My survival toolkit
Featured in the Continuing Professional Development training manual
By Sandy McMillan
Category: Personal Development
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
This training activity builds on the results of the activity: ‘The Survivor’s Toolkit’. The two activities are a way of answering the question, ‘Where are you now?’ The activity: ‘Auditing Your Assets’ is another way of answering the same question. Participants compare their current skills and abilities with those of survivors, and work from this to the start of a definition of the things they need to learn through CPD. Mutual mentors work in pairs to help one another.
The training activity, ‘The Survivor’s Toolkit’ involves the participants in generating lists of the skills, attitudes and knowledge which will help people to remain employable and successful in the face of constant change. They then choose the three most important items on each list. These lists form the basis of this training activity. Participants first record the three most important survival factors on new forms. Working with their mentors, they then rate themselves on each factor, using a 1–10 scale of ability. They consider all their scores and choose an area of high priority to develop further through their CPD programmes. After people have shared ideas in the full group, the training activity ends with each participant completing an action plan.
Who is it for: Linked to ‘The Survivor’s Toolkit’, this training activity is intended for use by trainers as an alternative to ‘Auditing your assets’, as a way of answering the question, ‘Where are you now?’ Participants compare their current skills and abilities with those of survivors, and work from this to the start of a definition of the things they need to learn through CPD. Mutual mentors work in pairs to help one another.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 2 |
| Max Group Size: | 12 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:30:00 |
| No of Pages: | 11 |
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Purpose: This is an alternative to the first of a series of five linked and consecutive 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 described in ‘The Basics Of Your CPD’. It aims to establish a baseline for people’s CPD programmes, and so should be run at the point when you want to start a group off on the actual CPD process. You need to run ‘The Survivor’s Toolkit’ first so as to get the data you need for the current activity. It is preferable to precede this one with both involvement activities and support activities so that people can mentor one another effectively.
Download the training activity, My survival toolkit as featured in the Fenman training manual; Continuing Professional Development