Your program has provided many opportunities for you to cultivate your competencies as a professional. Think about how your experiences contributed to and will continue to contribute to you becoming a more informed, reflective, and responsive professional. The Professional Impact Paper provides an opportunity for you to assess and reflect on your journey and the knowledge and skills you have developed to help you guide and support others.
For this submission, you will write a 4-page culminating paper reflecting on your personal and professional growth as a professional during your program journey and planning for continued professional development.
Step 1.
Download the Professional Impact PaperLinks to an external site. template and review the headings and guiding text.
Step 2.
Write your paper in the template using the guiding questions below. Personalize your paper by providing examples of how you translated the knowledge and skills you gained in your coursework into practice and authentic experiences and how you will continue to develop your professional skills.
Reflection
What professional qualities are most important to you, and how have these qualities been enhanced by your graduate experience?
Growth
How have you grown as a professional during the courses of your program journey?
Which leaders in your field or profession have influenced your transformation and why?
Application
What are the implications and applications of your learning for your profession? Share examples!
How can you apply the competencies you have gained or improved to make a difference in your personal and professional life and in the lives of others?
Ethical Perspectives
What is the nature of ethics in your profession?
When have you had to consider ethics in making decisions as a professional?
Looking Ahead
How will you continue to develop your professional skills?
What professional goals do you have?
Conclusion
Provide your closing ideas related to growth.
Step 3.
Submit an APA-formatted title page and your Professional Impact Paper.
