Free online event
Planning professional development for public servants
Exclusively for public servants and policymakers
Wednesday, Oct 12, 2022
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You’ll learn how to:
- Recognise how professional development planning can help you in your career
- Understand the basic principles of a professional development plan
- Identify ways to assess your current and potential skills
Speakers
Speaker resources:
- The UK Government Campus Curriculum
- Strand 4: Specialist skills, UK government resource
- Civil Service careers, Find the perfect match for your passion, UK government resource
- HR Career Framework, UK government resource
- Eat That Frog book by Brian Tracy
- 7 Habits of Highly Successful People book by Stephen Convey
- Speak Up book by Megan Reitz & John Higgins
- Humble Inquiry book by Edgar Schein
- Listen book by Kathryn Mannix
- Podcasts by Megan Reitz
Apolitical resources:
- Career Development for Canadian Public Servants, free course
- How to accelerate your professional development, article by Florian Schwendinger and Lene Topp
- Career development: How can we set ourselves accountable?, article by Frances Michelle C. Nubla
- How to ace interviews in the public service, past workshop
- How to have an impactful career in government, past workshop
Whether you’re eyeing up your next promotion, or you’re aiming to excel in your role, making a professional development plan is essential. It helps you identify what skills you’re good at and want to develop, what you most enjoy about your work, and enables you to set goals (and actually reach them).
For public servants, professional development planning can ensure that you develop new skills, and gives your whole team the chance to stay up-to-date on the most recent developments in your department or organisation.
Watch this free online workshop to learn about how to begin planning your professional development, with tips on how to get started, how to get your organisation involved, and how your plan can help you reach your career goals.
Who should watch:
This workshop is for any public servant or policymaker, working at any level or in any type of role, who is interested in learning about professional development planning for themselves or for their team.
Interested in how Apolitical can support you and your organisation? Learn about collaborating with us.
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Speakers
Brigid Russell
Coach and Leadership Consultant
United Kingdom
Thembi Watt
Head of L&D Capability and Skills | Government Skills, Cabinet Office
UK
Brigid Russell, coach and leadership consultant. Brigid has over fifteen years of coaching practice and twenty-five years of consulting experience. Brigid has worked with public sector organisations on leadership in local government, higher education and the health service. From 2008-2015 Brigid was a leadership consultant for NHS Scotland. In recent years, Brigid has focused on the challenge of developing leadership in the context of complexity and uncertainty.
Thembi Watt, a high-performing HR Generalist, works at the centre of Government, with experience in Business Partnering, Capability & Talent, Employee Relations and D&I. Thembi is a true strategic thinker who thrives in complex and sensitive political environments, and is a Chartered FCIPD and Prince 2 accredited.
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