Behavioural profiles
Featured in the Managing Career Development training manual
By Andrew Mayo & Geoff Atkinson& Karen Glasse
Category: Personal Development
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
An individual’s capability is made up of a complex, interacting set of elements. Technical and professional know-how, experience and networks are covered in other training activities. This training activity is concerned with the way individuals behave – on their own, working with another person and in groups.
You introduce the concept of behaviour to ensure a common level of understanding. Participants then look at what behaviour is and is not, agree a definition, and practise writing descriptions of behavioural strengths. Using the specimen set provided here, or an alternative set already used inside the organisation, participants examine behavioural areas and the detailed behaviours that form behavioural profiles. They go on to explore their own behavioural profile, and how it matches future roles, through an exercise that profiles their current job and a job they aspire to against the behaviours. The training activity concludes with the participants recording the specific behavioural areas they might want to work on in their plan in later training activities. They are also given a more detailed scale for rating behaviours.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to help participants to understand their personal impact on a situation or on other people, and thus develop their careers. Participants need to understand their personal behavioural strengths and development needs.
- Themes:
- Appraisal skills,
- Behaviour styles,
- Career planning and development,
- Competencies,
- Continuing professional development,
- Interviewing skills,
- Life and career development,
- Management development,
- Personal development,
- Personal development planning,
- Personal effectiveness,
- Recruitment and selection,
- Self-development,
- Work planning,
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 6 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:40:00 |
| No of Pages: | 22 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers towards the beginning of any programme concerned with the matching of people and jobs – selection, interviewing, appraisal, and so on. In a career development context, it is most useful for those who have already started thinking about behaviour at work at a fairly detailed level. If this is not the case, see ‘Understanding my skills’.
Download the training activity, Behavioural profiles as featured in the Fenman training manual; Managing Career Development