Effective Personal Development leads to a more fruitful partnership between companies and the people who work within them, thereby enabling each to achieve their goals and objectives. Success, however, requires each party to "own" the responsibility for that achievement.
For a Company, this will mean creating an environment that supports personal growth and development of its people, as necessary. This will lead to long term profitable success for all parties.
For individuals, it means the acceptance of responsibility for managing their achievements on behalf of the Company and themselves through personal performance and career management. This will result in a more motivated and self managing team of individuals that are capable of adapting and developing so as to continue to be successful in a changing world.
Whose Responsibility?
In moving forward, both the Company and its people will need to view their roles and responsibilities in a new light. Although management will still be responsible for employing the best people and resources to achieve the results expected of them and retaining the accountability for what is achieved, the people themselves will also have an individual role to play.
Each
Person will be required to take responsibility for managing their own
development. They will not only have to take ownership for the achievement of
the results expected of them, but also for the process of continually reviewing
the value they currently add and planning to develop and enhance that value
for future roles.
The
Company will need to provide its people with the information, skills,
knowledge and opportunities to perform the roles required of them. It will also
seek to give individuals the opportunity of continually evaluating their personal
development plans against a realistic assessment of their current potential
and against the background of future strategies and prospects for the organisation.
Self – Marketing in Industry
It is now essential for each individual to be able to demonstrate their continued value to an organisation. Value can be expressed in terms of one’s ability to contribute effective results that will significantly impact on the organisation in areas of critical business need.
Marketing one’s value is an essential activity for career-minded individuals. Because the needs of organisations will continue to change rapidly in the light of market and economic forces they will not always have the time, ability or resources to be able to identify where skills and experiences can be effectively transferred, particularly across functional or business unit boundaries.
It will be necessary for each individual to demonstrate how they can personally contribute in a variety of alternative fields by the adaptation, application or development of existing abilities and experiences.
To do this effectively, each individual will have to understand both the range and diversity of their current talents and experiences, as well as be able to present these in a way that clearly shows how they can be adapted to the new or modified needs of an organisation.
The notion that competence is accepted as given can no longer apply. As the business environment changes so will the required competencies. Therefore each individual will need a mechanism to demonstrate evidence of their competencies in order to show their value both to the company and to themselves.
The Personal Assessment and Development Workshop
This workshop has been designed by Carlton Stewart to help each person to begin a process of personal assessment and evaluation, in the context of the development programme, the future of each participant and the future needs of the business.
Using the foundation of their competence assessment and achievements each person will be able re-assess their performance in terms of:
Personality
- type, preferences, styles and impact
Values,
motivators, drivers and attitudes
Skills,
strengths and abilities
Competencies
appropriate to their role
The workshop will:
Enable
each person to plan their future development and begin to take responsibility
for their own learning
Enable
each person to generate their own Development Objectives and Plan in line with
their overall development programme.
Methodology
The Workshop will be informal in style and will aim to help each individual re-assess their role and career in terms of:
Learning
from past career history
Learning
from achievements
Learning
from personal attributes
The workshop will use a variety of exercises and questionnaires to support the process of development planning.
Plus one Follow-Up Meeting per delegate to:
Reinforce
Programme Learning
Introduce
and contract Mentor Arrangements
Fine
tune Personal Development Plans.