Sticky Learning Lunches #12: Create Your Own Personal Development Plan

Understand the 5 simple steps to create your personal development plan in this next episode of the Sticky Learning Lunch.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to today's Sticky Learning Lunch. We're just waiting for the last few people to arrive. Some good, good numbers of early arrivers this morning, this afternoon, sorry. So we're just gonna give it 30 more seconds while we're letting the last of those people come in. And then we're gonna get cracking fired up and fired into what we're gonna be covering today with PDPs, personal development planning and helping to erase some of those common myths or those mindsets we have around it so that actually we're making the most out of it.

Nathan Simmonds:

Actually. We are using them for what they're actually, and they're, they're, they're there for and actually doing something about it and making sure that we are putting all our intention, our attention into these things so that we're taking the action we we're and we're causing the movement and we're deliberately going where we wanna go to. So we're just gonna give it 30 more seconds. So setting everyone up for success.

Nathan Simmonds:

Mobile phones. Let's make sure everyone's got their mobile phones up, wave 'em nice and high and then put them on flight mode. Let's remove the distractions for the next 30 minutes. If you've got your email open closer, if you've got your, he says, I've even done mine. So if you've got any other social media open, close it down.

Welcome to part 1 of Personal Development Plan Where to Start

 

Nathan Simmonds:

Let's make sure that we are removing the distractions and making sure that we are fully engaged in what we're doing and helping with the learning here. Bear with me. So let's do this. It's come off the full screens, get you on here, get you with me. So we're covering today. Today we are gonna be covering the first part of this week's micro learnings from, uh, from MBM Making Business Matter on personal development planning.

Nathan Simmonds:

My name is Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM, the Home of Sticky Learning. We are the leadership development and soft skills provider to the grocery and manufacturing industry. Idea of these launches is to give you some daily content. Uh, don't seem to be able to hear you. Oh, is it? Can everyone else hear me before I keep going? Was it just Matt? Yes. I've got some yeses up there.

Nathan Simmonds:

Okay. Yeah, Matt might need to close it down. Come back in. Um, tweak and adjust your headphones. Go that route. Route this route. So we are, uh, leadership and soft skills provided to the grocery and manufacturing industry. The idea of these sessions is to give you daily content, micro learnings. It's gonna keep pushing your thinking one step further right now in this current moment. And also for when you return to whatever that normal is in a week's time, two weeks time, however that looks for you.

Nathan Simmonds:

These sessions are held here to help you be the best version of yourself. We have five days of PDP planning. What are we gonna be covering? Quite a lot. In fact, I had a huge list. The importance of this, the structure of this, the mistakes that people make around this. I get really fired up about this sort of thing because it's really important and not enough people are doing it on a daily basis.

Nathan Simmonds:

Said it before and I'll say it again. People spend more time planning a two week trip to Mexico than they do with their entire lives. And then they wonder why either they're miserable in what they're doing or they're not getting the traction on where they want to be or where they would like to be. So let's let that sink in just for 30, not even 30 seconds, three seconds 'cause of the time we've got and making sure that we're getting that mindset.

Nathan Simmonds:

And do you know what this is personal development. This is my plan, this is my goal, this is my aspiration, not somebody else's. So through the course of this week, we'll look at some of the structures, we'll look at some of the models, we'll look at mostly the mindset that's gonna keep you on track for doing it. So today,

Nathan Simmonds:

The first part we're gonna be looking at now, and my wife reminded me of this just as I was preparing for this session today. It's not a form. This is the biggest mistake that people make when we're looking at our personal development. We get given a form by hr. We get given a form by our leader and they say, fill this in.

Nathan Simmonds:

And then what starts to happen is it becomes a bit of a process and we feel like we are being managed to make sure that the process is completed because we don't understand what's in it for us. We don't understand what's in it for me, which is one of the key problems with influencing skills. We get given the process and we're told to get on with it. And very rapidly it becomes a box ticking exercise. It is not a form.

Nathan Simmonds:

Personal development is a way of thinking, it's a way of life and it's something for you to get invested into for yourself because the only investment that is ever guaranteed is the one that you make in yourself. And it comes at with huge interest returns when we get it right, personal development is a structure of thinking, where we go, where do I want to be? Where can I see myself in the future? And imagining yourself in that place.

Nathan Simmonds:

So you can map forwards and engineer backwards and put the steps in place to make sure that you can put one foot in front of the other in order to create that thing that you saw in your head. Whatever the mind of man can conceive, he can achieve. Napoleon, uh, where is he? He's somewhere on my bookshelf and I can't see Napoleon Hill. Whatever the mind of man can conceive he can achieve. So when you can see it, you can create it, but people can only see as far as they can think.

Nathan Simmonds:

So the personal development planning process is the, the route to start creating that map. To start using. The coaching questions that I went through some of those with you last week or even from our coaching cards, which you can get on the link after this, after this, um, training today is asking yourself some of those questions of where do I want to be? Now you don't need a form to fill that in.

Nathan Simmonds:

Yes, it's appropriate that you do write your goals down. Yes, it's appropriate that you start to map some of those things out. Whether you are using mind mapping tools, whether you are using a to-do list, whatever it is, where can I see myself in the future? How does that feel when I get there? That's not a form, that's a thinking about who you are and where you want to be and what you can create for the world around you. The second thing is not someone else.

Nathan Simmonds:

It is not, lemme clarify, lemme go back. It is a personal development plan. It's not insert company name, development plan. Very, very different. And people seem to get stuck on this. Again, feeding out of this is not a form, it's not somebody else's. It is yours. It is your responsibility to fill this form in or to fill the, sorry, to fill the paperwork in and get the thinking moving so that you can direct where you want to get to in this life. It's not somebody else's to do that for you.

Nathan Simmonds:

This is yours. And it's really important that you are crafting time in your calendar, in your diary, quiet time, investing a percentage of your week, whether it's 5%, 10% or whatever on a daily basis to think about what it is I'm doing today and how is that moving me closer to where I want to be. And the thing that I can see in my head, this is absolutely 100% your responsibility 'cause it is a personal development plan. Number three, it's not for someone else to tell you what to do.

Nathan Simmonds:

School has its place, school has its challenges. And I'm not bashing just reporting. School is a post-industrial revolution mechanism based on a factory environment to create factory workers. It creates a replicable and, um, predictable understanding of what the economy will look like a year, five years, 10 years from now. That's what it was created for. Primarily though it teaches you three things.

Nathan Simmonds:

Turn up on time. Do our do as you're told and live up to someone else's expectation. What do we mean by this? The trap that we get caught in when we are doing this means that when we're working and we've got our personal development plan, we spend our time waiting for someone else to tell us what to put into it. What job do you think I should be doing? What do you think my next action might be? Rather than taking our ownership for that.

Nathan Simmonds:

And what we do is we spend our time waiting for someone else to tell us what to do. The only thing that we get from waiting is older. That's it. So when we look at this and it's not a form which we get stuck and it's a process. Um, it's not someone else's. It's our responsibility and it's not for someone else to actually tell us what to do. When we shift these mindsets, we can start taking new actions and new intentions to create the next steps.

Nathan Simmonds:

These are the first parts that get me really riled up about the personal development plan. I had to go in with these early doors. Hope this is useful so far. Bear with me. We're gonna give some structures and give some ideas here. But this part was really getting the, the emotions riled for me. I wanted to give that, give that to you guys right now to understand the importance of of personal development planning question.

Nathan Simmonds:

We're gonna set up a poll. We've got a poll set up. We're gonna launch in a second.