Personal development programme
This programme provides a challenging, yet supportive environment to increase self-awareness, identify future aspirations and develop attitudes and skills in self-management that will enable the realisation of personal potential.
Level
Programme is appropriate for learners at entry, intermediate and advanced levels.
Objectives
- To increase awareness of self and others
- To understand personal styles and preferences
- To stimulate creative thinking about personal development
- To build a personal development plan for the future
- To clarify future aspirations and identify key objectives
- To develop and practice techniques on self-coaching
Process
Self-Assessment – Learners to reflect on and identify 5 personal strengths, 3 areas for development, their future developmental aspirations and what drivers their development. Questions to stimulate and challenge thinking.
Self-Awareness – P.I.E. – performance, image, exposure. Making an Impact. Johari Window – arena, façade, blind spot and unknown (potential). Implications for personal development. Johari self-assessment – increase awareness of personal awareness and openness.
Learning to Learn – Learning as natural. Learning cycle – conscious competence, comfort zones, habit, autopilot, self-awareness. Learning styles – activist, reflector, theorist and pragmatist. Self-assessment. Impact on self / others.
Personal Style – Understand styles / preferences. Increase awareness of personal style. Impact of me on me, me on others, others on me. Psychometric – introversion / extroversion, confidence / caution, benevolence / tough mindedness, structured / unstructured, conforming / non-conforming.
Personal Drivers – Impact of personal drivers on self and others. TA Drivers – be strong, be perfect, try hard, hurry up, please people. Self-assessment. Impact of me on me, me on others, others on me.
Emotional Intelligence – Impact of emotions on development / performance. Mean by emotional intelligence. Taking responsibility for our emotional state. Competencies in emotionally intelligent behaviour.
Creative Visualisation – Creative exercise for learners to use a variety of creative materials to construct a 3D metaphor of how they see themselves in 2, 3 or 5 years time. Learners to present metaphors – facilitate observations / questions to stimulate and challenge thinking.
Goal Setting – Linking to the metaphor, learners to identify SMART objectives, including milestones, for their future personal development. Presentation of objectives – facilitate questions / observations to challenge thinking.
Self-Management – Taking responsibility for personal development. Self-discipline and continuous effort. Overcoming obstacles and celebrating successes. Personal organisation. Developing support networks. Sustaining motivation in practice.
Self-Coaching – Mean by self-coaching – creating self-awareness / taking responsibility. GROW self-coaching model – goals, reality, options and will. Practicalities – when, where, how, etc. Identifying questions to challenge own thinking and behaviour. Self-coaching practical session.
Self-motivation – Being a self-starter. Personal motivators – intrinsic and extrinsic. Self-assessment – McClellend’s 3 motivators – achievement, power and affiliation. Self-limiting attitudes and behaviours. Impediments to motivation – cynicism, fear, etc. Self-confidence and doubt.
Options
Programme can be adapted as a 1 or 2 day workshop, with 8 – 10 learners.
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