Start your development plan for 2018

We wanted to wish all our members the very best during the festive season and for the new year. Hopefully a break from your normal routine will provide some much-deserved rest, and allow you to step back, think through what you have achieved in the past year and what you want to achieve in the coming year.

As the new year approaches, putting together a development plan for 2018 is a great way to focus on your priorities and to establish a clear direction for what you want to achieve.

A development plan will help you to understand:

• What you want
• Why you want it
• How you plan to get there.

The ACT Career Hub provides a range of tools to help you along the way and could help with this development plan. You can use it to understand your personality traits and workplace preferences as well as to develop your CPD.

Here are 4 steps to help you along the way, taken from the career hub article Developing a career plan:

1. Understand your long term vision and break this down in to short term goals or milestones
2. Assess where you are now – identify your skills
3. What are your options – what skills do you need to develop to meet your long term vision
4. Set SMART short and long term goals

And don’t forget to record everything you are doing – our CPD log is a great way to document your learning.

Here’s to achieving your milestones in 2018!