1. Unit 4: Personal and Professional Development Assess on abilities required to be a health and social care practitioner

2. Lesson Objectives Identify your current strengths and feel positive about them Recognise personal weaknesses and outline solutions to these. Describe the use of SMART targets

3. What is a SWOT What is a SWOT

4. Things to consider in your SWOT Planning cycle Practical skills Interpersonal skills Application to practice Level of performance Each SWOT should have at least three

5. Kolb’s learning styles Activists (Do) - people who act first and think later Reflectors (Review) – stand back & observe Theorists (Conclude) - Think through problems in a logical manner, value rationality and objectivity Pragmatist (Plan) - Keen to put ideas, theories and techniques into practice

6. Honey and Mumford They have developed Kolbs further. Honey & Mumford are best known for their learning style questionnaire. Self-administered it shows your preferred learning style. Knowing your learning style can accelerate your learning and avoid repeating mistakes.

7. Complete the Questionnaire

8. Reflector - Prefers to learn from activities that allow them to watch, think, and review (time to think things over) what has happened. Likes to use journals and brainstorming. Lectures are helpful if they provide expert explanations and analysis. Theorist - Prefer to think problems through in a step-by- step manner. Likes lectures, analogies, systems, case studies, models, and readings. Talking with experts is normally not helpful. Pragmatist - Prefers to apply new learnings to actual practice to see if they work. Likes laboratories, field work, and observations. Likes feedback, coaching, and obvious links between the task-on-hand and a problem. Activist - Prefers the challenges of new experiences, involvement with others, assimilation and role-playing. Likes anything new, problem solving, and small group discussions.

9. Your SWOT Considering your learning styles Outline ways to overcome each of your weaknesses Describe how you will minimise each of your threats

10. Setting SMART Goals If goals aren’t reachable, they aren’t worth making. All you have to do to set realistic goals is follow the SMART goals guidelines.

11. SPECIFIC What details do you want to accomplish? “I want to do better in history” “I want to increase my history grade from an 85% to a 90%.

12. MEASURABLE All goals should have a way to evaluate whether or not they were accomplished. “I want to run the mile better.” “I want to improve my mile time by 30 seconds.”

13. ATTAINABLE Goals must be something you are capable of reaching. Which one would be a better goal for Tom Brady? “I will help my team to win the 2009 Super Bowl” “I will rehabilitate my knee so that I can play football again next season.

14. RELEVANT Make goals that are important to you and your lifestyle. Which goal is better for a teacher? “My goal is to discover a cure for cancer” “My goal is to inspire at least one student to become a doctor to research a cure for cancer”

15. TIME - BOUND Make sure that you have a time set as a “dead line” so your goal is not unending. “My goal is to be able to run a half marathon.” My goal is to run in a half marathon by May of 2009.

16. Final tips to Goal Setting: Write down your goals and look at them often! If you achieved your goals too easily, make your next goals harder. Failure to meet goals only matters if you don’t learn something from your mistakes. Goal setting is am important method of: – Deciding what’s important for you to achieve. – Motivating yourself. – Building self-confidence.