Individualized Professional Development Plan

Name Major:

Ben Jennings Exploratory Major

Start with your WHY: Why are you pursuing this degree? What do you want the outcome to be? How are you
going to work toward making that outcome possible? **Is the outcome directly related to your WHY?
WHY: I’m trying to figure out a direction for what I want to do with my life. I want to explore different options

before I fully commit and dive into a specific study area.

What: I’m hoping my outcome becomes a career path that I can own and love so that I can feel accomplished and

enjoy the rest of my life!

How: I’m going to work towards my goal by taking classes in different areas that I’m interested in so that I can

determine which one is the best fit for me, and which field will lead me to the career that I ultimately decide to

pursue.
TIMEFRAME Personal goals:
(e.g. Positional goals, membership to organizations,
exploring opportunities, etc)
Next Semester
- I want to work on my training plan and development
as a climber and professional athlete.
- I want to find more healthy coping mechanisms and
options to deal with anxiety.
Next year - I want to maintain my spot on Team USA and work
towards my Olympic qualifications.
- I want to qualify for the Olympic games in Paris
- I want to further develop my relationship and
connect more with my partner
- I want to grow as a person and become more
confident with talking to others.
Professional goals:
(e.g. Gaining further skills, advancing knowledge is
specific areas, Memberships in Professional
Associations etc)
- I want to declare my major(s)
- I want to obtain my personal training license and start
building clientele.
- I want to learn more about the human body and how
it responds to injury.
- I want to finish my CORE class requirements
- I want to find a job coaching climbing and continue
with my coaching career.
- I want to learn how to build and run a business
 Individual Professional Development Plan Template
Assets and Provocations
Planned Activities Objective of Alignment to Vision, How activity impacts
Development Activity Mission, Core Values, student learning
Major, or Minor

Required
knowledge/skills

Consider:
- I want to meet - I want to be able - Appreciation for - This will help me
● required with teachers to declare my knowledge in learn more about
competencies: like and my advisor major, so talking other classes as specific subjects that
COE Core Value to discuss with these well as I’m interested in and
Proficiencies, majors and professionals will strengthening my lead to me declaring
Professional classes that help me narrow knowledge in and my major(s).
Standards for your interest me. down my options. about my major.
content or licensure,

Assets/Strengths

Consider:

● your views - I plan to rock - This is a way that I - This connects to - This impacts my
● recent assessments climb four like to cope and my core values learning because
● other people’s views times a week deal with stress because it keeps being able to stay
and work out and anxiety, while me active and active will help me to
twice a week. also allowing me allows me to focus function better and
to get better at on my mental learn better while I am
what I’m health which I hold in the classroom.
passionate about. at a very high
importance.

Provocations/Growth

Consider:
● gaps in
knowledge/skills
- Find an - This helps me to - This connects to - I will be able to see
● opportunities on the
horizon internship or see the backside my core values what I’m interested in
job shadow of the careers that because I know first hand and get
● what specific actions
opportunities I’m considering that I don’t want a experience in these
will help you to
with a physical and will help me to desk job and that I positions which will
progress in your role?
therapist and see parts of the want to help allow me to decide if
teacher. job that I may not people so being it's something that I
enjoy. able to see all could do for the rest
aspects of these of my life.
careers will help
me identify if they
align with those
values.

Individual Professional Development Plan Activity Log

(1) (2) (3)

Description of professional development activity Timeframe Connection to your stated objective
completed
1. Reach out to the athletic Director to March 25th 2023 Develop my rock climbing skills and myself as a professional
ask about Collegiate Climbing. athlete.

2. Talk to Dr. Ettl about a new

Kinesiology major. March 23rd 2023 Declare my major(s)

3. Obtain my personal training May 1st 2023 Obtain my personal training certification and develop a clientele
certification

4. GHS August 2023- December 2023 I want to finish my CORE class requirements
5. Talk to a therapist. April 2023 – indefinite time I want to find more healthy coping mechanisms and options
frame to deal with anxiety.

Total PD Hours