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Professional development, also known as professional education, is learning that leads to or emphasizes education in a specific professional career field or builds practical job applicable skills emphasizing praxis in addition to the transferable skills and theoretical academic knowledge found in traditional liberal arts and pure sciences education.
ATD has a capability model [2] as a guide for its professional constituency. The original model was published in 2004 and has been updated several times since. The current model published in 2020, includes three key domains of practice: personal capability, professional capability, and organizational capability that consist of 23 embedded capabilities, and is a framework to guide the TD ...
Career development refers to the process an individual may undergo to evolve their occupational status. It is the process of making decisions for long term learning, to align personal needs of physical or psychological fulfillment with career advancement opportunities. [1] Career Development can also refer to the total encompassment of an ...
Personal development or self-improvement consists of activities that develop a person's capabilities and potential, build human capital, facilitate employability, enhance quality of life, and facilitate the realization of dreams and aspirations. [1] Personal development may take place over the course of an individual's entire lifespan and is ...
Training and development involve improving the effectiveness of organizations and the individuals and teams within them. [1] Training may be viewed as related to immediate changes in organizational effectiveness via organized instruction, while development is related to the progress of longer-term organizational and employee goals.
Mentorship is the patronage, influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor. [1] A mentor is someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person. [2] In an organizational setting, a mentor influences the personal and professional growth of a mentee. Most traditional mentorships involve having senior ...
Personal development planning is the process of creating an action plan for current and future based on awareness, values, reflection, goal-setting and investment in personal development within the context of a career, education, relationship, and self-improvement.
Faculty development is a similarly used term to staff development and professional development, in settings that pertain to educators. [1] Professional development for educators may include teacher training, and is usually considered pre-service, or before beginning teaching. However faculty development and professional development may both be ...