Personal Development Planning
To start your journey North West Employers has produced a template for personal development planning and a series of questions to support the process.
Shaping a Personal Development Plan – Questions to Yourself
A personal development plan is intended to set out the skills, knowledge, experience and competence needed to improve your performance now and to meet your future aspirations.
It should start with articulating where you want to get to:
- Where do you want to be – ideal self, goals?
- Key priorities/new challenges in your job – what would success look like?
Where are the development/learning gaps? What are your goals:
- How do you see your strengths, reflect on successes?
- Where are the development gaps/ where can you improve?
- Have you had any feedback help identify strengths and development needs, eg 360° feedback, line manager's feedback?
Setting some learning goals:
- What are the two or three priority learning goals for you?
- Development steps – what do you need to do that would contribute to achieving your goal?
- What are the critical timescales/milestones?
- What would success look like?
Where can I get help:
- What support is available, and what do you need from you manager?
- Feedback – how will you know how you are doing?
Review and assess impact:
- When will you review the impact of the development?
- Who can give you feedback about the impact of your development?
Personal Development Planning
Having asked some good questions, the next step is to make a commitment to action, and a generic template is available from North West Employers by clicking the link below.
Personal Development PlanningMaking a Learning Pledge The Campaign for Learning is a national organisation set up to promote learning and is working for an inclusive society in which learning is understood, valued and accessible to everyone as of right. It aims to stimulate learning that will sustain people for life.
Key elements of their work are national promotion campaigns such as Learning at Work Day, policy development and research.
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