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Designing Your Own Personal and Professional Training Plan
© Copyright Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, Authenticity Consulting, LLC.
Description
This framework can be used to design a personal and/or professional training plan. Learners should modify the framework to suit their own nature and needs.
Preparation for Training and Development
(As an aside, after reviewing the above link Informal/Formal and Self-/Other-Directed, readers will recognize that this framework produces training that is formal, unsystematic and can be self-directed or other-directed.)
If You're in Training to Improve Performance in Your Current Job ...
Will your new learning be used to improve performance in your
current job? If so, it will help greatly if your supervisor is
aware of and supports your plans. See
Basic
Requirements of Supervisors to Support Training and Development
Also see
Related Library Topics
This framework can be used to design a personal and/or professional training plan. Learners should modify the framework to suit their own nature and needs.
Name _______________________________________________________________
Date ________________________________________________________________
Approval (if applicable) _________________________________________________
Overall Training Goals
Training to fill a "performance gap" (eg, as identified during the performance management process)?
Training to fill a "growth gap" (eg, to be promoted or fill another open position in the organization)?
Other(s)?
Learning Objectives
(As much as possible, objectives should be specified to the
extent that others can clearly detect if the objectives have been
achieved or not.)
What knowledge, skills and/or abilities do you want to attain?
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How Were These Objectives Selected?
Performance Review?
Self-assessment?
Job Description?
Organizational goals?
Other(s)?
Learning Activities/Strategies/Methods
How you will attain each objective? (For a list of a wide
variety of learning activities, see
Various
Ideas for Learning Activities)
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Documentation of Learning
What tangible results will be produced from your learning activities?
(For a list of ideas, see Some
Tangible Results that Can Be Used to "Document" Learning)
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Evaluation of Learning
What Will Be Evaluated?
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Who Will Evaluate It?
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How Will They Evaluate It?
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Time Frame
This plan will be started on the following date __________________________________
The plan will be implemented by the following date ______________________________
Comments
Include any comments, for example, from approvals, reviews,
status, etc.
For the Category of Personal Development:
To round out your knowledge of this Library topic, you may
want to review some related topics, available from the link below.
Each of the related topics includes free, online resources.
Also, scan the Recommended Books listed below. They have been
selected for their relevance and highly practical nature.
Related Library Topics
Recommended Books - Personal Development
General Information
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Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision in Business
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC.
Includes step-by-step guidelines, tips and tools to effectively lead:
1. Yourself
2. Other individuals in the business
3. Groups and teams in the business
4. Business organizations
5. As well as all functions within the business organization.
Many of the Library's materials about business, leadership and management are adapted from this book. Just click on the title of the book above to see the Index and Table of Contents.
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Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision With Nonprofit Staff
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC.
Includes step-by-step guidelines, tips and tools customized for personnel in nonprofits to effectively lead:
1. Yourself
2. Other individuals in the nonprofit
3. Groups and teams in the nonprofit
4. Nonprofit organizations
5. As well as all functions within the nonprofit organization.
Many of the Library's materials about nonprofit leadership and management are adapted from this book. Just click on the title of the book above to see the Index and Table of Contents.
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just click on the image of the book. Also, a convenient search window is included below the rows of boxes.
