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Work Matters: Personal Development - Boost your skills

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Think about how you like to learn before you choose professional training, and reflect on training you've done, advises Tina Jefferies.

Involving yourself in training and development activity can increase your enthusiasm, enjoyment and commitment to your work. It can stimulate workforce motivation, increase retention and loyalty and enhance knowledge and skill. It's necessary, though, to match the best development approaches to your learning preference.

What's your style?

By understanding your preferred learning style, you can choose the type of training or coaching most suited to you. Seeing and doing, reading and reflecting, observing and experiencing, trial and error are all different ways to acquire knowledge and understanding. Do you:

- enjoy learning the theory first

- prefer to learn to do things before understanding why

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