Self Development Plan

Are you thinking about enrolling in a life coaching course?
Are you contemplating on how to advance a few rungs up the career ladder in your company?
Or simply seeking a structured approach to changing your lifestyle in terms of what you want from life and how to go about it.

A primary component of our life coaching course is a focus on students’ self-development plan regarding their personal goals.
There is a range of self-development models we use whereby we analyse the ways that individuals soak up experiences and learn from them and we design the development process with regard to the clients learning preferences.

Our life coaching course will demonstrate that to consistently achieve personal goals we should harness the persons natural learning process and focus on getting what we want by planning for the future.

Your self-development plan

The following range of activities could be a part of your self-development plan

1.    Knowing your current self
2.    Self-knowledge questionnaires
3.    Draw up a development agreement
4.    Development group motivation

How do we form a realistic self-image of our current self?

The best method is to ASK!

Ask 20 people who may be family, friends, peers, colleagues on how do they see you performing at present both in your personal life and your career. Receive feedback from people who know us well but be fully prepared to be open-minded about what they say about us. Look for opportunities to complete psychometric tests and receive assessment.

Armed with the big messages from the feedback sources we are now in a position to develop a realistic self-image and to progress with personal aspirations.

But it is here that care should be taken to carefully identify potential obstacles or other things that may block the achievement of those initial goals. But it will be useful to adopt the following simple template for effective personal development to map your targets around:

Where have I been?
Where am I now?
Where do I want to be?
How shall I get there?

This kind of format provides an invaluable framework for self-exploration. But it’s important to be honest and take time to answer the questions your framework poses.

Review each stage and learn the lessons from what has worked and what has not

Do not be afraid to be flexible and amend your self development plan in the light of lessons learned
Do not over analyse setbacks, learn from them and MOVE ON
With these disciplines in mind – you should be able to successfully harness the positive parts of their own unique individual learning mode to achieve goals in your personal life and provide the impetus for a future of continuing success.
Author : Joanna Sobczak