Personal Development Plan: Enhancing Skills for Career Growth

This assignment presents a Personal Development Plan (PDP) template designed to facilitate skill enhancement and professional growth. The template is structured around key elements including development objectives, priorities, required activities, necessary support/resources, target dates, and actual completion dates. The plan addresses various aspects of professional development, such as problem-solving, team working, communication, and leadership skills. Each objective is supported by specific activities, resources, and references to academic literature. The plan emphasizes the importance of effective analysis, team collaboration, diverse communication formats, motivation, and task allocation for achieving the set goals. The references include works by Andrews and Russell (2012), Armstrong (2011), Bager (2012), and Beausaert (2013), which provide context and support for the development strategies outlined in the plan.

Personal Development

PLAN TEMPLATE
What are my
development
objectives?
Priority What activities
do I need to
undertake to
achieve my
objectives?
What
support/resources
do I need to
achieve my
objectives
Target date
for achieving
my objectives
Actual
date of
achieving
my
objectives
To advance the
problem
solving skills
for better
opportunities
3 By having an
effective
analysis of
tactics used by
managers to
resolve issues
so that better
opportunities
can be attained
(Andrews and
Russell, 2012)
Assistance of
managers and
seniors to have
analysis of
tactics.
Opportunity to
resolve any issue
within workplace
is also essential to
meet the
standards.
20 June, 2018 25 June,
2018
To improve
team working
skills
2 With an
effective
consideration
on group
activities
participation
the skills can
be developed.
Team support and
other member’s
collaboration in
group activities so
that skills
advancement can
be attained
(Armstrong,
2011).
5 June, 2018. 5 June,
2018
To enhance the
communication
skills
1 It is necessary
to have
learning about
diverse formats
of written and
In order to meet
the standards the
communication
skills need proper
training.
30 April,
2018
2 April,
2018

verbal
communication
so that
objective can
be meet
(Bager, 2012)
Assistance of
experts also need
to be referred
properly so that
goals and
objectives can be
accomplished.
To develop
leadership
skills
4 By motivation
and by facing
challenges. In
this, it is
necessary to
have
promotion of
tools so that
measures can
be taken into
account
It require regular
monitoring and
task allocation as
per needs so that
issues can be
resolved
(Beausaert,
2013).
20 July, 2018 20 July,
2018

REFERENCES
Andrews, G. and Russell, M., 2012. Employability skills development: strategy, evaluation and
impact. Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning. 2(1). pp.33-44.
Armstrong, M., 2011. A hand book of human resources. Kogan publishes.
Bager, S., 2012. Personal Development in Counselling and Psychotherapy. SAGE publishes.
Beausaert, S., 2013. Effect of using a personal development plan on learning and development.
Journal of Workplace Learning. 25 I(3). pp.145 – 158.