Personal Development Plan Assignment

Personal Development Plan (PDP) Assignment
A logical question from past participants has been to help them with a follow up action after attending
this course. We have devised this exercise in order to help you with creating your own action plan. We
understand that there are multiple pathways to success and hence there is no one correct answers. IN
order to successfully complete this course, you are expected to complete a Personal Development Plan.
Such a plan should be able to summarize “where you are in your career” and “where you want to go”.
Your plan should have the following components.
1. Your plan should address the key issues addressed in the MAPS analysis. These should include the
following:
 Where are you now?

o Abilities: How you perceive your Abilities?
o Perception: How others view you?
 Where do you want to go?
o Mission: What is your personal mission for career?
o Standards: What others expect from you?
Once you have identified these issues under MAPS plan, the next step will be to provide linkages
between “where you are” and “where you want to go”. There needs to be some kind of rationale
for why want to develop in a certain way.
For example:
 You’d like to move to a new role and want to prepare yourself for that new role.
 You’re good at what you do, and have no immediate aspirations to move, but just want to
get better at what you do.
2. You may like to use the suggested templates or create your own. In developing your plan, you
should integrate material from the lectures, and class discussions. You need to create a detailed
action plan in order to achieve the same.
There are several steps to achieve your plan:

 You need to focus on one or two critical competencies you want to focus on. Think of specific
behaviors or skills you need to develop. Use of PAL e-book would help you here.
 Develop you action plan in terms of SMART goals. A SMART goal is Specific, Measurable, Attainable,
Realistic and Timely.
 Would you need other’s involvement? Involve others wherever possible to provide you feedback
and support. Making goals known to close friends/families/mentors makes you more committed to
achieving them.
 Identify target dates/milestones.
 How will you measure outcomes? How will you know you have learnt new skills or succeeded in
adapting your behaviors?
Key Developmental issues to cover in your PDP:
 What are my strengths? What are my weaknesses?
 What are the common feedbacks (positive & Negative) that I have received from others?
 What other performance indicators have been there in the past and during the LDP that I have
noticed?
 What do I hope to improve/achieve?
 Why do I want to achieve that? What does it give me?
 What must improve/learn/experience to achieve that desired state?
 What are the possible resources at ISB to learn/experience/improve?
 When do I want to or need to achieve the desired states?
 What are the biggest obstacles? How will I manage them?
Grading criteria: Your answers will be graded on three criteria: (1) the logic of your response, (2) the
integration of course concepts to support your perspective, and (3) the clarity and quality of your
writing. Our grading criteria are not meant to judge or evaluate your goals and expectations, rather we
are looking for sound rationale and integration of concepts learned with whatever perspective you
choose to adopt.
Format: Your PDP should be 3-5 pages long (Times New Roman 12 point font, double spaced, 1 inch
margins).
Deadline: This is an individual assignment that needs to be submitted via TURNITIN. Please make sure
you mention the full names, PGID, and section number in the submission file.
DEADLINE: Will be announced post the LEAD week
---------------------------------------------------See Annexure---------------------------------------------------------
ANNEXURE:
SUGGESTED PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN TEMPLATES
PLAN TEMPLATE 1
Area to Develop : Select 1 or 2 areas, critical

Area of Focus
to your success, to work on at one time
Critical Developmental Other’s Role Target Dates/ Results/Outcomes:
Behaviors/Goals: Activities/Action (or involvement of Milestones How have I
What specific Steps: others, if applicable) succeeded in
behaviors do I need (assignments, adapting my
to model or exhibit coaching, formal behavior or learning
in this competency training) new skills? (provide
or skill? Remember SMART examples)
PLAN TEMPLATE 2
Objectives: What do I Actions: What methods Implementation: How will Success criteria: How will I
want to be able to do or will I use to achieve my I practice and apply what I recognize success? How
do better? learning objectives? learn? will I review and measure
my improvement?
To keep abreast of 1. Set time aside for 1. Volunteer to be on 1. Awareness of key
developments in the XY reading circulars project team looking at sector issues and how
environment 2. Discuss issues with new developments. they affect my
(Managing Self and my line manager 2. Have sector-wide institution
Personal Skills, 3. Ask colleagues for issues as a regular item 2. Ability to contribute
Organisation aspect) feedback when they on team agenda in an informed way to
have attended external wider discussions
conferences within XY 3. Being up to date with
4. Talk to colleagues sector developments
whose roles expose 4. Seek feedback from
them to these issues others on my wider
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Your plan should have the following components.

 Where are you now?

There are several steps to achieve your plan:

DEADLINE: Will be announced post the LEAD week

Area to Develop : Select 1 or 2 areas, critical

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