2. WHAT IS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Professional Development is where a person
assesses their own personal qualities and
attributes at work, and takes action to
improve these, using ‘SMART’ goals.
A person can monitor their progress to
achieve these goals through a ‘Personal
Development Plan’
3. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
This plan allows a person to identify and assess
their own skills and use ‘SMART’ goals to
improve their skills.
‘SMART’ goals are:
Specific
Measurable
Appropriate
Realistic
Timed
4. MY PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Skills needed to How I will develop Dates Monitoring
develop the skill Development
Short Term: Completing Doing at least 1 or 2 Monday 7th May I have completed this
this ICT task before the hours a day of the task, task before the deadline,
deadline. before the deadline. I achieved this by doing
1 hour a day of the work
and posting it onto my
blog.
Medium Term: Making a time table of Monday 1st May – 30th This goal is still ongoing
Time Management- each day, and choosing June. as I have created a
revision for A level which subject to prioritise revision time table
exams. for each day. prioritising my subjects
into which exams are
closer and what subjects
I need to work on.
Long Term: Practising making Friday 4th May – This goal is still ongoing
Improve my presenting powerpoints and Ongoing. too as I am practising
skills presenting aloud to presenting skills to my
myself, friend or family family and colleagues
member. and I am progressing,
however, I will still
continue to achieve this
goal to the best of my
ability.
5. AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT
Having achieved my short-term and medium-term
goals I am still on a quest to achieve my and long-
term goal.
Although my presenting skills are getting better,
they can still be improved upon. I feel I am getting
better at engaging with an audience when
presenting and making my presentations more
enjoyable for people to watch.
I can improve this skill more by continuing to
present to my friends and family, and then gradually
to a larger audience, and getting feedback of how
well they think I presented to them.
