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Sticky Learning Lunches #15: Create Your Own Personal Development Plan
Understand the 5 simple steps to create your personal development plan in Part 4 of this PDP series.
You Can Read the Full Transcript Below:
Nathan Simmonds:
Amazing. Good afternoon people. Yes, I'm excited. We're on Thursday. We've got people arriving 30 seconds to make sure we're getting set up for success today. Gina, thank you, Chris. Gerd, Ivan. Mark. Samantha. Stewart. Great to see you. See you all arriving. Some of you got some new faces, the regulars. Really appreciate all of you being here. Hmm. Let's give it a couple more seconds. Let's make sure we got, we're getting ready for this.
Nathan Simmonds:
As always, mobile phones. First of all, let's remove all the distractions that we've got today. Mobile phones. Let's get your phones out. Let's make sure they're in airplane mode. No beeps, no buzzes, no pings, no nothing other than a full hundred percent attention to the time that we're gonna spend together. Um, going through today's content around personal development planning.
Improve your goals with a 30-day plan
Nathan Simmonds:
Just had a message there regarding a document I'm gonna share with you all at the end of this session. So I've got a little gift, a little bonus for you at the end of this that we've been working on this week and I'm looking forward to sharing that. Making sure you've got drinks handy, herbal teas, coffees, waters, whatever it is you're set up. And as always, making sure you've got your, uh, clean sheet notepad, pen at the ready. Now, making sure you've got plenty of ink and you're not gonna be looking for another pen halfway through this session, set that page up at the top of the page, you're gonna write keepers.
Nathan Simmonds:
Keepers are the things that we wanna remember, the keep the things we wanna keep hold of so that when we read back through those notes, it creates new thinking and it keeps the, the, the, the ideation flowing and progressing forward. Really important. We do this objective for today. We wanna be aiming for three or more keepers as we go through this session. So anything that I say, any questions that comes up or anything in the chat box, you think, oh, I need to keep hold of that. Get to on that sheet so it reminds you,
Nathan Simmonds:
Heading into this lasted a couple of people coming in. Let's get off the screenshot. Now remember to do it this time. That in itself is amazing. Before the last thing, before we get into the, the, the, the session, making sure that everyone that you are registered for tomorrow's session Friday, last day of the week, we're gonna be looking at some tools and ideas to really help keep that momentum down and get some deeper, um, introspection and reflection on what you do, why you do it, and how you make sure the plans and the strategies that we're putting in place now maintain that forward momentum and, and looking at different tools and different lenses to help you intensify your understanding of the challenges that you are setting for yourself.
Nathan Simmonds:
Because life needs challenge, we need that positive friction. When we understand what our challenges are, we can stack them in the right order. And those tools that we're gonna share tomorrow are gonna help you to do that stacking. You're gonna share a link in the, in the chat box, make sure you are registered for tomorrow. Other announcement, we have a guest speaker coming in for next week, Jeff Birch. Very funny, brilliant keynote speaker. Uh, he's talking about the the cunning sales plan strategy that you can employ. So you've got four days of Jeff Birch, there'll be jokes, there'll be entertainment well worth.
Nathan Simmonds:
Let's make sure you are registered for next week as well and maximize these free sessions. Let's do this. My name is Nathan Simmons, senior leadership trainer and coach for MBM Making Business Matter, the home of Sticky learning. And the idea of these sessions is to give you 20 minutes micro learning of, of leadership development and soft skills, which we provide to the grocery manufacturing industry for free to help you be the best version of you right now in this moment. And prepare you not only to develop yourself while you're working from home, but also for that return to work if you're going back there in the next week, two weeks, four weeks, whatever.
Nathan Simmonds:
So we're gonna share some core ideas. This is part four of the PDPs. You haven't seen the previous sessions, the links on the webpage, also on YouTube to go and see those. What have we covered so far? Let's diving in one overarching goal. We talked about this, um, on Tuesday we started to move to this. So these are your three, five year plus goals. Where do you want to be at the furthest point that you can see that? You can imagine that you can work out.
