 Hello and welcome to today's business goals webcast developing your career's most important asset you Today, we're joined by Neil von Huopt from Australian Institute of Training and Development And he's he is here to inspire us all to take action and put together a personal development plan that actually works How are you today, Neil? I'm well. I'm looking forward to this. We're very excited to have you here today. It's really good First off Neil we hear a lot about personal development plans all the time. Is there a problem here? Why don't they actually work for a lot of people? Well, there's actually two problems Yep So the first problem is that people don't take ownership of them. It's something that comes down from above their manager Says you need to make one of these it needs to be yours Which is why I call this developing you okay? You need to take ownership and the second problem is that that people don't actually plan them They're often just kind of ad hoc They come together you have a performance need and and so you go and do some training to fix that or an Opportunity comes up. Hey, I'll go and do a red-back webinar and that's all good But they're not actually intentional about what they're trying to learn so those two problems together end up meaning that they don't work for People great. Well, let's get into your presentation. Sure. Sure. Okay, so it's funny I was actually on the weekend just driving and I drove past a beer commercial and and and I went that's it Okay, that is what I'm talking about on Wednesday not the beer But what they had in their ad was this simple phrase autopilot has an eject button Okay, so Often our careers are on autopilot We're just kind of cruising along and what I want to do today is to hit the eject button and to actually Create a professional development plan for you With that's intelligent that is incremental that kind of builds up. Yep And and that is is smart, you know, that's actually going to make a difference for what you're doing. Okay often It's like what I call tradi syndrome that the the mechanic has the old car instead of the good car or the plumbers taps are leaking You know, it's like that with our professional development plans that we know what we should do But we don't actually get in there and do it and and have what we could have. Okay Down the bottom of the screen during the course of the presentation I've put names of people Who are good people to follow good people to connect with we'll talk about that a little bit later But if you want to kind of take notes, then that's going to be something that to keep an eye on Laura Overson does some great research and she put out a report last year that talked about how 90% of managers think that they need new skills both for themselves and in their workplace less than 33 percent have those skills in-house 54% of them provide continuing professional development, which is great only 37% of them have an actual learning plan and That's something I think we need to do something about and that's what we're here for today. Wow Great so can you explain how your model is going to work for us? For sure. Okay, but you're gonna have to do a little bit of work Okay, so now if you all have joined us home, which is great I'm hoping you got the message about having a piece of A4 paper handy If you want to grab that and stick it on your desk, we're going to use that now Perfect. I want you to draw two circles Michael's going to work up on here on the whiteboard next to me So you can kind of see two circles leave a little bit of space at the edge so you can write some notes and things around them Okay, and what we're going to create here is your actual action plan coming out of this webinar I don't just want you to sit and listen today I want you to end up with something that you can actually work with okay Emma Weber great person again to follow talking about learning transfer How do we take our learning and and take it back to actual work? She says if there's no action plan, there's no learning transfer Okay, so we're going to create an action plan because we want some transfer to that. Okay, so on the first circle I want you to mark it at north south east and west so top and bottom on either side there Okay, and your second circle over here. I want you to mark it at the top and bottom yep, and then at two and four o'clock and Same on the opposite side and Then on this one. I want you to join those ones up to leg so they'll split that circle into six We're going to come to that circle in a tick So the model that we're going to look at today. I call it the CPD wheel It's got a cut. There's actually a couple of three wheels in one Okay, and we'll get to the third one right at the end when we start putting the plan together Okay, so there's there's four things that we have to think about When we start putting this professional development plan together. Okay, so on this first one I want you to draw an arrow going up to the number 12 The first thing that we need to establish in a professional development plan is what's our direction? Where do we want to be? Okay? So when you're thinking about your career when you think down the track, where do you want to be often? We end up places that we didn't plan to be okay, so we want to actually answer that question Yep direction perfect. That's what we need. Okay Now the second question that we want to ask you when we're establishing this purpose is when do we want to be there? Okay, okay, so you may be at the start of your career and you're going okay in five years time I want to be in this kind of role or in ten years time I want to be in that kind of role, but we need to give it a date or time frame So let's do a little arrow out to the side to the three there So it now starts looking a bit like a clock tick tock times ticking Where do you want to be and when do you want to be there? Okay? So the third thing that you've got to get there is just somewhere around the edge of that one It doesn't matter. We're just draw a little dollar symbol. Okay, because the third question is about dollars, okay? And it's not just about how many dollars you want to earn. It's a question of How many dollars will it take to get you moving? Okay from where you are at the moment to where you want to be? Yeah, would you step outside your current role for a pay increase? You might step outside your current role for no pay increase at all. Okay, if it suits your direction, okay? If you've answered the questions