Managing your personal growth

What does personal growth mean for you?

• Becoming better at what I am doing now.
• Advancing my career.
• Adapting to change.
• Understanding myself better.
• Preparing myself to meet the challenges of the future.
• Accepting myself more than I do now.
• Learning how better to get along effectively with others.
• Making better use of my time.
• Finding something new and exciting to do.

Whatever you want out of your personal growth, you sense a gap between where you are now and where you want to be.

• The above topics are all covered within Coaching2 Grow.
• Closing your gap means being clear about where you want to get to and why. Then it is a question of how.

How to get from A to B

• As the saying goes: ''What gets measured gets done.''
• Unless you set a measurable target with a timeframe, chances are you won't get there.
• It is easy to slip backwards into familiar habits otherwise.
• Managing personal growth means using project management disciplines to get where you want to go. Anything less rigorous can degenerate quickly into wishful thinking and frustration. How many New Year's resolutions have you stuck to 6 months later?
• Enlist the support of a learning partner - a mentor or someone who is also determined to develop. Meet or communicate regularly to review each other's progress.
• Get regular feedback from key stakeholders, focusing on just the specifics that you are striving to develop.
• Use the Coaching2Grow Personal Growth Workbook to track your progress, capture key learning and record changes to your plan.