Sticky Learning Lunches

#16: Create Your Own Personal Development Plan

Understand the 5 simple steps to create your personal development plan in Part 5 of this PDP series.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Brilliant. It is Friday. We are just waiting for people arriving. Welcome everybody. It's good to see. A couple of new faces. No, we've got some regulars in there, which is nice. Kat, good to see you. Thank you. Colin. Darren, thank you. Gerd, great to see you again. Really appreciate you, mark. Matt, Tim, brilliant. Thank you for arriving early.

Nathan Simmonds:

We are gonna gonna give it 30 seconds as usual. Just wait for those last few people to jump in so we maximize the, maximize the share that's going on, hoping everyone's had a great week. Hope everyone's having a great day today. And is, is getting wound up for the weekend in a good way. Last few people coming in.

Improve working from home with the reflection tools

 

Nathan Simmonds:

Andy's in good. Making sure everyone is set up for success. As always, drink ready, whatever you've got. Whatever your drink of choice is for a Friday afternoon. Maybe you finished early and you're already on the gin and tonics, making sure you've got your page set up. Fresh page for part five of the PDP process, planning and progression week. And then we're gonna get into this. So you've got your drink, your pages set up, mobile phones, everyone get your phones out. Let's get you on flight mode.

Nathan Simmonds:

Whatever it is, unless you've got a baby on the way or you need your mobile phone, let's get it switched off. A hundred percent attention, a hundred percent intention, attention to yourself and the investment that you are making to yourself in this 30 minutes of learning with me. Couple more coming in. Gareth. Hello Gina. Hello. Great to see you here. Just making sure I can see everyone on the list.

Nathan Simmonds:

Before we get into this, on a scale of one to 10, one being terrible, 10 being hugely, how useful has this week been for you? Keen to get some feedback on here just to know about the content, how it's helping, what it's doing for you, and also it helps us to shape the content that we're gonna be delivering to you in the future. So next week. Who, another question for you all. Who here believes they're not a salesperson? Who here believes they're not a saleswoman salesman? Whatever, yes or no? Me. Who else thinks they're not a salesman?

Nathan Simmonds:

I am not me. Okay, good. Who else? Which is a common thing that people, I hear from people. I say, I'm not a salesman. I can't do sales. Here's the best thing about it. Every day is a sales day. Whether you think it is a trick question, correct. Whether it's you are delivering, uh, or wanting to get someone to buy into a new idea for a project you wanna deliver for a change in process or in HR or um, in your business, in the technical department.

Nathan Simmonds:

Whenever you want to get someone to buy into that idea, you are selling something. The moment you ask yourself, oh, you know, do I want to tea your coffee? You're selling yourself something. Sometimes you even have to sell, getting outside of your, um, getting out of bed in the morning. Thank you for reminding me. Now you can see my hope because I've just turned the screen share off.

Nathan Simmonds:

Every day is a sales day. You are always convincing someone, pitching someone, getting someone to come to your side of the table so you can collaborate with them. You're always doing this. Now, next week we have got a guest speaker, so it's gonna be good friend of mine and ours at MBM Jeff Birch. It's gonna be the the fourth stage, the coming four stage plan for sales that we're gonna be covering. Jeff and I are gonna be leading next week's session.

Nathan Simmonds:

If you have not already already registered for next week, now is the time link in the chat box, get yourself registered for next week. It's gonna be fun. Jeff Birch, rip roaring keynote presenter, sales expertise, six bestselling books, presenter on the B, B, C. What more could you ask for? If you believe you're not a salesperson, you're lying to yourself. Next week's gonna be hugely valuable to you.

Nathan Simmonds:

Get yourself registered for this. It's gonna be great. What are we going in for today? Today is part five of PDP, your personal development planning. Today we're gonna be looking at some of those reflection tools and, and, and devices that are gonna help you put that planning in place. Everybody is here. Grand welcome. Welcome to part five. The last part for this week. As most of you know, I think all of you know by now.

