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Before the Course: Plan Your Course Selections
When meeting with your supervisor or manager to discuss your development needs, feel free to use a chart such as the following to plan your course
selections:
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Applying What You Learn: Keep Your Goals in Mind
A key to applying what you learn is to keep your focus on what led you to seek the training in the first place -- the goals you want to achieve in
your personal and professional life. Here are some suggestions to help you keep your goals in mind even as you're learning how to achieve them:
- Write individualized, specific, measurable goals you want to attain. Before class, this might just be your goals for the class itself. Once you've taken the class, you can use a Course Action Plan to help monitor your progress toward achieving your professional and personal goals.
- Whatever your goals, note how you are going to know when you have met each goal successfully.
- Discuss your goals with a supervisor, mentor, or friend. Give him/her a copy of your written goals.
- Ask this person for other ideas to help you reach your goals.
- Set a feedback schedule with this person to look jointly at how you are doing. Stick to this schedule.
- Finally, reward yourself for working toward your goals.
