CPD - Set your objectives
Featured in the Continuing Professional Development training manual
By Sandy McMillan
Category: Personal Development
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
This training activity guides participants through the process of first choosing an overall aim for their own CPD and then translating that into valid and realistic personal objectives. People refine their objectives by acting as ‘consultants’ to one another, which also gives them another chance to improve their mutual mentoring abilities. The training activity provides an answer to the question, ‘Where do you want to be?’
After briefly describing the differences between aims and objectives, you ask individuals to consider the main areas that influence CPD: long-term career aims; survival issues in the face of change; developing their present and next work roles; family and social considerations; issues of personal development; and then to record their thoughts on a form. Participants then work in their mentoring pairs to choose a high-priority CPD aim from the notes they have made, and then to refine that aim into specific objectives. These objectives form a basis for an action plan after people have shared their ideas in the main group.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers to guide participants through the process of first choosing an overall aim for their own CPD and then translating that into valid and realistic personal objectives. People refine their objectives by acting as ‘consultants’ to one another, which also gives them another chance to improve their mutual mentoring abilities. The training activity provides an answer to the question, ‘Where do you want to be?’
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 2 |
| Max Group Size: | 12 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:30:00 |
| No of Pages: | 13 |
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Purpose: This is the second 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’. It illustrates the second stage of the CPD process. 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, CPD - Set your objectives as featured in the Fenman training manual; Continuing Professional Development