Chapter 2: Personal Growth and Behaviors Lesson 2: Professional Development
Unit 4: LET 4 – The Managing Leader 1
Performance Assessment Task
Chapter 2: Personal Growth and Behaviors
Professional Development [U4C2L2]
This performance assessment task gives you an opportunity to document your achievement
of the lesson’s competency:
Appraise your plans for the future
Directions
For this performance assessment task, you will think about your 10-year professional and
personal goals. You will think through to these 10 years and imagine the roadblocks,
achievements, and desires you have along the way. It may be difficult to know what kind of
professional timeline you need to develop, predominantly because you don’t know what you don’t
know! However, back up from that 10-year goal and consider what other types of credentials,
training, or milestones you have. At the same time, consider your personal goals. For example,
perhaps you desire to be married and have started a family in 10 years. Perhaps this will conflict
with your professional goals or
vice versa. Begin this process by following the steps outlined
below. For this assessment you will:
1. Complete Exercise #1 – Professional and Personal Development Action Plan.
2. Develop your professional and personal goals to accomplish within 10 years. Remember,
goals can change, so don’t be worried. Consider this exercise a great start toward
professional development planning.
3. Share your plan with a peer or someone you trust and value. Perhaps the person you
interviewed earlier in this lesson would be a good person to share your plan with. They may
help you think through some situations that you haven’t thought of, changing some of your
timeline and benchmarks along the way.
4. Once you’ve completed Exercise #1 – Professional and Personal Development Action Plan,
develop a timeline to showcase where you are heading and what you may need to do along
the way to develop yourself professionally and personally. Consider using a graphic organizer
or Thinking Map® to illustrate your action plan.
5. Use the attached scoring guide criteria for what you need to do to complete this task.
6. Submit your completed performance assessment task and scoring guide to your instructor for
evaluation and a grade.
RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended that you add this performance assessment task to
your Cadet Portfolio.
