There are 5 key benefits of approaching personal development planning which is:

Benefit 1: Self reflection

• Personal development planning starts with an assessment of where you are now.
  
• This self reflection is also powerful in raising your self awareness.
• To do this, you need to reflect on your skills, knowledge, experience and personal attributes and consider:
• What you do well
• What you don't do so well
• What would make you even more effective

Benefit 2: Clarity

• Personal development planning helps you to get that clarity.
• Personal development planning has two key aspects to it.
  
• deciding what activities and areas you want to focus on in the short term
• Make clarity on where you want to take your career over the next 5-10 years.
  

Benefit 3: Decision making

• Being clear on your priorities for your career, the type of experience that you need to acquire and the skills and attributes that you need to develop helps you to take informed decisions, quickly.

Benefit 4: Long term view

• We all have come across colleagues who took a promotion or job change that offered something exceptional in the short term but turned out to be a bad long term choice. While a large pay rise might look attractive, ask yourself whether the role will help you to achieve your longer term career goals.

Benefit 5: Wise investment

• There is certainly no shortage of options available to spend either your own or your organisation's cash on training and development. On the other hand you want to make sure that you make the most appropriate investment. If you have a clear goal or destination this becomes much easier to do.