CPD Portfolio: Self-Assessment, Development, and Reflection

This CPD portfolio report presents a student's self-evaluation, conducted through a SWOT analysis, which identifies strengths like eagerness and weaknesses such as poor vocabulary. The report outlines a personal development plan with objectives focused on improving decision-making, communication, leadership, and critical thinking, along with timelines and resource requirements. The student reflects on digital and information literacy sessions, highlighting the ability to find and manage information efficiently and improve understanding. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of communication, leadership, and concentration skills, and how the portfolio process facilitated self-exploration and skill development. The student's experience includes the application of self-assessment and self-realization through the personal development plan to achieve future objectives.

CPD PORTFOLIO

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Self evaluation through SWOT....................................................................................................3
Personal development plan..........................................................................................................4
Reflection.....................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Reflective learning is one of the important process by which the experiences can be converted
into knowledge and this will enables the students to create better level of understanding. This
report will highlight the reflective learning about the sessions of digital and literacy learning
along with self assessment through Personal development plan.
MAIN BODY
Self evaluation through SWOT
While pursuing through digital and information literacies I perform my self evaluation in
order to analyse about myself including my strength, weaknesses and on the basis of those
strengths and weakness the future opportunities and threats are being analysed by me.
My strengths include:
Early eagerness, strong learning power, good communication ability, high listening and
understanding ability, focus towards learning and analysing new things, self disciplined, good
concentration level and focus towards the gained knowledge, high intelligence, devotion and
interest towards digitalization and modern technology, strong enthusiasm, inner need to create
and do something creative and new, trustworthy towards others, strong grabbing power,
knowledge gainer along with retainer are some of my strength which I realized when I pursue the
sessions of digital and information literacies.
My weakness:
Apart from the above strengths I found myself weak towards matching the knowledge
level of myself towards the new information, poor vocabulary, easily distracted by small things,
slow adaption towards recent changes, risk taker, low patience level, habit of delegation of work
to others, spontaneity, humorous behaviour, easily influenced by others, short temperament, poor
interpreting power are all those habits and traits which is included in my weakness.
Opportunities that I can grab:
Being possessing many strengths in comparison of weakness I can easily grab the future
opportunities by which I can more explore about myself and my level of knowledge. I can also
grab the future opportunities in the form of achievement of success and high position (Gürel and

Tat, 2017). Also, by using my above strengths I can be a good leader or achiever of high position
in my dreamed company.
Threats that could affect me:
Since possessing of some weakness in the form of fast decision maker or impatience I
sometime takes wrong and adverse decisions which could affect me as well as my position.
Being a short tempered person I sometime react on those issue which doesn't required too much
concentration and as a result I sometimes waste too much time of myself which leads to loosing
of good opportunities (Vlados, 2019). Apart from the above I sometimes treated to be wrong
instead of having the good opinion due to my poor interpret-ion of ideas and information which
also act a threat for me in the present as well as in future times.
Personal development plan
Objectives Importance Actions
required
Resources Success
criteria
Time
required
Being a good
decision
maker
For taking
right and
required
decisions
instead of
taking short
and impulsive
decisions.
Requires more
improvement
in my listening
and
understanding
ability in
addition to
analysing the
different facts
and
perspectives.
Motivating
myself
through my
mentors,
taking help of
evidences and
suggestions of
related
peoples.
Achievement
of targeted
objective
related to the
decision which
I took.
1-2 months.

Develop good
communicatio
n skills along
with
grammatical
corrections
and strong
vocabulary
command.
To overcome
my weakness
regarding poor
vocabulary
and choosing
of
inappropriate
words. One
more
importance is
to express
clear thoughts
and ideas
through
appropriate
use of words
and grammar
(Owen, 2018).
Practising
through
establishing
the meetings
or
presentations
at small scale.
Participate in
various
debates or
speech
competitions.
Reading
books,
journals,
newspaper,
dictionaries,
and various
other reading
materials.
I accept
myself to be
succeeded
when I
achieve the
perfection in
holding
professional
meetings and
competitions
with desired
level of
outcomes,
Approx 4
months.
Becoming a
good leader by
developing
leadership
qualities
For future
benefit as well
as for
becoming a
good team
player and
leader.
Participating
in team work,
develops
critical
knowledge
and thinking.
Following the
ideas and
suggestions of
my ideal
leader, taking
help through
biographies of
recognized
leaders in
learning
leadership
traits and
qualities
When I will
self-made the
team and
achieve the
team target.
Inculcating
leadership
quality not
only in
professional
life but in
personal life
6 months.

