16: How to Spend $700 on Your Professional Development - a podcast by Dave Stachowiak

This week's topic is how to spend $700 on your professional development.

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.

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Two overarching rules to keep in mind before you do anything:Talk to people who are doing the stuff you want to do
Have your own professional development plan (I use Michael Hyatt's life plan that I've discussed on prior shows)

BooksThe Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and PosnerHow to Win Friends and Influence People (and the new version for the digital age) both by Dale Carnegie
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time (link for the printed version)Amazon Prime - $79 a year (2 day shipping, streaming of movies, borrow one book a month for free)

PublicationsThe Wall Street Journal ($103 a year for the digital version)
Chronicle of Higher Education ($72.50 a year for the digital version)Harvard Business Review ($79 a year)
For help using an RSS reader see TechCouple episode #5Professional Associations

What you get? Local chapter and networking and social learningThese are great for resources too - workshops, classes, book lists, seminars
Many are $100-$200 annuallyProfessional Journals

Leader to Leader Journal ($200/year)Extended Education programs at local universities

UCI Education is great for people in Southern California - find a great program near you!Software education

Lynda.com ($25 a month or $250 annually)Here's a link for a free 7-day trial on Lynda.com

iTunes UI mentioned the Justice series by Michael Sandel at Harvard

Massive Open Online CoursesHere's an example of one coming up from Stanford: Technology Entrepreneurship
Academic Earth is a great clearinghouse for these coursesThe 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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