Personal Development Planning Report - Self-Improvement Strategies

This personal development planning report presents a detailed self-evaluation, identifying strengths and weaknesses across various skills, including communication, teamwork, creativity, and confidence. The report outlines specific areas for improvement, such as enhancing communication skills, boosting self-esteem, fostering creativity, and improving teamwork. It establishes both short-term and long-term targets, detailing the objectives, resources, and timeframes required for achieving each goal. The strategies include joining personality development classes, participating in seminars, engaging in team-building activities, and utilizing online resources for creative development. The plan emphasizes the importance of improved communication and confidence, while also addressing the need for increased creativity and enhanced teamwork skills, ultimately aiming for holistic professional development and personal growth.

Personal development
planning report

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PERSONAL EVALUATION..........................................................................................................1
SETTING TARGETS......................................................................................................................3
PERSONAL TARGETS..................................................................................................................9
Short term...............................................................................................................................9
Medium term..........................................................................................................................9
The Longest term....................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
To perform any type of roles, it is required to have certain set of skills that enable to
make perform them in effective manner. In this context, proper analysis is needed to be made
that can help in identifying the areas that are required to be improved. This assignment covers
personal evaluation and the areas in which improvement can be made.
PERSONAL EVALUATION
There are some skills in which I am efficient enough but then, there are a few in which
there is actually a requirement of some improvement. So, performing a personal analysis as
below so that it can help me in deciding my goals and objectives:
Skills Weak factors(Threats) Areas of improvement(Opportunities)
 My communication
skills are good enough
but somewhere I lack
in dealing and
interacting with people.
 I am understandable
enough to manage my
time accordingly. I am
used to completing the
work in given duration
only.
 When comparing the
leadership qualities, I
am capable of
managing functions as
well as employees. So,
handling various
processes at once helps
in making me an
 As my communication
skills are good enough
but sometimes, I am
not able to
communicate with
people. This is because
of my shy nature.
 The rate of self-esteem
is also low. It is
because of the tough
times; I have faced in
my life. So, I will try to
make involvement of
some ways so that
again, I can be able to
have a high self-esteem
and a healthy lifestyle
(Tattum and Tattum,
My major areas of improvement will be
as following:
 Communication skills
 Team work
 Lower self esteem
 Creativity
 Confidence
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efficient leader (Leigh
and Blakely, 2016).
 I am working in a team
of 15 members, so
from the experience, I
have learned various
factors that are need to
require while working
in a team. Although,
there are some areas
where I need to focus,
so with the help of
some activities, I will
try to cover them as
well.
 I am working in my
organisation since 4
years and have tried
my best to achieve
every single objective
of the company. So, I
can confidently say that
I am an honest and
dedicated employee.
 I am good in
performing operations
of sales and marketing
but because of the shy
factor and lack of
confidence, sometimes
I face issues in
2017).
 Even though, I am
active enough in
various factors but still,
I lack creativity. At the
time of making
presentations etc., I
often have to struggle a
lot for being creative.
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communicating with
people.
On the basis of analysing skills, I was able to evaluate what are my strengths and what
are not. This will help me to set goals so that with the help of some resources, I can be able to
cope with them. There are some skills in which I am doing good such as interaction etc. I am
very good at writing and reading. Also, I fluent enough but when it comes to speak in front of a
number of people, my confidence shakes, thus it can put me in complex situations in the future.
So, I have decided to join some classes for personality development because there, they will
teach better about how to speak, act and react. Therefore, it can act as a very beneficial measure
for me. Also, it will help in boosting my confidence rate to a huge extent. Therefore, the idea of
joining these classes can help actually.
SETTING TARGETS
For achieving the improvements in areas where I lack, setting objectives is
considered as another essential step.
Objectives Ways of achieving targets Resources Time
frame
Ways to measure
success
To achieve
an efficiency
in
communicati
on skills
 For making
improvements in
communication skills, I
am planning to join
personality development
classes because they will
help in increasing my
confidence to a huge
extent.
 Personalit
y
developm
ent
classes
 Efficient
amount
of time.
6-7
months
 Friends
 Superiors
 Team
leaders
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 Also, I think
participating in seminars
will also be helpful
because it will help in
giving an increased rate
