Managing Your Competencies: Personal Development Plan

Contents 1 What is Competency Management? 1.1 Competencies for your profession 1.2 Competency management: How does it work? 1.3 Testing your competencies 1.4 The PDP Toolbox as electronic portfolio 2 Who am I? 2.1 Why self-analysis? 2.2 Self-reflection 2.3 Receiving feedback 2.4 Core Qualities 2.5 Enneagram 2.6 Values and Motives 2.7 Motivation 2.8 Learning styles and Kolb's Learning Cycle 2.9 Active learning attitude and style 2.10 Your personal development plan 3 What ca I do as an individual? 3.1 What can I do already? 3.2 How far have I progressed? 3.3 Four behavioural types 3.4 Four behavioural colours 3.5 Basic behavioural versus response behaviour 3.6 Being proactive 3.7 Formulating targets 3.8 Time management 3.9 Establishing priorities: Procrastinators, yes-men, wasters and planners 3.10 The Deming Cycle: Plan, do check, act! 3.11 Contact with interns 3.12 Your own internship 3.13 A learning work experience 3.14 Motivation and development 3.15 Higher education thinking and working level: Ten generic core qualifications 3.16 Higher education thinking and working level: The Dublin Descriptors 3.17 My personality profile 3.18 Professional competency profile 3.19 Updating the PDP 4 What can I do in a team? 4.1 Group assessment 4.2 group assessment for advanced students 4.3 Competency-based group evaluation 4.4 Group evaluation using the Belbin test 4.5 Group roles 4.6 Four communication styles 4.7 Behaviour in a team 4.8 Team-building and team roles 4.9 Updating the PDP 5 What do I want to become? 5.1 Your future sphere of employment 5.2 Analysis situations vacant 5.3 Visiting a company 5.4 Sphere of employment possibilities 5.5 Research into employment possibilities 5.6 My dream job 6 Tools 6.1 Study targets in four steps 6.2 Points of action and logbook 6.3 Giving feedback 6.4 Receiving feedback 6.5 Active listening 6.6 The interview 6.7 Time management 6.8 The letter of application 6.9 Your curriculum vitae 6.10 The job interview 6.11 Networking Appendices 1 Installing and using the PDP Toolbox 2 Learning styles test 3 Checklist: Self-evaluation 4 Checklist: Evaluation of fellow group members 5 Group roles 6 Styles of communication 7 Which assignment when?