Professional Development Matrix
Professional Development Journal
Course 1. First Course (required)
Learning is frequently characterized as a relatively long-lasting change in behavior as a result of experience. When you think about learning, it’s tempting to limit yourself to formal schooling that occurs during infancy and early adulthood, yet learning is a continuous process that occurs throughout life. Learning is important for increasing our income and status, for gaining access to new opportunities, for boosting our confidence, for developing and assisting our growth curve, for achieving our goals, for making us happy, and for personal, professional, and leadership development. People should never stop learning. We will never stop learning.
I believe that Knowledge and Scholarly will help me develop my potential in critical thinking, ontological humility, creativity, and innovation skills. As of now, there is no tough or easy component of this course for me since I understand that obtaining new knowledge is challenging, but with constant practice, it will become easy, and the things that I need to develop are my research and analytic abilities.
Three (3) subdomains of Knowledge and Scholarly that I would like to develop are critical thinking, ontological humility, and creativity and innovation. My objectives in this course are to become knowledgeable and proficient in critical thinking, ontological humility, creativity, and innovation. To achieve my objectives, I will use my free time to read books, solve one problem every day, and keep an intellectual journal. One strategy for staying motivated in attaining my objectives is to make a record of my observations of wasted time so that I can notice and realize what I am doing. I know that the more difficulties I overcome, the easier they will get, allowing me to attain my goal. Finally, maintaining an intellectual journal will help me keep track of how much I have improved in my thinking and will also help me know what to focus on.
My current network, which I believe will help me achieve my goals, consists of my mentor, friends, and family, because every time they push me and tell me that I can do this and that, I feel empowered. And the barriers are folks who do not trust me or my DBA process. These are the folks I will ignore while still respecting them.
My specialization in this program will have a significant impact on my success today and tomorrow. Because I anticipate that after completing this course, I will be skilled and equipped to meet the requirements of a DBA graduate. This specialization will serve as a stepping stone for my future, and my future is dependent on what I accomplish now.
It is human nature to anticipate, whether great or not, but employers’ expectations of me as a DBA graduate will be better than yesterday. Everything may change in a single day, including every employer’s expectation of DBA graduates. Employers sometimes look at how the DBA graduate is talented and competent, but most of the time they look at the DBA graduate’s character. A man with the right character can learn anything. I will not be worried about what the employers expect of me; instead, I will ready now so that I will be confident tomorrow.
As of today, I have done nothing to accomplish these goals but from today, I will begin to accomplish them based on my target’s strategies. My objectives in this course are to become knowledgeable and proficient in critical thinking, ontological humility, creativity, and innovation. To achieve my objectives, I will use my free time to read books, solve one problem every day, and keep an intellectual journal. One strategy for staying motivated in attaining my objectives is to make a record of my observations of wasted time so that I can notice and realize what I am doing. I know that the more difficulties I overcome, the easier they will get, allowing me to attain my goal. Finally, maintaining an intellectual journal will help me keep track of how much I have improved in my thinking and will also help me know what to focus on.
Course 2. Leadership (recommended)
Course 4. Strategy (recommended)
In this course, you will start thinking about the next domain, Advocate for Change. Reflect on what this domain means to you and how it could impact your work.
In this course, you will develop the Advocate for Change domain. Read the materials provided in your course. Choose from the recommended competencies, or create ones of your own, that focus on areas you would like to develop. Then create goals that will help you progress toward the competencies.
Specialization 1 (recommended)
In this course, you will reflect on how many of your Advocate for Change goals you have acted upon. You will describe the impact you’ve experienced on the goals you have acted upon. If you have not acted on your goals, you will make a plan to start working on them.
Specialization 2 (recommended)
In this course, you will start thinking about the next domain, Personal Effectiveness and Professional Identity. Reflect on what this domain means to you and how it could impact your work.
In this course, you will develop the Personal Effectiveness and Professional Identity domain. Read the materials provided in your course. Choose from the recommended competencies, or create ones of your own, that focus on areas you would like to develop. Then create goals that will help you progress toward the competencies.
Specialization 4 (recommended)
In this course, you will reflect on how many of your Personal Effectiveness and Professional Identity goals you have acted upon. You will describe the impact you’ve experienced on the goals you have acted upon. If you have not acted on your goals, you will make a plan to start working on them.
Specialization 5 (recommended)
In this course, you will start thinking about the next domain, Applied Research Competencies. Reflect on what this domain means to you and how it could impact your work.
Advanced Doctoral Course 1 (required)
In this course, you will develop the Applied Research Competencies domain. Read the materials provided in your course. Choose from the recommended competencies, or create ones of your own, that focus on areas you would like to develop. Then create goals that will help you progress toward the competencies.
Advanced Doctoral Course 2 (recommended)
In this course, you will reflect on how many of your Applied Research Competencies goals you have acted upon. You will describe the impact you’ve experienced on the goals you have acted upon. If you have not acted on your goals, you will make a plan to start working on them.
Advanced Doctoral Course 3 (recommended)
In this course, you will start reflecting on the overall process of developing and implementing your Professional Development Framework. Think about what you have learned during this process. Consider what parts of your framework you have been able to use successfully and what parts need some revision.
Advanced Doctoral Course 4 (required)
In your final course, you will review the complete developmental framework you have created. Think about the agency you feel you have in trying to change the structures in which you work to help you develop as a doctoral professional and whether the framework has helped you to gain more agency.
You will include your final reflection on your professional development in your capstone project under PART 2: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK.
