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Personal Journaling as aTool for Professional Development
November 16, 2017 Dr. Mitchell Friedman, Presenter
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We’ll start where you might be now
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By considering images you may have in mind when you hear the word “journal”
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But we’re talking about work. The professional arena.
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In fact, journaling for personal and professional development not entirely dissimilar
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This preview brings us to what we’ll be covering today
• Why journal?
• What’s in a professional journal?
• Journal options
• Making time and place to journal
• Using what you write for professional purposes
• Prompts to spur writing Anything
else?
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(Briefly) starting with
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Why I journal
• Record events, activities, thoughts
• Begin difficult projects
• Get things off my mind
• Process what’s going on
Gain insight through perspective
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So what does it mean to journal for professional development purposes?
Recording what’s important at work
•Significant events •Meeting, conference notes •Achievements •Fears, worries, anxieties •Anything relevant to your professional life
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Professionally related content you might include in your journal
• Agenda for a meeting Your
thoughts?
• Outline for an article
• Strategies for recruiting volunteers
• Self-assessment of project work
• Ideas for dealing with difficult person
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What types of content can you include in a journal?
Anything else?
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The “Process”
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Means of capturing and recording your data (1)
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Means of capturing and recording your data (2)
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Means of capturing and recording your data (3)
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Means of capturing and recording your data (4)
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Means of capturing and recording your data (5)
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Means of capturing and recording your data (6)
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Any other ideas?
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Where to put your journal entries
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Journal option (Microsoft Word)
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Journal option (Moleskine)
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Journal option (generic notebook)
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Journal option (loose leaf binder)
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In short, too many options
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You need
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Yet major challenges await you
Your thoughts?
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And finding a place to journal
Your thoughts?
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When you might use what you include in your journal for professional development purposes
• Assessing job satisfaction and performance
• Completing performance reviews
• Writing articles
• Contributing to social media
• Developing presentations
• Identifying subjects to study
• Anything else?
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Some prompts for when you feel stuck
• Describe what concerns or worries you right now
• Describe what excites you right now
• Describe what you’re avoiding right now
• Explain what you did yesterday and how you felt
• Discuss what you have planned for the upcoming
day
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Most importantly, remember there are no rules related to journaling
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So make it your own
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Additional resources
Christina Baldwin, Life’s Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing, 1991. Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, J.P. Tarcher, 1992. Lois Guarino, Writing Your Authentic Self, Dell Books, 1999. Heather Sellers, Page after Page: Discover the confidence and passion you need to start writing and keep writing, Writer’s Digest Books, 2005.
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