Taking ownership and responsibility for your learning

Learning and development is not just our responsibility, you need to make your own decisions about the learning and development.

The following points will help the learning process for the managers and staff.

Management

Taking ownership and responsibility for your learning by:

• clarifying to your staff that being proactive about learning and development opportunities is their responsibility, and role of the manager is to facilitate and support this where aspirations are appropriate and realistic
• listening and working with employees to agree learning and development needs
• communicating - talk to each other, share views and ideas either in person, email or group discussions
• support staff to be clear on the knowledge and skills they need to improve, to do their job better
• use PDRs to set out a learning programme and identify key areas for development

Staff

Take ownership and responsibility for your learning by:

• approaching your line manager at your PDR, by email or one-to-ones
• talking to each other, sharing views and ideas either in person, email, or group discussion
• looking for appropriate learning and development opportunities
• completing evaluation forms - this is will help the organiser see if the course was useful, and identify what changes, if any, are required