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What Is A PDP
What is a Personal Development Plan (PDP)?
A PDP is just another name for an action plan, only this one refers specifically to your aspirations regarding personal and professional development. We make plans every day, but do not always write them down. A PDP allows you to set your own personal targets and find the best way to achieve them.
Before you write it, you can take a skills audit and also consider your aspirations.
Ask yourself-
Where am I now?
Where do I want to be?
How do I get there?
Then consider-
https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/Human-Resources/Assets/Documents/OLL/PDP-Guidance-230719.pdf
https://help.open.ac.uk/pdp
Where Do I Want To Be?
What do I like doing? In my job, as a hobby….
What is my motive for learning? Promotion, personal improvement, overcome a challenge….
What qualifications and/or experience do I already have? Some of these may be transferable
What method of study would suit me best? Courses, book-based learning, e-learning, projects
How much time do I have to complete my learning? Be realistic – development takes time.
What effect will studying have on my home life? Consider the commitments that you already have and how you would balance these with study.
Are there any imminent changes to my life? Marriage, children, change of job.
What will happen if I change job? Will your plan need to change?
What is my ultimate goal? A qualification, personal fulfilment, career development.
How will I measure my success? Recognised qualifications, personal goals….
Your personal and professional develop is a journey and there will be short wins and long term goals. Whilst considering what you need to develop consider if there is a learning or knowledge gap and what you need to do to fill it and how long this will likely take. Consider them as short, medium and long term goals.
Reflection
You should reflect on your current skills. This can be a SWOT analysis or skills audit.
The reflect on these points as a learner. You may have a mixture of experiences of being a learning such as schools, learning to drive, learning a language, learning how to fix a leaking tap. Try to list the ways in which you learn best. Use the questions below to focus your thought process.
Team Work and Collaboration
Reflect on how you work independently and how you collaborate as part of a team. Use the class film workshop to do this.
How has collaboration strengthen your work?
How do you assert your view point?
How do you retain/highlight credit for your input?
Reflect on the contribution and skills of your colleagues.
