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A Strategic Professional Development Portfolio (PDP)
Professional development plans are commonly used in management. There are many ways to craft development plans as you will know, 360 degree feedback, various psychometric tests, inventories etc.
This PDP is different and focuses on your development and goals as a manager – hence this is a professional development plan. The purpose is to relate the academic content of the module to your professional (managerial) goals. More specifically, in the context of this module, it is only based around the “how do you fit the design” series of tests (don’t use any other tests, inventories such as Belbin etc).
To help you to reflect and craft your PDP it will be necessary to complete the “How Do You Fit the Design” self-assessment exercises included in each chapter of your textbook (Daft, 2015) and incorporate your reflection on these self-assessments into your PDP.
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As with the project, the PDP will be incrementally developed as soon as you begin the module over the course of the 4-5 weeks. The tests are not specifically related to the chapters content so can be taken as early as possible because they relate to how you currently are.
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You will craft interim components (which you may be asked to present or discuss in some form during the seminars).
The PDP will have following main sections
- Introduction (up 500-750 words on critical evaluation of personal development plans)
- A critical reflection of what the self-tests are showing (circa 1500 words). Split this into 2 sub-sections. A reflection on how the various tests holistically have been informative in your understanding of you as a manager, and then something more focused on the areas for development that will be included in the action plan.
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The action plan too needs to show thought having gone into it. Your tutor will be looking to see how reflective and realistic it is, how realistic and appropriate the development is, and how well it is presented (ie professionally laid out etc). You are advised to have one short (8-12 months), medium (12-24 months) and long term (2 years +) goals and their development.
The action plan is to be presented in a table format, with 3-4 columns for above areas. Use portrait paper format and smaller size font so that you capture everything on 1 page.
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