Lara Roche, founder, The Talent Sphere Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do: www.charitycomms.org.uk

1. Leading Your Own Learning
Lara Roche – The Talent Sphere

2. Hello – Lara Roche
• The Talent Sphere – people strategy and learning
consultancy, biggest client base is not for profits
• Charity clients include: United Response, Certitude,
Turn2us, The Poppy Factory, OneYMCA, Aspire, British
Lung Foundation
• FCIPD, Board level Head of People 10 years
• Psychology background
• Speaking events: Third Sector Strategic People Conference,
CharityComms Events, VODG Annual Conference

3. Our Workshop Today – You Will…
• Uncover the benefits of leading your own learning
• Learn how to set your own development goals
• Explore the full range of learning options
• Discover how to build your own dynamic PDP
• Learn how to Self-Coach to continually build your success

4. What are the benefits of
leading your own development
rather than relying on others
to shape your development for
you?
Your turn

5. Setting Your Goals

6. Setting Your Development Goals
Realities AspirationGoals

7. Development Options

8. What are all the different
learning options you could use
for your development?
Your turn

9. Development
Options
Courses
Seminars
Events
Books
Coaching
Shadow
Mentoring
Blogs
Projects
Covering

10. Building Your PDP

11. Your PDP – Answering Key Questions
• Goals – what exactly am I aiming for?
• Milestones – what are the key achievements I am aiming for?
What skills, knowledge and behaviours do I need?
• Actions – what are the step-by-step actions that will get me to
each milestone?
• Measures – how will I know when I have achieved each one?

12. What could I do
immediately?
What would quickly
make a difference?
Short
Term
Mid
Term
Long
Term
What could I do medium
term?
What would medium-
term make a difference?
What could I do longer
term?
What long-term action
would make a big
difference?
Your PDP – Deciding Actions

13. Milestone Actions Measure
Sound KNOWLEDGE of
another department
Attend a department meeting Share knowledge at my own team
meeting
Shadow a department member for
a day
Successfully answer their end-of-
day review qs
Confident presenting SKILLS Do a presentation skills course Course personal learning
objectives met
Deliver a presentation to a group of
at least 20
All presentation feedback
positive
Improved relationship
building BEHAVIOURS
Get a mentor to work on
relationship building with
Mentor found and first three
sessions held
Read “Winning Friends and
Influencing People”
Book read and discussed with
mentor
Your PDP – Creating The Plan

14. Your PDP – Formats
• Play around with your components to create formats
• Share ideas with colleagues
• Google “personal development plan formats/templates”
• Find/create a PDP that works ideally for you

15. Coach Yourself

16. Where am I now?
Where do I want to be? Current
Learning
Explore
Action
Review
What am I going to do?
By when?
What progress have I made?
What next?
What needs to change?
What could I do instead?
What is working?
What is not working?
Self-Coaching – Continually Build Your Success

17. Our Workshop Today – Now You Can…
• Understand the benefits of leading your own learning
• Set your own development goals
• Exploit the full range of learning options
• Build your own dynamic PDP
• Self-Coach to continually build your success

18. Leading Your Learning
Lara Roche – The Talent Sphere

19. Getting ahead in your
comms career
20 June 2019
London
#CommsCareer

20. Visit the CharityComms website to view
slides from past events, see what events
we have coming up and to check out
what else we do:
www.charitycomms.org.uk