Personal Development
You are either here for your own career or someone else's:
- You want to progress in your own career, have identified development areas and want help moving forward. You may have a personal development budget at work, or you are willing to invest in your career.
- You're a leader or an HR expert looking for personal development courses to help people within your own team or the wider organisation progress in their career, increase their engagement and make them happier, more valuable and better rewarded.
Why you should invest in your own Personal Development
Why shouldn't you? It's your career, your life.
The person standing in your way and the person with the key to your future is the same person - and you look at them every day in the mirror. Our ancestors knew this and they didn't have mirrors. They knew success was up to them.
In fact, in those days, success meant survival. In 2023, success means getting hired, getting promoted or avoiding redundancy. Investing in your own personal development helps you stand up straighter and be seen, heard and respected. And valued.
One client still sends me a present every time he gets promoted or praised at work. He hadn't realised how good he was and what he could do, and he was useless at telling his story. We worked together and he reflected and learned about himself, identified gaps he needed to address and areas he needed to burnish and tell (better) stories about.
His LinkedIn started popping and he called me to help choose which positions and companies to choose.
He stopped being a job beggar. We changed the power dynamic. Suddenly he was the scarce and valued resource.
Remember, personal development is a lifelong journey, and the benefits can be truly transformative. By investing in yourself, you lay the foundation for a more fulfilling and successful life in all its dimensions.
Why companies should invest in Personal Development
You're an HR leader. You find and recruit talent and then you help grow and develop that talent. What a brilliant position to be in - whatever your title! I remember the pride as a tennis coach, seeing people grow, develop and gain skills and self-confidence and win respect.
It's the same in a business, when people learn new skills, grow in stature and self-confidence and develop from working in projects to running projects and then programmes; from being part of a team to leading teams.
When I ran a manufacturing business in Germany, my leadership team initially came to me for the most trivial decisions. I worked with them so they could understand, analyse, evaluate and handle purchasing, manufacturing and people challenges. I saw them grow in stature, debate decisions with each other and then implement their own decisions. Not mine. It made me proud to see them develop and grow. Maybe I can help your people do the same.
Personal Development Modules: Leadership, storytelling skills, strategic thinking...
How Does these Personal Development Courses Work?
You can choose 3, 6 or all of the 10 modules listed below which means a time commitment of 3, 6 or 10 months.
Do you have a Personal Development budget?
A number of my clients use their Personal Development budgets to cover courses just like these. This might be in your contract. It's worth asking your line manager or the HR team if you have a personal development budget and how it works. The more senior you are, the more likely you are to have a PD budget. The business you work for wants their people to grow and develop so it makes sense for them and for you. In fact, why wouldn't you? That would be daft.
Worse than that, you were probably hired because someone believed in in you and thought you had the potential to move up within the company. If you don't, you're letting that person down as well as yourself. That's not very cool, is it?
From Intern to Leader
Many organisations talk about prioritising learning and practising and advocating for continuous learning. For some it is real, for others it is propaganda and PR.
The same is true of people. Many people say they love to learn, that they welcome feedback and embrace opportunities and challenges. This isn't always true.
It's tempting when you get a certain way up the career pyramid to become comfortable and complacent and distracted and to stop being hungry and ambitious. Those people stop pushing, and that's okay. It's a valid personal choice.
Some people are different. They keep pushing their boundaries, they are impatient. They don't welcome feedback, they are greedy for it and hunt it down.They don't avoid responsibility, they seek it out.
No surprise that these people get further faster. They ignore the odds. They make their own odds. What a pleasure to work with people like this.
I never dreamed when I started here, that I would one day be leading the organisation. When I received my first project, that was HUGE. Now I have a team running multiple programmes. What a journey! Thank you! J
If you have any questions about how this coaching works, feel free to reach out directly or book a call over on Calendly.
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