about direction and time frame then the dollars one is part of the equation But it's not necessarily the driver of it. Yep. Okay, and the last one is a question of desire Okay, how much do you want this career? Okay So when you're talking about the career that you want how much do you want it and what I want you to do there is? I actually want you to give yourself on a scale of from zero to ten zero really don't care You know happy to just kind of doing what I do for the rest of my life right up to ten Is I want this career. I want to be doing that kind of thing. Yeah, okay I was on the weekend just saw this little guy and he was wearing an astronaut suit, you know And I was like awesome, you know like he's he's got direction. He wants to be an astronaut What he's desired for it at the moment is ten. He's wearing that astronaut suit everywhere He went okay, so rate yourself on that. This is our first question And the question for this is it's about being intentional. Okay, so we're going to talk about three things We're going to talk about being intentional about being Intelligent and about being incremental this bit is about being intentional. Okay, the career plan. Where do you want to go? Mm-hmm. When do you want to be there? Yes? How much will it take to get you moving? Okay, and how much do you want it? Okay? So you'll be able to answer those questions We'll come back to that at the end when we start to pull this into the plan So the second part of what we're going to talk about here is about being intelligent in our plan And this is we're going to look at the six key areas around personal development Okay, professional development. So I want you up to this one. I want you to draw a little brain Okay, I'm going to go quickly through the model here. So you understand it Then I actually going to go into some strategies. That's that's a terrible. It's a terrible brain And look you guys there will be copies of the slide deck and everything so don't follow my drawings I am I do apologize for them Okay, so I want to draw a little brain out there now over here on the right. I want to draw a little heart Okay, so the first thing is talking about your knowledge. Do you actually have enough knowledge for this career that you want? Yes, okay The second area that we're talking about is your emotional intelligence now. We don't all like that particularly us Aussie blokes We're not kind of big fans of emotional intelligence, but we also know too many people who have great skills They have great knowledge, but their emotional intelligence is actually holding them back in their career So it is something that we need to pay attention to okay So the third one I want you to draw over here is a little network symbol Yes, so this one that we're talking about our networks Over 70% of the jobs that are going out there aren't actually getting advertised when you talk to recruiters Recruiters are going and finding people okay, and they find people through their networks Okay, so it's important that we pay attention to our network. We live in the social age Okay, so we can't avoid that now. We need to make that work for us Can't avoid it you have to jump on it Now a little pyramid over here this little section is talking about our well-being okay And it's it's well and the reason we had to have a pyramid here like I'm I'm a learning and development person have done my Whole career people would be confused if there was a presentation from the L&D person and it didn't have a pyramid Okay, so but the pyramid we're talking about our well-being now some people again kind of go Well, why does that matter for my career? Well, let me give you a couple of examples if you're too tired at work Then you're not going to be able to think straight You're going to be cranky when you're interacting with other people and your emotions are going to get in the way so that So it's simple tiredness can have an effect if you're not moving enough when you're at work If you're just sitting at a desk or date that's going to have an impact on your physical health down the track And that could affect the sort of careers that you have Okay, so we need to be paying attention to that stuff This one's a little bit odd. Okay, so I want you to draw me a little sailing boat. Okay. I love sailing I love getting out on the water. I Haven't yet worked out how to make a career out of it I've met some people who have actually they run sailing boats on Sydney Harbour and and they they do corporate days out on their sailing boats I haven't I haven't got that yet, but sailing quite literally floats my boat Okay, so this question this little section here is about the things that matter to you like your your purpose your your Mission in life what what you're passionate about that kind of stuff. There's kind of two ways you can come at this Some people are passionate about something and they make a career out of it Okay, and other people Make a career and then they become passionate about what they've made their career to be either it's okay Okay, but what matters is having that mix of passion in there. Okay, because that's what's going to get you up in the morning That's what's going to motivate you to actually chase this plant and last one over here. Just I want you to draw a shovel Because the shovel is about your skills like hard skills when I when I started to work in a call center environment I'd never used Excel in my life and suddenly I needed the skill of how to work a spreadsheet And so I had I had to learn that okay, and that became part of my planning there. Okay so This is all nice and Theory and we've got some nice little pictures now Okay, so the next stage in what we do is where it starts to pack a little bit of a punch as a model Okay, so what I want you to do and people can see it coming up on the screen as well Is to draw a series of concentric circles coming out from the middle there? That's good, and people are doing this on their piece of paper. Feel free to catch up So what we're talking about here is being intelligent when we're doing our plan first bit's talking about being Intentional. Yeah, this bit's about being intelligent now What I want you to do here is and and mix your colors up as you go or if you've just got a pen that's all good I want you to actually kind of rate yourself where you are at the moment in terms of your career Do you have enough knowledge if you've got tons of knowledge you've done your PhD you set in that then blow it right out Yeah, never