If you want to learn more about ‘Earthworks’ you could come along to the Engineering Education Australia Two-Day Earthworks Course with Dr Burt Look, Senior Design Engineer from Aurecon. However, this blog is not about Earthworks, it is about you and your professional development.

Have a look at this ‘Rock in a Hard Place’. Pretty amazing isn’t it!

And now you might like to ask yourself the question? Where is my ‘Rock in a Hard Place’ with my professional development? What is holding me back from getting the results I want to get? Do I need more professional development or do I need to focus on deploying professional development that I have undertaken in the past?

The only way to get rid of a ‘Rock in a Hard Place’ is to gradually chip away at it…..  And our ‘rock’ in the picture above is going to need quite a bit of chipping away at!! (How big is your ‘rock’?).

In professional development terms, how do we chip away at our ‘rock’? Well how about we start with questions? What book should I be reading to get ahead? What relationship should you be building with a client, supplier, mentor or engineering colleague to learn more about what you do? What area of your performance could do with an update on skills and knowledge that you could get at a professional development course? These are the sort of questions that will help you as you continue your quest for better performance.

Yes, it always comes back to you and your professional development! And even more importantly for team leaders……. As you learn you help others to learn too!!