Be Identify Personal And Professional Development Needs

About this package

Effective development planning starts with a realistic view of current performance. This package focuses on identifying personal and professional development needs as a team leader, using self-assessment, workplace evidence and feedback from others. It takes learners from recognising strengths and improvement areas to setting clear goals and building a plan linked to their day-to-day leadership responsibilities.

The first part explores what counts as evidence of a leadership strength. Rather than relying on statements such as being organised or communicating well, learners consider specific behaviours and the results those behaviours produce for their team. They also examine improvement needs through performance indicators, observations and work examples. Missed deadlines, rework, unclear briefings and delayed decisions provide practical starting points for understanding where leadership practice may need to change.

The package then considers feedback from colleagues, managers and team members, explaining how each perspective can contribute to a personal performance review. Learners explore how to move beyond individual comments and identify recurring patterns. Communication, delegation, conflict-handling and workload management are the key themes covered. Grouping feedback by the behaviour it describes helps learners identify useful development priorities rather than simply sorting comments into positive and negative categories.

The final part turns those priorities into SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound. Learners consider how to make a goal clear enough to put into practice and check against workplace results. They then explore how a Personal and Professional Development Plan (PPDP) records goals, agreed actions, timescales, evidence of progress and review dates. The emphasis throughout is on connecting reflection to observable changes in leadership practice. Video content supports the learning, and the package is delivered through your organisation’s own LMS.

Who it’s for

This package suits team leaders and supervisors who want to review their leadership performance and identify practical development priorities. It is also relevant to learners preparing for team leadership responsibilities.

What’s covered

1. Identifying leadership strengths through self-assessment

   Explore self-assessment and structured reflection to identify leadership strengths. Learn to support each strength with evidence of a specific behaviour and the benefit it produces for the team.

2. Recognising improvement needs from workplace evidence

   Identify gaps between what a team needs from its leader and what the leader currently provides. Consider performance indicators, observation notes and work examples, including missed deadlines, errors and repeated confusion after briefings.

3. Using feedback for performance review

   Examine how feedback from colleagues, managers and team members provides different perspectives on leadership performance. Understand how those viewpoints contribute to an evidence-informed personal review.

4. Identifying feedback patterns and performance themes

   Learn to group feedback by the underlying behaviour it describes and recognise recurring themes. The content focuses on communication, delegation, conflict-handling and workload management.

5. Setting SMART development goals

   Apply the Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound criteria to leadership development goals. Turn broad intentions into practical commitments that state what will change, how progress will be checked and by when.

6. Building a personal and professional development plan

   Translate development goals into a PPDP containing agreed actions, realistic timescales, measurable evidence and scheduled reviews. Link personal growth to visible leadership activities such as running briefings, allocating work and managing performance conversations.

Learning outcomes

By completing this package, learners can:

• Identify your own strengths and areas for improvement as a team leader, using appropriate self-assessment tools and evidence from current practice.
• Explain how feedback from others can inform personal performance review and the setting of development goals.
• Analyse feedback from colleagues, supervisors and team members to determine key themes affecting team leadership performance.
• Formulate SMART development goals that address identified strengths, areas for improvement and feedback from others.
• Develop a personal and professional development plan (PPDP) for team leadership that includes agreed actions, timescales, success measures and review points.

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