Personality development and career planning.
Personality development and career planning is awesome and is one of the most interesting topics especially for youth. Personality development and career planning are of utmost importance for grownups and under growth youth, because their whole life is going to be changed or formulated based upon the decisions keeping in view these topics of personality development and career growth. We could divide this topic in two topics, first is personality development. This is most important step in spending or achieving a successful life. So everyone should have a focus on this topic. Second comes career planning, this is also equally important as personality development is.
Welcome to our whiteboard session today on how to set career goals. I love this question and I could probably do a series on it. But I want to just give a few pointers to get people started because, what I found in talking with people is they have, they don't really know where to start their personality development and career planning so they're maybe in one position and they're trying to get to the next one they're trying to transition careers they're looking for something new but again not sure where to start so a few pointers on how to get started so first of all it's important to know currently where you are now so having a good picture of where you are now on your career and a in a better picture of where you want to go in the future what's your desired result so if you think about the word career if you go Google it it's an occupation and it's in an it's in a specific time period of one's life and in that career it should bring new possibilities or new opportunities so with that we want to think about what career do you want to be in is it the same career but maybe an advancement is it an advancement of roles or maybe again transitioning so first of all there are three main steps I think to get started is envisioning planning and committing so in envisioning it's really looking for envisioning yourself in the new role what do you want your new role to be for instance if you're a project manager you may look to expand your to new tech new teams bigger teams maybe a different technology maybe a different industry it could be that maybe if you're in the technology world you're been managing technology projects and you want to go to maybe process improvement maybe you want to go more into the leadership role and do with leading people it could be that you're in project management and maybe you want to become a speaker you want to start speaking on project management maybe you want to write something maybe write white papers or do some research so looking where what do you want this to be and envisioning yourself in that role feeling yourself actually being in that what would it look like what would it feel like where would you be how many people would it be would it be just you and yourself if you're writing what would you write about if you're speaking what would you speak about so it's really important to be clear so you can envision where you want to go if you can't really see it it's hard to it's hard to plant do the next steps it's hard to plan it or even commit to it so the next step is once you envision it have a clear picture of where you want to go you want to begin planning because you want to plan you want to actually make a plan and project managers are good with planning right so how do I get from point A to point B or how do I get from my current to the future there's some interim things you probably need to do plan what type of training what I need what type of experience what I need would I need a mentor what I need to work with someone else has been there done that what I need to learn some new technology get some new tools get some new skills and plan those things and then commit you've got to be willing to commit put yourself put your commit to your time your money and your effort if you can't commit to it you'll never evolve and get to those steps so we remember in the SMART goals right so I kind of if you Google or look up SMART goals you'll see some different plays off of these but I've selected words that are important to me and people that I mentor in this area so SMART goals can stand for being specific and creating your career goals you want them to be smart so they need to be specific if you're not specific in the goals then it's hard to get your head around what you're trying to plan and even commit to it also needs to be meaningful if the goals are the career goals for yourself are not meaningful you're probably going to lose interest quickly and again it's going to be hard to even plan it out or commit to because when you plan your planning time resources of money and effort so also you want it to be aligned meaning you want it to be aligned to you with who you are if you're going for a career that's not aligned and who you are it's not you're not going to last long you it to be something that's important and aligned to you for instance the more I advance and started inventing in project management I became more attracted or drawn to things that have to do with the people part that's more aligned with Who I am mentoring with people is aligned with Who I am so being aligned with for instance if you have a career goal of being in some role that you have to do some detail-oriented work and you're not a detail-oriented person that's not aligned with who you are it's going to be very difficult you also want it to be relevant be relevant to your field relevant to your interest and also tangible the goals need to be tangible something that you can actually put your hands around or have an idea of what it is you're trying to accomplish so you want your goals to be smart goals you want to be able to envision yourself in that role you want to be able to make a specific plan of how to get from your current to your future and you want to commit so those are the things that I found that are very helpful and just getting started to set in your new career goals if you need a tool that can help you manage and track your new career goals then sign up for our software now at projectmanager.com
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