Professional Development Planning

Professional Development Planning is about exploring where you want to get to professionally in a structured way. The process involves looking at:

a) where you are now
b) where you want to be
c) how you might move from point a) towards point b)

It’s a process that’s useful whatever stage you’re at but can be especially valuable if you are at a point of change or just starting out. Or you might want to put together a funding application for professional development and need to think more strategically.

Approaches to Professional Development Panning

There are two main approaches to professional development planning:

Guided professional development planning is where you work through the process with another person, a skilled ‘guide’, who offers a useful outside eye.

If you support the development of writers or literature professionals in some way, you’ll find our manual on guided professional development planning invaluable. It was written by experienced guide Jude Page and is free to download here. You can also download sample paperwork which can be reproduced or used as source material.

Self-assessment professional development planning involves you undertaking the process on your own with the aid of some form of ‘toolkit’. We've commissioned one especially for writers and literature professionals - it's called 'Getting to where you want to be' and is also free to download here.

	PDP Resources
All the professional development planning resources mentioned on this page are available to download here, free.

Approaches to PDP.pdf (0.55MB)

PDP handbook.pdf (497k)

PDP sample paperwork.doc (291k)

Getting To Where You Want To Be.pdf (0.55MB)

	Obtaining printed copies
Printed copies of the PDP guide are available @ £5.00 plus £1.00 p&p. Send a cheque payable to NAWE to: PO Box 1, Sheriff Hutton, York YO60 7YU. We are happy to supply you with bulk copies if your work involves supporting the development of others. Please contact us for details.