Personal development plan

• Catering
• Higher Education (degree)

What is a personal development
plan?

Here’s what it stands for:

S – Strengths

What are your strengths what do you excel at?  

W – Weaknesses

Internal limitations or areas that need improvement.

Examples: poor time management, limited resources, lack of experience and skills.

O – Opportunities

External chances to grow, improve, or succeed. 

Working in a restaurant ,practicing specific skills i.e. fish filleting  

External challenges or risks that could cause problems.

Examples: competition, rising costs, changing laws, economic downturns.

T – Threats

External challenges or risks that could cause problems.

Examples: arriving late due to transport issues

Getting distracted in class.  

In groups : 

Write your swot analysis 

Writing your Pdp

How to Write a Personal Development Plan

There are seven steps to writing a PDP:

Set yourself goals.

Prioritise those goals.

Set yourself deadlines for when you want to achieve them.

Recognise threats and opportunities.

Develop your skills or increase your knowledge.

Use your support network.

Measure your progress.

Using your Swot analysis to 

create your  PDP 

Using a plan will help you -

Organise your development

Improve your skills and abilities – identify areas of weakness

Learn different skills – improve on existing skills

Demonstrate that you are organised, conscientious, focused and reliable

Pdp - criteria 

1.outlined why PDPs and feedback are

important.

2. Described their strengths and weaknesses,

and set and worked towards a target

successfully; explained clearly how the

review process

supports learning.

3. has taken ownership of their PDP and has

successfully developed skills over time;

shown what they have done to improve;

given clear descriptions of how PDPs are

useful.

Create your pdp 

This needs to be handed in on Google classroom and printed by 

:18/9/2025