Career growth rarely happens by accident. It starts with an honest look at your own skills, traits, and goals, and a deliberate plan for closing the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Employees who build that plan for themselves tend to make better career decisions, feel more confident, and get more out of their working life.

This training course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy shows participants how to assess their own capabilities, set meaningful career goals, and build a personal development plan that genuinely supports it. The programme also connects that individual planning to the wider organisational picture, covering the fundamentals of performance management, sound hiring practices, and how to run an effective performance appraisal, so that personal growth and organisational development reinforce each other.

Course Objectives

• Build a personal development plan and integrate it into your organisation's learning, training, and performance management culture.
• Gain a better understanding of yourself, how you work, and the unique contribution you can make.
• Develop a positive, forward-looking approach and become better positioned to make choices that help you reach your goals.
• Increase your awareness of your own needs and how to meet them.
• Develop the skills needed to boost your employability and support your career prospects, while helping employees more broadly plan their own careers.

Who Should Attend?

• Managers responsible for implementing organisational development, learning, training, and personal development plan policies.
• Executive managers who want a deeper understanding of organisational development, learning, training, and personal development planning.
• Any manager looking for new ways to develop their people.
• Employees identified as having potential for advancement who want to explore new ways to develop their skills and career.

Module 1: Building Your Personal Development Plan

• Reviewing your career path using tools such as a strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats analysis and a broader environmental scan.
• Creating your own personal development plan.
• Understanding continuous professional development and how it connects to your plan.

Module 2: Career Planning Foundations

• Principles of effective development and career planning.
• Recognising behaviours that limit progress, and how to reduce them.
• Building knowledge management skills and implementing succession planning.
• Addressing work-life balance considerations.

Module 3: Understanding Performance Management

• Defining performance management and the HR processes that support it.
• Connecting organisational objectives to team and individual performance and development.
• The benefits of building a learning, training, and development-oriented organisation.
• Defining what makes a performance appraisal system effective.

Module 4: Developing Professional and Personal Skills

• Exploring self-learning methods and strategies.
• Strengthening time management skills.
• Understanding emotional intelligence and building strong working relationships.
• Developing effective communication skills.

Module 5: Conducting an Effective Performance Appraisal

• Clarifying the purpose of a performance appraisal.
• Preparing for, managing, and following up on a performance appraisal meeting.
• Setting key performance indicators and SMART goals.
• Linking personal development plans to continuous professional development.

Training Style

• In-house training.
• One-to-one training.
• Group training.
• Practical, hands-on training.

Note

• We can deliver this course at the time and location that suits you.
• This course is delivered to the highest standards for VIP participants. For more information, contact the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy team.