Personal Development Plan

A personal development plan is a document that facilitates systematic information about how an individual is going to develop personally, academically, and professionally. Learn about the stages of personal analysis, goal setting, personal objectives, and evaluation.

PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
Stage 1: Personal analysis......................................................................................................1
Stage 2: Goal setting...............................................................................................................1
Stage 3: Personal objectives...................................................................................................2
Stage 4: Evaluation.................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
A personal development plan is basically a document which facilitate systematic
information about how an individual is going to develop personally, academically and
professionally in a more effective and better manner. Thus, the primary reason for developing
current PDP plan is to enrich personal capacity as a learner.
Main Body
Stage 1: Personal analysis
Strengths Areas to develop
High level of creativity and discipline along
with determination towards my studies and
work are my greatest strengths.
The areas that I need to develop comprise of
betterment in my communication and
leadership skill along with enhanced focus on
time management to achieve my goals in an
efficient manner.
Opportunities Challenges
I high level of opportunities are currently seen
in management jobs which are not only
required better academic performance but
effective communication and leadership skills
are also needed.
The high level of competition prevailing in
management and professional sector is creating
many challenges for me in getting better jobs
and future development.
Stage 2: Goal setting
My Goals is to get a better academic performance along with improved managerial and
interpersonal skills.
What I want to
learn?
What do I have
to do?
Who and what
can help me?
How will I know
if I am
successful?
Target date
Improved
communication
Training and
effective
networking with
teachers and
Teachers and
management
along with senior
My sharing of
ideas and
information
transformation
1 month
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senior students students would improve.
Better time
management
Coaching and
training about
time
management
tools like Gantt
chart and WBS
Teachers and
time
management
trainers
More disciplined
routine and
efficiency in
work
10-15 days
Stage 3: Personal objectives
Short term
To have improved time management for having more disciplined routine and work
efficiency.
Medium term
To have betterment in my communication skills to have more positive relationship and
networking to get early solution of problem and better growth opportunity.
Longer Term
The long term objective is to have a good and bright future and job opportunities for
which improvement in my leadership skills is required.
Stage 4: Evaluation
Obstacles I encountered How I overcame these What I learnt about myself
Ineffective communication
skill is faced as an obstacle by
me as I am not able to
effectively communicate my
ideas and creativity.
Through leading training and
spending more time with my
teachers and senior students
I learnt that I am having a
many creative ideas and
innovative ways to improve
my performance but these are
under-utilised due to lack of
effective communication.
Lack of leadership is also an
issues faced by me
Guidance from my teachers
and management has been
taken
I learnt about myself that I
require to improve my
leadership skill to overcome
possible issue and get better
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opportunities in future.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above plan it has been analysed that persona development plan plays a vital
role in improving the skills and personal competencies of an individual. A summarisation can be
made that PDP mainly comprises of 4 stages which involves personal analysis, gaol setting,
personal objective and evaluation.
REFERENCES
Books and journal
Utting, H., 2017. A case for a personal development plan. Planning News, 43(2), p.26.
Bukharina, A.Y., 2018. Personal development plan (PDP) in practice and technology of
introducing mentoring in organizations. Social Psychology and Society, 9(1), pp.162-176.
Day-Calder, M., 2017. Put your development plan into action. Nursing standard (Royal College
of Nursing (Great Britain): 1987), 31(32), pp.33-34.
Tattum, D. and Tattum, E., 2017. Social education and personal development. Routledge.
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