Event Details
Event Title How to Make the Most of an Individual Development Plan (virtual)
Location zoom
Sponsor The Graduate School
Date/Time 01/27/2026 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
For more information, contact the event administrator: Kimberli Kuecker kki@ad.unc.edu
 
Wondering where you want to go in your academic journey? An Individual Development Plan—or IDP—serves as a shared roadmap. It guides us in setting clear professional goals, celebrating past achievements, and honestly assessing our current skills against both near-term milestones and long-term aspirations. More importantly, an IDP sparks open dialogue between graduate students and mentors, while sharpening our self-awareness around the choices we make every day. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll dive into interactive self-assessment tools and skills-mapping exercises to turn our insights into concrete, measurable outcomes. We’ll also practice strategies for using the IDP as a collaborative communication and decision-making tool—so we can confidently chart our path forward. 

This workshop is offered as part of the Graduate Student Experience Initiative.

This is a virtual event and you will receive the Zoom link after you register.