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Personal Development Plan (PDP) by Self Improvement Mentor (SIM) (individual initiative)

Type of document

-          Website dedicated to self improvement

-          Personal Development Plan template, tips, and examples

URL of the practice

http://www.self-improvement-mentor.com/personal-development-plan.html

Summary

This practice is based on a totally individual initiative and gives therefore an example of what can be found regarding PDP outside academia and human resources services. The website is accessible to everyone.

This website is dedicated to various aspects of self improvement (positive thinking, self affirmation, emotion, etc) and one section concentrates on PDP: http://www.self-improvement-mentor.com/personal-development-plan.html

Various resources are provided to help the readers write a PDP

-          Definition of what is PDP

-          A method on who to write a PDP is described

-          Tips are listed on how to write an effective PDP

-          A PDP template is provided

-          A PDP example is provided

Stakeholders

-          The author: a self improvement passionate

-          Beneficiaries: the grand web public

Validation

The website and the tools that appear here have been developed further to the individual initiative of the author Ethan Beh.

No specific validation by a higher organism is made.

The author is an autodidact in the field of self improvement and the website is profit oriented

Constraints

Time is needed to write a good PDP.

Persistence in updating one’s plan.

Sustainability

The author tries to reach a broad public and convince individuals to work on their self-improvement. If people will use or not the material developed by the author totally depends on one’s own willingness to do so.

Transferability

The data produced are aimed to a very broad and diverse audience and are accessible to everyone on the web. One should be careful in using this material and possibly adapt it to one more precise purpose.

Contact details

Contact form:

http://www.self-improvement-mentor.com/contact-me.html

Publication/Access Date

The website was created about ten year ago

Author/Publisher

Ethan Beh, autodidact in the field of self improvement

Related Web site(s)

-          Self improvement books

http://www.self-improvement-mentor.com/self-improvement-books.html

-          Brain training games

http://about.lumosity.com/overview

-          Academy for Competence development

http://www.metaforum.com/

-          Deeper coaching: Similar self-development website:

http://www.personal-development-coach.com/what-is-personal-development.html

Related resources that have been developed

-          PDP empty template:

http://www.self-improvement-mentor.com/support-files/personal-development-plan-template.pdf

-          Example of a PDP:

http://www.self-improvement-mentor.com/example-personal-development-plan.html

 

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