Creating a Profesessional Development Plan
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The document discusses creating a professional development plan and provides steps to enhance one's career through professional development. It recommends assessing your current situation, formulating goals and a plan, and then taking steps like networking, learning, seeking opportunities, collaborating, writing/presenting, and creating to work towards your goals. Throughout are quotes emphasizing the importance of taking responsibility for your own career development and growth.
Creating a Profesessional Development Plan
- 1. Creating a Professional Development Plan Susanne Markgren Digital Services Librarian SUNY Purchase LACUNY Professional Development Committee | June 18, 2014
- 2. optional sub‑title Simple and Painless Ways to Develop, Curate, Invest in, Advance, and Professionalize your AWESOME CAREER
- 3. who am I? academic librarian writer / author career advice columnist professional development advocate Library conf usion, 23/12/1952, by Sam Hood, Flickr Commons
- 5. We conducted a survey, on managing a successful career. By early 2012, 2,369 people had started it and 1,922 had completed it. 81% completion rate. "If you want a successful career in librarianship ‑ or just about anything else ‑ you have to manage it. You can't sit back passively and let things happen to you. You have to be proactive and figure out what you want; where you want to be in 2, 5, or 10 years; and what it will take to get there. Then start working on it." ‑‑ Ja net C. And the survey says...
- 6. Professional Development is the Key to Managing a Successful Career...
- 7. It can help us:
- 8. Brené Brown download full version
- 9. 70% OF AMERICAN WORKERS ARE “NOT ENGAGED” OR “ACTIVELY DISENGAGED.” Engaged employees work with passion and feel a profound connection to their company. Not Engaged employees are essentially “checked out.” Putting time — but not energy or passion — into their work. Actively Disengaged employees aren’t just unhappy at work; they’re busy acting out their unhappiness. State of the American Workplace Report, 2013. Gallup measures employee engagement based on workers’ responses to its Q12 survey, which consists of 12 actionable workplace elements with proven links to performance outcomes. Download.
- 10. Audience Questions: You may respond at PollEv.com/libcareer when the presenter pushes this poll -- or use your smart phone to Text a CODE to 37607. Question 1 Question 2 Question 3
- 11. Steps (or ideas) to enhance your career through professional development
- 12. Assess
- 13. Formulate
- 14. From Career Q&A, Chapter 1, p. 5. Get a copy of this template here: bit.ly/lacunycareergoals
- 15. Network
- 16. “Networking is both an art and a science. But in the end – networking should be fun, exciting and a rewarding approach to advancement. The more you network – with a positive outlook – the more you will learn. And if you’re always learning, you are growing and thus developing yourself.” ‑ "7 Rea so ns Netwo r k ing Ca n Be a P r o fessio na l D evel o pment Bo o t Camp." G l enn Ll o pis, F o r bes.c o m
- 17. Learn
- 18. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” ― Richard P. Feynman
- 19. Seek
- 20. There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself. ‑ Lemo ny Snic k et, Ho r ser a d ish
- 21. Collaborate
- 22. Survey Responses to the Question "Wha t's the Best Thing about Collaboration? Knowing that I am not alone with my dilemma, that I can call on others for their expertise, which increases my self‑confidence • • It can open doors for funding ‑‑ pooling of resources Different points of view and people who might see things that I am simply overlooking • I've participated in some group presentations and writing projects that I never would have dared on my own • Projects developed with others tend to have better outcomes and more staying power •
- 23. Write / Present
- 24. The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best—write the story you want to read. The same principle applies to your life and your career. Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like an Artist, and Show Your Work
- 25. Create
- 26. USE CONSTRAINT TO FUEL CREATIVE ACTION: Given a choice, most of us would of course prefer a little more budget, a little more staff, and a little more time. But constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them. ‑ Cr ea tive Co nfid enc e, p. 12 6 .
- 27. Fail
- 29. Redefine
- 30. What we know matters but who we are matters more. ― Br ené Br o wn, D a r ing G r ea tl y . The thing is, you never really start over. You don't lose all the work that's come before. Even if you try to toss it aside, the lessons you've learned from it will seep into what you do next. ‑ Austin Kl eo n, Sho w Yo ur Wo r k .
- 31. SHARE
- 32. Audience Question: You may respond at PollEv.com/libcareer when the presenter pushes this poll -- or use your smart phone to Text a CODE to 37607. Question 4
- 34. Creating a Professional Development Plan If you don't take responsibility for the success of your career, who will? • Reflect • journal, organize, synthesize • Gain self -awareness • satisfaction, engagement • Seek outside input • supervisor, mentor, peers • Develop action steps • update resume, seek a mentor, attend conferences, enroll in courses, join discussion groups... • Set longer term goals • 3 years, 5 years -- look at the bigger picture
- 35. Activities Pinnacle / > Foothill Activity > Self-Assessment / Career Goals / Obstacles
- 36. Research your Action Steps:
- 37. Thank You! Susanne Markgren susanne.markgren@purchase.edu @smarkgren http://librarycareerpeople.com/ librarycareerpeople@gmail.com @LibCareerPeople Slides URL: http://bit.ly/lacunyPDP