PD Module

I have been nominated by my superior to attend the "personal development module" organized by the company on 9-10 Mar 2009. It was a 1.5 days workshop. This workshop is about how to develop our own personal or professional plan....

So, to be successful it is good practice to work in partnership with our employer. We should realize, however, that ownership of our PD record is ours and no one else's.

The plan we establish will need to be flexible and change as our job requirements and aspirations change....

Change is continuous in all aspects of life and efforts you put into keeping abreast of new knowledge and expanding our abilities will reap rewards when opportunities arise.

It will have become clear that a key feature of PD is training but the important difference between PD and training is that PD is structures to suit us and our career.

It needs to be balanced between the clinical aspects and non-clinical aspects (i.e. management skills, customer care, interpersonal skills etc) of short and long-term and will often involve aspects that are not viewed as 'training' in its strictest sense, e.g. coaching, secondment, research, reading, agency work training others, mentoring.

In fact many believe that the majority of our learning should come from experience and not the traditional training and qualification.

Remember to balance short and long term needs as well as personal ones.

So, what is your goal? Do you have a PD plan?