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Developing a Personal Development Plan

Developing a Personal Development Plan. Developing Business Practice – 302LON. Unit: 10 Knowledgecast : 1. Module Learning Outcomes. In this Knowledgecast, we will: Analyse a range of learning styles and the factors that influence successful study

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Developing a Personal Development Plan

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  1. Developing a Personal Development Plan Developing Business Practice – 302LON Unit: 10Knowledgecast: 1

  2. Module Learning Outcomes In this Knowledgecast, we will: • Analyse a range of learning styles and the factors that influence successful study • Discuss the value of reflection and self-evaluation as a learner • Prepare a Personal Development Plan to address areas in need of development throughout your programme of study

  3. Module Overview

  4. Lifelong Learning • “Lifelong, lifewide, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons” • Lifelong learning enhances: • social inclusion and active citizenship • personal development • competitiveness and employability. • Continually adapting to change by acquiring: • New skills • New ways of thinking Source: UK Department of Education (2000) Source: EU Commission (2006)

  5. Your Core Skills Source: www.qaa.ac.uk

  6. How Do People Learn?

  7. Honey & Mumford Learning Styles • How can I use this information? • Effective learners will be able to learn in all 4 styles • Identify your strengths or preferred learning style • Reflect on your past experiences of learning where learning was not successful • Identify opportunities to learn using each of the 4 styles

  8. Reflection: How do you do it? • Schedule sufficient time to reflect on your experiences • Being clear about what specific experience you are reflecting on • Choose a suitable method to record your reflections • Use the skill of ‘critical thinking’ to consider ideas and evidence • Be honest with yourself about your thoughts and your feelings • Be open to feedback

  9. Managing Your Studies ‘…still recognised as relevant for the managers of today and tomorrow.’ Moorcroft (2000:8-10) Based on Fayol’s 5 Elements of Management (1916)

  10. Motivation – Achieving Your Goals ‘At present, goal-setting is one of the most influential theories of work motivation applicable to all cultures’. Hannagan (2005:363) Based on Goal Theory (Locke, 1968)

  11. 5 Factors for Successful Team Working • Clear and shared goals • Agreed ways of working • Effective communication • Support and cooperation • Regular review of progress

  12. A Simple Communication Framework

  13. 4 Assessment Steps: No 4 – Plan the Time Why Don’t All Students Succeed?

  14. Stages of Research

  15. Being a Reflexive Practitioner The aims of reflexivity include: • Examine your unconscious reactions to the research methodology • Explore the dynamic between the researcher and the researched • Understand the role of the researcher in the construction of knowledge ‘An acknowledgement of the implications and significance of a researcher’s choices as designer, observer and writer.’

  16. What are we going to cover next? In our next Knowledgecast, we will look at: • Analyse a range of learning styles and the factors that influence successful study • Discuss the value of reflection and self-evaluation as a learner • Prepare a Personal Development Plan to address areas in need of development throughout your programme of study

  17. Knowledgecast Summary In this Knowledgecast, we have looked at: • Analyse a range of learning styles and the factors that influence successful study • Recognising the link between learning through experience and reflection as a key management skill • Discuss the value of reflection and self-evaluation as a learner • Reflection as a key academic and business skill to support deep learning • Prepare a Personal Development Plan to address areas in need of development throughout your programme of study • The use of skills frameworks to help identify and create your academic and lifelong learning plans

  18. Seminar - Module Overview 1. Developing as a learner 10. Personal Development Planning 2. Working independently and with others 5. Using data in your studies 6. Business and management research 3. Academic writing 4. Critical thinking, reading and taking notes 9. Successful work experience 8. Effective self marketing tools 7. Career development strategies

  19. Seminar: Group Teach-In Student ‘Teach-Ins’ increase motivation to learn, promote deep learning and enhance self-esteem (Wagner and Gansemer-Topf, 2005) • Choose a topic from this module • Prepare a 5 minute ‘teach-in’ • Everyone actively participates • Recognise how your strengths have been used to produce your Teach-In • Be ready to run your session in our last Group Activity

  20. Group Activity: Group Teach-In Student ‘Teach-Ins’ increase motivation to learn, promote deep learning and enhance self-esteem (Wagner and Gansemer-Topf, 2005) • Choose a topic from this module • Prepare a 5 minute ‘teach-in’ • Everyone actively participates • Recognise how your strengths have been used to produce your Teach-In • Be ready to run your session in our last Group Activity

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