Brain drain, plus new professional goals
Jun 10th, 2005 by Accidental Thinker
What a mentally exhausting week this has been for work. That’s good, because I’ve been professionally energized, but with so much going on, I’m wiped out. I can’t complain though. I’d so much rather be busy (if it’s productive), than bored. I attended the ASTD conference this week, immediately followed by an annual (now to be biannual) meeting of our company’s Training & Education Advisory Council. As a result I have identified a couple of new professional goals for myself:
- Get myself published in a professional journal or trade publication. This has been percolating in my head forever and I’ve even had the submission guidelines for The eLearning Developers’ Journal sitting on my desk easily since the end of last year, but have done nothing with it. My current plan is to take a presentation I’m giving on “Lessons Learned in eLearning” at a conference next month and, if it is well received, turn it into an article.
- Get myself educated on emerging trends in Human Performance Improvement and Competency Modeling. There is some very compelling information out there on these subjects and I’d like to establish myself as the internal expert and champion, so I can credibly push a couple of new certification and management development initiatives at work.
I’ve already been very vocal about these goals so that people will hold me accountable. However, this will all have to wait until next week. I’m cooked and have taken the day off to decompress a bit.
Footnote: See posts titled Mission accomplished (12/5/05) and A personal goal fully realized (7/20/07) for updates on the success of goal #1.
