Overview Of Personal Development Plans And An Example Education Essay

Personal Development Plan (PDP) is a specific plan for your future in short-term of six months or twelve months. It is necessary that you have objectives set up for yourself, and plans and actions to be taken in order to achieve those objectives. Following PDP is a good way to improve yourself, and to acquire skills and knowledge. Therefore, it is advisable to continue doing PDP one after another.

Definition of PDP:

The PDP is a process by which we identify our education needs, set ourselves some objectives in relation to these, undertake our educational activities and produce evidence that we have learned something useful.

Amar Rughani.

Personal Development Plan for Dentist: the new approach to continuing. (pg.: 27)

Meaning of PDP:

Plan should not be through of as being GOOD or BAD on the basis of learning needs that person wishes to address. Every person has different strength and weaknesses.

The primary objectives of PDP are plan and take responsibility for their own learning and to understand what and how they learn.

PDP is based on the skills of reflection and planning which are integral to knowing how we can learn in different contexts and to transfer that learning throughout life.

To identify weakness and strength and willing to admit that, improve through learning and put all these things in action is personal development plan.

Importance of PDP:

become a more effective, independent and confident self-directed learner;

understand the different contexts for learning;

understand how you are learning and how to prove what you have learnt;

improve your general skills for study and career management;

improve your awareness of the skills you are developing through study of the subject(s);

articulate your personal objectives and evaluate progress and achievement;

take a more holistic approach to learning and its management in modular contexts; and

to understand the importance of being able to learn in new situations and to transfer and

Apply your learning in different contexts.

Advantages of PDP:

PDP results in enhanced self-awareness of strengths and weaknesses and directions for Change. The process helps learners understand the value added through learning.

Getting involved with PDP should help us to:

Identifying learning opportunities.

What we really want to do.

Make the right academic and personal decisions.

Set personal goals and targets.

Identify programmes and activities opportunities and training to develop our skills.

We can evaluate our own progress.

We can be better prepared for the demands of continuing progression.

MY Personal Development Plan:

For my personal development plan I am using a SWOT analysis – a common problem solving method which summarises my strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and after knowing my strength and weakness I am writing my plan Action Planning will help me to identify and set targets. To ask yourself a useful methodology is SMART:

Specific: e.g. ‘I will identify and practise good time management techniques to reach my project deadline.

Measurable: e.g. I will set myself a weekly schedule of things to do.

Achievable: e.g. I know there are workshops and books on time management and I will use these to identify good practice.

Realistic: e.g. I know I have some free time every Sunday morning and I will use this time to work on my techniques

Time-Bound: e.g. I will work towards the project deadline, setting weekly targets.

So here’s my personal development plan table:

My current state:

My strengths:

Communicate well with others.

Positive thinking.

Hard working.

Self-initiative.

Punctual.

My weaknesses:

Lose temper easily.

Trust to others easily.

Common feedbacks that I received from others.

Emotional.

Be very serious.

What other performance indicators can I notice?

Sometimes get overwhelmed with stress when there is heavy workload.

Conclusion

Focus on:

Develop self-confidence.

Control my temper.

Don’t trust on people easily.

Not get worked up so easy.

These SWOT analyses are enabling to identify where I am now in my current role.

Next i need to turn this into a PDP.

When setting targets, i need to make sure that I can actually achieve them. This we call having SMART targets.

My Desired state: (Goals)

What I have to do to improve/achieve.

Talk with people and act confidently. Don’t get provoked. Willing to try new thing and take some risks. Able to influence others.

Able to be calm and assess any situation before reacting to it and take control of situation. Able to press hard my recommendations to be accepted by others when I feel it is really good. Not be influenced by others.

To look for positives in any circumstances.

What does it give me?

Short Term Goals.

Medium Term Goals.

Long Term Goals.

Why I do it?

1: with confidence, I can able to command more respect and others will be able to see my worth. I will dare to try new things. In fact my true self will finally shine through.

2: try to control my temper, I will not hurt my loved ones and friends as before

Attend anger management class and make recommendations myself.

Keep calm no matter what happens. Not lose my temper at all.

Able to command confidence whenever I want.

How do I get there?(Resources)

What must I improve?

1: Use new techniques to develop confidence.

2: meditation to develop a calm mind & control temper.

What are the possible resources to learn

1: Buy & read books on develop personality.

2: read books on communication.

3: local anger management class.

Timeline

Short Term Goals.

