The Importance Of Personality Development Planning (PDP)

Importance of Personality Development Planning (PDP)

PDP is a process which aims to improve your ability to understand what and how you are learning, and to review, plan and take responsibility for your own learning. It will help you to get the most out of your student experience by helping you to take responsibility for your development and raising your awareness of the variety of opportunities for development. PDP is not just an important process for your time at university but will prove to be a useful skill throughout your life. Learning and development are continual processes and engaging in PDP will help you to develop a positive attitude to all aspects of learning.

PDP will help you to adjust to University Life. Some students find it

With more students than ever starting to attend university each year, a degree qualification alone is no longer a guarantee of securing employment or guaranteeing a place or funding for further study. Whilst a degree from a reputed University will impress employers, they are increasingly looking for graduates who can demonstrate an “added extra” and this usually translates as the ability to articulate and demonstrate the skills you have acquired. PDP will help you to prove and document your personal and professional development and develop the confidence and ability to articulate your skills and qualities to a wide range of employers and other professional

OPPORTUNITIES

Attend University & obtain my degree

Ask family/friends to provide feedback about me, so that I can improve myself

Enhance my ability to manage the need to complete tasks quickly & effectively in order to be able to think about other things more carefully.

Following and fulfilling my dreams & aspirations

Developing strengths or talents

Developing myself spiritually

Identifying and improving potential

Defining and executing personal development plans.

Inculcating good communication skills, the ability to work as part of a team and the ability to learn, a.k.a Soft Skills

THREATS

Time pressure – my self-improvement plans can be derailed because of time constraints

Distractions

Old habits die hard, I tend to fall back into my ‘usual habits’ i.e. reading comics, surfing the internet etc. and end up wasting a lot of time.

SMART Goals

SMART is a mnemonic acronym with the letters S and M usually mean specific and measurable, and the letters A, R and T have different meanings with the most common one being attainable, realistic and timely(time bound).