Personal Development Plan Skill Review

Personal Development Plan Skill Review
Strengths	Action	Review Dates	Progress Diary
1.       I am good at working within a team.	1.      I intend to improve by working more in a team and interacting more. 2.      Play sports at the weekend to develop team skills. 3.      Positive thinking	This is going to be a short term goal	8/1/2013 I always felt that I was good in a team because I thought I could work better in a team than by myself. I have and I want to improve this by talking more and getting my opinion out. 15/03/2013 I have had to work in a team in a few things in college.  I enjoy this type of work as it means I have to work in a team and develop my skills. I have looked into playing basketball – I might join the team. 16/05/2013 I think I have improved a lot over the year on working with a team because I can get all my opinions out more and want to work in teams more too.  I had to work in a team to create a PowerPoint and present it to the class.  I worked well in this team and think it was much easier when I had to work with another person. My PowerPoint task on Web Based communication channels.
2.      I am good on a computer. – I can improve by completing my computer course and learning more and different things.	1.      I intend to improve by completing my computer course that I am studying now. 2.      Learn more and different things 3.      Talk to my teachers in school to boost Skills 4.      Read books to help me learn outside the topic to help me improve.	I am going to check how I improved in about 6 – 9 months.	8/1/2013 I have improved my IT skills a lot because I know a lot more about computer and I can use a lot more difficult programs also. I always tried to improve this skill. 03/03/2013 I have improved my IT skills a lot because I am lot quicker typing on the keyboard for example and better at using other programs but there is still a lot more I could do. I have been watching videos online if I am struggling with anything.  There are good videos on YouTube about Flash.  These have really helped. 16/05/2013 There are also some good videos about Excel – which I found were a help if I didn’t understand something. I have also read some books from the library to help me with my course. Books Book for my course This book has been great, as it is has all my units in it and gives good ideas when I am not sure. 03/06/2013 I have talked to my teachers throughout the year.  This is the only way to find out what I need to do, as sometimes I don’t always understand what they say on Moodle on in emails.  If I do not understand something I will just ask the teacher rather than pretending that I know what is going on.
3.      I am good at pool	1.      I intend to improve my skills by playing with other players that are better than me and learn a few things of them. 2.      Positive thinking 3.      Watching videos online about improving my pool skills.	I am going to review my skills in 6 months.	8/1/2013 I haven’t got much time to play pool because of things such as college but I enjoy it a lot and still improve on this skill.  I need to make more time to improve here. 01/04/2013 I have been watching videos over these past few weeks.  These videos are online and I have been sharing them with my friends – I think they are really good to help give me ideas on techniques. 16/05/2013 I have got to play pool a lot more this last few weeks and I want to more by entering myself more in challenges for example.
Weaknesses	Actions	Review Dates	Progress Diary
1.       I need to improve my time keeping skills.	1.      I intend to improve my time keeping by planning out my work and have an estimate to see how long it going to take.	I am going to have another look in a mouths time.	01/02/2013 I know my timekeeping is not good.  I am late for class and then I get marked late.  I need to improve this as I miss important things at the start of class. 03/04/2013 I have started to create lists of work that I need to do.  I will see if this helps. 01/05/2013 Creating the lists is helping – it is making me realize how much work I need to do.  This is making me work on things I need to when I have free time.  I have to work on the classes I didn’t sort out in Semester 1. 16/05/2013 I am going to set another alarm and get up earlier. I am also going to leave the house earlier also and prepare myself the night before more. 01/06/2013 Creating to do lists and setting my alarm earlier is helping me.  I should have done this all year, but I will do this next year.
2.      I don’t have good confidence	1.      I intend to improve by getting up in front of the class and just get used to talking to a group and talking about myself. 2.      Learn about skills when talking in front of people. 3.      Positive thinking	I am going to have another look in a month time.	01/02/2013 I am answering out in class a bit more than usual.  I think this is good, as the teachers know I am trying.  It doesn’t matter if the answer isn’t right as long as I try. 05/04/2013 We learned all about skills when presenting and talking to other people.  These are known as “interpersonal” skills.  I have talked about them on my blog here.  I also learned about barriers – which can affect my confidence when talking and show others than I am nervous. 16/05/2013 I have got up in front of the class a lot over the year and I think I have improved my confidence a lot since then.  I know all about interpersonal communication now and I watched videos which helped me as well.
3.      I haven’t got much patience.	1.      I need to learn to just chill and sit there and concentrate on what I am doing. 2.      Try to get some tips to calm my patience. 3.      Look up videos online on how to stay calm and improve patience.	I am going to have another look in a month	01/02/2013 I have tried to sit and concentrate, but I am finding it hard, as there is so much going on all the time and a lot of distractions 03/03/2013 I have got some times to have more patience.  The most important thing is to find out what “triggers” me being impatient and then avoid it.  I found this tip on this website. 16/05/2013 I think this is one I have improved on the most because I cannot sit still without touching things and asking what do I do.