done any formal qualifications, but okay, maybe it's not in there, but you've learned lots of stuff over you So you start filling that in I'll kind of give people some examples and you can kind of fill them in where you're working Come in terms of your emotional intelligence. Do you have a good vocabulary for for your feelings? Can you express yourself well in terms of your network? Is it is it wide are you connected with good people in the industry that you want or in your profession that you work in? So Michael saying his emotional intelligence is good. I like to think so. He likes to think so Okay, I've asked Aussie males aren't necessarily as good as that. How's his network? It's coming up there So I want you to Rate yourself on this one and because this is where the tool actually starts Kind of pushing you a little bit to kind of say okay. Well, where do I need to plan? Okay? So what we're kind of doing in one sense is a gap analysis. Yeah, okay, but Sony say okay Well, I've still got some work to do in my network. I'm gonna I'm gonna put a bit of time and energy into that or whatever it might be Okay This little monolith will help us to be intelligent about the plan that we create okay I call it the CPD wheel Okay, and continuing professional development wheel and the question you got to ask yourself once you've actually kind of got a Coloured in is is that how you want to roll? Yeah, okay in terms of your career. Now, it's never going to be perfectly round. Yeah, okay, and that's okay Okay, we don't necessarily if you're doing a PhD Then this is blown out of the water and it's smashing everything else kind of thing But we don't what we don't want to have is big gaps. Yes, okay So we want it to be a balance across these kind of areas. Okay, so that's what we call the CPD wheel and and We've got it all drawn now. There's my one coming up Different ones Hopefully you've got your ones drawn now as well Okay, so we've looked at some of the actual steps. So sorry, we looked at what are we? Apologies everyone tongue tongue. What are some of the actual steps we can take in each of these elements? Excellent. Okay. Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna take each of these six elements Mm-hmm and using the slides that will come up on the screen I'm just gonna talk you through okay some practical steps because one of the problems with Plans that people make is they make these grand plans. They're awesome plans. Yes, but they don't know how to get started on them Okay, now when I was in in high school. I was a bit of a mass nerd Mm-hmm. I didn't particularly like it, but I was good at it And one of the ideas that stuck with me was the idea of a cumulative error. Okay, which is where Something's wrong by a little bit, but if you keep doing it over and over and over it ends up being wrong by a lot Okay, so what I want to talk about is a cumulative positive error Okay, where what you're going to do is you're going to make a positive Change just a little one. Mm-hmm, but by doing it consistently it will build up and have the impact that you want. Okay, nice if I said to you Would you be willing to spend one percent of your day? Mm-hmm on your career? That kind of sounds reasonable. Yeah, very reasonable 15 minutes. Okay, okay So I'm going to give you some things to do in 15 minute chunks that over time We'll build up to set you on the path to the career that you want. Okay, cool. So let's have a look at these slides Here we go with our personal learning plan. Okay So we're talking about knowledge first. Okay now in terms of knowledge People have described the amount of knowledge coming at us as being like trying to take a drink from a fire hydrant Okay, it's coming at us with such pace and with such ferocity. It's almost impossible to get a drink out Yes, okay, so we need to work with that. Okay, so the first thing you need to do with the amount of knowledge It's coming at us is you need to position yourself in terms of that stream and the way you do that is by following good people Okay, so as you follow good people the content that starts coming at you starts being good content I'm not interested in what you had for breakfast. Yeah, okay If you start posting that on LinkedIn or wherever then I'm going to mute you Okay, because I need to position myself so that what's coming at me is quality content Okay, so position yourself the second thing you need to do with all this knowledge and this whole process is what's called personal knowledge Management, okay, it's a really important skill in today's world. Okay, the second thing you need to do is curate that knowledge. Okay, I Use a tool called D go D double I go It's a great little bookmarking tool and it allows me when I read an article I save the URL for it where it's located and I tag it with what it's about Just a single word and what that allows me to do is to start grouping bits of information together to start Clustering them so that when I come back to them afterwards. I can actually kind of make a bit of sense out of them The third step in the process is to contextualize that information So where is it going to be useful to you? Okay, so is it going to be useful in the current role that you're in? Is it useful because of the industry that you're currently working in is it useful long term for your career? Where is it going to find its place and then the last thing to do is to actually share that with other people? Okay, okay, so to work out are there other people in your network who are going to find value in the sense that you've made out of curating the content that you've got now The guy I'm actually doing a course at the moment called personal knowledge and management It's with a guy called Harold jockey. He's names down the bottom. I participate in a Twitter chat Which is called PKM chat and it's headed up by Bruno wink And so if those people are interested if that's something where you've identified that your knowledge needs development There's some good people to connect with, okay? So next thing I want to talk about is your network, okay your personal learning network, okay? This is really important. I had such a good experience last week. We've just introduced a thing called Yammer Which is what's called an enterprise social network. It's a way of people within a space communicating with each other I didn't know a whole lot about it. So I posted up and I said hey Can people recommend some good content on on Yammer and and for the rest of