HR Definitions

Personal Development



What is it?
Personal development is any activity taken by an individual to allow them to reach their full potential.

Typical activities that people engage in for personal development include:

  • Undertaking a course of secondary or tertiary education
  • Attending motivational seminars
  • Reading
  • Researching specific topics
  • Working with a mentor
  • Engaging in experiential learning
  • Seeking secondments to other jobs for experience
  • Engaging in external programs such as public speaking, goal setting etc
  • Completing self assessment questionnaires to gain personal insight

HRworkbench® provides a range of tools that add value to the personal development process.

How can it be used?
Personal development is the process used to satisfy the motive to progress one's status in life.

This can be motives like:

  • Knowledge seeking
  • Altruism
  • Economic need
  • Need for power

The process is usually instigated and fully controlled by the individual.

Best Practice
Personal development is most effective when the individual has a set of specific, measurable, goals.

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