Personal and Professional Development: Recording Progress in a PDP

The assignment focuses on the importance of maintaining a Personal Development Plan (PDP) for career advancement. The student emphasizes the need to track progress, including courses, certifications, and achievements, to demonstrate competencies to potential employers. The PDP serves as a record of skills and abilities, aiding in interviews and showcasing practical application of knowledge. The student highlights the value of regular self-assessment and the importance of aligning the PDP with career goals, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and planning for future development. The assignment also includes a real-world example of how to document progress, emphasizing the ongoing nature of PDP maintenance even after securing a job. References to relevant online resources further support the discussion.

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Ways to record progress in relation to a personal development plan
In a company, I am looking for a job which requires maintaining my Personal Development
Plan (PDP) so that I will be able to look at my targets I am required to meet on daily basis
and keeping updates about my progress. PDP contains my courses and certificated I did or
achieved to keep it as an evidence to show the supervisor about my competencies and
abilities in that particular areas. It is important for keeping evidence about an individual’s
competencies in some areas where he/she is good at as many employers in a company ask for
training and development proofs at the time of interview (Spruce, 2020). This is why; PDP
helps me keeping my daily record of proving my learning skills to the employer and to show
it practically while performing to set a point of view for them under the legislative
compliance and standards. In the PDP, there is the record of my achievements I did before
going for applying and working in a kind of job in the industry I would love to. PDP is for
keeping check about following it in real and to make sure that this plan helps towards
achieving goals (Cooper, 2016).
My personal skills, objectives and improvements are mentioned in PDP to record my own
progress for future development and improvement by measuring the goals I want to achieve
while deciding the time limit of doing it. This helps me to know my strengths, weaknesses
and where I lack in which needs improvement for my further development. It is essential to
do it regularly so that I can be disciplined and know what I can do and what not. PDP consists
of my how am I working, what I accomplished till now, what is required to be improved, and
what knowledge and skills I gained till now for letting an employer know about such skills to
achieve goals. It is essential to review the process when possible which helps an individual to
keep in mind about revising the goals and plan development activities accordingly to make
sure about where to go and what to do in future along with knowing ways to do it (Tracy,
2020). I feel helpful to maintain my PDP by keeping records of what I achieved and what I
will achieve in future and this process will keep on going even after I get the job in the
industry I want to work in. Thus, based on my opinion, I would prefer a PDP for myself for
managing the requirements I need along with recording the progress consists of formal
certificates, ability and skills, and previous achievements.
Hence, above explained is my idea of PDP I would prefer for recording my progress through
the process and now, the given example will show my way of maintaining this process to
show it to an employer in an industry I would love to work in.

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Source: (Cooper, 2016).
This is an online example of how an individual can keep their progress recorded which is also
a kind of PDP. It requires some efforts from an individual on daily or monthly basis but it
worth consuming time on for checking self-ability and skills enhancement and right for
achieving the job in the industry (Peterson, 2020).

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References
Cooper, B. B., 2016. How to Measure Progress in Your Personal Goals: Daily, Weekly and
Monthly. [Online]
Available at: https://buffer.com/resources/how-to-measure-progress-in-your-personal-goals-
daily-weekly-and-monthly
[Accessed 10 April 2020].
Peterson, K., 2020. Employee Development Plans: 4 Winning Steps to Engaged Employees.
[Online]
Available at: https://www.bamboohr.com/blog/employee-development-plans/
[Accessed 10 April 2020].
Spruce, H., 2020. A Personal Development Plan (PDP) Guide & Template. [Online]
Available at: https://www.highspeedtraining.co.uk/hub/personal-development-plan-template/
[Accessed 10 April 2020].
Tracy, B., 2020. Turn All Your Dreams Into Reality With A Personal Development Plan.
[Online]
Available at: https://www.briantracy.com/blog/personal-success/personal-development-plan/
[Accessed 10 April 2020].