that day? It was fabulous I just had this stream of people coming back to me saying this is a great person. He's a great article He's a great video to watch to the point where I even got Yammer responding to me to say Here's a great introduction to the tool, you know, and it was perfect that came about through my personal learning network Now the key to personal learning network is this is promiscuity, okay? That sounds a little bit funny, but You want to make sure that your network is is wide, okay? Connect with anybody Okay, make it a meaningful connection, but don't just connect with people who are the same as you Okay, I linked in and on Twitter find people out there Right across all sorts of different industries all sorts of different professions, okay? the other two things which groups of people with that we need outliers so people not just not just in the bell curve where they're in the middle and They're kind of saying things that everybody else is saying Yep, but actually who are who are kind of exploring the edges a little bit of what's happening in the world kind of thing Find some of those people and I think you also need some contrarians People who will argue with you people who will take you to task when you post something. Oh, I'm not sure about that I hang on a tick. I've got a question about that. You need those people are important in your network So make sure you have some of them in there A great way to build your network is to attend things Okay, so there's all sorts of events happening and meet-ups that happen all around Australia every day cities Major regional centers, you know ways of connecting with other people networking events They're called, you know, so get along to some of them get along to conferences that happen around the place There's conferences all the time do those get along to those things that actually meet some people face-to-face Working out late as an interesting new thing and I've put a couple of names down the bottom John stepper and Jane Beaux up. This is a new thing in the social age that we live in it's about Telling the story of your work and writing your work and doing it in such a way That's of benefit to other people and being generous and sharing that work as you do that As you make your work visible. Yes as you make it purposeful and as you're generous that will build your network people will size Oh, that that guy's sharing some really good stuff talking about some really good stuff I'm gonna connect with them and I'll share some good stuff with them as well. Okay, I'd say you need to join some things You can do them on LinkedIn join some groups that are on there. You can join Twitter chats You can join communities of practice for the field that you're working in okay important in developing your network You can follow people They're called on on LinkedIn. They're called influences like high-profile people, you know, you can follow Richard Branson You can I think you can still follow Steve Jobs. There's still you know stuff that's being posted from him But follow those high people If you're interested in terms of your career in a particular company that you want to work at follow that company Find out who the key people are in that company and send them a connection request always personalize it But connect with those people and and to an extent Stalks and people okay, so find some people where you go. I want to work for that guy I want to work in that industry find those people connect with them in a positive way and say look I'm interested in getting in this field. I'm just want to get my head around the space Is it okay if we connect on LinkedIn? I found that those people are more than happy. Yes to connect with you, okay? Find some people in house as well if you're in a big organization Then maybe it's a senior manager Maybe it's a CEO and and connect with them in a real way and and they're in my experience They've been happy to help with people's networks and with people kind of doing what they want to do Okay, so that's about our personal learning network. What's cool with a network is as you grow the network the network grows Yes, okay, so as you work at it take one step. So I set myself a target to say I want to connect with one person on LinkedIn every week okay, and I often exceed that but I just kind of keep an eye out for people in my network who write something really Good, and then I'll send them a connection. So I really like that thing that you posted Can we connect here on LinkedIn? So it's a little target a little incremental step that I can take I only started doing that about 18 months ago two years ago kind of thing and I recently just cracked the 500 mark which is where they stop counting on LinkedIn, okay? So I've gone from having a network of 40 or 60 people yep over My whole career up to that point on LinkedIn But once I started being incremental with it and and approaching it regularly that's totally expanded my network My feet is gold. I like you know most people they look at their LinkedIn I go yeah LinkedIn whatever kind of thing. I love my LinkedIn feed I love my Twitter feed because the content that's coming through. Yeah is is brilliant. Okay? So our emotional intelligence, okay? Now this is a tricky one. We've got you know a couple of blokes presenting today We're not renowned for our emotional intelligence, you know, but it is something that we need to pay attention to yes, okay? And one of the best ways of paying attention to your emotional intelligence is to get a mentor, okay? somebody that you trust to speak into your life and to say This is where you're falling over. Okay, okay for me. I read a lot and the guy down the bottom dr. Travis Bradbury. He's he's the best guy. I found that's his Twitter handle on the left He's constantly posting good stuff about emotional intelligence written a great book about it But I find the trickle feed of articles better than sitting down to read a big book Day after day. I just read a bit of content and that builds up my intelligence there I guess I say it's harder to find time to read an entire book where if you just can't read your content It's a lot easier and when I read it. I get D go open and I tag it Okay, so that I know that stuff about emotional intelligence. I'll write that one down kind of thing, okay? Now feedback is important. It's tough. I mean You know this guy's saying last year, you know, he had a wife and three children. Why does he need more feedback? Well, that's true, but