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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

If you’re going into a new job as a step to a different job, you need to co-create a personal development plan with the people responsible for filling the second job. Don’t read this wrong. You still ...

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has traditionally been based on a variety of competencies, standards and outcomes. Regard them as structures to guide and support the development of your own personal development plan (PDP). 2 ...

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I’ve been fortunate to be able to help a number of people in recovery from mental illness or addiction develop plans to begin to achieve their personal goals. Careful preparation and planning is a ...