Within 2 months.

Medium Term Goals.

Within 4 months.

Long Term Goals.

Within 6 months.

Time management:

Definition & Meaning:

Time management is a set of principles, practices, skills, tools, and systems that work together to help you get more value out of your time with the aim of improving the quality of your life.

Time can very easily pass much quicker than we anticipate and if we waste time, not necessarily deliberately, we can end up not achieving all that we should. We must organise our time throughout our working day and home and social life. Manage your time so that you get to enjoy a hobby or visit the gym… whatever you need to do to relax. If you can structure your days carefully and stick to your guidelines wherever possible, there is no reason why you cannot fit a lot more into your life than you did when you had no routine or time discipline.

if we don’t manage our time properly, our schedule will go out the door. Imagine what it takes to plan something. What will happen if we set goals but never measure up to what is expected? Nothing but a broken dream. All the planning and build up for success in that goal will never materialize without appropriate time management. 

Importance of Time management:

It is true that when it comes to improving oneself, we can always initiate. However, once we do get started, time will always be of the essence.

If you aim for personality development, you need to be able to manage time effectively.

You might ask yourself, does your time reflect what is important to you, and does it reflect your values?

When we feel our day has been productive, our self-esteem and attitude tend to be higher and our level of frustration and stress is lower. There are ways we can increase productivity directly, things that don’t have to do with event control or self-esteem. 

Further, productivity affects the time we have to spend on event control. Good event control increases our sense of control over our time and positively impacts our self-esteem.

The importance of time in personality development needs no further explanation. The point of the matter is that if you spend too much time doing other things instead of keeping an eye on your goal which is to develop a pleasing personality, your chances of success will be considerably lower than if you know how to prioritize.

Time management involves planning and organizing. We should work to improve event control, productivity and self-esteem. Consider reading additional materials or take a time or project management workshop.

Effective Delegation:

Definition & Meaning:

A delegate is a person who speaks or acts on behalf of an organization (e.g., a government, a charity, an NGO, or a trade union) at a meeting or conference between organizations of the same level (e.g., trade talks or an environmental summit between governments; an arbitration over an industrial.

Delegation can define as:

The assignment of responsibility and accountability for specific outcomes or achievements to a specific individual or organisation unit. The delegation can be temporary or permanent.

Importance of Delegation:

With PDP person can do better as a delegator, he or she can lead more effectively their team. With effective delegation we can make work easier and improve efficiency.

If I am working much longer hours it’s essential i delegate more it will benefit me. It enhances the Competence, Confidence & Motivation of person.  Successful delegation involves turning the right tasks for the right reasons, with the resources and authority to act.  It includes setting performance expectations. Delegation is important for the long-term success. The importance of delegation should not be underestimated

Lack of delegation will lead to you slowly drowning in work – tasks will become half finished or poorly executed and you will end up with a disgruntled and demotivated team who are crying out to take on more responsibility.

Review what tasks you are doing and how long you spend at them. When a task is scattered throughout the day or week or month, you may seriously underestimate how much time you spend at it.

 

Stress management:

Definition:

stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize.

(Richard S Lazarus)

There are very many proven skills that we can use to manage stress. These help us to remain calm and effective in high pressure situations, and help us avoid the problems of long term stress. 

Importance:

deeper understanding of stress, helping you to develop your own stress management strategies for handling unique circumstances.

When I started to manage my time to achieve my goals its very stressful for me because I could manage all these things at once it was very difficult but I never lose my enthusiasm I still tried to manage my stress To manage stress I am taking rest and proper sleeping, acting confidently, controlling myself and try to give good performance all things helping to me to achieve me goals.

Problem solving :

To complete this element we will need to complete some kind of time log and find out what problems occurred and why. We then need to analyse how we deal with both external and internal interruptions, what level of concentration we have and how we cope, how we allocate time to daily and weekly tasks and manage our dairy.

In problem solving first I need to define where I faced problem, in personal development plan I had a problem internal and external as well like work load and control my temper and it’s very difficult for anyone to control yourself because if I had lost my temper then others reacts very bad so I tried to solve it I evaluate these problems and have got solutions. I read books I watched videos that how it could happens how people can be very cool how they are solving their problems ,on that way I concentrate myself where my deficiencies and what my specific objectives so to improve myself and to solve my problems I started to sit with people I started to discussed in group and try to understand myself that what I need and where I need so I solved my problems.