what you need is feedback in terms of your career Yes, I ask people and in terms of your emotional intelligence ask somebody that you trust To give you some feedback to say where could I get better on this? And the last thing is is particularly for the blokes out there We're not as good as having a vocabulary for amount our emotions. How do we feel? angry Hungry We haven't got a big range So we want to try and expand that to be able to include Some more finesse concepts in a vocabulary So start kind of writing and see how big the list you can make of emotions that you might feel Write down one a day start a list. What's an emotion that you could feel and see how long you can go? Okay? As I said before I love sailing. Yes, it floats my boat. Okay, and so there's my little sailing boat out in the middle there This section about our our values and our purpose and our passion is really important Values are the things that matters that matter to you Okay, what what matters to you in terms of your career in terms of your planning what actually matters to you? We talked a bit about purpose at the start. Where do you want to be in your career, you know, and and when do you want to be there? We talked a bit about passion earlier Okay, about the two angles you can come at it follow your passion or create passion around what you're doing Practice is an interesting concept and and these last three are things that you can kind of do here Okay, so praxis is is a process of Reflecting on what you're doing so to say here's what I'm doing. Here's the first step, you know What am I actually doing? And then the praxis process says What am I actually? How's that working for me? Yes, you know, like it's getting me what I want. Okay, and that's that process there Affinity mapping is an interesting exercise which I saw last year Actually, I should probably have Dr. Denise Meyers and down on the bottom of the screen as well She was the one who introduced me to this affinity mapping idea And what you do is you get a whole pile of sticky notes and you write down all the things that kind of matter to you All the things are important and then what you do once you've got a whole pile of them out there You just start grouping them okay in affinities Yeah, what are the things that kind of cluster together and then those things become a Clear a picture of what are the things that matter to you? What's your purpose in life? I will shape you there Motivation is an interesting question. I've been thinking about this recently and there's two people who really got me thinking Daniel Pink and Simon Sinek. Simon Sinek's got this classic book about start with why. Yep Why do we do what we do kind of thing, you know, and that's a question for us as individuals It's a question for businesses as well kind of thing It's a really important question in terms of our professional development plan Okay, so we want to make sure that we're paying some attention to that look up those two guys and see what they're talking about Scroll through those sorry Now I mentioned the pyramid before yes, and and the pyramid and I've put a big stamp on it There is no pyramid. Okay. Okay. There is no pyramid when it comes to our well-being There isn't one thing that's more important than all of those ones there. Okay. We need to be eating well. Yeah, okay We need to be exercising. Okay Now you'll notice that the next one is that we need to be moving. Okay. Now. There's a difference here Okay, we need to be moving because we're we're killing ourselves by sitting down in our lives constantly Okay, and we actually need to be moving about and get a stand-up desk move about the office a bit kind of thing Exercise is something different. That's what we're talking about going for a walk getting your heart rate up heading to the gym Whatever it might be we need to be doing some of that We need to drink. I should lead by example and have a sip of my water It's funny a friend of mine who's a trainer actually said the other day that I'm sitting was a new sugar Yeah, and we're places because everyone's cut up the sugar, but too many people sit for eight hours a day. They do they do yeah I was I was stoked. I got a stand-up desk Recently it's only a couple hundred bucks from office works and it's brilliant. Yeah. Yeah We need to drink lots of what these are all these are all the things that I talked about this before We know these things are important. Yes, but we don't necessarily do them because they're too big. Okay So in terms of hydration, let's let's take the example there of Let's let's start with I'm gonna drink a glass of water every day because lots of people don't like drinking water initially So you stick the glass on your desk and you're gonna drink a glass of water every day move. I'm gonna stand up once an hour We've got to break it down into little steps to actually kind of do it. Okay exercise. Oh, that's a tough one, you know But start with a start small I started with a walk three years ago I was using two walking sticks to walk. I'd injured my back, you know And the most I could do was walk and and I'm now going to the gym five lunch times a week And it's built up that incremental nice thing and that's working really well We know we should go to the doctor for checkups, you know We know what the cancers are out there and and we like to stick our head in the sand and avoid them But we simply need to make an appointment and go and do that one We know we're supposed to get enough sleep But we don't know we leave our lights on too late And we sit on our screens till too late in our beds But and we don't get enough sleep and and we know we need enough playing and enough recreation in our lives But I was at a meeting last week and one of the guys asked me and he said what are you doing for fun Neil? And it was brilliant question You know and I was and I was actually pleased with my response because I had a few things that I was doing for fun I was like that's good. I don't want to ever be in a place where I can't answer that question Yeah, that was such a cool question So the pyramid is out all of these things matter and and what I want if you're working on your piece of paper at home And you've written that kind of little list down you will get it later in a copy of the slides But if you've written that down, I want you to circle one of those things Just one of them and say this is the one that I'm going to do something about Okay, so whichever one it is choose one and you're going