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Subject:RE: Personal development plan From:"Patty Ewy" <patty -dot- ewy -at- greatplains -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:53:26 -0600
Annette--
Developing a personal development plan doesn't have to be painful. In
the past, I've used them to worm my way into interesting training
sessions, or onto interesting projects.
The personal development plans that I've seen usually start with some
self-review type thing: These are my strengths, these are my weaknesses.
Then you just try to describe things that you'd like to do to take
advantage of your strengths and to shore up your weaknesses. If you need
to deal with XML or something, say that knowing about that technology is
a weakness, and then suggest some ways that you might learn more about
it: off-site/on-site/online training courses, books, whatever.
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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