EPISODE 25 (50) Grab training - stay alert for personal development opportunities

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail” observed the talented Benjamin Franklin, inventor of the lightning conductor.

Since you’re listening to my Podcasts, says Andrew in this latest Podcast., you’re certainly not planning to fail. 

 He proposes that you create a Personal Development Plan (PDP) as an important route to success at work.

A PDP is your route map for growing and developing during your working life.  It’s a pathway to success. 

Is it worth the hassle of devising one asks Andrew?  Consider some of the benefits he suggests. These include:   

• A clear statement of your chosen goals
• Clarity on when you’ve reached these goals.
• Identify your strengths and weaknesses systematically.
• Makes you more employable. 

To sum up, your PDP offers the best possible chance for success and maximises your potential.

The first crucial question for a PDP is: “What are my goals? What do I want to achieve?” 

 Your answers, which you record, may cover a year or a lifetime. What matters is the action of setting down your wishes or your intentions. 

 Setting down your goals in this way has a known yet powerful effect. It starts to influence your life. 

The second crucial question for your PDP is: “What do I mean by success?

 Faced with this challenge of the meaning of success, some people prefer to give it a miss. Others may bounce right back with clear answers. What will be your reaction?

The most critical part of your PDP is its ability to guide you in spotting essential training and development opportunities.  Grab them while they exist.

You are the best judge of training and whether it takes you further towards your PDP goals or not. Also, treat training at work as a never-ending journey, not a single event.


Why not listen to the Podcast again to get a firmer feel for follow-through action at www.50Ways.site

You'll also learn how to obtain the relevant e-learning mobile unit to consolidate your learning further.

All 50 Ways podcasts end with three actions you can take today to do better.

Can't wait for Series 2 to run its course? Then buy Andrew's new book, published on Amazon, and there's also an Audio version.

Further reading and videos: Andrew recommends some useful follow-through material which you can find for each episode at

www.myhappinessatwork.com/reading/categories/research-reading

and

www.myhappinessatwork.com/watch.

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It's an essential resource for all job starters and those at work for a few years.
Dip in and out and take what seems helpful.

www.myhappinessatwork.com/book