to do something about it So our skills, okay might be straight up as digging with a shovel that I've got on the side of the thing We need skills for the roles that we have we need skills for the roles that we want. Yes, okay, and and the main Tool that I like to use when we're talking about skills is what's called gap analysis? Okay is to work out where are the gaps in your skills, but it can be tricky because We don't know what we don't know, you know, I don't know what skills I might need for all So so what I've listed there are places where you can go and find Skill lists So if you know somebody who's in the career that you want in the role that you want jumped on to their LinkedIn profile Yeah, and look at the skills that they have and then do a bit of a gap analysis with your skills and say, okay Well, what skills am I missing out of that said and are those skills that I can develop? When you look at your colleagues if you're in a bigger business and you look at the person who's you know Next up the ladder from you where you want to be what are the skills that that person has if you're not sure what they are Jump onto their LinkedIn profile and say well, what are the skills that they're listing? Okay? When you look at job ads and you open up the job descriptions Go and have a look and say what are the skills in those jobs? Could I apply for this job at the moment? Yeah, okay by looking at the job description and that'll give you a good sense of what your skills are and then you Can start working on developing those skills. Okay sounds good So how do we use all these steps to create an actual plan That's probably a big question to ask absolutely. Yeah. Well, we've now got The things that we need. Okay, so we've got this question about intention in our head We've got this question about being intelligent and incremental They're the kind of three things that we've got a hold together when we do a plan now the key with the plan though is It's part of a whole what's called a personal learning ecosystem It's a big picture and the thing with an ecosystem is or or an environment you could use there is that they're complex Yes, but they are and It's personal as well. Like this is your learning plan is going to be different to my learning plans Okay, how you write your learning plan is going to be different to how I write my learning plan. Okay? But what's important is that we use these elements Okay, and and that we start writing now. I want to give you the third wheel here. Okay, so on on this left-hand one Let's go back to the board here. Yep. I want you to extend that three o'clock arrow right out the side So we're going to break that circle into kind of four quadrants. Okay, so down. Yeah down there on there, okay? So the first one I want you to write in is is your role, okay? So when we're thinking about this planning some of the planning is just directly for the role that we have at the moment, okay? What do I need to do the job that I'm doing now? Yes, okay? The next thing is what's the profession that you're in so I work in learning and development. I've got mate to work in In management, okay? I was talking with one on the bus the other day and he's in management He currently works in financial services, but he could equally apply his skills in the healthcare sector anywhere else Okay, so the third section that we're talking about here is what's your industry? Okay? So currently his industry is in financial services. Yep. Okay? Sometimes there's an overlap so for me There's an overlap my profession is learning and development my industry at the moment by working for the Australian Institute of Training and Development Is learning and development so there's an overlap and that's okay. That happens and the last section is your career Okay, so when you start making these plans You've got to have a think and say and you can use a similar process here in terms of kind of grading Yep, how much of your? Professional development is just about your role Okay, so how much is just so when she start kind of mapping it out in your plan This little tool will help you to kind of reflect and go oh man I'm I'm only doing professional development for the job. I'm doing now Yeah, I'm not doing anything to get read to that career that I want Yes, okay, so we've got to make sure that we're actually covering all of our bases when we do the plan And then that will allow us to actually use this feedback as well to say okay Here's what I need to develop okay, and then we map this one and then we map it against the original stuff about Intentions and where we want to be okay nice and together we can actually then make a personal learning plan. Okay now Here's how you do it okay, okay You have to create some space so you notice this guy is sitting in the middle of nowhere Okay, he has to create some space to be able to create the plan. Okay often. We're so busy Doing work, you know, it was actually what somebody wrote in you know why they wanted to do today's session I'm so busy doing the day-to-day stuff of my job. I just never take enough time to actually do this kind of plan Mm-hmm if you want to create a plan you have to make some space to do it Okay now and the key and you'll notice what this guy he's writing. Okay? I've planned Probably only for the last three years. Okay, where I want to be and what started was writing it down Okay, and so I've now got a written plan which I which has developed every year But I write it down and that's really important when you start in this first section on Intention like where do you want to be when do you want to be that that kind of stuff There's two sorts of goals that you need to actually kind of put in there. We all know about smart goals Yes, okay specific measure will achieve all relevant time frame. We all know those kind of things, but To be honest, we're a bit bored with them. Okay I'm not gonna get out a bit in the morning for some smart goals. Okay, so the second ones are what I call the all my goals Okay, so these are ones where we want to wear if we achieve them. We would be at the OMG I've done this, you know, I've got here. Okay, so we've got to make sure we have some of them when we start thinking about direction We've got to make sure we have them in our plan now in terms of writing It doesn't matter how you write it out. Okay, you might like Excel spreadsheets and you're gonna put it all into a spreadsheet. Yes You might like lined paper and and orderly things or a word document