Plan your route
Featured in the Continuing Professional Development training manual
By Sandy McMillan
Category: Personal Development
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
People often feel that formal courses are the only way to learn. This training activity shows people how to exploit the learning opportunities in all the things they already do, and how to help themselves to keep learning. Participants examine some effective ways to learn and use these as a basis for building their mutual mentoring skills. The training activity leads to an answer to the question, ‘What will get you there?’
You give a ‘mini-lecture’ which covers: ways to develop by building on what people already know and do at work; ways to develop by building on what people already know and do away from work; ways to develop by exploiting other opportunities and methods; the benefits of using these routes to learn actively. Participants work in mentoring pairs to choose at least three new learning routes, one from each of the main clusters of opportunities. They go on to define objectives for each of these new learning routes. After they have shared their views in the full group, the training activity ends with the participants completing action plans.
Who is it for: People often feel that formal courses are the only way to learn. This training activity is intended for use by trainers to show participants how to exploit the learning opportunities in all the things they already do, and how to help themselves to keep learning. Participants examine some effective ways to learn and use these as a basis for building their mutual mentoring skills. The training activity leads to an answer to the question, ‘What will get you there?’
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 2 |
| Max Group Size: | 12 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:25:00 |
| No of Pages: | 19 |
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Purpose: This is the third of a series of five linked and consecutive training activities, ‘Auditing Your Assets’, ‘Set Your Objectives’, ‘Plan Your Route’, ‘Learn in Your Own Way’, and ‘Record to Prove It’, which together describe and practise the details of the CPD process as set out in ‘The Basics Of Your CPD’. Use this to illustrate the third stage of the CPD process outlined in ‘The Basics of Your CPD’. It is preferable to precede it with both involvement activities and support activities so that people can mentor one another effectively.
Download the training activity, Plan your route as featured in the Fenman training manual; Continuing Professional Development