6. Personal and Professional Development

Personal and Professional Development

As organisations merge, shrink or shift strategies and as employees wade through quagmires of to-dos, meetings and information overload, it’s more important than ever that individuals at all levels engage and focus on what matters most.

Personal and professional development is about enabling yourself and your employees to achieve their potential.

This section has been split into three parts:
1. Training in the voluntary and community sector
2. Training in the local authority
3. Links to local education establishments

We are aware that development isn’t just about access to training and as this toolkit develops we will include more information about other ways to develop yourself and your staff team.

Modern techniques and concepts around professional development

Modern personal development is more than skills training. It offers useful alternative methods compared to coaching and mentoring too. Effective modern personal development now involves various integrated techniques, theories and behavioural concepts that extend options around traditional ideas. This article provides examples of modern methods of developing people - enabling real personal growth and change - for individuals and organizations.
http://www.businessballs.com/personaldevelopment.htm

Toolkit Index

1.    Introduction
2.    Developing your Organisation
       a.    Organisation 
       b.    Employees  
       c.    Moving Forward
3.    How to? Guides
4.    Safeguarding
5.    Common Assessment Framework (CAF)
6.    Personal and Professional Development
       a.    Training within the Voluntary Sector
       b.    Training within the Local Authority
       c.    Links to Local Education Establishments
7.    Job Profiles
8.    Glossary