Building Your Professional Development Plan
1Assessing Where You Are Today2Setting Meaningful Career Goals3Building & Executing Your Plan
Lesson 2 of 3

Setting Meaningful Career Goals

Effective career goals are specific, time-bound, and connected to both your aspirations and organizational needs. This lesson helps you define yours.

Think about where you want to be in one year, three years, and five years. What skills, experiences, and relationships will you need to get there?

Great development goals have three parts: what you will learn or develop, how you will develop it (training, projects, mentoring), and by when you expect to see progress.

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