Professional Development Flashcards
What are the 5 principles of continuous professional development?
Principle 1: be each person’s responsibility
Principle 2: It must benefit service users
Principle 3: improves the quality of service delivery
Principle 4: be balanced and relevant to each person’s area of practice it employment
Principle 5: be recorded and show the effect on each person’s area of practise
Why is it essential for CPD in the health and social care sector?
- Allows individuals and teams to have and use up-to-date knowledge
- Allows for better understanding and skill
- The sector is constantly changing with new rules and legislation
- Allows for new skills, knowledge and ways of thinking
What are the benefits of CPD?
- Encourages positive learning culture
- Improvement in skill, knowledge and ways of thinking
- Allows a new drive of change and motivation
- Improves performance
What are the methods of personal development that can be used inside and outside the workplace?
Classroom-based training courses - some subjects can be done via face-to-face classroom training.
Computerbased/online learning - Oftern online courses that are done live or recorded.
Blended learning - a mixture of online learning and face to face
Workplace training - Teaching based on specifics in the workplace or organisation. Subjected around needs and policies/procedures of the organisation.
Job Rotation - Activities are rotated around team members for them to learn and develop in response to the challenge outlined.
Shadowing - observing experienced person complete tasks that are of high valuable for new and less experienced
Coaching and mentoring - Development that is behavioural based coaching and intensive one to one support is given.
Project work - taking on projects and tasks that are outside the day to day aspects of the job.
What are the informal methods of personal development?
- Reading relevant books, magazines and journals
- Attending seminars and conferences
- Networking events
- Professional or other trade memberships.
What are the key steps to take to develop an effective personal development plan?
1 - Assessing the current level of knowledge and skills a person has.
2 - Defining the needs of the role and organisation
3 - Identifying the needs of the role and the organisation
4 - Identifying the learning preferences
5 - Deciding areas of the knowledge, skills and behaviours to be developed.
6 - Identifying career aspirations
7 - Understanding barriers to learning and development
What are the key components of a personal development plan?
- Personal development activity = activities that need to undertake to meet personal development goals (e.g., computer course). And the benefits to the organisation and individual are assessed to know how it aligns with strategic or operational plans or vision.
- Measure of success - A defined successful outcome would need to be recorded and how it will be achieved. (.e., completing a professional qualification) and application of skills in the role
- Resource required - it includes the financial cost that is associated with the activities that are needed to be paid for training. It would need to be appropriately ‘signed off’.
- Long, medium or short-term objectives - some goals require training in certain durations of months and future training dates
- Level of priority - Developing a training plan that caters to skills and roles that are to undertake as part of the training or development
- Sign off - Given person accountability for approving the plan and signing off on the plans
- Start and end dates - Using SMART principles, this is where dates are planned and milestones are placed as part of the training activity.
- Monitor and review - outlining how and when the plan will be monitored and reviewed to ensure progress.
What are policy drivers?
Term that refers to the UK government policies which guide how services are best developed so standards and targets are achieved by those providing and delivering care
What are the benefits of a positive workplace culture?
- Improves teamwork
- Raises morale
- Increases productivity and efficiency
- Enhances retention of the workforce, job satisfaction, collaboration and work performancee
Why is it important to have a positive culture in the workplace?
- Gives a sense of pride and ownership among employees allowing employees to invest in the future of the organization
- Allows us to identify and reward those who strive and support others in the organization
Why is important to create clear ethos and values for an organisation?
- Give employees an individual sense of responsibility to uphold the values and ethics set
- Gives staff the opportunity to assess themselves against these values and ethos.
What are the 14 principles of management?
Division of work - employees need to be specialized to increase output for efficiency and skill.
Authority - Managers must have authority to give orders.
Discipline - Discipline must be upheld in organisations, but methods vary.
Unity of command - Employers should have only one direct supervision
Subordination of individual interests to general interests - The interests of one employee should not be allowed to become more important than the group.
Remuneration - Employee satisfaction depends on fair remuneration for everyone.
Centralization - How close that employees are to decision making process and finding an important balance
Scalar Chain - Employees need to made aware where they stand in the organization chain
Order - The workplace facilities must be clean, tidy and safe for employees.
Equity - Managers should be fair to staff at all times, both maintain discipline
Stability of Tenure of Personnel - Managers should minimize employee turnover.
Initiative - Employees should be given the necessary level of freedom to create and carry out plans
Esprit de Corps - Organization should promote team spirt and unity
Who came up with the 14 principles of management?
Henri Fayol
What does Kolb learning cycle teach?
- It is important to use different learning styles when learning
- And suggests the most effective learning process is:
1) Experience (doing something)
2) Observations & Reflections (thinking about what happened)
3) Development of ideas (drawing some conclusions)
4) Testing ideas in practise (deciding what do in the uture)
Why was Gibbs’ Reflective cycle developed?
- To give structure to learning from experience and provides a framework for examining from experiences
