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What's PDP
Personal development planning :
structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect their own personal and creating opportunities to think through, in a strustured way. It's also a process of action planning, reviewing and self evaluating an individual's performance
PDP Objectives:
- help recognize skills, interests and knowledge.
- help for life and career after graduation.
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Characteristics of an Effective Leader
* Create a sense of commitment
* Develop the staregy
* Encourage contributions from others
* Demonstrate the value of all team members
* Clarify expectations
What goes into PDP?
Relecting
-how succesful you are.
- where you could have improvrd your performance.
SMART-FProgress File:
- formal transcript provided by institution
- process of PDP
- Personal development records
PDP benefits:
Academic performance:
- gain clearer focus
- motivate you
- better understanding how to improve
- more enjoyment
- more awareness
- reflective thingking
Professional life:
- clearer idea
- great cofident
- better position to compete for jobs
- able to discuss skills and personality
- better problem solving
- positive attitude and approaches
Personal Life:
- undertand yourself
- make appropriate choice
- greater awareness
- positive
You can prepare yourself to succeed in your studies.
Try to develop and appreciate the following habits:
Take responsibility for yourself
Recognize that in order to succeed you need to make decisions about your priorities,
your time, and your resourcesCenter yourself around your values and principles
Don't let friends and acquaintances dictate what you consider importantPut first things first
Follow up on the priorities you have set for yourself, and don't let others, or other interests, distract you from your goalsDiscover your key productivity periods and places
Morning, afternoon, or evening?
Find spaces where you can be the most focused and productive.
Prioritize these for your most difficult study challengesConsider yourself in a win-win situation
When you contribute your best to a class, you, your fellow students,
and even your teacher will benefit.
Your grade can then be one additional check on your performanceFirst understand others, then attempt to be understood
When you have an issue with an instructor (a questionable grade, an assignment deadline, etc.) put yourself in the instructor's place.
Now ask yourself how you can best make your argument given his/her situationLook for better solutions to problems
For example, if you don't understand the course material, don't just re-read it.
Try something else! Consult with the professor, a tutor, an academic advisor, a classmate, a study group, or your school's study skills centerLook to continually challenge yourself
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There are many different ways to manage stress. These are among the simplest and most effective, arranged in a simple format. I urge you to try as many as you can, keeping an open mind, so you can have a collection of techniques that are the most effective for you. You'll also find resources below to help you incorporate healthy changes and create a lower-stress lifestyle.
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If you want to lead effectively, you need to be able to make good decisions. If you can learn to do this in a timely and well-considered way, then you can lead your team to spectacular and well-deserved success.
However, if you dither or make poor decisions, your team risks failure and your time as a leader will probably be brutally short.
These are some techniques that we can do in decision making:
QUIZ - SELF EVALUATION
For each of the following statements, rate your responses as outlined below.
0= agree
1= sort of agree
2= disagree
3= don't agree
[__] I know what personal development is
[__] I have good personal records of my life and achievements
[__] I have clear life goals
[__] I know what job I want to do
[__] I know what courses I need to take to get the job I want
[__] I know what extra-curricular activities I need
[__] I know what skills are required by employers for the career that interests me
[__] I have an up-to-date record of education and training
[__] I have an up-to-date record of my employment history and work experience[__] I have an up-to-date profile of my skills and personal qualities
[__] I know my personal qualities
[__] I can easily give examples of where I demonstrate my personal qualities
[__] I am confident about all aspects of applying for a job
[__] I know what is meant by a competence-based job application
[__] I have detailed personal records of my key competences
[__] I know what my priorities are for personal development
[__] I have an action plan for my personal development
[__] I know the PDP opportunities that are open to me
[__] I regularly monitor my own performance
[__] I regularly undertake a formal evaluation of my performance
[__] I am good at structured reflection?
[__] I am clear about the range of services offered by the careers advisory service
[__] I have a good understanding of health and safety issues
[__] I have a good understanding of equal opportunities issues
[__] I know where to go for more information about PDP
Interpreting your score
Double your score to get a percentage.
Zero: you dont appear to need PDP at present. However, this is likely to change within a few months or even weeks, as your circumstances change.
0-30%: you have some PDP needs. How essential is it to you to address these PDP issues?
30-60%: PDP is likely to be of use to you - the higher your score, the more likely it is that you need to undertake personal development. This website can help you explore this further.
60-100%: this is a high score. Your PDP needs appear to be high. This website can help you get started but it is probably a good idea to speak to a careers adviser sooner rather than later.
There are 5 key benefits of approaching personal development planning which is:
Benefit 1: Self reflection
Benefit 2: Clarity
Benefit 3: Decision making
Benefit 4: Long term view
Benefit 5: Wise investment
Purpose:
To identify the internal strengths and weaknesses of an organisation or
project, and the external opportunities and threats the organisation or project
face.
The best time to use a SWOT Analysis is after you review progress and after
you have done some sort of environmental scan.
The process can be done for the organisation, departments, projects and
units. It can make a useful contribution to an organisational diagnosis.
SWOT stands for:
S = Strengths
W = Weaknesses
O = Opportunities
T = Threats
Strengths and weaknesses are factors that are internal to the organisation
and can be addressed within the organisation. Opportunities and threats are
external to the organisation and provide challenges to the organisation.
Time: You probably need about an hour to do a SWOT Analysis.
Steps:
1. Give each participant in this stage of the process a set of blank cards to record
Opportunities and Threats. They must answer the questions:
- What are the Threats facing us in the next period of time?
- What are the Opportunities facing us?
They should write only one threat or one opportunity on each card, but can have as
many cards as they need.
Ask the participants to place the cards in columns under the headings Opportunities and
Threats which you should put up on a board or wall.
Cluster similar issues and discuss. Get rid of duplicates. Reformulate if necessary.
