Firstly, I will start with communication skills. Because
communication skills are my first target set on personal development plan. For
me its priority is high as well. Currently
I need lots of improvement to enhance my communication skills. From 16/10/12 I
have started reading novels and books which helped me to improve my reading and
comprehending skills.
Additionally, I used my Iphone and installed English
learning app on it. This learning English app is very helpful because it helps
me to increase my listening skills. Next, I also ask my English teacher to help
me to increase my communication skills. My teacher suggested me to look at this
website www.home-speech-home.com.
After three week I started realizing that I have increased my communication
skills. I started coping my teacher and used word and vocabulary that I have
never used before.
Secondly, I included driving skills in my personal
development plan. I starting learning driving on 22/10/12 and after taking two
driving lessons with my instructor I was able to drive car with the traffic. I
was bit scared of driving as well but after talking some lesson I started enjoying
driving on the road. My instructor taught my about manoeuvres like turning in
the road, parallel parking, and etc. I also learned about how to control clutch
on hills. Finally after taking 20 lessons with my instructor I booked a
Practical test on 29/11/12. Pleased to tell you that passed the test and will
receive driving licence within next 2 weeks.
Next, I will talk about the progress of my cricket skills.
According to my personal development plan I started keeping record of my
cricket skill from 1/11/12. Our college
arranged cricket training twice in a week. I think it is a great opportunity
for to increase my cricket skills. I do batting and bowling during one hour
training which definitely enhance my experience and practice of playing
cricket. But our college still needs arrange a coach for us to increase our
cricket skills. I watched master class coaching video from different websites,
which helped me a lot. In last three week I have increased my bowling pace and
speed. I also have increase my playing stamina and now I am able to do bating
for long hours.
Not only that, there is another advantage of playing cricket
that it helps me to increase my fitness level. It was not planned in my
personal development plan for fitness section. However cricket is helpful to
keep me fit and healthy.
Furthermore, IT skill is another objective of my personal
development plan. I already have necessary IT skills before setting this target
but I think I still need to improve my IT skills. From 11/10/12 I started using
serif Photo plus. After some week I was able to crop the background of a
picture effectively and used another readymade background behind in picture.
Along with that I also learned about serif draw plus. After reading the user
guidance book I was able use brush tool and artistic text tool. Not only that,
I am also able to import and export pictures in both serif draw plus and serif
photo plus.
To extend, I also am now able to create basic website using
Microsoft SharePoint. Last year I used note pad to create website but now I am
able to use SharePoint to create website.
Next, I watched a video on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsveMWRdNxo)
about how to create partition of a hard drive while installing new window. So
then I was able to create of the partition of a hard disk. I am also now able
to install window 7 on my Laptop. But I still need to improve my IT skills
further. Hopefully I will be able install Avira antivirus and scan my laptop
with it.
Planning skills and integrity, at the moment I try to plan
every task before I start it. This helps me to make my task easy to do without
any stoppage. However, I still need to improve my planning skills because if I
am able to plan better than I can do my task effectively. I do not need improve
in integrity necessarily as I always have done my tasks before deadlines. But I
still need it to make sure I meet my next coming deadline E.g.3rd
Dec 2012.
Unfortunately, I have not increased my working skills (work
experience) yet. But hopefully I have an opportunity to go for work experience
in December. Then I will also visit some local shop in my area to see how works
do their jobs. However I have learned about Health and Safety law for employer
and employee. There was point which was not written in my personal development
plan. Work experience will also help me to increase working confidence which is
an advantage of it.
Another skill which is team working was included in my
personal development plan. I have improved my team working because I was part
of my class team to create a computer model. I helped my classmates in create
all parts of computer. Then I also searched on internet to find out information
about computer parts. We shared our task effectively and were able to create
the model before deadline. Another thing which found working there was that I
also increased my IT skills and it was not included in personal development
plan.
I have improved my attendance in last three weeks. On
1/11/12 my attendance was 80% and now it has improved to 85%. But I still need
to improve my attendance to over 90%. Hopefully I will be able to get this
target by next two months.
There are three particular areas where I strictly need
improvement. These are Communication skills, presentational skills, and
Confidence level.
Firstly, Communicational skills are very important for
everyone to convey the messages and to understand the messages. According to my
targets in PDP I have only improve my listening skill and reading skills.
However I still need improvement in other parts of communication such as
speaking and writing. I asked my teacher about it and he suggested me to write
an essay everyday and bring it to me. Secondly my teacher also told me to talk
with people who can speak English effectively and accurately. Now I have
started following my teacher’s suggestion and I hope this will be helpful for
improving speaking and writing skills.
Secondly, presentational skills are also very important for
students at college and universities. Because they need do presentational about
different topics to done there task. Not only at college or university, presentations
are also required at employment. So I believe it is very important for me to
have good presentational skill. With my current plan I have only made limited
improvement in my presentational skills. But for my own benefit, I further need
to improve my presentational skill. I think need more experience and
preparation to do presentation effectively. I will also ask my teacher about
the techniques that are used to do presentation effectively.
Thirdly, Confidence level is an area where I need massive improvement.
Confidence is required in every field to do the task accurately, impressively
and effectively. I think low confidence is the reason for my limited
presentational and communicational skills. So I strongly need to improve in
this area. In order to improve my confidence level I need to believe in myself
and I need to open and relieved. My business teacher told me to share your
ideas in the class and try giving feed back when she teaches our class.
This personal development plan was very effective and it
allowed me to differentiate my weaknesses and strengths. Personal development
plan also helped me to improve my attendance. It was really helpful to me. By
setting targets in personal development plan I was able to manage my time
effectively and increased different skills time by time. I believe I will
continue using PDP in future because it keeps me on track.
