{"id":272,"date":"2018-07-31T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/research-integrity\/?page_id=272"},"modified":"2018-08-10T12:17:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T16:17:24","slug":"individual-development-plan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/research-integrity\/individual-development-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual Development Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In academia IDP&#8217;s are generally thought of more for graduate students and post-docs; however, it is a great self-evaluation tool for faculty as well.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You have your mentor\/advisor, now what?<\/li>\n<li>How do you know what to do?<\/li>\n<li>How do you know what is expected of you?<\/li>\n<li>What do you expect of your advisor\/mentor?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You need to start a conversation with your advisor\/mentor. One way to approach this is to develop an IDP, an individual development plan. An IDP is a dynamic, private, annual self-evaluation. It is a way of helping define and pursue your career goals. The IDP is written and developed by you and serves as a framework for discussion between the mentor and mentee and may include a mix of both academic and non-academic goals. It can be a specific or broad as you need at a particular time.<\/p>\n<p>An IDP can have many uses, overall it is a career planning tool that helps you explore possibilities and set goals. Your IDP should be a living document that is updated regularly; your IDP examines your skills, interests and values. It is a list of goals mapped to a timeline; it is not an assessment tool. Assessments are written by the mentor to track achievements\/accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>As a graduate student you can use your IDP as a semester\/yearly planner, making sure you include all the milestones required for your degree. As a post-doc it can help you define your career goals and provide you ways of leveraging your expertise. Graduate students and post-docs<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-OD-14-113.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supported by NIH<\/a><\/strong> are required to complete an IDP.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways your IDP is your plan for success. In preparing your IDP you will evaluate your skills, values and interests, you will conduct a self-assessment (strengths and weaknesses), set goals (long term and short time) including how to overcome your perceived weaknesses. When this is completed, you can put your plan into place.<\/p>\n<p>There are many different formats for an IDP; one place to start for scientists and engineers is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/myidp.sciencecareers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">myIDP<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Information about myIDP and articles that you learn more about IDPs can be found <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/careers\/2013\/05\/myidp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In academia IDP&#8217;s are generally thought of more for graduate students and post-docs; however, it is a great self-evaluation tool for faculty as well. You have your mentor\/advisor, now what? How do you know what to do? How do you <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/research-integrity\/individual-development-plan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Individual Development Plan<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/research-integrity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/research-integrity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/research-integrity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/research-integrity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/research-integrity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/research-integrity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/research-integrity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/research-integrity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}