Effective Appraisals and Personal Development Planning (PDP)

This module focuses on ‘Peer to Peer Appraisals’ – and will develop the skills to lead them and the skills and knowledge to interpret the outcomes of the appraisal process. The web workshop will develop the core skills of questioning using powerful questions to support people in achieving their best outcomes. Delegates will gain an understanding of the skills, principles and practice of effective management of peer to peer support.

Establishing your place in your leadership development journey is all about helping people get aligned behind their organisation’s direction of travel, to build the skills and confidence required to deliver organisational success within the reassuring arms of a collaborative culture.

The peer to peer appraisals workshop will enable delegates to understand – for themselves and their staff – where they are starting from on their personal leadership journeys. They will process and deliver the feedback sessions to people, helping them create personal action plans that they can take into their further development and learning. The process is a continual journey and we will ensure delegates understand the need to support progress, how to evaluate progress and how to ensure they manage continual development.

Continual development, setting goals and gathering peer support are essential to a successful Personal Development Plan (PDP). The workshop will also explore the role of the PDP and how this will guide all staff in their career, whatever grade they are at. PDPs help all staff to become more self-aware, enabling them to understand how to improve performance and develop new skills. All staff can engage in this process.

The workshop will really enable our facilitators to share the knowledge and insight of the complexities of 360 appraisals… and how to interpret the outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

We will focus on understanding the principles of the 360 approach – how to use it, how to develop a set of questions built around core values, behaviours and competencies, and how to enhance this with the addition of any other specific questions based on known strengths/areas of perceived weakness or areas of concern for the process.

Learning outcomes:

• Understanding the purpose of peer to peer appraisals within an organisational context
• Understanding the skills, behaviours, attitudes, beliefs and values of peer to peer appraisals
• Understanding the principles of effective peer to peer appraisals in practice and how to evaluate benefit
• Understanding how to interpret the outcomes from peer to peer appraisals
• Understanding the value of gathering peer support are essential to a successful Personal Development Plan (PDP)

Post event we will create a summary report of the workshop – this will further enable the sharing of the ideas of principles and the procedure and outputs of the Peer to Peer Appraisals and the PDP Cycle.