Nathan Simmonds:
You can get to if it's three years, if it's five years, if it's 50 years, this is your overarching goal. People can only see as far as they can think. And if you haven't been asked these sorts of questions before, where do you want to be in five years time? What is it you want to create in this life that benefits other people? What's the great impact that you want to, to leave for seven generations after you? If you've never been asked these questions, you won't even know what the answers are to take the time to ask them.
Nathan Simmonds:
Number two is then we're getting into 12 months goal, 12 month goals. So what we do is we take that OAG, the overarching goal and then we break it down to one year, what do I want to achieve in the next 12 months that is gonna help me move towards this? What is it I'm doing for 12 months from now that is gonna move me closer to my overarching goal and start to strategize This section three, which we're gonna dive into a little bit now, is then we wanna break it down into 90 to a hundred day planning.
Nathan Simmonds:
And we started working on this yesterday. So we want to take that 12 month plan and we want to chunk it down into three blocks, approximately of 90 to a hundred days. How do we do this and what's the best way to do it? Key question to be asking now that you've got a bit of a viewpoint on where you want to be in say three to five years from doing these sessions or you've got a bit of an idea percolating in your head, what is it you would like to achieve and or need to achieve inside the next 12 months that's gonna move you closer to that?
Nathan Simmonds:
What things can you see that need to happen? What needs to be included so that you are, when you get to the end of the 12 months from here, wherever we are now at the 30th, in the last latter end of April, 12 months from now, what do I want to have achieved in that time? And start brainstorming some ideas. You're sitting there with your pens and paper. Start just throwing some stuff down.
Nathan Simmonds:
Brain dump it out, mind map it if you need to throw things out there. And as you are doing this and you can start doing this now later on as you start doing this, you'll start to see there's some elements that kind of plug into each other and you can start grouping them together. And when you group those things together, what you will find is your 12 months
Nathan Simmonds:
Will break down into three or four categories. And as I was talking about yesterday, you'll then find that these, these groups, whatever they are, will all go into one, two, or three of these of these columns. It's making sense with everyone, everyone with me on this, see some yeses and nos. And if you're not, then we'll go in and we clarify what we need to is making sense with everyone? Yes, yes, yes. Good. So we brain dump all the activities we believe we need to take.
Nathan Simmonds:
Boom, they're on the paper. We then group them up. We then stack them into E all the, the three 100 day blocks that we've got three times, 100 days. And then we work out what the chronological order of these three, these three 100 day stacks are. As I said yesterday, I'll give you an example. If you want to change department or you want to become a consultant from where you are,
Nathan Simmonds:
You, there is no point in going for the job interview if you haven't done the research on the company that you are moving into. There is no point in attempting to sell a product as a consultant or service if you haven't built the product or haven't done the research and design potentially to say that you have enough material to create the product. So what you have to do is really understand that once I've got these things in order, like in in their stacks, how do they fall chronologically so that when one knocks into the other, knocks into the other. So it becomes a domino effect.
Nathan Simmonds:
As I complete this, it's a natural progression as I complete this, it's a natural progression. As I complete this, all of a sudden I'm there and it's the end of the 12 months and we've got success. Uh, question coming up. I've never even thought about breaking it down into three 100 day Brooks, which were very welcome. Couple of things on this. One is why isn't it 365 days? It's got nothing to do with Roman calendars or um, uh, andan calendars. Just purely for the fact that depending on how we stack our year and when we're doing our activities, when we get to places like December and January, it's a bit of a write off for certain things to happen.
Nathan Simmonds:
Now if you think that all months are made equal and you try and get some projects finished in December, I'm not sure that's really gonna work. 'cause by the time you get into the beginning of the second week of December, everyone is burning and using holiday and then all of a sudden it's the festive period. And if you are not on holiday somebody else's, so you are just not gonna get the communication you need to move forward.
