Personal development helps you to work more effectively, improve your performance, and develop your career. This topic gives you the tools you need to take responsibility for your own development, including self-study, self-appraisal and the use of a reflective journal.
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This exercise will help individuals to assess how proactive they are in relation to managing their career and personal development. Allow 40 minutes for completion.
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Useful tips for team members or yourself on how to complete a personal development plan.
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Use this guide to help your team express their development needs accurately and select the most appropriate development methods.
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This is a team session comprising a number of exercises and is designed to encourage your team to take personal responsibility for drafting and actioning their own personal development plan. Allow 1 hour and 45 minutes for completion.
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a process of documenting the activities you undertake to ensure you maximise your potential and achieve your career goals. Use the process outlined in this article to assess your CPD needs, identify relevant opportunities for development and record and evaluate your CPD activity effectively.
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People have different approaches to learning, e.g. by doing or by observing. Being able to use more than one learning style will help you maximise development opportunities. This article uses Honey and Mumford’s Learning Style Questionnaire as a tool for diagnosing your style.
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This simple exercise will help you to decide if you should undertake a development activity by prompting you to consider its benefits from a range of relevant perspectives.
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In order for learning to be successful, it’s imperative that you put any new-found knowledge and skills to use as soon as possible. Our handy template will help you to think through, and prepare for, putting what you learn into practice.
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A choice of templates to help you keep track of your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities and progress.
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This exercise helps provide focus to your development activites by prompting you to consider them in relation to your current job role.
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These tips will help employees prepare for, and get the most out of, their performance review meeting.
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This group exercise will introduce participants to a systematic process for expressing their responsibilities and desired outputs in a way that is measurable. Allow up to 50 minutes for completion.
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Evaluating the effectiveness of any development activites you undertake can help you identify any outstanding development needs, and establish lessons learned. This simple evaluation questionnaire will help you determine if your learning needs were met successfully.
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Having an aim provides focus and can help with motivation. Here we examine the benefits of setting goals and how to use them to best effect.
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Self appraisal describes a process where individuals, rather than managers, evaluate their own performance. Self appraisal is often used to complement existing performance review processes, as it can increase employee commitment to improve performance. This article looks at the development of self appraisal and presents some of the advantages and disadvantages associated with this approach.
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Organise your goals in a logical manner, using the S.M.A.R.T.E.R. method.
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Regular self appraisal is an important aspect of an inclusive performance review framework. As a result, many organisations use self appraisal to encourage their employees to evaluate and assess their own performance. If you have been asked to undertake a self appraisal, this article offers tips to ensure you conduct the process with fairness and objectivity.
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Reflection is an activity that helps individuals turn their experiences into learning opportunities. In this article, we examine Boud et al’s model of reflection that provides learners with a structured process to help them get the most from examining their activities and actions.
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A reflective journal helps to organise your thoughts and bring out new ideas. Here we offer some tips for keeping a reflective journal.
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This exercise will help individuals examine their experience in order to gain new understanding and appreciation which can lead to performance improvement.
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A summary of Schein’s refinement of Kurt Lewin’s fundamental change model of unfreezing, changing and refreezing.
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As part of your career management strategy you may decide to study for a qualification. This article outlines some key skills and tips to help you with get the most out of your studies – especially if it’s been a while since you last studied.
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