The document outlines a professional development cycle, including tools for self-analysis, SWOT analysis, and the importance of development planning. It emphasizes the need to identify professional development opportunities, align them with personal priorities, and reflect on learning experiences. Key aspects include recording activities, reflecting on their applicability, and maintaining connections to enhance both personal and employer benefits.

1. Professional Development Cycle:
Tools and Techniques to help
you plan and develop
Jo Alcock
Evidence Base

2. Professional Development Cycle

3. Self analysis
Understanding your current skills and knowledge
and considering where to improve

4. SWOT analysis
Reflect on your own strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats

5. Current CV and profiles
Analysing your current situation in terms of skills and experience

6. Job role analysis
Reflect on skills and knowledge required for current or future job
roles and identify areas for development

7. CILIP PKSB
Reflect on skills and knowledge required within profession and
identify areas for development

8. Development planning
Planning areas and activities to support
professional development

9. Development plan
Regularly updated plan including areas for development, planned
activities, intended outcome, and timescale

10. Opportunities
What sort of activities
have you been involved
in for your own
professional
development?

12. Prioritising opportunities
Identifying the professional development
opportunities with most potential benefit

13. Alignment with
development priorities
Will it develop skills or
knowledge that is a priority for
you at the moment?
Could it enable you to
develop skills or knowledge
that could be of use to you in
future?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10687935@N04/5963949378/

14. Benefits
Benefits for you
Developing skills
Improving knowledge
Broadening connections
Benefits for your employer
Enhance job performance
Improved job satisfaction
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystaljingsr/3915512588

15. Your learning style
Does the activity suit your
learning preferences?
Activist
Pragmatist
Theorist
Reflector
Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/styles/honey_mumford.html

16. Practicalities
Is the time commitment
appropriate?
Is location suitable?
Are there any personal
circumstances that may
prevent you from
participating?
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17. Participating in activities
Making the most of your
professional development activities

18. Before
Plan what you hope to get out
of each activity:
Increased understanding?
Skill development?
Broader network?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vees/999594439

19. During
Make notes:
Handwritten
Typed
Visual notes
Recorded
Review after event to
ensure complete and
accurate
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ekcragg/8589684596/

20. After
Make sure you keep a record
of your notes somewhere
(you may want to digitise for
easy location in future)
Share with colleagues
Share with peers (social
media, blogs)
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21. Recording and reflecting
Keeping information up-to-date about the activities
and what you have learnt

22. Recording activities
Desktop document (can use
Dropbox to ensure access
from multiple locations/
devices)
Online document (e.g. Google
Drive)
Online services
iDoneThis
CILIP Portfolio

23. Reflecting on activities
What have you learnt?
How can you apply this in
future?
Any follow-up actions?
Models of reflection
What? So what? Now what?
More on CPD23 Reflective
Practice blog post

24. Professional Development Cycle

25. Any questions?
Jo Alcock
jo.alcock@bcu.ac.uk
@joeyanne