Planner Clement Lau shares his New Year's resolutions: ten professional development and career growth goals for planners and urban design professionals.
For those planners and other urban design professionals who never quite got around to writing up their list of New Year resolutions for 2016, LA area planner Clement Lau shares his and welcomes everyone to borrow all or part:
- Be a Better Project Manager
- Improve Your Writing
- Travel More
- Work Better with Consultants
- Attend a Conference
- Read More
- Exercise More
- Be More Thankful
- Find Time to Rest
- Share Your Knowledge and Experience
Lau goes on to discuss why and how he thinks each of these activities can benefit a planner or other design professional career, as well as resources to get started—including articles he wrote about several of the activities.
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