Personal Development Planning Skills

Personal Development Planning Skills

Introduction

The Personal Development Plan provides a way for an improvement in the personal activities and facilitates the acquisition of generic skills required in the any of the job of an individual. The personal development skills plan brings an improvement in the development process of a person guided; structured and continuous monitoring that approaches the participant optimum performance requirements that preset to its current role. In this part of the paper, the PDP Transferable Skills Table has been described. This method requires a serious commitment on the part of the worker, and on the other, the commitment of the organization to support the process and recognize their achievements in a real way. It is a guided process for the improvement, flexibility and ongoing support to the development of skills that can be achieved in long term.

Section- 1: Personal Development Planning Skills Audit

SKILL

COMPETENCE

JOB IMPORTANCE

COMPETENCE

X

JOB IMPORTANCE

EVIDENCE FOR YOUR LEVEL OF COMPETENCE

1

2

3

4

5

1

2

3

4

5

COMMUNICATION

Written:

Ability to express self well in writing

3

5

15

I am actively involved in writing weekly reports of the company and also have presented the reports in monthly meetings.

Verbal:

Informal - ability to network easily with other people

3

5

15

In my profession, I need to interact with number of people daily, every individual holds different personality and attitude. Therefore, I think, I am able enough to have conversation with all of them.

Formal - ability to express self clearly and concisely to a group of people

4

5

20

There have been several situations in which I have to present some of the points to others; there I think the ability to express what I think is more important. In daily huddle's I ensure to make my point clear and everybody do understand what I actually meant to say.

Non-verbal:

Listening - ability to attend actively to others' views and ideas and understand their point of view

3

4

12

In a team work, every individual comes with his own ideas and opinions with some logical backgrounds, however, I think at some point in time I am adequate enough to understand to what they say. For instance; while planning for constructional visits and important sites one of my team members suggested some important information that I also felt very significant after identification of the team member. Listening and understanding to others point of view is also very important in job.

Body Language - ability to match body language appropriately to what is being said verbally

2

5

10

I always tend to present what I think through my words and body language. Because it is one of main point while communicating with others. For a person in an employment or anywhere at workplace it is very important to deliver his words through his actions.

WORKING WITH OTHERS

Cooperation

Ability to collaborate effectively within a team

3

5

15

Within the teamwork, sharing is very important in terms of useful information and creative ideas. As far as my own personal experience is concerned I think the most important point is to understand and collaborate others point of views and encourage every individuals participation, whereas helping others in bringing something different with innovative ...