Nathan Simmonds:
You are better off using kind of your,
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By Darren A. SmithSticky Learning Lunches #15: Create Your Own Personal Development Plan
Understand the 5 simple steps to create your personal development plan in Part 4 of this PDP series.
You Can Read the Full Transcript Below:
Nathan Simmonds:
Amazing. Good afternoon people. Yes, I'm excited. We're on Thursday. We've got people arriving 30 seconds to make sure we're getting set up for success today. Gina, thank you, Chris. Gerd, Ivan. Mark. Samantha. Stewart. Great to see you. See you all arriving. Some of you got some new faces, the regulars. Really appreciate all of you being here. Hmm. Let's give it a couple more seconds. Let's make sure we got, we're getting ready for this.
Nathan Simmonds:
As always, mobile phones. First of all, let's remove all the distractions that we've got today. Mobile phones. Let's get your phones out. Let's make sure they're in airplane mode. No beeps, no buzzes, no pings, no nothing other than a full hundred percent attention to the time that we're gonna spend together. Um, going through today's content around personal development planning.
Improve your goals with a 30-day plan
Nathan Simmonds:
Just had a message there regarding a document I'm gonna share with you all at the end of this session. So I've got a little gift, a little bonus for you at the end of this that we've been working on this week and I'm looking forward to sharing that. Making sure you've got drinks handy, herbal teas, coffees, waters, whatever it is you're set up. And as always, making sure you've got your, uh, clean sheet notepad, pen at the ready. Now, making sure you've got plenty of ink and you're not gonna be looking for another pen halfway through this session, set that page up at the top of the page, you're gonna write keepers.
Nathan Simmonds:
Keepers are the things that we wanna remember, the keep the things we wanna keep hold of so that when we read back through those notes, it creates new thinking and it keeps the, the, the, the ideation flowing and progressing forward. Really important. We do this objective for today. We wanna be aiming for three or more keepers as we go through this session. So anything that I say, any questions that comes up or anything in the chat box, you think, oh, I need to keep hold of that. Get to on that sheet so it reminds you,
Nathan Simmonds:
Heading into this lasted a couple of people coming in. Let's get off the screenshot. Now remember to do it this time. That in itself is amazing. Before the last thing, before we get into the, the, the, the session, making sure that everyone that you are registered for tomorrow's session Friday, last day of the week, we're gonna be looking at some tools and ideas to really help keep that momentum down and get some deeper, um, introspection and reflection on what you do, why you do it, and how you make sure the plans and the strategies that we're putting in place now maintain that forward momentum and, and looking at different tools and different lenses to help you intensify your understanding of the challenges that you are setting for yourself.
Nathan Simmonds:
Because life needs challenge, we need that positive friction. When we understand what our challenges are, we can stack them in the right order. And those tools that we're gonna share tomorrow are gonna help you to do that stacking. You're gonna share a link in the, in the chat box, make sure you are registered for tomorrow. Other announcement, we have a guest speaker coming in for next week, Jeff Birch. Very funny, brilliant keynote speaker. Uh, he's talking about the the cunning sales plan strategy that you can employ. So you've got four days of Jeff Birch, there'll be jokes, there'll be entertainment well worth.
Nathan Simmonds:
Let's make sure you are registered for next week as well and maximize these free sessions. Let's do this. My name is Nathan Simmons, senior leadership trainer and coach for MBM Making Business Matter, the home of Sticky learning. And the idea of these sessions is to give you 20 minutes micro learning of, of leadership development and soft skills, which we provide to the grocery manufacturing industry for free to help you be the best version of you right now in this moment. And prepare you not only to develop yourself while you're working from home, but also for that return to work if you're going back there in the next week, two weeks, four weeks, whatever.
Nathan Simmonds:
So we're gonna share some core ideas. This is part four of the PDPs. You haven't seen the previous sessions, the links on the webpage, also on YouTube to go and see those. What have we covered so far? Let's diving in one overarching goal. We talked about this, um, on Tuesday we started to move to this. So these are your three, five year plus goals. Where do you want to be at the furthest point that you can see that? You can imagine that you can work out.
