After a spate of illness lasting the last week and after a week Trip to New York City, Its time for a serious catch up in work quantity and quality starting with a new, February Half Term PDP, updating it up to todays standard.
So here goes...
Personal Development plan review
Name: Samuel Spencer
Date: 16/02/11
No New Academic Qualifications
Notes:
Verbal Communication in a Group has improved with more group conversations and brainstorming sessions so this can stay at a 4. I am beginning to write technical reports so this will be improving recently so this can go up to a 2. My Time Management has near enough stayed as it was with deadlines still being met and other work handed in also. My Presentation skills have improved to a 5 as I think I am fully competent now of making a presentation and showing it to others including large groups. |
Skills and attributes (score: 1 = no skill, 5 = fully developed)
Skill | Score | Development activity | Target |
Verbal Communication in Front of a Group | 4 | Be more active in class discussions. | |
Technical Reports | 2 | Learn to write technical reports and build on that. | |
Time Management | 4 | Ensure coursework deadlines are met | |
Presentation skills | 5 | Make better presentations and organise my work more. |
Old Targets:
Target | By when |
Become A QAI | April ‘11 |
Learn to Drive | May ‘11 |
Get Promoted at ATC | March ‘11 |
PASS EXAMS! | July ‘11 |
Comments:
Becoming a QAI is coming ever closer after the weekend missed in November due to heavy snowfall, I only now have to catch up on one weekend which has been sceduled early April, but other than that only 3 weekends left so i'm more than halfway towards that, I just need to write a 2000 word report on a subject of my choice out of a list of 7 given topics, and I need to learn to Juggle, This is to show that I am capable of improvement and able to learn through teaching methods (Long story behind this, which I won't go into now)
Learning to Drive is proving taxing at the moment as my instructor has cancelled 3 lessons over the past 3 weeks (One week being my trip to New York) meaning I have had a three week period between lessons which isn't very beneficial to me so I have had to change Instructors and so far am getting along nicely with them.
Getting promoted at ATC seems to be getting ever so far away after recent January Promotions where someone else was promoted instead of me (Even though they didn't deserve it...) Purely because of a personality clash between me and one of the staff... Because apparently it works like this: Uniform > Experience. And to be honest, which is more beneficial to newer cadets? Teaching valuable information to cadets or just having their uniform nice... Another factor in this is my CO who won't take any ideas into account or listen to any reasoning, including showing me why he promoted the other benefactor by showing me three lists of names (Which evidently were old considering one of the ranks on this list hadn't been used since September...) And these lists, to be honest looked like a child had found the MS Word templates and made it in three minutes but... Rant over about that, i'm just a little bit bitter is all, Therefore i'm moving this date back to June '11...
Pass Exams I am still not able to do this as I don't organise the exam times or dates...
So New targets are as Follows:
Target | By when |
Become A QAI | April ‘11 |
Learn to Drive | May ‘11 |
Get Promoted at ATC | June ‘11 |
PASS EXAMS! | July ‘11 |
And Now the dates are in Chronological order!
So ending on that high note, see you next Half-Term,
Peace Out!
