What I learn from PPD

                                 What I Learn From PPD

               Personal development covers activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital and facilitate employ ability, enhance the quality of life and contribute to the realization of dreams and aspirations. Personal development takes place over the course of a person's entire life. Not limited to self-help, the concept involves formal and informal activities for developing others in roles such as teacher, guide, counselor, manager, life coach or mentor. When personal development takes place in the context of institutions, it refers to the methods, programs, tools, techniques, and assessment systems that support human development at the individual level in organizations.

Personal Progress helps you develop values that prepare you and mold your character so that you can fulfill your divine potential.



 PPD develop and improve key academic and organizational skills needed to achieve academic goals, as well as to increase self- awareness about my own learning.

• Time Management
• Presentation Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Improving Communication Skills
• Managing Academic stress  
• Improving self-awareness
• Improving self-knowledge
• Improving skills and learning new ones
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• Developing strengths or talents
• Improving a career
• Improving wealth or social status
• Fulfilling aspirations
• Executing personal development plans
• Improving social relations
• Improving  leadership

  
                  

PAPER TOWER

PAPER TOWER

In every PPD class we are doing new things to develop and improve our soft skills. paper tower is a team work section i have done with full involvement.Miss Sarasi grouped us in to 3 and provided each team with 12 sheets of papers,a scissor,a sellotape and challenged to built a tower from papers within 40 minutes.All the groups went outside and started to make the tower.As usual our miss Sarasi didn't allow us to speak in Sinhala or Tamil as it improves our speaking ability in english.She walked from group to group observing our work and reminding us to speak in English.

WHEN WORKING IN THE TASK

At the time mam gave task we hurried up and went outside to build the tower but we didnt planned.i also dont have any plan to build only some of them got plan and started to build .we have targeted only to build highest how to make our tower more higher than others.but when we started build at some point of time all realised basement should be important.

Finally all three groups managed to make towers which were able to stand on the ground.

Miss Sarasi asked us to leave the towers for 10 minutes and then she blew at each tower to check their balance but unfortunately all the towers felt down.She gave marks for the balance,height and rigidity of the tower.

WHAT WE REALISED

When we engage in a group activity we should listen to others ideas, we should discuss and come to  a decision which might not be your idea but still you have to respect because it is the decision of the majority.We should help each other.There should be a person to lead the group.All team members must engage in the activity.And very specially we should have a plan.

If I mention about the weaknesses all the groups had no any plan at the beginning. No one discussed with the group how to make this challenge a success.We should have discussed how many papers to use at the base and to increase the height.We all only thought about increasing the height of the tower.And another thing was we didn't have a leader to guide us.The first thing we should have done after discussing was to built the basement of the tower.For all the works, first we should lay a good foundation.We should have share the work within the group to save time.All the team members should committed to the work.Communication within the team members also plays a great roll. 

We Learned

• Thinking
• Planning
• Creativity
• Decision making skills
• Work as a group
• Solve Problems
• Use common language English 
• Strategy
• Leadership

 

The roll of a team member is very important to make this kind of challenges.In future we have to work in many many people,many fields and in different environments. So we should improve our soft skills to face those.

At the end of this session we learned lot of things and best part is we enjoyed lot and chatted lot.but when we working in a work we should concentrate on the work and do the best we can. 

WHAT IS PPD?

Personal Progress Development

Personal Progress helps you develop values that prepare you and mold your character so that you can fulfill your divine potential.The potential that this professional must contain in himself to face the challenges in his field is immense. Hence he or she needs to have a progress and development in their own personality and this cannot be achieved in a fortnight.

What could the pathway include?

Your Personal Progress Pathway would include development of your understanding, skills and experience in some or all of the following areas:

• Using and developing your strengths
• Developing self-reflection and personal understanding
• Becoming more independent
• Improving communication with others
• Developing confidence and self esteem
• Understanding others
• Increasing involvement in leisure and community activities
• Accessing work experience
• Developing employability skills and understanding of careers
• Studying and gaining qualifications
• Exploring creative subjects
• Making plans linked with your goals.

The course module 'Personal Progress and Development' or simply PPD is a session that deals with the soft skills of a young professional in the making, non-academic wise.

what we get from ppd?

1. Self Confindence
2. Time Management
3. Dicision Making
4. Planning Skills
5. How to write appropriate email,letter,CV
6. How to manage stress  
7. Team Working
8. Communication Skills
9. Team Working
10. Presentation Skills

To develop that main ability and to communicate correctly and to respect our team members and to listen them, the PPD session is the most important part in our life .! 

With the session PPD we learn how to help people when they need and also we get the knowledge when people need help and what are the different ways we can help them. ppd is a good session that we can develop our personal skills with enjoyable way :)