“Personal and professional growth can be viewed as making new connections in any of several directions: UPWARD to achieve one's full potential; OUTWARD to make contact and encounter others; INWARD to increase our awareness of who we are, and what we want, need, sense, feel, think, and do; and DOWNWARD to touch earth, to be grounded, and to connect." (Giges and Rosenfeld, 1976).
Indeed, professional growth and development is one of many boundless things about life and a choice that is sometimes challenging to make. For whatever reasons, we may ignore it; postpone it or proactively pursuing it. Whatever it is, if we want any progress, we need to create a personal professional growth and development plan.
It is all about us initiating things that are directed towards self-improvements, as a professional, as a decision maker and as someone that make a huge impact. As interested as we are in our own development, we know what are the areas that we lack and need further improvements in order to contribute more to those that work alongside with us.
Let’s get motivated to start taking our professional growth and development to the next level. Here are some best practices to help us get started.
If we feel that now is indeed a high time to get motivate and excited about taking your professional growth and development to the next level.
Here are 5-steps to help you get started:
1. FOCUS on priorities: Identify your critical issues and development objectives.
2. IMPLEMENT something every day: Stretch your comfort zone.
3. REFLECT on what happens: Extract maximum learning from your experiences.
4. SEEK feedback and support: Learn from other’s ideas and perspectives.
5.TRANSFER learning into next steps: Adapt and plan for continued learning.
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