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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN TRAINING
WEDNESDAY 30 MARCH – FRIDAY 1 APRIL 2022

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1. What is a personal development plan?
2. Getting Started – The Wheel of Life
3. Using a SWOT analysis
4. How to carry out a SWOT analysis
5. How do I write a personal development
plan?
6. What happens once I have completed my
personal development plan?
7. Summary
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

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What is a personal development plan?
To achieve success and
happiness in your
education, career and
personal life, you should
continuously improve your
knowledge, skills and
experience. This is known
as personal development,
which is a continuous
lifelong process.
A personal development plan, which is also
known as a PDP, is an action plan that you can
use to identify:
Your individual goals and what you want to
achieve.
Your strengths and weaknesses.
The areas you need to improve and develop to
meet your goals.
What you need to do to achieve your goals.
Anything that could hinder your progress.

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plannin
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Cycle?

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Personal development is beneficial for you as an individual and also for businesses and
society as a whole. If you are making the most of your abilities and skills, this will positively
impact your life and others around you. Learning new skills can improve your mental
wellbeing, as it gives you a sense of purpose and boosts your confidence.
A simple and effective way of keeping track of your personal development is by completing a
personal development plan. If you don’t have a plan, it will make it difficult for you to focus,
and you are unlikely to meet your goals – whatever these may be. As Benjamin Franklin once
said, “if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail”.
What Are The Benefits of a PDP?

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The benefits of a PDP are:
It provides you with clear goals.
It helps you to identify your strengths and weaknesses.
It improves your employability.
It improves your performance.
It increases your motivation.
It helps track your progress.
It improves your sense of purpose.
It enhances your mental wellbeing and reduces stress.
Overall, a PDP gives you the best possible chance for success and maximises your potential.
Employers will sometimes use PDPs as part of their appraisal process, which is known as a
Performance Development Review (PDR).
What Are The Benefits of a PDP?

Where am I now?
Identifying strengths
Identifying weaknesses
Identifying existing skills/qualifications
What are the features of a Personal
Development Plan

What are the features of a Personal
Development Plan
Where do I want to go?
Identifying future required skills/qualifications
Identifying long term aims

What are the features of a Personal
Development Plan
How am I going to get there?
Setting short-term goals
Setting timeline

Benefits and risks
What are the benefits of completing a Personal Development
Plan?
What are the risks of
completing a Personal
Development Plan?

The benefits
There are both benefits for the individual
and employer:
• Individual: The plan can be a
motivating factor
• Become focused on self-improvement and
understand the long-term implications of efforts
• Employer’s point of view: The plans
encourage employees to be proactive
about their career planning

The risks
• Businesses will be constantly assessing
whether raising expectations of the
opportunities that may be presented to
employees could cause more damage than
not offering a PDP programme at all.

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It doesn’t matter how old you are or where you find yourself
now. It is never too late to start your personal development
plan. Most people have completed one at some point during
their education or careers. If you haven’t, there is nothing to
worry about, and there is no time like the present to start
planning.
What Are The Benefits of a PDP?

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Getting Started – The Wheel of Life Tool

WHEEL OF LIFE
Improve your life-worksatisfaction

GETTING STARTED
Everyjourney needs a starting point.
Nowyou can identify yours, createa compelling vision, set some goals
and moveinto action!
Ready tobegin?

HOW’S EVERYTHING?

HOW IT WORKS
Thewheel represents 8 aspects of your life competing for your time and
attention.
Theoutside circlerepresents the most satisfied you can be/the BEST. The
centre of the wheel represents totally dissatisfied orunsatisfactory.
Take a look at the wheel of life and get a feel forit. Then checkout the
sample.

WHEEL OF LIFE SATISFACTION

STEP ONE
Assess your satisfaction level in each
of the 8 aspects of the Wheel of Life:
Financial
Mental/Intellectual
Friends & Family
Personal Development/Recreation
Work/Career
Physical Wellbeing/Health
Emotional/Relationships
Environment/Community

STEP BY STEP
To complete theassessment,review the
questions for eachaspect on the
following slides and follow
thesesimple instructions:
Accepting 10, attheoutsidecircle
(as themost satisfied/peak
performance possible)
and0 atthe centreof thewheel
(totallydissatisfied/unsatisfactory)
determine your level of satisfaction
in eachof the8 aspects on your
Wheel of Life and markiton the
corresponding spoke.

QUESTIONS TO
ASK YOURSELF
Financial
• Howhealthy are yourfinances?
• Are you managing your spending?
• Howlong could your cash reserves
support you?

QUESTIONS TO
ASK YOURSELF
Mental/Intellectual:
• Do you feel stimulated intellectually?
• Is your brain challenged?
• Howeffectively do you manage
your attitude?
• Do you practice the power of
positive thinking?

QUESTIONS TO
ASK YOURSELF
Friends & Family:
• Do you make space and time for friends and family in your life?
• Howdo you feel about the time you spend together?

