As part of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers' service to members, engineers and professionals in technical industries worldwide, we hosts a series of free training webinars. The slides were used in a free training webinar that focused on planning your own development, helping you spot gaps in your abilities and to set objectives and goals

1. LEARNING &
DEVELOPMENT
“THE MOST SUCCESSFUL
PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES
NEVER STOP LEARNING”
This session will start at 12:45
PLANNING YOUR
DEVELOPMENT FOR 2014

2. User guide
 Questions/ comments: chat box
 Host only
 All participants
Write here…..

3.  Identify our personal development areas and
needs
 Help your thinking - current personal and
business “hot topics” in engineering
 Identify solutions to meet your development
needs – and how IMechE can help
Agenda

4. Identifying your development
needs
 Where you are now
 Goals – short / medium / long term
 Knowledge and skills to achieve these
goals
 The knowledge / skills gap
 Bridging the gap

5. A - What do you need to be
good at for success in your
current role?
B - What do you need to be
good at for success in the role
you want to be in 3- 5 years
from now?

6. The competence triangle
Technical/Professional

7. Poll

8. Adair on inspired leadership
Qualities Situational
Functional
“What you are” “What you know”
“What you do”

9. ‘GAPS’ Analysis
Other’s
views
My View
FutureToday
PERCEPTIONS
How others see me
ABILITIES
What I believe I can
do
Achievements
GOALS
What matters to me
(values)
What I would like to
achieve
SUCCESS
FACTORS
What matters to others

10. ‘GAPS’ Analysis: Abilities
PERCEPTIONS
How others see me
ABILITIES
What I believe I can do
GOALS
What matters to
me
What I would
like to achieve
SUCCESS
FACTORS
What matters to
others
Feedback
Self-reflection
Self-awareness

11. ‘GAPS’ Analysis: Perceptions
PERCEPTIONS
How others see
me
ABILITIES
What I believe I can do
GOALS
What matters to
me
What I would
like to achieve
SUCCESS
FACTORS
What matters to
others
Previous appraisal
Previous feedback
Gather more feedback
 360 tools?
 Informal

12. ‘GAPS’ Analysis: Goals
PERCEPTIONS
How others see
me
ABILITIES
What I believe
I can do
GOALS
What matters to
me
What I would like
to achieve
SUCCESS
FACTORS
What matters to
others
Professional development goals
Areas of expertise
Informal
Organisation/department strategy
WHAT HOW
Areas for development
Training
Coaching/mentoring
Support

13. ‘GAPS’ Analysis: Success factors
PERCEPTIONS
How others see
me
ABILITIES
What I believe
I can do
GOALS
What matters to me
What I would like to
achieve
SUCCESS
FACTORS
What
matters to
others
Informal
Organisation/department strategy
Goals in previous appraisal
KRA’s/KPI’s
WHAT HOW
Areas for development
Training
Coaching/mentoring
Support

14. Setting Development Goals
and Objectives
How do you make “improve my presentation skills”
SMART…….

15.  Think
 Behaviour – a description of what you will do differently
 Condition – the context or what you would need to do
this thing (e.g. the opportunity to give presentations!)
 Degree – the desired level or target
 So, improve my presentation skills could become…
“All presentations to senior management, will be delivered in a
way that achieves the presentation objectives, holds their
interest, is clear and well structured with minimum slides and
maximum interaction. After each presentation, my line
manager will give me feedback as to whether I have achieved
this”.

16. “People with clear, written goals
accomplish far more in a shorter
period of time than people
without them could ever
imagine”
Brian Tracy ‘How to get everything you want
faster than you ever thought possible’

18. Harvard Business School
 “Have you set clear, written goals for your future
and made plans to accomplish them?”
• 3% of the graduates had written goals and plans
• 13 % had goals, but they were not in writing
• 84 % had no specific goals at all
10 years later….
• The 13 % of the class who had goals were
earning, on average, twice as much as the 84%
who had no goals at all.
• The 3% who had clear, written goals? They were
earning, on average, ten times as much as the
other 97% put together.

19. Engineering hot topics
 Motivation in the 21st century
 Building high performing teams fast
 Stepping up to engineering management –
making the transition
 Enabling a culture of innovation and creativity
 Instilling a commercial mind-set
 Time poverty

20. Writing a development plan
 A set of needs, actions and benefits to
the business when achieved
 Specific and varied – formal, informal,
facilitated, self learning
 Individual
 Time bound

21. How…

22. How…

23. Other useful resources
 FutureLearn - Learning for life
Enjoy free online courses from leading UK and
international universities
https://www.futurelearn.com/
 Harvard Business School
http://www.hbs.edu/Pages/default.aspx

24.  The areas you need to develop – using a
GAPS analysis
 Prompt your thoughts by sharing some of the
current personal and leadership “hot topics”
in engineering – areas that you may need to
develop in
 Identify solutions to meet these development
needs – and how IMechE can help
Summary

25. Contact us
 NAME: Victoria Hampton
 EMAIL: v_hampton@imeche.org
 OFFICE: +44 (0) 1903 815 634
 MOBILE: +44 (0) 7713 565 683
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