This is all about your own personal journey. The PKSB highlights all the areas you could be engaged in. We all get into a rut in our jobs, doing the same things over and over and the PKSB hopefully makes you think about what you are doing and why… It may spark an idea for something new but it might equally be something that you are already doing but can expand upon. The reason the words are in bold and capi- talised is that they are really important.
Identify areas for improvement in your personal performance – choose some areas you want to focus on and then look at how you can demonstrate an improvement in your own personal performance… what have you done and what difference did it make to you personally?
Undertake activities to develop skills – This is about committing to and beginning a new task. Explain why you think this area is important, what skills you are going to learn and how you plan to start. When writing, remember that not all assessors will understand your area of librarianship, so you need to explain it simply.
Apply these in practice – This is where you explain what you did and how you did it.
Reflect on the process and outcomes – What did you learn about yourself, what were the challenges or successes. What does it make you want to do next? Remember, this is not just a static process or tick box exercise, it is ongoing and although you will have to finish writing at some point we would like you to continue to develop and we would like to see that you have thought about this.
Organisational Development
Again, it states in the guide... Examine the organisational context of your service, Evaluate service perfor- mance, show the ability to implement or recommend improvement, and Reflect on actual or desired outcomes. This criterion has an important role. Whatever area of the profession you work in you are not working on your own, you are working for an organisation. We are encouraging you to look at your organisa- tional aims and objectives in the broad- est sense. If you are a school librarian, what are your school or trust’s aims and objectives; if you are a law librarian, what are your firm’s aims and objectives and so on… Once you have understood this you are then expected to reflect on the service performance in relation to these aims and objectives and consider if they are being
met. We have moved on from you and are now looking at your role within your service.
Examine the organisational context of your service – this means go and find them. Read them with your eye on the fact that everything you do should have these in mind. How well do your own aims and objective meet the whole organisations? If you don’t have any then consider writing some. You are not working in isolation and should be able to talk about your service in relation to the wider service as a whole.
Evaluate service performance – Taking a general overview of the whole service you work for how well do they meet their aims and objectives in your opinion. How well do your aims and objectives meet your wider service?
Show the ability to implement or recom- mend improvement – What could you do, or are already doing to demonstrate you have considered yours and your services aims and objectives?
Reflect on actual or desired outcomes – did your ideas work? What impact did they have on your service aims and objectives. Why did they not work? It is OK to criticise as long as it is fair and constructive.
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