of confidence
(Communication skills,
2016).
To improve
team work
and self
esteem
 For improving my team
work skills, I have to be
patient enough. I will try
to spend more time with
my co-workers so that
along with some time, I
will be comfortable
enough with them. Thus,
it will help in improving
my team work skills to a
huge extent.
 For improving the rate
of my self-esteem, I am
planning to involve
myself in different
activities so that I may
not be able to
concentrate on past
activities because some
of them gives me
depression. So, when I
will be involved in
different activities, it
 Team
space
 Cooperati
on
12-15
months
 Friends
 Superiors
 Team
leaders
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will help in diverting my
mind from that depress
factors. Thus, it will
help me to gain a huge
amount of self-esteem,
which will help me in
my future.
To improve
the creativity
 My creativity power is
comparatively less. So,
whenever I try to
involve some sort of
creativity in
presentations, I realise
there is much to learn.
So, for getting some sort
of improvisation in my
creativity area, I can
learn online. With the
help of videos on
YouTube, I can learn
various ways. Also, with
the help of different
pages on social
networking websites
also, I can learn different
creative factors.
Therefore, it will help
me in my future
presentations by making
it more creative and
 Desktop
 Online
connectio
n
10 – 12
months
 Friends
 Superiors
 Team
leaders
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presentable enough.
To improve
the rate of
confidence
 For improving my
confidence, I have
decided to take part in
different seminars
because at such a
platform where there
will be a huge amount of
audience, when I will
speak in front of them,
then, obviously it will
help me in boosting my
confidence level. It will
also help me in my
future.
 Also, I will try to engage
with people more
because it will help in
achieving a higher rate
of confidence. Although
it may take some
amount of time, but it
improves.
 Seminars
 Co
workers
8-14
months
 Friends
 Superiors
 Team
leaders
As my basic objectives are just to make improvements in some of my skills so that I also
can have an efficiency in my life and can become capable enough of dealing with various
different factors and processes. So, my basic objectives are to make some modifications in
communication, creativity, self-esteem and team work skills. One of the most important factor of
all is the confidence and communication skills. It is because when I will be confident enough to
interact with people, obviously my confidence as well as self-esteem level will increase. So, this
will help me in different phases of my life (Tymms, 2018). Other than that, creativity will be
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second factor on priority list because at the time of making some involvement of creative
measures in presentations etc. it acts as quite difficult.
So, I think that with the help of online sources and factors, I will be able to develop a
better set of creative measures that can actually prove helpful enough in making the presentation
creative. While considering the team work, I can say that I am active but has lack of patience,
because of which I also had some issues with my team members. So, I think that when I will
spend some more time with them and get involved in different objectives, this issue will decrease
automatically. Although, this may take time but my regular focus on decreasing the issue of
temper and getting irritating can surely help me in dealing with it. Therefore, with the help of
these resources and ways of achieving targets, I can surely hope to achieve all the objectives and
targets within time.
PERSONAL TARGETS
Short term
One of my major short term goal is to focus on confidence and communication skills
because there is no limit to these. I can learn and improve these throughout my whole life. So, as
per my efforts in improving these, there will be some major modifications in next 12 – 14
months.
Medium term
Although my leadership qualities are efficient enough but I can still keep improving by
including various factors. So, this comes as at an average point. Therefore, it can be termed as a
medium term target only. While indulging in some special aspects of my life, I will try to
improve my leadership skills more. So, on the basis of priority only, I have assigned the goals
accordingly.
The Longest term
As per the analysis of all the targets and goals, I can say that the goals with a longest term
involves self-esteem and creativity. I have chosen these because with the help of daily activities
only, I can be able to help it out and thus, it will automatically help me in improving my self-
esteem throughout the time. So, I think on the basis of requirements and priority, I have assigned
the goals on short, medium and long term basis.
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CONCLUSION
From the findings, it can be stated that skills are essential to perform any roles in
effective manner. Among all these communication plays vital role as it enables to develop strong
relationship with others and in reducing the rate of conflict. It is also required to have nonverbal
communication in order to make other understand the details that are to be conveyed.
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REFERENCES
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Gould, J., 2017. Career development: A plan for action. Nature, 548(7668), pp.489-490.
Leigh, N.G. and Blakely, E.J., 2016. Planning local economic development: Theory and
practice. SAGE publications.
Tasker, F., 2015. How to prepare a personal development plan. BMJ, 351, p.h4603.
Tattum, D. and Tattum, E., 2017. Social education and personal development. Routledge.
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