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.

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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.