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The first four chapters online, with a knowledge check after each chapter. Plus a PDF with a worksheet and cheat sheet.
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The one-day Personal Development Reviews course. You practise the personal development review itself, with your own staff and your own doubts on the table.
€625,- excl. VAT
View the Personal Development Interviews course All HR & personnel courses →Filling in a PDP form takes twenty minutes. The difficult part comes before and after. Before the meeting you often do not know what your employee actually wants, and after the meeting there is a plan that nobody has looked at again by November. The form was there; the development was not.
This free online course is the starter for our full Personal development interviews. In the first four chapters you will see what a Personal Development Plan is and how the PDP cycle runs, help someone gain insight into their own qualities, drivers and blind spots, reduce a handful of signals to a single learning objective that the employee genuinely wants, and make sure the agreements survive the year. Each chapter ends with a short knowledge check.
The full course goes on to cover listening, probing and summarising, giving feedback with the 4G model, the personal development interview from opening to close, dealing with resistance, and rounding off and evaluating a development path. Would you like to practise that with a trainer present, and with your own employees in mind? Then take a look at the Personal Development Interviews course.
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IntroductionHow this free course is structured and what you learn in the four chapters.
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The PDP as a plan and as a processWhat belongs in a development plan, how the personal development interview differs from performance and appraisal interviews, and the four phases of the PDP cycle with the three roles.
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Self-insight and feedback from all sidesReflection questions that stir something up, drivers and direction of ambition, and the picture from four feedback sources alongside the self-image.
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From development wish to learning objective and agreementReducing signals to a single theme, the difference between a learning objective and a result objective, and an agreement that an outsider can understand.
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Learning on the job and keeping the plan aliveThe 70-20-10 model and the working methods that go with it, why plans run aground and the annual rhythm that prevents this.
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Conversation techniques that workListening on several levels, open and closed questions, summarising and mirroring, and allowing silences in the conversation.
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Giving feedbackObserving without judging, the 4G model, appreciation as a development tool, and receiving feedback yourself.
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The PDP meeting from opening to closingFive phases in just over an hour, the opening and contracting, steering with the GROW model and closing properly.
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Dealing with resistanceForms of resistance in the PDP meeting, the overt and the underlying current, Leary's Rose and difficult situations.
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Completing and evaluating the programmePreparing the final evaluation, measuring results and impact, and moving on to the next round.
That is the difference with a pdf: there is someone standing in front of the class who answers your questions and thinks along with your own situation.
I found the 'Interview Techniques' course to be good. Nothing to fault. It was also good that Job called beforehand for a short preliminary discussion. You don't see that very often. A very worthwhile course. It also had a strong element of repetition. Plenty of variety, including between theory and practice. Learned a lot, and applied it straight away during the course. And I think these learnings will also help me further when conducting interviews.
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We took the Outlook, Teams and OneNote course with Roy Nieuwenhuijzen. Good content, and a few days before the course he got in touch with me (coordinator of the course, head of the secretariat). Pleasant that you can fill in the day itself as needed. The booklet for reference is rather dated, but apparently there is little up-to-date material to be found.
Inge Brouwers
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