Professional Development Plan for Career Advancement

This assignment provides an example of a professional development plan for career advancement. It outlines specific goals, such as developing leadership skills, team-building skills, and communication skills, along with measurable objectives, achievable deadlines, and a clear timeline for achieving each goal. The plan also includes a section on working in the Bexley/Greenwich area, upgrading skills related to communication, and working in rotational shifts.

Professional Development Plan Student Name: Date:
Goal/Objective
What is it that you want to develop
or achieve?
(e.g. skills development/ career
development/ future plans)
Specific
 State exactly what you think you need to do
in order to achieve your goal
(e.g. coaching / mentoring /
shadowing /reading / training /
research /conferences /supervisor support)
Measurable
 How will you know you have achieved
your goal?
(e.g. achieved goal / speak knowledgeably
about subject / mastered new
technology/feel more confident/received
good feedback)
Achievable &Realistic
 You have the resources, time,
opportunity and support to
succeed
 Goals can be challenging but must be
achievable and relevant to your role
Time bound
With a clear end date or timescale
Use realistic deadlines, to allow time for
progress to have been made
Short term
I want to develop
leadership skills
I think i need to observe how
my current manager conducts
his business, read books based
on leadership and theories
based on leadership
I would know that I have
achieved this particular goal
when I will be able to motivate
my colleagues to perform
better, be able to interact
confidently with my colleagues,
be able to perform my duties in
a much better manner
I will have to work harder than I
am working at the moment. Need
to get access to the reading
materials on leadership and
invest a considerable amount of
time in understanding them.
I think that I would need at least
3-4 months to develop effective
leadership skills.
I want to develop team-
building skills
Once again I think that I need to
observe my manager as well as
my team-leader, read relevant
materials on the topic
I would be able to speak
confidently to the members of
our team, represent their
interests to the higher
authorities in a much better
manner, influence the
performance of the team in a
positive manner.
I think that I will have to observe
my team-leader as well as
manager in a much better
manner and read relative
materials on them
I think that I would need at 2-3
months to develop effective
team building skills.
I want to work in the
Bexley/Greenwich area.
I would need to upgrade my
skills related to communication,
I would to know that I have
achieved this particular skill
I think I will have to interact with
the people who are already
I think that I would need at least
1-2 months to develop the skills

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working in rotational shifts and
others.
when I will get employed in that
particular area.
working in that sector and try to
find out the skills which I will
have to develop in order to get
employed in that area.
needed to get employed in the
Bexley/Greenwich area.
Medium term
I want to become a team
leader with at least 20-30
working under me
I would need to raise the level
of my performance
considerably. Building effective
relationship with the manager
and other people in the higher
authority would also help and
would enable me to learn new
things from them.
I would know that I have
achieved this goal when I will be
appointed as the team leader of
my team with more than 20
people reporting to me
I think that I will have to take
more responsibility in the
activities and raising the bar of
my performance would also help.
I also need to develop effective
leadership skills for the
achievement of this particular
goal.
I think that I would need at least
2-3 years to become the team
leader of my team.
Long-term
I want to become the
manager of a warehouse
I would need to work much
harder than I am working at the
moment, need to develop
leadership as well as team
building skills
I would know that I have
achieved this particular goal
when I will be appointed as the
manager of a warehouse
I think that I would have to raise
the bar of my performance a bit
higher. Taking more responsibility
in the team would also help. An
MBA degree is also very
important
I think I would need at least 5-6
years to become a manager.
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