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Personal Development Plan: Key to terminology used in template

Development Objectives are objectives that you have identified to enable you to meet the learning and development needs identified at the

skills analysis stage

Priority identifies whether your development objective is:

critical to your current role

beneficial but non-critical to your current role

critical to your progressing in to future role

beneficial but non-critical to progressing in to future role

Activities can constitute any learning or development activity that will enable you to achieve your development ojectives e.g. formal training,

on-the-job training, work-shadowing another colleague etc.

Support/Resources describe what you need to help you achieve your development objectives. Typically this would involve support from your

manager, department or colleague to enable you to undertake a learning or development activity such as allowing you time away from your role

or funding from your department.

Target and Actual dates state when you intend to achieve your development objectives followed by the date you actually achieve them. Data

in these columns is particularly useful when you review your PDP as it will enable you to identify any factors that may have prevented you from

achieving your development objectives on the target date and build in contingencies to prevent this from occurring in the future.

Review date states when you will review progress on your Personal Development Plan. Assuming that you undergo the personal development

process annually, we recommend that you review your PDP every six months therefore enabling you to:

Assess your progress

Reflect on your learning

Identify whether your development objectives need to be amended

Identify factors that may have prevented you from achieving your development objectives

Build in contingencies to enable you (where possible) to meet your agreed target date in the future

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