Section 3 – Career Aspiration and Development Goals
Career Aspiration or Development Goal 1: To be able to produce high quality overheads and handouts for use in presentations.
Planned professional development
Attend half-day internal training course in using PowerPoint
Seek mentoring arrangement with a staff member who is experienced in using PowerPoint and preparing presentations.
Draft presentations for supervisor and other team members and seek feedback from mentor before finalising.
Targets (include timelines)
Scheduled for 3 March ($255)
Ongoing for approx. 3 months.
Ongoing for approx. 3 months.
End-of-year Progress
To be completed prior to a end-of-year performance review meeting.
Career Aspiration or Development Goal 2: Improve my project management skills, including my ability to manage several projects at once and prioritise appropriately.
Planned professional development Targets (include timelines)
End-of-year Progress
To be completed prior to a end-of-year performance review meeting.
Seek feedback from my supervisor on my strengths and areas of improvement. Keep a daily diary of my activities to monitor priority planning.
Plan to attend a project management course.
Seek a mentoring arrangement with a Project Consultant in the department.
Read “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”.
Three-month time frame. Report on progress at mid-year review.
Research appropriate course and cost within budget ($500).
Ongoing through the year.
Ongoing for three months.

Career Aspiration or Development Goal 2: Broaden my knowledge of management issues and improve my skills in supervision, delegation and managing underperformance
Planned professional development Targets (include timelines)
End-of-year Progress
To be completed prior to a end-of-year performance review meeting.
Seek feedback on current strengths and areas for improvement from my supervisor and colleagues – identify gaps and repeat after six months.
Read “Performance Conversations” by C Lee.
Interview three supervisors about their management style.
Identify an appropriate mentor.
Meet with the Workplace Relations Consultant for my faculty for hints on dealing with unsatisfactory performance.
After six months, prepare a report for my supervisor utilising all the information garnered from all of the above.
Assess the suitability of a training program on supervising or delegation.
Identify an appropriate team project to take responsibility for and prepare a 20 minute “pitch” to supervisor on how the project could be managed.
Initial discussions within first month and follow up six months later.
Use self-administered 360 degree feedback tool
($180 and $90 for repeat).
Within first six months.
Within first six months.
Within first six months.
Within first six months. Research potential courses and cost within budget ($1,000).
Timing as appropriate.