Game-Changer IO2 In-service Training Programme

Step 2: Identify your professional ‘fear zone’ and what is included within it Complete the following sentence. I feel uncomfortable when Now take another piece of paper and draw a large circle with the words ‘My Fear Zone’ in the centre. Within this circle write down the tasks that you either try to avoid, feel uncomfortable undertaking or are afraid to try. Again, these can be mainly professional work based tasks but you can include other tasks you may encounter every day. Step 3: Expand your ‘comfort zone’ Your challenge now is to expand your ‘comfort zone’ and shrink your ‘fear zone’. Take the two circles you created in step 1 and 2 and place them in a visible place in your working environment. These circles will work as a daily reminder of what tasks you try to avoid or feel afraid of undertaking and those tasks which you undertake with ease. Your goal is to move as many of the tasks within the ‘fear zone’ circle into the ‘comfort zone’ circle. You do this by adapting your behaviour and by pro- actively challenging yourself to undertake one or more of the activities within your ‘fear zone’ each day. This process will take time and effort on your part but the aim is for you to gradually cross-off the tasks within your ‘fear zone’ and add them into your ‘comfort zone’. As you do this with the circles you have created, you will start to see your ‘fear zone’ shrinking as you cross-off tasks and your ‘comfort zone’ expanding as those tasks move from one circle to the other. This process will not only increase your capabilities and self-confidence but also your ability to adapt to change in your professional and even personal life. This concludes our section on CPD. Using this section along with the rest of this training manual will hopefully support you to challenge yourself to improve your professional competences and adopt new approaches within your youth service provision. My Fear Zone