How do we develop as people? There are a number of ways generally how this occurs. Some would say, that as you spend longer performing a job you become more experienced at it and therefore more efficient and also better placed to make judgements in non-standard scenarios relative to the tasks at hand. This reminds me of the classic response you sometimes get from people established within an organisation, for example, “You do know that I have 25 year’s experience?” But with statements being presented such as this, the obvious reaction is “Do you really have 25 year’s experience, or have you merely 1 year’s experience that you have repeated 25 times?”
So, how else do we develop professionally. One obvious area is through training, be it ‘on the job’ or as a result of being sent on a course. Now the thing that needs to be borne in mind here is that someone’s
