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Subject:RE: Personal development plan From:"Damien Braniff" <dbraniff -at- amphion -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:40:04 -0000
As the company I'm currently with has grown they have brought in Personal Development Record folders for everyone. These serve several functions (generally useful). Basic contents are:
1 Business plan
2 Current corporate goals - basically 1 and 2 give people a bit of company background and details about where the company is headed so everyone knows (at a high level) what's going on.
3 Current Departmental goals - distillation of 2, highlighting targets etc for individual departments.
4 Appraisal agreement form/job description/goal progression chart. Indicates individual goals and provides a way for you to track your own progress. These are updated regularly (appraisals twice a year) and things likes tools/training required etc are highlighted
5 Personal Development Record - list areas of learning: mentoring, meetings, formal/informal training, product familiarisation etc. Record sheet provided to allow to record these - what it was, when and outcome; was it beneficial? would others find it useful etc
6 Training Record and Costs. A breakdown training received - what it was, what it cost etc.
Sections 4 and 5 are linked and may be what you're after. Together they determine what you need to do your job well in terms of training etc. 5 should also include non directly-work related stuff (at least at that time). For example, it should include conferences etc where there may be no immediately obvious benefit
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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