Nathan Simmonds:
You can get to if it's three years, if it's five years, if it's 50 years, this is your overarching goal. People can only see as far as they can think. And if you haven't been asked these sorts of questions before, where do you want to be in five years time? What is it you want to create in this life that benefits other people? What's the great impact that you want to, to leave for seven generations after you? If you've never been asked these questions, you won't even know what the answers are to take the time to ask them.
Nathan Simmonds:
Number two is then we're getting into 12 months goal, 12 month goals. So what we do is we take that OAG, the overarching goal and then we break it down to one year, what do I want to achieve in the next 12 months that is gonna help me move towards this? What is it I'm doing for 12 months from now that is gonna move me closer to my overarching goal and start to strategize This section three, which we're gonna dive into a little bit now, is then we wanna break it down into 90 to a hundred day planning.
Nathan Simmonds:
And we started working on this yesterday. So we want to take that 12 month plan and we want to chunk it down into three blocks, approximately of 90 to a hundred days. How do we do this and what's the best way to do it? Key question to be asking now that you've got a bit of a viewpoint on where you want to be in say three to five years from doing these sessions or you've got a bit of an idea percolating in your head, what is it you would like to achieve and or need to achieve inside the next 12 months that's gonna move you closer to that?
Nathan Simmonds:
What things can you see that need to happen? What needs to be included so that you are, when you get to the end of the 12 months from here, wherever we are now at the 30th, in the last latter end of April, 12 months from now, what do I want to have achieved in that time? And start brainstorming some ideas. You're sitting there with your pens and paper. Start just throwing some stuff down.
Nathan Simmonds:
Brain dump it out, mind map it if you need to throw things out there. And as you are doing this and you can start doing this now later on as you start doing this, you'll start to see there's some elements that kind of plug into each other and you can start grouping them together. And when you group those things together, what you will find is your 12 months
Nathan Simmonds:
Will break down into three or four categories. And as I was talking about yesterday, you'll then find that these, these groups, whatever they are, will all go into one, two, or three of these of these columns. It's making sense with everyone, everyone with me on this, see some yeses and nos. And if you're not, then we'll go in and we clarify what we need to is making sense with everyone? Yes, yes, yes. Good. So we brain dump all the activities we believe we need to take.
Nathan Simmonds:
Boom, they're on the paper. We then group them up. We then stack them into E all the, the three 100 day blocks that we've got three times, 100 days. And then we work out what the chronological order of these three, these three 100 day stacks are. As I said yesterday, I'll give you an example. If you want to change department or you want to become a consultant from where you are,
Nathan Simmonds:
You, there is no point in going for the job interview if you haven't done the research on the company that you are moving into. There is no point in attempting to sell a product as a consultant or service if you haven't built the product or haven't done the research and design potentially to say that you have enough material to create the product. So what you have to do is really understand that once I've got these things in order, like in in their stacks, how do they fall chronologically so that when one knocks into the other, knocks into the other. So it becomes a domino effect.
Nathan Simmonds:
As I complete this, it's a natural progression as I complete this, it's a natural progression. As I complete this, all of a sudden I'm there and it's the end of the 12 months and we've got success. Uh, question coming up. I've never even thought about breaking it down into three 100 day Brooks, which were very welcome. Couple of things on this. One is why isn't it 365 days? It's got nothing to do with Roman calendars or um, uh, andan calendars. Just purely for the fact that depending on how we stack our year and when we're doing our activities, when we get to places like December and January, it's a bit of a write off for certain things to happen.
Nathan Simmonds:
Now if you think that all months are made equal and you try and get some projects finished in December, I'm not sure that's really gonna work. 'cause by the time you get into the beginning of the second week of December, everyone is burning and using holiday and then all of a sudden it's the festive period. And if you are not on holiday somebody else's, so you are just not gonna get the communication you need to move forward.
Nathan Simmonds:
You are better off using kind of your,