Nathan Simmonds:

Just for those people that might be watching the replay or on YouTube, my name is Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM, making Business Matter, the Home of Sticky Learning. The idea of these lunchtime sessions, these micro learnings, is to help you be the best version of you in the work that you do right now while you are working from home and or preparing to return back to work, sharing great ideas, great concepts, so you can go and over deliver on what you are doing. This session today is gonna be the final element to really help you get focused.

Nathan Simmonds:

Dive into this. Number one we've talked about this week. We've talked about structure, we've talked about mindset, we've talked about structure. So we've gone from the OAG, the overarching goal, three to five years or more. We brought that down to 12 months. We've then taken that down to a hundred days. We've then taken that down to 30 days, and then even the way down to single, single hourly actions that keep moving you forward. The one thing, actually, let me put this question to go. What is the one thing that's gonna stop you from doing any of this? I alluded to it yesterday, alluded, yeah, I think it's alluded to this yesterday.

Nathan Simmonds:

What's the one thing that's gonna stop you from making this happen? The first answer came in me. What else? What other answers have we got here? Trying to do too much? Absolutely not me. I'm someone just said you, I'm not gonna stop you. Uh, external distractions. Good, good. We're all in the right ballpark here. The one thing that's gonna stop you from making you do this is your planning is your how you strategize and how you plan and how you book in to make sure this is gonna happen. Not keeping going until it sticks. Absolutely.

Nathan Simmonds:

It's all about the schedule. It's all about how much time you wanna invest in this. So we're gonna put up here, it's gonna be all about the schedule. It's the planning side of it. You've got this wonderful mindset now of personal development planning. You've even got the form now. You've got the structures to fill in all the boxes, but if you don't take the time to fill those boxes to download the information to work out where you are going, you're never gonna get there. Or if you do, it might take a long time. As I said, strategy without tactics is the long road to victory.

Nathan Simmonds:

Tactics without strategy is the noise. Before defeat may remember this quote from the beginning of this, uh, the first part of these sessions, we have to make time for it. That's it. You plan it into your diary. Five to 10% of your time needs to be invested in yourself. It's about starting the day. What have I got in my calendar? What activities are going on when we get to the end of the day, calibrating and going, Hmm, or sorry, reconciling. What did I actually do today? What was it I did I, did I tick that off? Did I do that in the best possible way?

Nathan Simmonds:

Just five, 10 minutes each day at the end of the week, did I tick off what I wanted to in my 30 day blocks? And at the end of each month and quarter, and as you are going through, it's just having those po points of reflection on what you've done. What did I do today? What did I do this month? What did I do this quarter? You do this exactly the same for your businesses, with your leaders, with your commercial departments, with your teams. How many people are taking time to check in with your teams to make sure they're hitting their financial and commercial goals?

Nathan Simmonds:

Yes or no? Are your teams working on their projects and ticking the boxes? Yes, I believe so. Yes, absolutely. How many people are doing this for themselves? Yes or no? Got some yeses coming in. Good. Me Good. It's absolutely vital. We do this and this is gonna be the difference between success and, and failure, not consistently is you book the time with your teams to do this.

Nathan Simmonds:

Very rarely do people book the time with themselves to do this. If you are not, and I wrote this down this morning as I was thinking about this conversation we have, if you don't make time for yourself, why would a future employee employer make time for you? Lemme say that again. If you don't make time for yourself, why would a future employer make time for you?

Nathan Simmonds:

You are a business. You are the service. You are the, the, the, uh, the product that you are selling. You are a sellable service. When you go into an interview, when you go into a one-to-one, when you go into a team meeting, you are selling a service. You are telling people how much value you add by what you've done before, by what created that pride for you. What created that excitement. This is what, and this is the value that you've been adding through these emotions. This is what makes you valuable to businesses and helps you to move forward in that plan.

Nathan Simmonds:

So it is about investing the key time for yourself to make this happen. Number one, schedule and plan. What get scheduled gets done. You know what your OAG is, you know where you are going. You get that in your schedule. You start working towards it. Doesn't always mean it's gonna be plain sailing, as I've said before,