Personal Development Plan (PDP) for Professional Success

LCBS5028
KNOWING & DEVELOPING YOURSELF FOR PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN (PDP)
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This PDP contains exercises that we will complete during the module. These exercises
are designed to help you think about your skills and how to make the most of your time
at Leicester Castle Business School.
This module is accredited and this PDP forms a major piece of your module.
Submission Date: _______________________________
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What is a personal development plan?
The aim of creating a personal development plan is to document a process of self-
analysis, personal reflection and honest appraisal of your strengths and weaknesses.
This should enable you to evaluate your current position and where you are right now
and consider your future development.
The purpose of the Personal Development Plan (PDP) is to encourage you to learn and
plan by becoming more aware of your capabilities and the opportunities around you at
the Leicester Castle Business School. The PDP can be applied in a range of contexts,
changing the way you approach your studies, make choices in both your academic and
personal life and prioritise your actions.
You should consider this as a live document that captures your current situation at
DMU, your goals and aspirations both whilst at studying at the Leicester Castle
Business School and longer term.
What do I need to do?
This PDP is divided into three parts. In each area we expect specific examples
to illustrate your point.
1. Knowing Yourself: What did I learn about myself?
2. Developing Yourself: How does what I learned about myself help me to
shape my goals?
3. Promoting Yourself: How do I use the knowledge from parts 1 and 2 to
develop strategies for promoting myself for my future career?
You are required to complete the PDP workbook. You should carefully review what you
have learned during the Knowing and Developing Yourself module (including the
prescribed readings, theories and conceptual frameworks) and apply this in the PDP
document.
The word count for the PDP should be 3000 words (excluding the reference
list).
How do I submit my assignment?
Submit on Turnitin a zip file containing the following separate documents:
 The PDP workbook
 Your Strengths finder/MBTI results report
 Your completed Career Values Inventory
 Completed feedback forms
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Please use only a zip file to upload these separate documents. Do not use a file of the .rar type, as they
require special software to open.
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How will my assignment be graded?
The submitted plan will be marked using the following grading criteria:
Coherence (30%)
Are there clear and logical links between the 3 different sections of the report?
1. Knowing Yourself: What did I learn about myself?
2. Developing Yourself: How does what I learned help me to shape my goals?
3. Promoting Yourself: How can I use this knowledge to develop strategies for
promoting myself?
4. Do the goals formulated in Developing Yourself clearly build on the learning
discussed in Knowing Yourself?
5. Do the promotion strategies in Promoting Yourself clearly build on both sections
1 and 2?
Engage with course materials (30%)
 Has the student effectively used the content of the module to construct the plan?
 Does it show how core theories, models and frameworks introduced in the
module have impacted on learning and informed plans?
 Is there clear evidence of engagement with classroom experiential activities?
Wider Reading and Reflection (30%)
 Does the plan show evidence of wide and relevant reading?
 Are the prescribed module readings used to support the plan?
 Is there evidence of independent research, using additional written or audio-
visual sources beyond what was provided in the module?
 Is there evidence that the student has not only understood the readings but also
evaluated and applied what has been read to learning and goal setting?
Quality of writing and referencing (10%)
 Is the student able to communicate effectively his/her plan and the rationale for
this?
 Is there a structure to the plan?
 Does it have a conclusion?
 Are external sources acknowledged and correctly cited in the text?
 Is there a reference list?
 Is the writing style professional and clear, with accurate spelling, grammar and
punctuation?
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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
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KNOWING YOURSELF
MARSHALLOW TEAM CHALLENGE
Questions Responses
What did you learn from this
activity?
(Consider how the team collaborated
and worked as a team, and your role
within the team)
All the tasks which are done in the form of a team can be stated to be very
comprehensive in nature. This can be stated because, the team tasks tend
to require input from all the members as present in the team. In line of this,
it can also be stated that, in cases where the role of the team members is
not played adequately, the overall output of the team cannot be achieved
carefully.
In our team, it was my belief that, the overall output as given by the team
can be stated to be quite impressive in nature. Having said this, it can be
stated because, my team experience was highly exhilarating as I got to
meet new people and achieve the overall team challenge with them
My role in the team can be stated to be that of an organizer because I have
good organizing skills. In line of this, I was required to ensure that the team
is able to meet on a timely basis, and in addition to this, I was also required
to see to it that, the team was able to meet at regular intervals.
Hence, I learnt the following in the team activity:
The contribution of all members in a team is something which goes a long
way in achieving all the team objectives as well as the targets of the team.
In line of this, it was also learnt that, there exists various dynamics in a
team and the team must work as per the dynamics.
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