Personal Development Assignment: Setting Targets and Reflection

This assignment focuses on personal development planning (PDP), a process of reflecting on learning and achievements to plan for personal, educational, and career growth. The student provides three examples of advice/feedback received from tutors, career advisors, and other sources, summarizing the outcomes and the targets set as a result. The first example discusses advice on SMART goals and PDP plans, leading to the student understanding the importance of specific timelines and self-assessment. The second example involves advice on time management, emphasizing the importance of time-bound goals. The third example discusses an article about SMART goals, highlighting the application of these goals in teamwork and the creation of spreadsheets for organizing and achieving goals. The student sets targets related to higher studies and career goals, demonstrating an understanding of how to apply advice to personal development.

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Setting Targets and Reflective Practice
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Personal Development: Setting Targets and Reflective Practice
Question
Collect 3 examples of evidence of advice/feedback from your tutors,
student services, career advisers, or any other sources of support at
college, and include them in the spaces below. For each example,
summarise the outcome of the advice and include examples of the targets
that you set as a consequence.
EXAMPLE 1
This example of mine is regarding one significant advice that I received in
the classroom while my teacher taught us about benefits of SMART goals
and PDP plans. In future, I aspire to work with bigger companies and
hence this advice proves most significant for me. Since my University
gave me an opportunity to reflect upon my personal PDP plans and future
goals, while writing it personally I have understood its affects as now I can
assess my personal abilities and skills that needs to be developed to set
my future goals along with giving it specific timeline (Jackson, n.d.). It is
crucial to understand that plan with specific objectives helps in creating
self-awareness within us that assists in setting career planning and SMART
goals. The advice given by my teacher have given foundation to my
career goals otherwise which I would have been focussing only upon my
present studies and achievements. I will gain skills and required
experience to become a departmental head in my organisation so that I
can lead my team successfully.
EXAMPLE 2
One of my career advisors include my best friend whom I trust upon
strongly and am motivated by his opinions effectively. Since, I have time
management issues that created problems between us many times, my
friend advised me once about how to manage time so that my measurable
goals are fulfilled within targeted timescale. He also stated that assessing
progress timely can help me in staying focussed to meet deadlines and
consequently make me feel excited for getting closer to goal
achievements. Goal setting is an important criterion in businesses and life
that provides us with sense of direction, focus and motivation (Sicinski,
2018). Now, I am aware that SMART goals need to be time-bound which
indicates when we start or desire to finish our targeted objectives. If the
goals are not time-constrained, our plans will lack motivation and sense of
urgency. I will undertake a self-proposed project and set milestones that
can keep me motivated to complete the project within targeted time.
EXAMPLE 3
While I was going through the web, I came across a very interesting article
written about application of SMART goals by students to achieve success.

Personal Development: Setting Targets and Reflective Practice
The paper discusses about SMART goal and how it can be utilised within
classroom along with advising upon ways spreadsheets can be prepared
to enhance students’ learnings. This article has illuminated my personal
learning by improving my ability to plan, execute them and improve
communication with my fellow members and tutors. As we are given
teamwork many times in universities as well as in workplaces, it is
important to set SMART goals by measuring specific, measurable,
achievable, realistic and timely factors that can push us further in the
direction alongside helping in organising and reaching targeted goals
(Lawlor & Hornyak, 2012). In addition to setting personal gaols, this article
also taught me how to list goals and significance behind it while working
in teams. The spreadsheet created for team goals includes an additional
spot where every member can identify their personal obstacles and
discuss solution for eliminating them. I will create a spreadsheet that will
contain my targeted goals related to my higher studies and use it for
organising and reaching my goal in timely manner.
(Please Note: Targets and goals e.g. plans for Higher Education and career goals)
No. Criterion
1.1 Obtain and summarise advice from tutors, student services, career advisers
and other sources of support
References
Jackson, N. (n.d.).
Personal development planning: what does it mean? Retrieved
from
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265158472_Personal_development
_planning_what_does_it_mean