What sets you apart from your peers? Can you speak a second language? In a room full of professionals in your field, how many are great at public speaking or understand how to work across word ...

Most people don’t think about their development plan until they hit a wall. A missed promotion, a new role, or a shift in priorities can expose just how unclear the next step really is. Creating an ...

In many small businesses, just one person handles the human resources function, and sometimes it is the owner of the company. Empowering employees to take responsibility for their own professional ...

Individual Development Plans (IDPs) are designed to help students reflect on what they want to get out of their graduate education, think of short-term and long-term goals, and explore their interests ...

A personal business plan, sometimes called a personal development plan, is guided by the same principles as a corporate business plan. You write a personal business plan to review your personal goals ...

Entrepreneurs tend to focus the bulk of their energy on developing and tracking a business plan. This is essential to success for any startup. But when you focus on long term goals for the business, ...

This month's column will bring my writing about the concepts of self-assessment and personal planning full circle. In my previous two columns, I discussed the ways in which you need to lay the ...

I am obsessed with personal development because it's helped me completely change my life. Only 10 years ago, I had no connections, no money, and worked a minimum wage retail job. Now, I have a Ph.D.

The School of Medicine (SOM) recognizes the benefits that graduate students and postdoctoral scholars experience by using Individual Development Plans (IDPs) to highlight research goals, presentations ...

I am obsessed with personal development because it's helped me completely change my life. Only 10 years ago, I had no connections, no money, and worked a minimum wage retail job. Now, I have a Ph.D.