where you can build it into a table I like blank art paper and and I mind map and I draw like this and I put my purpose in the middle And then I put the six elements around the outside in different shapes and I draw it It doesn't matter how you do the plan But what it matters that you do the plan and then you commit yourself in writing to what you're going to do. Okay So you need to be intentional. Yes. Okay, so there's three elements to actually creating this plan You've actually now got what you need to write the plan. I can't write your plan Okay, you have to write your plan your boss can't write your plan. Okay He may be interested in it. Okay, he may be interested because it will affect your role He may be interested because it will affect your career progression potentially within a company He may be interested in it because if you do well, he will look good. Yes, or she will look good Yeah, no So they may be interested but at the end of the day you got to own it. It's got to be your plan I Even to the point where when I store the file for mine, I have a folder in on a USB And and it says personal mm-hmm, and that's where my personal learning plan goes It doesn't go on to the network drive at work. It's useful at work totally helps at work. Okay, but it's my plan Yes, so it's on my USB and it's in my personal folder because I want to own this plan I want to make it mine by sharing the personal plan with saying your manager or a colleague with that help Make you accountable for what you're trying to do. So I hope you stay along that path. Yeah. Yeah, yeah It's it's I guess in one sense people that can be cautious around that. Yeah to flag to their manager Kind of thing yeah a good manager will have your best interests at heart But we all know there's not good managers everywhere So, you know use a bit of wisdom when it comes to actually who you share it with kind of thing But yeah, you're right that sense of accountability can be really helpful The reason I actually wrote my first plan was because in a Twitter chat Where we were talking about these things somebody random person in America said oh accountability would be good And I said okay, I'll take you on that in three weeks time We will both just share with each other what we've written down and that's what got me over the line Was actually know that in three weeks time you had a hand it to someone I had to and and I haven't heard from them since we had a bit of dialogue around it Then kind of thing haven't heard from them since that's fine Yeah, but it got me over the line to actually put something down into writing So you need to be intentional about it. You need to be intelligent about it Not just haphazard in terms of your planning not just oh here's an opportunity or oh I've got a problem I need to fix that and You need to be incremental about it don't get overwhelmed by how much there is break it down into little steps That will build up over time to actually get you the career you really like that point the incremental one Yeah, yeah That's it that's it. That's my thing that's your thing this this is This for me has has been such a good tool. It's kind of been Almost my life's work You know like it's developed over a whole long period of time to get to the stage where it is now and and for me It works, you know even the fact that I'm presenting here today Has been part of my plan, you know that I said I wanted to be doing more Presenting in my role than what I'd done previously and so I attended a course on presentation skills and with ARTD And and that's been part of the process for me to actually presenting here presenting at some conferences I mean deliberate and intentional about the plan. So well, it's been absolutely great having you We are taking questions from the online audience. So please guys do submit your questions I particularly loved the whole networking element of it because I only really discovered that later on in my career And I'm the actual value and the importance of I'm really keeping up to date with it But also the personal messages used to always just shoot off the impersonal messages to people to connect with I'd like to add you Yeah, exactly So we did get a good question and going back to that is this plant also a pick applicable to someone who has just started And then they're in their career. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah It was interesting. I had a friend of mine on the weekend He's he's an older guy and and and he was saying he'd noticed that a lot of kind of people Towards the tail end of their career. They're just cruising. Yeah, you know, and he said, how do I how do I sell it to them to end? Well, yeah, you know, you know to not just kind of cruise in so so this planning I actually think it's like we need to do it at every stage of our career We need to do it when we're starting we need to sit down and say let's look at What's the role that I currently have? What's the profession that I want to be a part of? What's the industry that I'm like? Yeah, we need to set some plans within that One of the things which actually I forgot to mention on the way through is It was actually back at that slide where we had the guy sitting riding. We had smart goals Yeah, they're all my goals kind of thing is is that there's deliberately some space in the middle there Okay, and that space is for what I call is is what I call serendipitous space. Okay, which is We don't know everything that's gonna happen in our career. We don't necessarily want it all to be completely mapped out Okay, we need to be open to opportunities that come up to new things, you know, the new jobs that are coming out there augmented reality of virtual air robotics, you know, take like there's a whole field of jobs out there We need to be open to those changes in how the modern workplace is functioning. Yeah so But I think that strategy of being Intentional intelligent incremental. Yeah, I think that absolutely works at the start of your career But it absolutely works at the tail end of it as well Definitely, so that we finish well that we don't just wind down and cruise our way out. Yeah for those people out there who have unfortunately, and I've been in this Position in the past myself, but when you're in a position where it's so crushing Yeah, would you put a measurement in there to say and look if I ever rate myself below a three on this I have to have changed jobs like yeah, that it's a really personal thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah How much is it costing you in terms of the see the thing with these different areas is they're all connected Yeah, and so if you're feeling soul crushed in in that thing Your capacity to learn stuff is going to be reduced Yeah, your your willingness to engage with other people and to build that it's gonna be it's hard slog kind of thing So it's not just within that sector that you've got to pay attention to because you got to pay Attention to the effect that that is happening on on the rest of your life You know and if you start thinking in terms of your well-being over here in your mental health, you know like you I mean the incidence of depression in Australia Then if this is taken a hammering then you've got to be paying attention over here to kind of pick up the slack in these other areas So whole balancing act. