Continuing Professional Development and the 5 Elements of Learning.
If you want to become a power performer, you probably have more potential than you realize, and you may underestimate the value of talent. If you are struggling, what may be missing is the opportunity to learn and grow. You are lacking professional development.
Advisors
Nearly everyone has an opinion, but not everyone is an expert advisor.
Expert advisors are not necessarily someone you pay to guide or teach you. They can be friends, relatives, or even people you know through your friends and relatives.
A veteran professional in most fields can help you reach gain understanding and reach decisions. If the person is a professional in the information you need, they can help you make better decisions.
Teachers and professional trainers have credentials or certifications to help you with information. Great teachers and trainers are expert advisors.
In closing, advisors help you with professional development as they help you to grow and to make better decisions.
Repetition Training
Training is critical to performance growth. Physical training builds strength, increases agility, and expands the initial response. Mental training increases memory, decision accuracy, and mental quickness. Skills training makes us more effective performers in your career. Growth comes from the repetition of training.
New Interests
Develop new interests. We can continue to grow as we develop and learn from new interests. We don’t have to be an expert in every field, but we can grow as professionals as we learn more about changes happening in our professional life.
Location
Choosing the right location is critical to our continued growth. If a person wants to become a downhill skier but can never get to a place to ski, the person needs to change the setting to carry out the goal. Likewise, writers, engineers, doctors (that is, people of all professionals) grow when they put themselves in locations that provide for success.
Setting
Additionally, setting is critical to success. In the best setting, we can have better focus. If a person does not pay attention and must go over material several times to get the point, the person may never understand the material at all. If a person does not have focus when performing a task, just doing the task correctly is impossible. Setting aside distractions help us create greater focus and increase learning. Therefore, the best setting is the one that makes easier to focus.
Continuing Professional Development
We must grow to stay current with changes in our industry. Additionally, it is not enough that we can do our job. We must be able to do a better job than current and new workers entering the workplace. Professional development will may our jobs easier and less stressful. It will increase our competence and our confidence.
Remember, if you want to become a power performer, you probably have more potential than you realize, and you may underestimate the value of talent. If you are struggling, what may be missing is the opportunity to learn and grow. You may lack professional development. #ProfessionalDevelopment
