Personal Development Planning

Personal Development Planning

Course Outline

Work Ethics – Exploring and clarifying personal values, attitudes and motivations at work.

Behavioural Profiles – Understanding personal behavioural strengths and development needs.

Personal Profiling – Analysing personal knowledge, transferable skills and expertise; technical and professional abilities.

Goals and ambitions – Discovering personal ambitions; planning long and short-term goals and objectives.

Identifying Personal Learning Needs - Exploring what you want to learn in relation to your current role and in relation to longer-term career goals

Learning Styles – Exploring the four key learning styles and preferences, and how they relate to the ‘Adult Learning Cycle’

Formal and informal training and development processes – Examining how to take advantage of a range of opportunities for personal development.

Action Planning - Identifying continuing personal development needs and extending learning into the workplace.

Feedback

“It helped me be more aware of what my strengths and skills are, and what I really want from my career, so I am now better able to plan my on-going development and be more strategic in my choice of development activities.”

“The course was well structured and very well facilitated, it was very thought provoking and enlightening.”

“I learnt a lot about my attitudes and values and how I need to incorporate these into my personal development plan”

"It was an excellent course and I learnt a lot about personal development planning that I will be applying to my own situation, but it will also help me to encourage members of my team to be more thought through in their own ongoing development.”

“It helped reinforce how important it is to stay focussed on where you’re heading”