Personal development plan

Learning plans or personal development plans (PDF) detail mentees goals and objectives, and the actions necessary to... 

Effective mentors seize opportunities to experiment and take part in new experiences. They read widely, and are efficient at setting and following personal development plans. They actively seek and use behavioural feedback from others. 

Flexibility is important in other ways within a mentoring relationship. For instance, even though men tees will set up personal development plans that entail certain timescales and objectives, these may need to be changed as the mentoring relationship develops. A rigid approach to mentoring will seriously compromise its value to the mentee. 

Establish learning needs and set up a Personal Development Plan... 

If appropriate, a diagnostic plan can emerge based on this analytic process. This is not to be confused with a personal development plan (PDF). Diagnostic plans only serve to describe the mentee s issues and problems in detail and to provide ideas for the personal development plan (see below). 

Encourage them to ensure that they know what is expected of them and to fulfil this (for example by implementing the personal development plan, attending meetings etc.). 

There is an additional skill that is of importance to mentees but on which no real skills training (in the truest sense of the meaning of the word) can be conducted. This skill is personal development planning and the identification of development needs. It would suffice to cover it by providing mentees with information on how to go about identifying their development needs and setting up a PDF. This information could be as follows. 

The evaluation of training, set against the original objectives, should allow a competency level to be assigned. This may be set by the manager or the employer, and if not, it is worthwhile to include a grade in a personal development plan (e.g. basic, competent, distinguished, expert). Personal development plans should feature a combination of performance assessment, career plan and business need. 

The course tutors at York recognized that the graduates from the course should not only be provided with up-to-date technical information and specific skills related to the subject area of green chemistry, but also that emphasis should be placed on the development of transferrable skills. This led to the incorporation of a dedicated module on these skills, also referred to as personal development planning , that complements the more academic side of the course. This module encompasses ... 

Employees have personal development plans (created via personal feedback sessions). 

Personnel is insufficiently trained (adaptation risk) Employees are prepared for Implement HR development the changing requirements of programs for all levels of hierarchy their jobs develop personal development plans, assess employees potential and personal ambitions, employ on-the-job and off-the-job learning ... 

Personal Development Plan (PDP) and Workplace-based assessments (WPBAs) - see below... 

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