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Plan your development

SMART Objectives

Key “W” questions are invaluable to helping create a plan for future development.

Goals

• What do you want/need to learn? - Identify your goal.
• What is your objective?

The SMART guidelines are very useful to framing your goal or objective.

• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable/ Actionable
• Relevant/ Realistic
• Time Framed

For some great tips on SMART objectives refer to page 3 of this pdf Step 3 - A SMART Action Plan.

Actions

• How to you intend to achieve the learning?
• What will your actions be?
• What time settings will you put around those actions?
• When do you aim to have achieved your goal?

Resources

• What do you need to enable you to learn?
• What are your resources?
• Where will you find them?
• Who can support and encourage your learning?
• How will you make the most of that support?
• What are the barriers (if any) to your learning?
• How you will avoid or overcome those barriers?

Evidence

• How will you know you have learned what you wanted/needed to learn?
• What can you show as an output of that learning?
• What will demonstrate that you have achieved your goal?

After considering these four areas a plan can then be recorded in whatever format works best for you. Below is an example of a useful table.

Learning Plan