Personal Development Plan for (Your Name, Company Name and Logo)
Personal Development Plan
(Insert Your Name Here)
A PDP is a tool for assessment, utilized by both the employee and
employer, as a means for reflection and documentation of an
employees’ growth with regards to competencies. This is done in
conjunction with the presentation of plans for future
development, placing emphasis on support for professional
development.
Evaluate your current knowledge,
skills, abilities, and personal
characteristics
Establish opportunities for growth
Template
Sections
Leveraging skills and experience
Formalize goals and
SMART objectives
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Personal Development Plan for (Your Name, Company Name and Logo)
Evaluate Your Current Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and
Personal Characteristics
Q List your top five skills or proficiencies:
1. Example—Active listening
2. Example—Coordination
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List the five work values that are important to you:
1. Example—Trust
2. Example—Recognition
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List your top five strengths: As a reference asks your colleagues, family, or friends for input.
1. Example—Time management; according to colleagues
2. Example—Thinking strategically; as noted by supervisor
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List five areas of interests:
1. Example—Social Work
2. Example—Cars
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List five priority wants:
1. Example—Increased salary
2. Example—Greater autonomy
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Personal Development Plan for (Your Name, Company Name and Logo)
Establish Opportunities for Growth
Where is your department headed?
Example—Increasing efficiency by utilizing technologies to accomplishing more with less.
Where is your company headed?
Example—Expansion into foreign markets.
List your five areas that most need improvement: As a reference asks your colleagues, family,
or friends for input.
1. Example—Public speaking—coworkers tell me I lose focus
2. Example—Decision making—manager worries about my choices during time sensitive
situations
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What jobs or areas of interest look exciting and/or filled with potential?
How can you learn more?
1. Example—Sales—Job shadow Jane Doe, Sales Manager to learn more about sales.
2. Example—Book club—Talk to Jill Smith, who has experience with book
clubs. 3.
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Personal Development Plan for (Your Name, Company Name and Logo)
Leveraging Skills and Experience
Utilizing the previous sections, what skills would provide the greatest help for progressing
myself personally and professionally?
1. Example— Management skills
2. Example— Increasing my technical skills
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Formalize Goals
Based on the previous sections, list five key goals. Goals should be long-term, and have a
broader focus than objectives. A year or more for completion is acceptable. Further, goals
should be promote high level achievements; increase the potential for your professional
goals.
If uncertain, look back upon the previous sections for blanks or general responses, to generate
your list. In this case, your goals are to improvement and enhance clarity regarding the areas
for potential opportunities or interests you want to focus on in the next year(s).
List five goals:
1. Example—Increase personal health through physical activity
2. Example—Gain increased job responsibilities by obtaining a managerial
role 3.
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Personal Development Plan for (Your Name, Company Name and Logo)
Objectives must be specific and actionable, which support your broader goals. Select
objectives that will provide the largest impact on achieving your goals. Employ the
SMART system to outline your objectives:
Specific—Objective are clear and unambiguous, expressing both what is to be done and how
Measurable—Concrete criteria for assessing progress and achievement
Attainable—Given your existing skills and experience, the objective must be realistic and
attainable
Relevant—The impact of completion must be aligned with goals
Time frame—Grounding objectives within a given time-frame
Complete the table. Upon completion print and post it in a noticeable place. Check
regularly to ensure progress on achieving your objectives.
INSERT YOUR NAME HERE – 2015 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Achieved?
Specific Objective Measurement Attainable Relevance Time Frame
Y/N
Example: Completed Yes, with Certificate supports 4-week class,
Enroll in graded support of my goal of becoming a January/February
advanced sales assignments. team members manager. time frame
training course Obtain for time
certificate. required for
training
course.
