{If You Build it They Will Come: Building Professional Development Experiences for Professional Staff

shana n. alston, m.s.ed.

Welcome Current Challenges Training vs. Development Program How: Steps to Create a

Development Program What: Components of Development

Program

Overview

Training vs. Professional Development

Training Programs… Are foundational or serve as orientation Are refreshers or in-Service training Learning that is Skill Based &

Instructional Teaches Workplace culture Acquaint staff with resources Teaches professional knowledge Communicates administrative

responsibilities

What is a training program?

Professional Development programs… Skills and knowledge attained for personal

development & career advancement Designed enhance knowledge, skills, abilities of

staff to assume greater responsibility or higher positions

Keeps organizations dynamic: thinking, growing, and changing

Staff contribute to their professional development plan stay longer, more satisfied, increases effectiveness and efficiency

What is a Professional Development program?

{– V. Malone

“…career development is act of acquiring information and resources that enables one to plan a program of lifelong learning related to his or her work life.”

How do we build it?

Professional Development Plans identifies and address the needs of individual by enhancing his or her knowledge and skills.

Career Visioning Plans Career Mapping Professional Goals & Action Plans Dream Job Skill Assessment

Engage Staff in creating a Professional Development Plan

The more informed staff are about their talents, strengths, personality, abilities the more informed we are on how they can best serve your team and how they work.

Leadership, Personality, Skills/Interest Assessments

Myers Briggs Personality Type Inventory True Colors StrengthsQuest Leadership Practices Inventory- LPI 360

Utilizing Assessments & Inventories

Developing learning opportunities that address the competencies and skills that staff needs to improve or acquire.

Addresses trends or informational topics

Experiential, traditional

Develop Learning Activities

Good assessment allows you to improve the program and illustrates if you have achieved your program’s learning outcomes.

Make it continual & integrated. Assess what staff has learned as a result

of participating in your development program.

Assess your Professional development program.

What should you build it with?

{No one formula.

What is your philosophy to developing professional development?

Competency Based content increases knowledge of field and introduces the latest research and exposes staff to new ideas.

Competency Based content aligns training content with professional standards.

{Assessing Competency Areas

Competency Based Content

Consistency and continuity will boost the confidence of your team.

Being consistent shows investment. Commitment to professional growth

of your staff for career advancement.

Consistent & Continual

Collaboration will expose your team to other practitioners with different methods, approaches and insight to our work.

Engage colleagues both in your university and in your larger professional network

Encourage staff to grow their professional networks

Collaboration

Consultation/Informational Interviewing

Coaching/Mentoring Coursework/Certificate Programs Conferences/Institutes Seminars/Webinars Research/Field Related Literature Participation in Professional

Associations

Components

Malone, V.M. (1984). Inservice Training and staff development. In B.E. Swanson (Ed.), Agricultural extension: A reference manual. Rome:FAO.

Scivicque, Chrissy. "Creating Your Professional Development Plan: 3 Surprising Truths." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 21 June 2011. Web. 01 Nov. 2012. <http://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2011/06/21/creating-your-professional-development-plan-3-surprising-truths/>.

Redman, Bridgette. "How to Write a Training Development Plan." EHow. Demand Media, 10 June 2011. Web. 01 Nov. 2012. <http://www.ehow.com/how_8576288_write-training-development-plan.html>.

Rabinowitz, Phil. "Developing Training Programs for Staff." Http://ctb.ku.edu. The Community Tool Box, 2012. Web. 01 Nov. 2012. <http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/sub_section_main_1105.aspx>.

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