Personal Development Plan (PDP) - Analysis, Goals, and Objectives

This assignment presents a Personal Development Plan (PDP) created by a student, focusing on self-assessment and goal setting for professional growth. The PDP begins with a SWOT analysis, identifying the student's strengths (oral communication, research skills), weaknesses (time management, stress management, leadership skills), opportunities (improving time management and leadership), and threats (poor written communication). The assignment then outlines the student's goals using the SMART technique (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound), detailing how they plan to improve leadership, time management, written communication, and stress management skills. Finally, the PDP defines short-term, medium-term, and long-term objectives, including enhancing skills within three months, excelling in final exams and securing a job within a year, and becoming a production manager within five years. The assignment also includes references to relevant academic sources.

PERSONALISED
LEARNING

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Stage 1 – Analysis...........................................................................................................................1
My SWOT Analysis....................................................................................................................1
Stage 2 – Setting Goals....................................................................................................................2
Stage 3 – Personal Objective...........................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

Stage 1 – Analysis
My SWOT Analysis
STRENGTHS: there are various skills that are my strength and help in fulfilling my learning
needs in a proper and appropriate manner: Oral communication skills is one my main strengths
that has helped in fulfilling my learning needs. Oral communication skills have helped me in
communicating with others, bringing forwards my ideas and view point in front of others.
Another important strength that helped me in fulfilling my learning needs is research skills. This
skill helped me in collecting information from different sources in order to address a problem in
a proper manner and further helped in completing my projects and assignments in a proper and
appropriate manner.
WEAKNESSES: One of my main weakness in learning needs fulfilment was time management.
Whenever it comes to completing more than one task in a specific time period, I face various
difficulties. Stress management is my another one of main weakness because whenever I need to
complete a task or give presentation in short time period in front of others, I get stressed out
easily. Another one of my main weakness is my leadership skills. I have observed that I cannot
lead a group of few people and cannot distribute task to my group members as per their skills and
weaknesses.
OPPORTUNITIES: Bringing improvement within my time management skills will enhance my
opportunities in learning needs. Bringing improvement within my time management skills will
easily help me in becoming a multi tasker and completing all the given task on time. This will
further help me in dealing with my stress and will eventually help me in learning stress
management as well. By bringing improvement within my leadership skills, various
opportunities for me can open like leading a project or task and completing it within time
successfully.
THREATS: I do not have good written communication skills. Not working on written
communication skills result in getting lower marks and sometimes due to this, I fail in expressing
my point of view of ideas in written format to others. Not only this, I also need to bring
improvement within my time management skills because failing to do so will become a threat in
learning needs and will become a barrier for me in becoming a multi-tasker.
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Stage 2 – Setting Goals
SMART Technique is a kind of way of setting SMART goals that are Specific,
Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and can be achieved in timely manner (Bjerke and Renger,
2017). These goals help in focusing upon our own efforts and further helps using in achieving
out pre-defined goals in more appropriate manner.
GOAL is a thing which is required to be accomplished by a person. For example: I want
to become a production manager in a large organization in next 5 years (Sull and Sull, 2018).
Goal helps in development of aim which is required to be achieved within a time period. These
goals help in development of long- term plans though which SMART goals can be achieved.
Long- term plan is a kind of plan that helps in developing a map of guidance in which work
which is required to be done can be prioritized, monitored and achieved within a timely manner.
WHAT DO I
WANT TO LEARN
HOW DO I WANT TO DO HOW WILL I
MEASURE SUCCESS
TARGET DATES
TO ACHIEVE
I want to bring
improvement within
my leadership skills
I attending a proper leadership
program so that required
leadership skills can be
developed.
By analysing results of
leadership training
program, I can measure
success of achievement of
leadership skills
6 months
I want to learn time
management skills
I will focus upon participating in
group activities so that I can learn
ways in which different task are
managed or done as per their
priority within defied time period.
I will asl for feedback
from my colleagues, team
leader and from my
lecturer about my
performance and ways in
which I can improve my
time management skills
1 month
I want to learn
written
communication
skills
I will attend online training
classes for bringing improvement
within my written communication
skills. Other than this, it will also
work with my tutor so that they
can guide me and help me in
Results of online training
program will help me in
measuring success. Other
than this feedback
provided by tutor will also
help me in measuring my
3 months
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bringing improvement within my
written communication skills.
success of bringing
improvement within my
written communication
skills.
I want to learn stress
management skills
I will focus upon attending yoga
and meditation classes for dealing
with stress. I will also focus upon
finding ways through which I can
cope up with resource usage so
that I can complete any kind of
task on time without getting
stressed out.
I will ask for feedback
from my yoga or
meditation leacher for
providing my feedback for
my stress management and
for accurate results I will
give an online test for
measurement of my stress
management
2 months.
Stage 3 – Personal Objective
SHORT TERM OBJECTIVES
These are kind of objectives that can be achieved in fewer than three months. Some of the
main short- term goals required to be achieved by me are: To enhance time management, written
communication and stress management skills within 3 months of time period so that I can fulfil
my learning needs in a proper and appropriate manner.
MEDIUM TERM OBJECTIVES
These are kind of objectives that can be achieved within 3 years. Some of the main
medium- term goals required to be achieved by me is: to excel my final term examination with
good grades and get placed in a top organization within a year.
LONG TERM OBJECTIVES
These are kind of objectives that might require three or more than three years to
be achieved. Some of the main long- term goals required to be achieved by me is: to become a
production management in a top organization of my choice within next 5 years.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bjerke, M.B. and Renger, R., 2017. Being smart about writing SMART objectives. Evaluation
and program planning. 61. pp.125-127.
Sull, D. and Sull, C., 2018. With goals, FAST beats SMART. MIT Sloan Management
Review. 59(4). pp.1-11.
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