PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Personal Development Plan



Personal Development Plan

Introduction

Bringing development in one's self is about bringing changes and becoming different, no matter, if it is in one's work or anything else which does not comes under work. Developments, in most common cases, entail change and learning like changing one's reaction to scenarios and one's perspective. In addition to this, learning a myriad of new things includes new ways to deal with people, new angles and new things. Personal Development is about changing yourself in order to change what you get back (Key Note Project, 2002, pp. 3-24).

Using a personal development plan helps a person in having more clarity in his or her visions and what the person wants to achieve. For this reason, the personal development plan, starts from a personal goal. What is required to be different? This is the point which a person has already discussed with his or her coach or mentor (Business Link, 2005, p. 2-10). In this paper, I am going to develop a personal development plan for myself.

Key Skills

Key skills of a person help him or her to realise the hidden and unrecognised skills that he or she has learnt. Moreover, people who have their skills on their fingertips have better chances of success in their academic career, job and throughout their lives.

My main strength is that I am an active person who likes to help and please others, the way that I realised this strength was due to my experience in carrying out voluntary work in the cancer department of the NHS. Another strength that I gained is confidence through the practical experiences that I have had for example working within the beauty industry. I am known to be a very open and sociable person by my colleagues, which they see as my strength. Over the year I have become more independent as I now can go into public places without somebody accompanying me for example I can go to the library and successfully find books that are needed without any trouble.

Work Experience

Since employers want such people who can exercise a wide array of other skills, apart from the skills learnt from their programme of study. Having a personal development plan is very beneficial to articulate the skills which students are developing at present. In this regard work experience is very necessary; although, it may be not related to the programme of study and may include voluntary work as well (Krikwood, 2008, pp. 3-5). I have the practical experiences that I have had for example working within the beauty industry.

Strengths

Listing down one's strength helps a person in focusing on his or her positive aspects as a person. My strengths are as follows:

I am a very practical person

I am confident and social person.

I voluntarily help people and that has given me so much confident to move in society.

Areas of Improvement

Areas of improvement are those which require attention and needs to be developed. These areas of improvement, if addressed properly, can eventually turn into ...