For this assignment, you will complete an 750-word individual development plan (IDP) for either your current job or the job to which you aspire.

• Think about your current job, or the job to which you aspire.
• Consider the questions below as you prepare to complete an individual development plan (IDP) for yourself.
  • Questions about your current or desired job:
    • What aspects of your job are you best/worst at?
    • Which job activities would you like to engage in more/less frequently?
    • What types of knowledge, skills, and abilities are required by this job? What is your current degree of proficiency in these areas (e.g., high, adequate, poor)?
  • Questions about your job satisfaction:
    • What can you personally do to increase your level of satisfaction with your job?
    • What performance improvements would increase your level of job satisfaction?
  • Questions about your professional growth:
    • Where do you see yourself professionally within the next 2 years?
    • Where do you see yourself professionally beyond the next 2 years?
    • What must you do in order to realize this vision?
    • What new responsibilities or challenges would you have to undertake in order to achieve this vision?
  • Questions about your skills and capabilities:
    • In what new jobs or roles would you like to increase your proficiency?
    •  What new knowledge, skills, and/or abilities would you like to acquire?
    • What types of training, qualifications, or certifications would you like to obtain?
  • Questions about your potential:
    • What could you do to make a greater contribution to your organization?
    • What responsibilities or challenges could you undertake that would support your growth and development?
    • What skills could you learn to ensure you are better equipped to do what you would like to do?
    • How can you make better use of the knowledge, skills, and abilities you currently have?
    • What would need to happen for you to reach your potential?

• Include a minimum of one source, which may consist of readings from the University Library, your text, and other selections.
• Format your paper using the West Writing Style Handbook guidelines.
• Please note, this specific assignment may be written in first person.
• Submit your work as a Microsoft Word document.