A personal development plan helps individuals and organizations map out goals and steps for career growth. It involves assessing current skills and qualifications, identifying strengths and weaknesses, setting long-term aims and required future skills. The plan then outlines how to achieve goals through setting short-term milestones and timelines. Benefits include motivation, focus on self-improvement, and encouraging employees' career planning. However, businesses must consider if high expectations from plans could cause more harm than not offering them.

1. Personal Development Plan

3. What is a Personal
Development Plan?
• Organisations are
increasingly using
Personal Development
Plans as a way to form
the basis of training and
career development of
individuals.
• Learners hoping to
continue studies into
higher education are
likely to be expected to
complete a Personal
Development Plan.

4. Personal Development Plan – Key questions
How am I going
to get there?

5. SMART GOAL !

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

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

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

11. • What are the benefits of
completing a Personal
Development Plan?
• What are the risks of
completing a Personal
Development Plan?
Benefits
and
Risks

12. 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

13. 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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