“Produce, in 1500 words, a professional personal development plan for yourself as a management consultant. Your plan should draw upon the lectures on this module as well as your reading, and will need to be based upon a critical reflection including self evaluation of your knowledge, understanding, skills and behaviors of a successful management consultant”

 

 

Introduction

Planning is a scheme for achieving objectives or diagram of layout. In military world strategy is known as a planning of war or science of military strategy and in corporate world strategy means plan of future plan and strategic based on a plan of action. Personal development plan (PDP) is an individual motivation structure which helps to build up precise life skills. Personal goals, mission, target, achievement and visionary those words planning a dramatic role for personal growth and action plans are a sponsor of the desired growth. Professional personal development plan (PPDP) is the rerunning process of obtaining new knowledge, comprehensive skills and learning process that connect to one’s profession, work and job responsibilities, technological demands, and play a major role in  maintaining trained, informed and motivated employees regardless of job classification. We can define the PDP as a simple word that it’s your own plan of action for build up your visionary growth rate. And PPDP is your own professional goals growth to rubbing up your present and future expectation career target.

In this assignment we are going to draw a picture of our own personal desire goals plans which will be interconnect with our future professional plans path.

 

Concept of Personal Development Plan and Importunateness

As we know that personal development plan is known as a plan of action. In personal development plan we are going to set up our own personal tasks, target, vision, mission, aims and objective of our life skills and develop the path line to reach the targeting point.

As we mentioned that we have to discover our development path line to clarify our purpose of life. In this point of view we have to achieve a clear view point about PDP concepts and its importunateness.

1st we have to know – what is a Personal development plan (PDP) is?

Personal development plan is simply knowing yourself completely, from all your strengths and weaknesses, all your dreams and goals, and using all these to fuel your life and lead you to greater heights. What do you want to do in the next five years? What do you want to accomplish in the next ten years? What is personal development? It is identifying what you should prioritize in life, and what dreams you should run after. And what is personal development, further? It is the use of your strengths to meet your goals, and the improvement on your weaknesses so that you can be better as a person. (Law-of- attraction-and success.com [Online] (Cite May 12, 2008) Available from <URL: http://www.law-of-attraction-and success.com/WhatIsPersonalDevelopment.html.)

2nd How I can draw the development structure planning path line and why I should have to do?

Action plan will help you to envision what you are doing and help you to keep track of your achievements.  If you want to develop your self you have to try to mange your time and also always try to invest your day to get something for every day tasks. In this circumstance you should have to build a picture of development plan. As we know that every one have different learning skills, someone good in listening and someone good in writing , personal development plan will provide  you right direction where you are going and what you already done, its like a life path guider.

However, you also have to step up your goals termination time, so you can mange your goals term short, medium and long term, depend on your visionary desire. Some time you can find the project plan set up for over 1 year period, other may last up to 10 years. (rapidbi.com [Online] (Cite May 12, 2008) Available from http://www.rapidbi.com/index.html)

To draw out the picture of you personal development plan you have to find out the answer of three important questions: 1st where I am now? 2nd where do I want to be? And 3rd how can I get there? Or we can follow the career development plan action model. Let draw out one simple example of CPD with making connection of PDP:

Step 1 Goals:  Describe your goal- what is your plan in 6th month? Here we can use the smart plan model for as an example:

Figure 1: Smart Plan Model

We have to make a note that real goals are related with smart plans model. When you set up your goals do not give up do compromise. Be positive about your goals. In this reason you have to make at least 3 goals for your wish to achieve the target point.

Step 2 Planned priorities: In this section you have to decide which goals is your first choice, which came first, do your work like climbing stairs steeply.

Step 3 Reasons why: Searching the main reasons why you want to do this, find out the relation of your goals with desire, the answer will be like your soul support it or you think you have lots of experience on this goal or you have sufficient knowledge about your strategy.

Step 4 Self Beliefs: Begin by reflecting on your life and life beliefs. What fundamental beliefs govern your actions and behaviors? What are the recurring themes in your life? What is your life purpose?

Step 5 Involve other supports: In this part you need create a strong networking relationship with your friends, colleagues, relative and parents to reach your goals, reason by having strong networking it will be easier for you to find information and help from your external supporters.

Step 6 Personal Responsibility: Be positive, be confidence about your own decision and your own braveness.

Step 7 Results: Measuring the overall results of your plan, are you reached your destination dead line point on time.