QUESTIONS TO
ASK YOURSELF
Personal Development & Recreation
• How doyouhavefun?
• Whatnourishes/re-energizesyou?
• Are youmakingtime forSelf care?
• How awareareyouofwhatreally matterstoyou?
• How doyousupportyourneed forself expression?
• Doyouhaveasense ofpurpose,directionormission?

Work/Career:
• Howsatisfied are you with your work orcareer?
• Do you enjoy your work?
• Do you look forward it?
• What personal/lifestyle needs is your career/work fulfilling?
QUESTIONS TO
ASK YOURSELF

PhysicalWellbeing& Health:
• Howdo youfeel aboutyour physical health and wellbeing?
• Howdo you feel about the physical shape you’re in –weight, stamina,
fitness?
• Do you pay attention to your diet, sleep habits, basic lifestyle choices?
QUESTIONS TO
ASK YOURSELF

Emotional/Intimate Relationships:
• Do you feel emotionally grounded, centered?
• How effectively do you manage stress?
• How satisfied are you in your relationship(s)?
• Is it as enjoyable and rewarding as you want?
• Do you share enough time together?
QUESTIONS TO
ASK YOURSELF

Community:
• How do you define community?
• Do you contribute to your community?
• Do you participate in community events/activities?
• Do you volunteer in areas that are important and
satisfying to you?
QUESTIONS TO
ASK YOURSELF

STEP TWO
Join the dots from one spoke to the next.
Nowreflect: Whatwouldarideonthis wheelfeellike?

DOES BALANCE
BOOST ENERGY?
It’s simple.
Thebigger, rounder and more balancedyour wheel,
the less energyit takes for
you to moveit – so,
you have moreenergy available to invest in other things.
Now,torecoupsomeofthatlostenergy…

STEP THREE
Consider…
Howlong has it taken
to get yourself into your currentsituation?
Which aspect of your WheelofLife,
if improved, would have the greatest
positive impact onyour overall experience?

STEP FOUR
Relax and create the space todream a little.
If the priority aspect of your life already was at 10, what three things would be
happening?
1.
2.
3.

STEP FIVE
Consider….
What small action steps can you take
toward improved performance
and/or heightened level of satisfaction?

Commit to yourself by when
you will do at least oneof these actions.
Create a way to hold yourself accountable.
STEP SIX

What short-term goal can you set for yourself?
Take a moment to reflect.
Write it down and keep it in front of you untilachieved.
STEP SEVEN

Celebrate
each and every win you achieve.
STEP EIGHT

GETTINGTRACTION
Date your Wheel of Life and keepa log of the actions taken to reflect on
your progress.
Look for ways to improveyour process.

A life coachis a confidential thought partnerwhohelps you:
• Preparefor success
• Make the changes you want to see
• Get closer to where you want tobe
• Accelerate your progress.
WHY PARTNER WITH A COACH?

We canhelp you:
 Improve your Life-Work Balance
 Improve relationships, performance and productivity
 Design and lead change
 Reinvent yourself
 Realize a dream
 Become an authentic and mindful leader
 Achieveyour goals
THE JOURNEY CONTINUES

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 What to do
This Training will help you learn what a personal development
plan is and how a SWOT analysis can help you identify things that
could help or hinder your progress. It will also give you tips on how
to write a personal development plan and what to do after you
have completed it.

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How to carry out a SWOT analysis
1.1. Introduction:

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How do I write a personal development plan?
1.1. Introduction:

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What happens once I have completed my
personal development plan?
1.1. Introduction:

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Once you have completed your PDP, it doesn’t end there. You need to follow
your plan and track whether you are achieving your outcomes or not. If you
are not achieving your goals in your specified timeframe, you should identify
the reasons why, rectify and update your plan. If you are successful in
achieving your goals, you can tick them off and add new ones to your list.
Remember, personal development is a lifelong process.

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You may find that things do not go according to plan, but you should not worry
or let this put you off. Your PDP is not set in stone. It is a flexible guide that you
can adapt as and when the need arises. Ask yourself whether you are making
the correct choices to get to where you want to be.
It is important to remember that a PDP is not a one-off exercise. It is a
continuous process of development, and it should be a working document.
You should regularly review and update your PDP to make the most of your
personal development.

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Summary
Personal development (whether it is for education, career or personal reasons) is
important, as it helps you achieve your desires and fulfil your potential. If you are
achieving what you want in life, it will improve your mental wellbeing and overall
happiness, which will have a far-reaching positive impact.
PDPs are a necessary exercise that help organisation and professionals achieve
what they want. If they are just used , as a tick in the box when annual
appraisals come around they are not effective. To prevent this, employers must
look at PDPs as an investment, as employee personal development will benefit
their business. Employees should also use it as a good opportunity to improve
their knowledge, skills and experience .

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Summary
If you complete your PDP properly and use it in planning and
achieving your goals, you are more likely to succeed in your
career and life in general. If you don’t have a plan, you are
likely to procrastinate and flounder. Remember what Benjamin
Franklin once said, “if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail”.

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