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Coaching for Leaders

16: How to Spend $700 on Your Professional Development

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Business, Management, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2011

⏱️ 34 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Frances, one of our listeners, contacted me this week to say that she has $700 in a “use it or lose it” budget within the next week and wanted some advice on what to do. Since many of these resources would be helpful to all of us, it’s the topic for this week’s show.

Two overarching rules to keep in mind before you do anything:

  1. Talk to people who are doing the stuff you want to do
  2. Have your own professional development plan (I use Michael Hyatt’s life plan that I’ve discussed on prior shows)

Books

Publications

Professional Associations

  • What you get? Local chapter and networking and social learning
  • These are great for resources too – workshops, classes, book lists, seminars
  • Many are $100-$200 annually

Professional Journals

Extended Education programs at local universities

  • UCI Education is great for people in Southern California – find a great program near you!

Software education

Massive Open Online Courses

The Great Courses is great for lectures and classes from top professors as well, as long as you’re OK getting lots of catalogs from them

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0:00.0

Hi everyone you're listening to coaching skills for leaders this is episode 16

0:04.6

airing on December 5th 2011 produced by innovate learning

0:10.3

maximizing human potential.

0:13.0

Welcome to coaching skills for leaders.

0:19.0

This is the show for leaders who want to develop their coaching skills

0:22.0

so they can influence the success of others, their organization, and themselves.

0:27.0

Whether you're a seasoned leader or you're leading people for the first time,

0:31.0

improving your coaching skills will drive your success and most importantly,

0:35.7

the success of others.

0:37.4

This week's topic is how to spend $700 on your professional development. Well, hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Coaching Skills for Leaders.

0:48.0

My name is Dave Stahoviac, and I'm coming to you from Innovate Learning Studio here in beautiful Orange County, California, where it has been exceptionally windy this week.

0:57.0

And today, we're going to look at how to spend $700 on your professional development?

1:03.4

Well, how did this topic come up?

1:05.6

Well, one of our listeners to this show, Francis,

1:09.2

had contacted me this week and had said, hey I would love your advice because I have $700 in our budget

1:18.1

from my organization for professional development that I need to use in the next week before we close out our fiscal year.

1:25.0

And I have some ideas, but I wanted to get some input from you on what you thought I might want to do to spend my money.

1:33.5

And so as we started talking, I was thinking,

1:37.0

hey, some of these topics would be helpful

1:39.3

for our entire listening audience.

1:41.9

And so I've put together a list here today of if I had $700

1:47.0

to spend on my professional development,

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