weaknesses
Threats
· Procrastination· Dynamic and unstable economy.
· Increased level of market competition.
· Lack of professional experience.
· Risks
· Personal health factors
· Lack of creativity
· Mental toughness
· Written communication
· Stress management
Based on your Personal SWOT Analysis, identify the professional goals you’d like to accomplish by this time next year. We recommend you have at least two and not more than four. This will allow you to experience focused results. Use the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Assignable, Realistic, Time - Related) approach to setting your goals.
1. I would also like to work upon my critical thinking and goal oriented behaviour.
2. Stress management will also be a major goal.
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Critical Self Reflection
Leadership Skills
Use one or more of the links in the back of the document to assess your strengths or
Definition
motivation.
Strengths Willingness to let go, discipline, enthusiasm for learning, scheduling and planning of work.
Weaknesses Cannot trust easily, hypocrisy, excessive connectivity to the team members.
Learning Style
Definition
Use the link to NC State’s tool to assess your learning style’s strengths and weaknesses.
Strengths Humour, effective listening, honesty, creativity.
Weaknesses Auditory learner; therefore, need constant attention towards learning needs.
Team Management Skills
Definition
Use one or more of the links in the back of the document to assess your team management
skills.
Strengths
Visionary, functional skills, respectful to team members, adaptability, effective communicator.
Weaknesses failure to set clear expectations, hypocrisy, stagnancy, excessive connectivity with team members.
Decision Making Style
Definition Use one or more of the links in the back of the document to assess your decision-making style.
Strengths behavioural style decision-maker, inclusion of every team member, effective communication ideas
Weaknesses Difficulty while dealing with conflict, lack of trust on other as well as self.
Critical Thinking
Use the quiz in the classroom folder to test your critical thinking skills. Examine the elements Definition of thought and intellectual standards from the links to criticalthinking.org web site and
evaluate your use of them.
Strengths Ability to explain effectively, provide an inference, self-regulation and open-mindedness.
Weaknesses Inability to grab new opportunities, relationship management and financial resources.
Problem Solving
Definition Use the link to mindtools.com to assess your problem-solving skill’s strengths and weaknesses.
Strengths Implication of Systematic approach, divergent thinking, seeks practical and reliable information.
Weaknesses May get easily overwhelmed or...