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Developing Capability

The behaviours in the table below show how you can demonstrate the skill of Developing Capability at each of the competency levels in which it appears. Click on the plus sign to show the behaviours at that level.

Click here to read more about how the competency levels work.

Resources

Below you will find learning resources to help you develop the skill of Developing Capability. Click on the links to access the resources.

PDFs
Growth Mindset
This PDF covers the important difference between growth and fixed mindsets in relation to driving personal development and how to find learning in more situations. It will help you to address blockers you might have around change and/or developing yourself.

How People Learn
This PDF covers some of the science behind learning and how we learn best, before describing different learning styles and the most effective types of resources to use with that style.

How Can I Develop? - Creating a Development Plan
The performance management question covered in this PDF focuses on development, whether to tackle an existing performance problem in your current role or to prepare for a new role. It provides a set of diagnostic questions to examine what specifically needs to change and then explains how to use the competencies to identify the required skills, finishing with advice on how to write a development plan.

Stretching Yourself
This PDF covers how the brain learns in terms of its potential. It will help you to decide the correct approach to your development based on what you specifically want to learn.

VIDEOS
Webinar - How To Create a Good Development Plan
A good development plan accelerates your development and makes it efficient and effective, but many plans are too vague or lack useful actions. Your hosts Jacqy Munro and Mandy Geal explain:

  • The conditions for a good development plan and the importance of specific feedback and analysis.
  • The key steps in creating a good plan.
  • How to use the Train Station as a resource for writing the development objective and indicators of success.
  • How to use the Train Station resources to choose precisely the right techniques and actions and build this into practice that accelerates your development.

ON THE JOB ACTIONS
Process
Read and/or watch How can I develop? Creating a Development Plan. Follow the logical steps in the process. You must choose a solution that you can commit to.

Methods
Consider the different learning styles described in How People Learn. Choose a solution that suits you and make sure that you include practice and review. The best way is to include all the styles, even if one is least preferred. Start with one you like.

Involvement
Encourage team members to get involved in anticipating their learning needs and setting their own learning objectives. Work with them to create their own development plan, giving advice on appropriate development methods.

Support
Appoint buddies/coaches/mentors for some or all members of staff. Ask them to read Coaching and Mentoring for tips.

Be prepared to grow
Read Growth Mindset for tips on how to encourage an attitude for fast and effective development and recognise if your mindset is ‘fixed’; not helpful for successful development.

Read Stretching Yourself for an understanding about how your brain approaches this, and tips on how to do it.