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A Professional Growth Plan Can Help You Be More Effective & Efficient

A Professional Takes Responsibility for Their Growth and Natural Opportunities

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  • Professional growth plan template
  • Professional growth best books
  • Professional growth book references
  • Professional growth podcasts
  • Professional growth YouTube channels
  • Online professional course links

Professional Growth Plan Template

Having a professional growth plan helps create self-accountability and implementation intention, which helps with follow-through. 


You can download and use the one-page pdf below or create your one-page plan. This is a free (no email necessary) downloadable, and computer fillable, template, to help you plan your professional growth.

Professional-Growth-Plan-v2 (pdf)

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Best Professional Growth Books

Reading, or listening (Audible.com), and applying the best professional growth books can give you a competitive advantage.


  • So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
  • Linchpin, and The Dip both by Seth Godin 
  • Mastery by Robert Greene
  • Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
  • The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann
  • Give and Take by Adam Grant
  • Principles by Ray Dalio
  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Sizing People Up by Robin Dreeke and Cameron Stauth
  • The Proximity Principle by Ken Coleman 
  • Rise and Grind by Daymond John
  • Limitless by Jim Kwik
  • Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
  • Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
  • Decisive by Chip Heath
  • Make Your Bed by Admiral William H. McRaven
  • The E Myth Revisited has specific books for real estate agents and investors, dentists, contractors, and HVAC contractors

Professional Growth Book References

  • Try not to be a man of success but a man of value (Albert Einstein). 
  • Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion... You can become a linchpin within an organization when you see truth, understand the situation, help the organization gain momentum with helpful insights, and focus on creating value (Linchpin by Seth Godin). 
  • Following your passion can be dangerous... Instead, be so good they can't ignore you by increasing your skills and your career capital. Eventually you might have an opportunity to cash in your career capital for work you are more passionate about (So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport). 
  • Boredom no longer signals the need for distraction, but rather the need for new challenges to conquer (Mastery by Robert Greene). 
  • 10,000 hours is the magic number of greatness (Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell).
  • The five laws of stratospheric success are the law of value, the law of compensation, the law of influence, the law of authenticity, and the law of receptivity (The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann). 
  • Life is a struggle and the potential for failure is ever present, but those who live in fear of failure, or hardship, or embarrassment will never achieve their potential (Make Your Bed by Retired Admiral William H. McRaven). 
  • Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently (Henry Ford). 
  • To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to achievement (As a Man Thinketh by James Allen). 
  • A finite game has known players, fixed rules, and an agreed upon objective. An infinite game has known and unknown players, changeable rules, and the objective is to stay in the game as long as possible. You're actually only competing against yourself, and the objective is to become a better version of ourselves this year than we were last year (The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek). 
  • People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it (Start With Why by Simon Sinek).  
  • Professional growth forces are knowledge, skills, resources, and relationships, and they all apply to each of the professional growth areas of focus, which are your role, organization, industry, and market. (Opportunity Truth by Jason A. Krause). 


Professional growth is supported by personal growth and supports leadership growth.

Best Professional Growth Podcasts

Executive Minds, Happen to Your Career, Career Tools, Career Cloud Radio, People Behind the Science, Repurpose Your Career, Invest Talk, Center for Investment Excellence, Mind of a Millionaire, Technology Revolution, Trailblazers, Unprofessional Engineering, The Engineering Career Coach, The Civil Engineering Podcast, Healthcare Executive, Restaurant Unstoppable, Eaters Digest, A Deeper Dive, Running Restaurants, Gym Secrets, Bigger Pockets Real Estate, Real Estate Uncensored, Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever, Aviation Week, Airline Pilot Guy, MotorWeek, Under the Hood, Automotive News Daily Drive, Lodging Leaders, Suite Spot, Hospitality Design, Insurance Law, The Communicators (IT & Telecom), The Construction Leading Edge, The Art of Construction, Advanced Manufacturing Now, The Manufacturing Show, The Logistics of Logistics, and Leaders in Supply Chain and Logistics.

Best Professional Growth YouTube Channels

TED talks, Talks at Google, iBiology Career and Professional Development, Association for Talent Development, Learning Technologies, eLearner Engaged, and Leadership with Mike.

Online Professional Courses

There are many great online courses for professional growth, consider first checking the free online college classes at edx.org, coursera.org, and OpenCulture.com. If you are interested in programming consider codecademy.com. 


Consider Jordan Harbinger's free 6-Minute Networking course

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