Whether you’re looking to be stronger in your role or make a career move, you have many options.
Professional and Career Development is about YOU—your needs, your desires, your goals, your gaps.
Taking control of your own path is a perfect way to demonstrate what you have to offer!
Here are nine tips on how to get started!
Look for a competency list or library
Competencies describe the skills, abilities, and knowledge needed to be successful in a particular role. Review the competencies listed for your role and consider how you want to grow/develop. Look at another role’s competencies and consider what you need to do to grow. With this information, you can better target your learning and development opportunities and have more informed conversations with your manager.
Professional development or career development?
Next, consider your short-term and long-term goals. Is the goal to become stronger in your role in the short-term and making a career move in the long-term? Or are both short-term and long-term goals? There is no right and wrong. There are many ways to laterally grow and develop. Getting clear about this in your own mind (and being ok with whatever the answer is) will help you to have more tailored and fruitful growth conversations and allow you to be open to the options available.
Consider job shadowing
Not yet certain about your future growth goals but curious about various roles? Don’t want to invest too heavily before gaining more knowledge about your options? Job shadowing is an easy and inexpensive way to learn more about the different roles in your company. If your organization has no formal program, reach out to someone you’d like to shadow and see if they’re available. Not sure who? Discuss it with your manager or human resources business partner.
Professional and Career Development is about YOU—your needs, your desires, your goals, your gaps.
Taking control of your own path is a perfect way to demonstrate what you have to offer!
Here are nine tips on how to get started!
Look for a competency list or library
Competencies describe the skills, abilities, and knowledge needed to be successful in a particular role. Review the competencies listed for your role and consider how you want to grow/develop. Look at another role’s competencies and consider what you need to do to grow. With this information, you can better target your learning and development opportunities and have more informed conversations with your manager.
Professional development or career development?
Next, consider your short-term and long-term goals. Is the goal to become stronger in your role in the short-term and making a career move in the long-term? Or are both short-term and long-term goals? There is no right and wrong. There are many ways to laterally grow and develop. Getting clear about this in your own mind (and being ok with whatever the answer is) will help you to have more tailored and fruitful growth conversations and allow you to be open to the options available.
Consider job shadowing
Not yet certain about your future growth goals but curious about various roles? Don’t want to invest too heavily before gaining more knowledge about your options? Job shadowing is an easy and inexpensive way to learn more about the different roles in your company. If your organization has no formal program, reach out to someone you’d like to shadow and see if they’re available. Not sure who? Discuss it with your manager or human resources business partner.
Find a mentor
Once you’ve established which skills you’d like to develop, look around! Is there someone who already has them? A formal or informal mentoring relationship is a great growth and development opportunity!
Monthly learning opportunities
Many companies offer monthly in-person and online learning opportunities that often include more general personal and leadership development sessions like DISC, Leveraging your Strengths, 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, etc. Not sure if this available to you? Start by asking your HR/organizational development/learning and development colleagues.
Invest in a professional membership
Professional memberships are an inexpensive method for updating knowledge. Typically offering industry events, conferences, workshops and other professional development opportunities, on-demand learning, e-newsletters, journals, webinars, and more, they are a worthy investment. Some companies will even reimburse these kinds of memberships!
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