This document outlines an outcomes-based career planning journal. It contains 6 sections to help users capture career goals, identify steps for advancement, develop a mentorship plan, find volunteer opportunities, develop others, and apply learnings. The introduction explains that attending education sessions and completing the journal can help users assess how new knowledge fits into their professional development. Section 1 prompts writing current job expectations and ways to improve performance. Section 2 guides setting short-term, long-term, and multi-year career and personal goals. Section 3 explores identifying a mentor to support goals. Section 4 considers volunteer roles that align with goals. Section 5 develops a list of individuals to mentor. Section 6 records action steps and contacts from a conference.

1. Outcomes-Based Career Planning:
Mapping a Course to the Executive Suite
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2. Outcomes-Based Career Planning:
MAPPING A COURSE TO THE EXECUTIVE SUITE
Mapping a Course to the Executive Suite
Name:___________________________________
Date:____________________________________
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3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section One
Understanding and Meeting Job Expectations
Section Two
Goals and Career Aspirations
Section Three
Mentorship
Section Four
Volunteer and Gain Exposure
Section Five
Develop Others
Section Six
Apply Your Learnings
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4. INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
This Journal will help you to capture your career
goals and aspirations and organize and follow
up on the necessary steps for career enhancement
and advancement.
As you attend education sessions, use Section 6,
“Apply Your Learnings,” to identify key learnings
and next steps to apply to your competencies and
career goals. Assess how the knowledge gained fits
into your professional development portfolio.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the steps for
career progression.
- Obtain tools and resources
to advance career.
- Understand career goals.
- Define the steps to become a more
effective leader.
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5. SECTION ONE: UNDERSTANDING AND MEETING JOB EXPECTATIONS
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Understanding and Meeting
SECTION ONE:
Job Expectations

6. Section One
UNDERSTANDING AND MEETING
JOB EXPECTATIONS
Write your current job expectations:
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Assess where you are on a scale of 1–5:
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7. Section One
If you have not rated yourself at a five for job expectations,
list ideas on how you might improve your performance.
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8. Notes
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9. SECTION TWO: GOALS AND CAREER ASPIRATIONS
SECTION TWO:
Goals and Career Aspirations
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10. Section Two
GOALS AND CAREER ASPIRATIONS
What are your short-term and long-term goals? You can
include both personal and professional goals since they are
often intertwined, and success is measured by both.
Where do you want to be in one year and why?
How do you plan to get there?
Where do you want to be in three years and why?
How do you plan to get there?
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11. Section Two
Where do you want to be in five years and why?
How do you plan to get there?
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12. Notes
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13. SECTION THREE: MENTORSHIP
SECTION THREE:
Mentorship
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14. Section Three
MENTORSHIP
Keep in mind your one-, three-, and five-year
goals and how a mentor could assist you in
achieving those goals.
Take a moment to reflect on some of your previous mentors.
Now take some time to identify a potential mentor today who
can help you with your career goals.
Ideas on how you would approach your mentor:
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15. Section Three
Set a time frame for frequency.
How and when would you seek feedback from your mentor,
and how would you be receptive to the feedback?
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16. Notes
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17. SECTION FOUR: VOLUNTEER AND GAIN EXPOSURE
SECTION FOUR:
Volunteer and Gain Exposure
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18. Section Four
VOLUNTEER AND
GAIN EXPOSURE
Reflect on your current one-, three-, and five-
year goals and how you might volunteer and
gain exposure around those goals.
Consider a best practice of how you have volunteered for
additional assignments or project work at your job. What type
of professional exposure did you gain from volunteering?
Write down some ways in which you feel volunteering helped
you advance your career.
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19. Section Four
List some additional assignments or volunteer opportunities at
work that would help you achieve your career goals.
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20. Notes
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21. SECTION FIVE: DEVELOP OTHERS
SECTION FIVE:
Develop Others
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22. Section Five
DEVELOP OTHERS
Create a potential list of individuals who you can develop
whether you currently have direct reports or not.
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23. Section Five
Identify the next steps to begin to mentor the people you
have identified.
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24. Notes
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25. SECTION SIX: APPLY YOUR LEARNINGS
SECTION SIX:
Apply Your Learnings
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26. Section Six
Write down the action steps that you need to take to apply the
learnings from this session.
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27. Section Six
Networking is a critical part of career development.
Use this area to record contacts you meet throughout
the conference.
Name: Name:
Facility/Location: Facility/Location:
Email: Email:
Phone Number: Phone Number:
Name: Name:
Facility/Location: Facility/Location:
Email: Email:
Phone Number: Phone Number:
Name: Name:
Facility/Location: Facility/Location:
Email: Email:
Phone Number: Phone Number:
Name: Name:
Facility/Location: Facility/Location:
Email: Email:
Phone Number: Phone Number:
Name: Name:
Facility/Location: Facility/Location:
Email: Email:
Phone Number: Phone Number:
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