Personal Development Plan for Improving Self-Improvement and Team Management

This article discusses the importance of personal development plan and team management structure for improving self-improvement and personal growth. It also explores the key features of effective time management for any business to be successful.

Personal Development
Plan
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Contents
Personal Development Plan.............................................................................................................1
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Provide a PDP (Personal Development Plan) file with the required pieces of evidence
requested at the beginning of the study skills module. All documents should be completed,
signed-off, scanned and sent together.........................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
For any business to be successful there must be the implementation of proper time
management structures. What are some of the key features of effective time management?....6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
Books and Journals.....................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
A personal development plan is an activity which is used to improve self-improvement, potential
and talents to enhance the quality of life. Team management is related to this plan as managing
the team is the ability of a person to administer a group to accomplish a task. This includes
teamwork, communication, and objective settings etc. to complete a goal. This file covers a
personal development plan and implementing a proper team management structure. This will
also covers features of effective team management for developing and improving the personality
and personal growth of life (Jule, 2019).
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TASK 1
Provide a PDP (Personal Development Plan) file with the required pieces of evidence requested
at the beginning of the study skills module. All documents should be completed, signed-
off, scanned and sent together.
Personal development plan is defined as the on-going process of estimating personal skills and
quality by observing their own goals of life. Defining purpose of the life of a person is an
important part of personal development as it helps individuals take energetic measures to achieve
a particular purpose.
Goals Actions to achieve a
goal
How to measure
success
Time period required
Health and wealth I can build and follow
a workout plan and
follow a diet routine
by eating green
veggies and fruits. I
can also learn to
invest and increase
my savings.
When I feel and look
fit from outside and
inside. By checking
my regular health
check-up reports then
I can consider to
accomplish this goal.
6 months
Career I can start working on
my soft skills as well
as hard skills. I can
start giving interview
in good companies
which will help in
improving my careers
goals as well as in
productivity.
When I see
improvements myself
in mock tests and the
way of speaking and
behaving in front of
others (Harding,
2020). Selection in the
firm where I am
giving interviews.
1 Year
Leadership skills I can start working on
my discipline and
working on my
strengths and
When I see proper
discipline and time
management in
myself. By taking
3 Years
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weaknesses. I will
participate in team
related tasks at my
University and learn
all the theories of
building a team.
Secondly I will learn
about theories of
leadership and its
styles. Finally I will
perform efficiency in
my professional
career to gain
leadership experience
at reputed company.
feedbacks from the
colleagues working
with me which will
help in checking the
performance of me.
This will be
considered as
achieving this goal.
To become CEO of a
company
I can try to perform
well in the company
where I was hired and
complete all the tasks
on time which are
given by the manager.
I can also show some
of my managerial and
leadership talents at
some places where
everyone can work
cooperatively.
When I get promoted
for the position of
CEO and senior
authority then this
goal will be achieved
(Milani, 2019).
5 Years
Personal development plan is important because it aids a person to take actions immediately
towards fulfilment of different long-term, short-term and medium term goals for accomplishing
personal, professional and academic growth. A personal development plan gives information
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about skills which need to be improved, the development plan involving activities which need to
be undertaken for personal development and target time period set for achieving the specific
goals.
TASK 2
For any business to be successful there must be the implementation of proper time management
structures. What are some of the key features of effective time management?
Time management is a process of planning and arranging the way of distributing the time
between some activities. A very good management of time is enabling a person to work smartly
in a very less time even when the pressure is high. An effective time management is allocated to
the right activities which allows person to give the tasks in a specified slots and make the best
use of time which will help in accomplishing all the tasks on time. Management involves
planning in an effective manner, setting objectives, and deadlines, responsibilities, prioritizing
the tasks according to their importance and spending the right time on a right activity. This will
result in not only the achievement of company but also the personal growth of an individual.
Importance of time management:
Decision making: Better decisions with time management is used to make better decisions to
work in a good way. It will allow choosing an easy option for accomplishing any task easily and
gives the ability to calmly evaluate the options and choose the one that has the best result. This
will help in creating a leadership position for the decision makers and assisting the consequences
of actions (López, 2020).
Success: It is a very important part of proper time management which is used to create a success
of a person. To perform regularly in a better manner takes more efficient decisions,
differentiating a very meaningful work. This will help in identifying and focusing on an essential
area will result in a greater success in life. A proper time management will give a success in a
person as well as business which gives confidence, security and help in contributing at a greater
level and leadership.
Quality of life: Life is becoming very rapid, competitive and stressful for the success of a person
which makes the biggest suffering and improves the quality of life. By understanding the
importance of time management, a person can accomplish the things which will teach to get
more from the same number of hours. Time management will help us to free up that time which
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will help in spending the things that makes that person happy and feel stressed and experience
fulfilment in life.
Time management will help in delivering work on time, provide a good quality of work with a
great effective time management skills. This will make the work more productive and efficient to
finish tasks without compromising on the quality of work. This skill has the positive impact on
work and life which will improve the ability to get the things done and make decisions.
Features of time management:
Effective Planning: Always planning a day in advance will help in planning all the important
tasks to do in a better manner in a very limited time (Cardullo and Kitchin, 2019). High priority
work should come on the top followed by those who did not need that much importance to
complete any task unless they have finished their previous task.
Setting deadlines and goals: Working without goals and targets in a company leads to the delay
of work and completing in an improper manner. By setting deadline for self and striving hard to
accomplish the task by sing a planner and marking the dates will help them to complete a work.
Successful time management needs a workable system for allotting time and scheduling
activities throughout the day and week.
Emotional composure: Successful time managers don’t let any fear and anxiety consume them
when working under pressure. They do their planning accordingly and make necessary strategies
for emotional regulation of stress which is managed by taking little breaks to maintain positive
attitude and physical health (van Gijzen, 2020).
Identifying short and long term targets: Short targets are very important to aid the moral of staff
and make sure that each and every step is accomplished before going to the next level. Time
management will help in identifying these targets which is used to divide short and long term
targets.
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CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above report that personal development is more significantly a plan that
explains about the whole individual, effectiveness of personal development planning. Good
personal skills in communication are important in personal growth and career development. By
managing well time, there will be no longer suffer from stress and the work will be done on time
and with great quality. Time management is a very essential skill to be learned and to be
mastered in order to have a better lifestyle. Proper time management will motivate for more
qualitative work with reduced stress levels. With perfectly managed time approach we are able to
keep a balance between our professional and personal life.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Jule, J. G., 2019. Nursing Leadership Beyond 2020: A Succession Plan.
Harding, M. E., 2020. The I and the Not-I. Princeton University Press.
Milani, F., 2019. Business Analysis Plan and Monitoring. In Digital Business Analysis (pp. 111-
125). Springer, Cham.
López, O. S., 2020. Informal workplace learning (pp. 475-485). Springer International
Publishing.
van Gijzen, D., 2020. Guideline: Successfully plan an exhibition at a trade show.
Cardullo, P. and Kitchin, R., 2019. Being a ‘citizen’in the smart city: Up and down the scaffold
of smart citizen participation in Dublin, Ireland. GeoJournal, 84(1), pp.1-13.
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