the nature of the PDP support requirements for the PDP coach characteristics of the target group overall organization of PDPs For illustrative purposes, the requirements in terms of the nature of the PDP support are detailed below, but similar descriptions, based on previous exploratory research, were drawn up for all the elements of the action model: the whole process should take between two to six conversations with a coach, covering in their totality one and a half to eight hours of engagement. it should cover all the parts of the PDP cycle (analysis, option formulation, realization, evaluation) there should be differentiation according to the characteristics of the target group (so called vulnerable groups may require more time) and the number of PDP cycles an individual has already gone through (a person who does this for the first time needs more time than someone who is used to such processes). The change model, based on the same exploratory research as the action model, is depicted below in two figures to improve its readability. Figure 1 shows what is assumed to occur on the basis of a first (phase 1) coaching intervention with the aim to identify which competences participants should develop in order to realize their ambitions in terms of their career. They do this by first gaining insight into competences they already possess, what they find interesting in work (for which they do not necessarily possess competences yet) and what possibilities exists for them in their environment. All of these insights combine into a realistic expectation that they should be motivated to pursue. Figure 1: detail of phase 1 of the PDP cycle Adapted from De Rick et al (2014) Figure 1 also depicts several conditions outside the intervention e.g. the assumed absence of other concerns that could crowd out reflection during the PDP. These conditions therefore correspond to non-intervention factors as described by Funnel and Rogers (2011) earlier. Hence, the action model and the change model together with these conditions can be said to describe a theory of change.
the nature of the PDP support requirements for the PDP coach characteristics of the target group overall organization of PDPs For illustrative purposes, the requirements in terms of the nature of the PDP support are detailed below, but similar descriptions, based on previous exploratory research, were drawn up for all the elements of the action model: the whole process should take between two to six conversations with a coach, covering in their totality one and a half to eight hours of engagement. it should cover all the parts of the PDP cycle (analysis, option formulation, realization, evaluation) there should be differentiation according to the characteristics of the target group (so called vulnerable groups may require more time) and the number of PDP cycles an individual has already gone through (a person who does this for the first time needs more time than someone who is used to such processes). The change model, based on the same exploratory research as the action model, is depicted below in two figures to improve its readability. Figure 1 shows what is assumed to occur on the basis of a first (phase 1) coaching intervention with the aim to identify which competences participants should develop in order to realize their ambitions in terms of their career. They do this by first gaining insight into competences they already possess, what they find interesting in work (for which they do not necessarily possess competences yet) and what possibilities exists for them in their environment. All of these insights combine into a realistic expectation that they should be motivated to pursue. Figure 1: detail of phase 1 of the PDP cycle Adapted from De Rick et al (2014) Figure 1 also depicts several conditions outside the intervention e.g. the assumed absence of other concerns that could crowd out reflection during the PDP. These conditions therefore correspond to non-intervention factors as described by Funnel and Rogers (2011) earlier. Hence, the action model and the change model together with these conditions can be said to describe a theory of change.