Among other things, personal development may include the following activities:
Improving
self-awareness
Improving
self-knowledge
Improving
skills
and/or learning new ones
Building or renewing
identity
/
self-esteem
Developing strengths or talents
Improving a
career
Identifying or improving
potential
Building employability or (alternatively) human capital
Enhancing
lifestyle
and/or the quality of life and time-management
Improving
health
Improving wealth
or
social status
Fulfilling aspirations
Initiating a life enterprise
Defining and executing
personal development plans
(PDPs)
Improving
social relations
or
emotional intelligence
Spiritual
identity development and recognition
Personal development can also include developing other people's skills and personalities.This can happen
through roles such as those of a teacher or mentor, either through a personal competency (such as the alleged
skill of certain
managers
in developing the potential of employees) or through a professional service (such as
providing training, assessment, or coaching).
Beyond improving oneself and developing others, "personal development" labels a field of practice and
research:
As a field of practice, personal development includes personal-development methods, learning programs,
assessment systems, tools, and techniques.
As a field of research, personal-development topics appear in psychology journals, education research,
management journals and books, and
human-development
economics.
Any sort of development—whether economic, political, biological, organizational or personal—requires
a
framework
if one wishes to know whether a change has actually occurred. In the case of personal
development, an individual often functions as the primary judge of improvement or of regression, but the
validation of objective improvement requires assessment using standard criteria.
Personal-development frameworks may include:
Goals or benchmarks that define the end-points
Strategies or plans for reaching goals
Measurement and assessment of progress, levels or stages that define milestones along a development path
A feedback system to provide information on changes
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What
is
a
Learning
Strategy?
A learning strategy is an individual’s
way of organizing and using a
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