In your Personal Development Plan template, you will complete the following:
- SMART Goals:
- Write a SMART goal related to your academic development or refinement.
- Write a SMART goal related to your professional development or refinement.
- Strengths and Skills:
- Describe three skills or strengths that can help you achieve your academic development goal.
- Describe three skills or strengths that can help you achieve your professional development goal.
- Challenges and Obstacles:
- Describe two challenges, threats, or obstacles that could get in the way of achieving your academic goal.
- Describe two challenges, threats, or obstacles that could get in the way of achieving your professional goal.
- Action Plan:
- Describe three specific next steps to take to achieve your academic goal within your timeframe.
- Describe three specific next steps to take to achieve your professional goal within your timeframe.
- Support Resources:
- Describe two resources or supports that could help you achieve your academic goal.
- Describe two resources or supports that could help you achieve your professional goal.
- Monitoring Progress:
- Describe one plan, strategy, or tool you will use to monitor or measure your progress toward your academic goal.
- Describe one plan, strategy, or tool you will use to monitor or measure your progress toward your professional goal.
- Written Reflection:
- Explain how being mindful of your strengths, skills, and potential challenges or obstacles can impact your personal, academic, and professional growth in a minimum of 200 words.
- Describe how having grit, integrity, and a growth mindset contributes to your goal attainment in a minimum of 200 words.