(Iordanoglou,
2018).
too.
Improve and
inculcate
flexibility
habit.
To bring
improvement
in myself
regarding
removing of
rigidity,
stickiness and
following of
same and pre
decided
practices. To
develop open
thinking and
grabbing
future
opportunities.
To move as
per the
changing
trends and
recent
changes.
Developing
myself open-
minded and
open thinker.
Develop the
habit of
looking pros
and cons of
the specific
required
changes.
Instead of
thinking about
myself I have
to develop the
habit to think
about the
trends and
recent
requirements
along with
their impacts.
Looking past
evidences and
experiences.
Reading
newspaper or
watching
televisions and
exploring over
the internet in
order to get
the
information
and up
gradation
towards
necessary
changes.
When I will be
succeeded in
my both
personal and
professional
life by getting
the positive
outcomes of
indulging
flexibility.
8 months.
To become a
critical
thinker.
I will get the
new way of
thinking and
able to
develop smart
outlook
Develop the
habit of
looking both
the sides and
faces of the
situation.
Putting and
assuming
myself in the
deli-ma
situation.
Looking the
When I will
develop self
actualization
that I'm able to
differentiate
between what
10-11 months.

towards the
information.
Able to
identify the
accurate
positive and
negative
aspects of the
information.
By developing
this quality I
would be able
to overcome
from my poor
interpret-ion
skill.
Develop deep
understanding
about the
situation by
considering its
both
advantages
and
disadvantages.
experiences of
previous
experts.
Considering
expert
reviews.
is right and
what is wrong
which could
either be in my
professional
situation and
personal
situation.
Improve
concentration
level.
Improving
concentration
level is helpful
and important
in every aspect
of life.
Through high
concentration
power I would
be able to
learn and
understand
things quickly
and easily.
High
Doing
meditation or
develops self
actualization
thinking,
taking the time
to time break
while working
in order to
develop fresh
thinking and
concentration.
Performing
refreshment
activities
Looking the
tutorials
including
meditation
sessions
regarding
development
of
concentration.
Taking help of
soft and
relaxing music
.
When I would
be able to
develop and
pretend the
same and
exact idea
behind the
actual
information or
knowledge.
When I would
be able to
understand the
message
behind the
3 months.

concentration
level would
help me in
overcoming
my weakness
of being
distracted
from small
things and
happenings.
while
performing
work. Develop
the habit of
doing mental
exercises in
order to gain
more
concentration.
details of
informations.
Reflection
While undergoing through the sessions of digital and information literacies I'm now
being able to understand or able to find the best information through the use of digital media or
online platforms. This sessions allow me and enables me to create a better understanding about
the concept or the text which I had never experienced before through the using of books and
other journals. This sessions teach me that how to gather information easily and quickly and
accordingly evaluating and analysing it (Sharp, 2017). These sessions help me in saving my time
while gathering and collecting information. These sessions also provides me a new outlook of
looking at the data or the text which improves my level of understanding at a greater extent. Also
while undergoing through literacy sessions I would be able to manage my gathered information
and knowledge (McDougall, Readman and Wilkinson, 2018). Thus, these sessions not only helps
me in gathering and collecting data but also enables me to carefully analyse it, evaluates it in
addition to manage it which involves creating differentiation between the required and useful
information in comparison of not useful or irreverent information.
This personal development plan also enables me to develop my personal abilities in
addition to achieving my objectives regarding the future. This PDP enables me to look at my
strengths and on the basis it or using of it, this PDP taught me how to achieve my future or
expected objectives (Rimmer, 2018). Overall this PDP helps me in converting my future dreams
or objective into reality. Apart from it the PDP also enables me to self analyse about myself that

includes selection of objectives and on the basis of those objective, this PDP taught me how to
achieve those objective through the using of various skills and resources along with estimated
time requirement. PDP also allows me to perform my self evaluation by which I can easily
analyse that whether I had achieved the pre-set objectives or not (Griggs, 2018). Overall it would
be right to said that the experience of sessions along with PDP provides me a new prospect
towards life and thinking by which now I'm able to critically analyse and gather information
along with its management. Apart from this, self realization and self assessment is also being
made possible only through the concept of conducting PDP about myself.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is understood that effective communication, leadership quality, high
degree of patience along with good concentration are some important skills. This skills play a
very important role in defining the personality of an individual. While undergoing through this
report I got the chance to explore myself in addition to developing and improvising these skills.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
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Vlados, C., 2019. On a correlative and evolutionary SWOT analysis. Journal of Strategy and
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Sharp, L.A., 2017. Enhancing digital literacy and learning among adults with blogs. Journal of
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McDougall, J., Readman, M. and Wilkinson, P., 2018. The uses of (digital) literacy. Learning,
Media and Technology.43(3). pp.263-279.
Griggs, and et.al., 2018. From reflective learning to reflective practice: assessing transfer. Studies
in Higher Education.43(7). pp.1172-1183.
Rimmer, A., 2018. How do I prepare a personal development plan?. Bmj, 363, p.k4725.
Owen, H., 2018. The handbook of communication skills.
Iordanoglou, D., 2018. Future trends in leadership development practices and the crucial
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