The Talent Development Platform: Putting People First in Social Change Organizations

Chapter 9Setting Individual Goals and Objectives

Now that you have set your organization's professional development goals and objectives, we'll show you how to help employees and volunteers intentionally develop individual professional development goals and objectives. You have already established some of their goals and objectives during the organizational goal-setting process. Some employees and volunteers may be paired as mentors and mentees or assigned a stretch assignment. However, individual goal setting allows individuals to take the organizational goals to the next level, building their skills to do their work more effectively and develop their careers. In this chapter we discuss the process for setting individual professional development ...