Ten key points for professional development
- 1. key points for professional development By Jennifer Méndez
- 2. Developing action steps • First, we should recognize what things we would like to change in order to improve as professionals. Then we should stablish goals to start this change, those goals can be for short or long term. • After stablishing our goals, we must begin to act.
- 3. Set long term goals first • In order to set long term goals, we have to think about our job performance, and determine if we are really satisfied with it.
- 4. Technical knowledge • Companies require different skills depending on the position. Also, they prefer people who are upgrading their knowledge with the new trends and needs constantly.
- 5. Developing action-steps • To improve our professional life, we have to stablish and organize the steps that help to achieve our goals.
- 6. Developing my action-steps SHORT TERM LONG TERM Improve my communicative skills Become a leader Be more organized Upgrade my knowledge Set tasks priorities Improve my cooperative work Single actions: • Coolaborate every time I can. • Interact more with my co-workers. • Make a to do list every day. • Be proactive and give new ideas. • Take courses that can help me in my work. • Learn from others
- 7. Make a record of your “pinnacle moments” • We have to learn to appreciate the moments in which we have felt proud of ourselves.
- 8. My own record created great material received good comments about my job someone asked me for help had everything on time took good decisions by myself worked with others and we did a great job. solved problems found new ways to do things I have felt satisfied when I:
- 9. Evaluate yourself • A self-evaluation of our strengths and weaknesses in our professional life, helps us to know what we need to improve.
- 10. My self-evaluation STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES Punctual Not give opinions Problem-solving No self-confidence Open-mind I don’t like verbal communication Creative I don’t like telephone calls. Good listener Good written communication skills Good interaction with coworkers Good learner Hard work
- 11. Explore context • We need to explore our context and evaluate how it affects our goals.
- 12. Be ready for changes • There are changes in everywhere and we must be prepared for them. • We have to discover what is our role in our work, and how we can help to improve it. • Each change is an opportunity!
- 13. Make a list of your skills and how to put them into practice • It is very important to know our kills and how they can help to achieve our goals.
- 14. Skills How to put them into practice Manage people I know the skills of people who work with me, so when we need to work as a team, I know how they can help. I’m good at work distribution. Creativity Create useful material that everybody at work can use. Coordinate services I have a list of services that I need for each activity. If it is a food service, I have a good taste! Create advertising materials I work on all the advertising material of my department, so we save money by not paying to a graphic designer. Training Usually I train others in my department, to use technology. Written communication skills I send any kind of written information. Multitask I’m mulstitak,so it helps me to have everything on time without stressing myself. Visionary I should give ideas on how to improve our department. Technology I can use technology to make tasks easier, and also teach others how to use it.
- 15. Work in team • Cooperative work is so important because we learn from others while helping the Company to improve.