Reviewing your training

You should see your training plan as a dynamic document which you continue to return to and amend throughout your career and as part of your wider personal and professional development. When you undertake a piece of training it may reveal strengths and weaknesses that you want to pursue through further development opportunities.

As you undertake your research you may also identify further training needs. Talk these issues over with your main supervisor or talk to peers or other contacts to get their advice on what training will help you to respond to challenges presented by your research.

You should review your training plan regularly (perhaps once every three months). You can then discuss your training plan and consider what you need to do when you meet with your main supervisor. You may want to talk about:

• whether you have completed the training you identified
• whether you have learnt what you hoped from your training
• what development needs you still feel you have
• the setting of priorities and deadlines for future development.