PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Professional growth is all about gaining new skills and experience. That means your development is either related to your current role or the role you want to do next. Professional development is learning to earn or maintain professional credentials such as academic degrees to formal coursework, attending conferences, and informal learning opportunities situated in practice. It has been described as intensive and collaborative, ideally incorporating an evaluative stage. Through professional development, workers can learn these skills to become better, more efficient workers. While job training is an essential part of professional development, this concept covers all forms of education and learning that's intended to help a worker succeed.

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Personal development fits alongside professional growth — so if you want to progress in your career, you’ll need to develop personally first. That’s the only way you’ll be able to handle your fears, take on more responsibility, and succeed with greater challenges. Personal development covers activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital and facilitate employability, enhance the quality of life and contribute to the realization of dreams and aspirations.

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Courses taken to satisfy this competency: Nonprofit Leadership Seminar