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Personal Development
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Personal Development Guide
With a busy schedule you may sometimes find yourself short of time. This guide will help you be even more successful by helping you gain more value from your learning in the time you do have available.
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How to Write a Personal Development Plan
This guide explains how to write a Personal Development Plan for your learning needs in order to build capability and performance.
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Tips for Effective Coaching
Effective coaching can enable you to perform at your very best by eliciting your own solutions and resources. This guide provides some really powerful top tips.
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Career Mentoring Tips
This guide provides tips for Career Mentoring and demonstrates how you can deliver real value from being a mentor, and the personal development benefits mentoring can offer.
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Creating a Learning Culture
As a leader, you’re accountable for the results of your team. The value and impact of these results can be significantly increased by you taking accountability for developing an effective learning culture.
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Attending a Training Course
You can often gain valuable learning and payback from well selected training course attendance. However, this level of learning can be optimised by adoption of the tips in this Guide.
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Job Assignments for Personal Development
One of the most powerful methods of personal development is some form of hands-on development achieved through a Job Assignment or additional responsibilities etc. This may focus on improving knowledge, skills, behaviours or any combination of these.
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Benchmarking for Personal Development
Benchmarking provides the opportunity to quickly access ‘best practice’ for a specific topic or issue, make comparisons with your own knowledge or practices, identify opportunities for improvements and develop plans to realise these improvements.
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Job Shadowing Tips for Personal Development
Job Shadowing can provide you with the opportunity to observe someone (who has a known level of competency in specific activities) undertake these duties for a period of time.
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Learning Buddy for Personal Development
A Learning Buddy, often a peer, can provide you with a meaningful discussion, where the aim is to help you develop skills and knowledge to improve performance.
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Secondment for Personal Development
Secondment is your placement in another role for a defined period of time in order to fulfil a specific business purpose whilst simultaneously developing your skills, knowledge and behaviours. This guide focuses on 4 types of Secondment.
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Personal Development Outside the Workplace
This guide provides guidance and ideas for personal development outside the workplace as a means to improve your current level of knowledge, skills and behaviours.
Career Development
Career Development - Experienced Individuals
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Network Tips for Career Development
This guide is designed to help experienced directors, managers, or specialists use networking to aid career development
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How to Find a Job
This Guide explains the most effective methods for job search and is designed to help experienced individuals such as directors, managers, or specialists
Career Development - Undergraduates & Graduates
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Assessment Centre Guide
This Assessment Centre Guide is designed to help undergraduates and graduates deliver an excellent performance at an employer’s assessment centre.
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How to Prepare for an Assessment Centre
This guide explains how effective assessment centre preparation can help undergraduates and graduates secure the career of their choice.
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How to find an Internship
The guide is designed to help undergraduates who need to plan and secure their own internship as opposed to an internship organised by a university or college.
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Finding Undergraduate Jobs – 5 Steps
This guide explains 5 steps to a job for undergraduates. The guide can also be of value to individuals who have recently graduated.
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Undergraduate CV Guide
This guide explains how to write an undergraduate CV or resume to submit to prospective employers during the final year of university or college. The guide can also help individuals who have already graduated.
Time Management Tool
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Time Management Tool
This guide is designed to help experienced directors, managers, or specialists use networking to aid career development