Continuing Personal Development
Everyone - not just 'professionals' - needs to continually develop their know-how, expertise and talents. This is vital in order to keep up to date in the face of relentless changes and to remain marketable/employable. This booklet makes a strong case for CPD by dealing with all the main objections and suggesting ways to keep people motivated. The booklet aims to help people become effective self-developers by showing them how to exploit everyday learning opportunities and how to produce feasible personal development plans and keep a learning log.
Buyers Guide
What is the purpose of this booklet?
To remind people that they, and they alone, must take responsibility for their personal development and to give them the necessary encouragement and tools to become effective self-developers. The booklet shows exactly how to make robust personal development plans and to keep a learning log. The booklet deliberately places emphasis on personal development, as opposed to professional development. This is not in any way to disparage the importance of professional development; it is just that personal development is more all-embracing and includes the development of the whole person, not just their professional expertise. The booklet
Is it for me? What is the target population for this booklet?
Since everyone, no matter what their role or seniority, is responsible for their self-development, the booklet is likely to be useful for, well, everyone. It is written in an encouraging style and faces squarely up to all the obstacles people have to overcome in order to make their development the priority it deserves to be. Everyone, without exception, stands to benefit from the advice and tools included in this booklet.
Who wrote the booklet?
Dr Peter Honey is the author and he has been a keen advocate of life-long learning long before the phrase was invented. In this booklet he integrates two previous booklets - one on making personal development plans and the other on keeping learning logs. Peter is a chartered occupational psychologist, management consultant and author of numerous publications about learning and personal development. For over 30 years his primary interest has been helping people to learn effectively from work-based experiences. He is a Patron of the Campaign for Learning and a trustee of the Lifelong Learning Foundation and the Prisoners’ Education Trust. He is also a Fellow of the RSA, CIPD and ITOL. He was also one of the founder members of the distinguished group that produced A Declaration on Learning.
What difference will it make?
Potentially a vast difference! Since this booklet is about self-development if you adopted the advice it offers it could be a life changing experience. The booklet will show you how to:
- Put yourself first (and others a close second)
- Improve your current performance
- Prepare yourself for future changes
- Seek out learning/development opportunities
- Learn from planned and unplanned events
- Assess your own development needs
- Assess your own progress
- Experiment and try new things
- Review experiences
- Identify lessons learned
- Implement lessons learned
In how many ways could I use the booklet?
You could:
- Use it to produce personal development plans
- Use it to crystallise your daily learning by keeping a learning log
- Use it to review your learning (either by yourself or in conversation with other people)
- Use the ideas to keep yourself motivated
- Use it to provide your professional body or institution with ‘evidence’ that you are doing CPD
- Use it to help you identify and exploit a whole variety of learning opportunities
- If you are a trainer or developer, you could use the booklet as an ideal handout for your learners.
So, why should I buy it?
Because it will provide you with all you need to become an effective proactive and reactive learner (these combine to cover every eventuality). Embracing self-development will not only improve your performance at whatever you chose to tackle, it will also make you more marketable and more fulfilled in your life and work. Too good to be true? Just try it.
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