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so look guys We've got a couple more minutes So if you do have any questions that you want to ask us please send them through also We'd really appreciate your feedback. So on the top of your screen next to the slides is a feedback survey button So if you could take a moment, we find that information in that feedback invaluable. So we'd love to get it from you Is there any final note? So you'd like to leave the audience with today around everything? We've talked about by creating your plan how you should be looking at it. Just as an ending point for them No What I would say is that that this is this is a work in progress. Yes, so I Kind of came up with the CPD wheel about 80 months two years ago kind of thing and and I first kind of wrote about it then It's gotten better. Okay, and it will keep getting better And so I've and I'm happy to be in contact with people after the thing So I'll bring up a couple of things. So I have a blog where where I'd process some of this kind of stuff One of the early ones actually has the original CPD wheel on it, which has since developed, you know That's there and and I have as Michael discovered trying to pronounce it a slightly unusual name There's there's just me so if you Google me, you will find me on LinkedIn from more than happy to connect But don't just send me a I'd like to add you to my network Hey, I heard you on that webinar with red back. That was awesome You know, then then I'll be happy to connect, you know kind of thing and if you have questions afterwards then yeah I'm happy to engage. This is I love doing this stuff. I love creating space For people to flourish and and become kind of who they want to be, you know That's that's why I do what I do and and I'm happy to do that outside of this kind of space as well So that's awesome To Helen. Yes, you can rewatch this webinar in about 24 hours We will send out a follow-up email with the link to the recording for everyone else Although you will receive that email as well. This will be hosted for 12 months at least potentially even more because the topic is definitely relevant We've got one more question or all of these sections in the cpd wheel equally important Also, what does cpd stand for so cpd stands for continual professional development? So that's taking your personal professional life further using this wheel. So are all of these equally measured? Yes, yes, but at different times in your and different stages in your career Yep, then they're gonna have a different emphasis So when you're starting out in a career or in a particular industry You're gonna need to build up your knowledge and your skills particularly kind of thing, you know This stuff about your well-being and your health. That's that's big picture You know that's something that you pay attention to right across your career if if you're shifting roles Then your network becomes you've got to put more work into that. So it kind of varies according to What stage of your career you're at? Yeah, you've just been retrenched, you know Then you've totally got to work in networks kind of thing But really actually you want to be working in networks before you get retrenched. Yes Don't set up your LinkedIn profile when you need a job. Yeah, you know And set up your LinkedIn profile do all of this kind of work Before you need a job and then you'll end then then you actually can step onto that path of the career that you want Rather than the one that you end up with I constantly Ask people when I you know random people and they say, oh, yeah chatting to the butcher I'm like, did you always want to be a butcher? How did you end up here? You know change of a hairdresser and did have your always hairdress? No, no, no I studied engineering, you know, like yep people's career paths go all over the place kind of thing and that's okay You know But but we want to be the ones who's choosing that path rather than it just kind of happening to us perfect Well, look, we got one. I know we're running out of time and I don't want to take up any miles of time But we'll answer one last question. How do you convince people in other industries that you have transferable skills for their industry? Despite not having worked in it before Yeah, that's that's that's tricky. Yeah. Yeah, you can't get the job because you don't have the experience and you can't get the experience Because you don't have it. Yeah So part of it what I would say would come back to this idea around networks Yep, is is connecting in with those people and to start often you need to learn the language of a new industry And that they use all these terms and that kind of thing You may need to do some some formal training courses to make what you know visible. Yeah, it doesn't have to be a degree To be visible knowledge that you've been it when somebody looks at your LinkedIn profile. Are you connected with anybody? Are you listening to anybody in that industry at the moment? Yeah, yeah So you can pay attention to it and you can make it more visible. We do a thing with digital badges where? short courses and the kind of stuff that you do in Continuing professional development that we can actually capture that and and it shows up on your LinkedIn profile and it makes it look Visible to other people. So yeah, perfect. Yeah. Well, great. Neil. Thank you so much for today It was a great session everyone. I hope you enjoyed yourselves as well I do want to remind you guys that look Neil up definitely connect with him And thank you all again for joining one of our business schools webcasts. Cheers and have a great day. Thanks for joining us