Personal and Professional Development Planning PDP
Welcome to my Personal and Professional Development Planning website. This site contains various PDP documents, forms, evaluation tools and links to useful websites. I've developed this web site as a resource to support students on the University Certificate in Professional Development and the free elective Key Skills Development Through Part-Time VoluntaryWork and, hopefully, better facilitate your learning. I hope that you will find hope the material to be useful and relevant. Feel free to use the resources here, but please acknowledge me if you copy any of them. Most of the learning materials are here as word documents, not pdf files - this is so that you may change the materials slightly yourself i.e. you can save a form to your pc or memory stick and customise it to suit you if you wish to do so.
If you can think of any useful way I can improve this website as a learning resource please let me know - A.G.Holmes@hull.ac.uk
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"Only those who are asleep make no mistakes" Ignvar Kamprad (founder of Ikea)
"The difference between success and failure is
the word but" Phil Silvers aka Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko
What is PDP? I see Personal Development Planning, or Personal and Professional Development Planning as I prefer to call it, a structured process by which a person reflects upon and plans their own current and future learning and development; either personal development or professional development. This will include developing their employability skills.
“There is a crucial difference between declarative knowledge, knowing a concept and its technical skills, and procedural knowledge, being able to put those concepts and details into action. Knowing does not equal doing, whether playing the piano, managing a team, or acting on essential advice at the right moment”. (Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, 1997). PDP helps develop both procedural knowledge and declarative knowledge.
One definition of PDP is that it is "a structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performance and/or achievement and to plan for their personal, educational and career development" (Norman Jackson, LTSN Generic Centre).
"There can be no learning without action, and no action without learning" (Reg Revans - who developed the concept of Action Learning".
Phil Race article 'Evidencing Reflection - putting the w into reflection' here
Are you ready to learn? - useful questions to ask yourself as to whether your are ready and willing to learn here
Example of a Learning Log or Learning Journal here
How Are skills Learnt? The Experiential learning cycle by Kolb (originally based on work by Lewin) click here
Learning a Skill - diagram explaining move from unconscious incompetence to conscious competence click here
Learning a Skills - What's the difference between surface and deep learning? more about unconscious incompetence and conscious competence click here
What is Experiential Learning? here
The PDP Learning cycle diagram - this is my own modified version of Kolb's experiential cycle as relevant to the UCPD programme and the Student Union Voluntary Work Skills Development Free Elective module click here
The Group Reflective Process diagram
Learning Sets - example set of Rules for an Effective Learning Set
(Action) Learning Sets - some guidelines for being an effective member
Learning Set - example of Learning Set reflective learning log
Skills Audit - here - a tool you can use to evaluate your skills and action plan for further future skills development.
Skills Development Planning questions to ask yourself prompt sheet
Gap Analysis - here - another type of skills audit tool you can use to evaluate your skills and action plan for further future skills development
Personal Goal Setting - an article to read
The Boston Square (Boston Chart / Grid)
QUAD chart and QUAD chart guided tour
Work-Based Project Learning Contract form
Work-Based Project proposal ideas form
Goal Setting - Panic, Stretch & Comfort zones
PESTLE Analysis (or PESTAnalysis)
Link to an article about how PESTLE Analysis may be used
Problems and Puzzles - Known and Unknown
Effective Presentations - online tutorial from Edge Hill
Effective presentations Tips for effective powerpoint presentations slide show
Effective presentations Ten top tips for effective powerpoint presentations
Group work Team working online video learning resources from Learnhigher including listening, oral presentations, group work interpersonal skills here
A range of Personality Tests including 'the five factor' one - here
Personality Tests - The IPIP-NEO (International Personality Item Pool Representation of the NEO PI-R™) short and long versions - here
Positive psychology - on line tests for job satisfaction here
Further reading - books and websites - click here
Study Skills referencing - note son how to reference using the Harvard referencing system
Career Management Skills - web hub to many other sites
Mentoring - quotes on mentoring
Personality Tests - links below
The IPIP-NEO (International Personality Item Pool Representation of the NEO PI-R™) short and long versions here
Doctor Job psychometric tests section here
Emotions and Behaviours At work here
SHL direct here
British Psychological Society here
MBTI Myers Briggs here includes links to various MBTI based tests
Big 5 Personality Traits here
Keirsey Temprament Sorter here
Cattell's 16 Personality Factors here
RACI charting - useful tool for identifying roles, responsibilities and accountability here
Study Skills - links to study skills below
Referencing HarvardReferencing
Study Skills - use of the apostrophe
University of Hull Study Advice Service here
Study Skills - A-Z guide to the use of English
Study Skills Referencing guidelines, bibliographies here
CLL Referencing Guidelines here
Link to Andrew's project management website http://www.hull.ac.uk/workbasedlearning/
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