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Designing Your Own Personal and Professional Training Plan
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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
Framework to Design
a Personal and Professional Training Plan
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:
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:
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