 

My own personal development plans

Most of us have lot of secretes imaginings and aspiration, or at least worn to, in this situation we supposed to use personal development plan models to assess our visionary dreams to realistic fields.

In this case first I am going use a simple example structure to create down my own personal development plan template:

 

Personal Development plan:

Step 1 Goal:

To become a university Lecturer for undergraduate students

To become a educational consultant and create a practical and theoretical business management firms.

 

Figure 2 Smart Plan model of PDP

Personal Development plan:

Step 2 Planned priorities

1st To gain sufficient knowledge by attending courses , attend consultations meeting, conferences, Educational courses, internet and articles and creating strong consultancy conversation network teams by the support of friends, relative and colleagues. However I am also going to apply my knowledge process on my friends and junior students by providing free study discussing coaching,

 

 

Personal Development plan:

Step 3 Reason 

My soul, my belief and my mind strongly supporting me to build up career on educational sector. “I believe that you can keep you knowledge with always you have share your ideas, thinks, dreams and image to other to create a new word. My main target is create on education centre where we are going to provide degree with real particle knowledge and make them able to bit the whole world by their own performance abilities, skills, and knowledge

 

 

Personal Development plan:

Step 4 Self Beliefs  

I am confidence about my visionary. i am believe that my soul strongly supporting me to concentrate on my mission. However my parents, my education environment motivate me to do this task confidently  

 

 

Personal Development plan:

Step 5 Involve others or supporters  

As I mentioned that my parents and my educational environment help me speed up confidence, beside this my friends, relatives, colleagues and customers all of them are my supporter. As I am working for as a customer service advisor, I am trying to create a good and friendly relationship with my customer to achieve my goals.

 

 

Personal Development plan:

Step 6 Personal responsibility

I am being positive about my confidence, I have good friendly warm characters which inspire me to stay be positive and make a strong bond relationship with every one.

 

 

Personal Development plan:

Step 7 Measuring the Results

In this part I am going to measure my whole learning rate scale by doing SWOT analysis. As I mentioned that my targeting term period is 3 years, so I have to estimated my learning and gap knowledge skills by doing scaling rating and by doing back up record checking that did I improve, did I reach my goals levels and what’s the rating point, did I cross the 80% to 20% rules. Main things that I have to check my back record files with upgrade thinking methods.

 

 

 SWOT analysis to evaluate my goals position

“You can not cross the visual but you can change the path” in this case SWOT analysis tools help you to modify your direction path.

“Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let you methods be n regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances- Sun Tzu, 500 BC. As we know that SWOT analysis is a general techniques which can find suitable applications across diverse management functions and activates, but it is particularly appropriate to the early stages of strategic and marketing planning. However SWOT analysis tools help to create a good view points for PDP, especially measuring your goals strategy processing line access properly or not (Hodder & Stounghton (1999), “Business Checklists- Marketing & Strategy”, Institute of management, page 6).

However SWOT analysis is a two part analysis: 1st part looks at the Strengths and weakness of the personal development plan and is thus an internal analysis; and the second part considers the threats and opportunities facing the organizations from the external environment which are derived from the external analysis. The main aims of SWOT is it should be always be for strategies that build on strengths, minimize weakness, exploit opportunities and defend against treats (Roger Cartwright, MA (1999), “Mastering Marketing management”(2002), Business series editor Richard Pettinger, Palgrave in association with St Antony’s oxford, page 45).

Figure 3 SWOT analysis

Let draw out my own personal development plan SWOT analysis picture with providing questions and with its curate answer:

Figure 4 Question which I can ask my self for doing SWOT analysis for doing my own Personal development plan

Figure 5 SWOT analysis of my own personal development plan

  

Conclusion

After analysis of SWOT of my PDP I may be find out the key point of my development path line. To achieve my goals aims I have to be more confidence about my goals, and I must have to be compromise with my goals but not to give up. Negative and positive attitude will help me to rubbing my career path equally then at least I might be able to reach my break even target point.

 

References

  • Law-of- attraction-and success.com [Online] (Cite May 12, 2008) Available from <URL: http://www.law-of-attraction-and success.com/WhatIsPersonalDevelopment.html.)
  • rapidbi.com [Online] (Cite May 12, 2008) Available from http://www.rapidbi.com/index.html)
  • Hodder & Stounghton (1999), “Business Checklists- Marketing & Strategy”, Institute of management, page 6)
  •   Roger Cartwright, MA (1999), “Mastering marketing management” (2002), Business series editor Richard Pettinger, Palgrave in association with St Antony’s oxford, page 45)

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