Additional Personal Development Resources

Access MindTools’ wealth of resources for personal development, including time management, learning skills, working with others, negotiation, creativity, work-life balance, and more. Resources are available as short articles, videos, audio, and infographics. To access the Personal Development areas, click ‘Explore’ in the menu and then click ‘Personal Development’ in the list. 

UKCPD’s resource bank has a live webinar schedule and pre-recorded personal development training session. Examples include: 

• Understanding Personal Development

• The Power of Setting Goals – A Strategy For Achieving Them

• Kick Start 2024 and Aim For Success

Discover essential strategies and best practises for nurturing talent and fostering employee growth with this comprehensive HR guide from CultureAMP. Resources include:

• What is employee development?
• Why is employee development important in the modern workplace?
• Building an employee development strategy
• Support employee learning and development with the right tools
• How to measure employee growth and development
• How are employee development practices strategic?
• Getting started

CPD is the learning experiences which help you develop and improve your professional practice.  Your ongoing professional development doesn’t come just from formal or course-based learning, it comes from anything that helps you to develop and improve your practice. It could be learning from:

•    a conversation with a colleague,
•    doing a new piece of work,
•    working in a new team,
•    reading something on LinkedIn,
•    listening to a podcast,
•    reflecting on the last few months of your work.

Gain inspiration and practical advice from UKCPD’s ThinkBig Journal, offering  insights into personal development strategies and success stories. Items include:

• How Setting Goals Now Effects Your Future Happiness

• Developing and Maintaining a Success Mindset

• The Skills For Success in the 21st Century

This article from the Chartered Management Institute explains how to keep your team on track to meet objectives, without giving up on your own personal development and study goals.

Emotional Intelligence is defined as the ability to understand, manage and effectively express our own feelings as well as interact and engage successfully with the emotions of others. It is essential in forming, developing, maintaining and enhancing personal relationships. This article  from the Directory of Social Change explains why we need to develop our Emotional Intelligence for an AI future.