Grow yourself
Why is this important?
We aim to have a workforce that demonstrates:
- awareness
- accurate assessment
- control of own:
- emotional state
- attitudes
- personal impact
- effectiveness
- emotional stability
The workforce needs to demonstrate these qualities even in the face of:
- adversity
- ambiguity
- stress
- high workload
This involves:
- understanding your own areas of personal and professional strength
- understanding areas for development
- demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning
Understanding yourself helps you to perform more effectively in the workplace. To achieve this at your level in the organisation you will need to demonstrate the following values and behaviours:
- have humility, be open to feedback and learning from others
- demonstrate self awareness, know your strengths and weaknesses; own your development
- recognise and understand your own behaviours and feelings and those of others
- actively looks for learning opportunities; uses newly gained knowledge and skills on the job and continues to learn through their application
- commit to developing yourself against our Core Behaviours and Values to the benefit of yourself and the organisation
Low
This could include:
- lacks humility and feels they have little to learn. Fails to recognise own strengths or address development needs
- ignores feedback from others or becomes defensive; does not seek ways to address those needs
- resists opportunities for learning or development: does not value personal development
- allows professional knowledge to become out of date; does not keep up to date with trends in own field of expertise
- does not demonstrate commitment to want to develop themselves against the Core Behaviours and Values
Expected
This could include:
- accurately identifies own strengths and development needs; takes action to develop areas that can be improved
- actively uses feedback from others to enhance own performance
- seeks out learning and development opportunities
- stays current by updating professional knowledge and skills on a regular basis; applying new trends or best practice where appropriate
- commits to personal development and is actively working on their development plan
High
This could include:
- adopts a coaching approach with others to encourage opportunities to maximise strengths and effectively develop where required
- proactively seeks feedback from others to enhance personal and team performance
- explores wider opportunities to develop scope of knowledge to benefit the work area
- shares new professional knowledge with others to enhance performance
- always creates opportunities for their own and other’s learning and development and is recognised as an advocate for learning across the organisation