Looks Back

This is the end of another year in university . It was the second year I spent at the university. I got lot of  things that I learn during the year.

As a Software Engineering student like to use laptop always. So some essential things I missed.But I gather some from PPd. PPd showed me to the way.

In our PPd session we had a new activity in every week. So Thankful to Madam Sarasi to give us memoryful thing in every week. We had some interesting activities such as making paper rockets,How to write cv,story writing, expertise, self reflaction, trust walk etc.

As well as we got a real experience in WSO2. There was a session of explaining about the technical writing. It was really helpful for our carrier life. And there was a session about emerging new technology trends as well. It also very useful.

From all sessions during the year, I got lot of things to my  life. So thanks again Madam Sarasi to her guidence for us.

Trust Walk

         In one of PPd session, We did that amazing activity called "Trust Walk".The Trust Walk Activity is an effective team building activity involving leadership and building trust, as blindfolded participants must rely on instructions given to them in order to avoid various obstacles.

When we done it as follows.This is a pair activity. We were asked to find a partner. Madam told us to cover the eyes of the partner. The other one in pair can give instructions to the  partner about the things, paths, and turn etc. Both of players in team played the role of a listener and an instructor. This activity had two rounds where the listener of the first round became the instructor in the second round.

        I think we got following advantages in doing this activity.

• Communication
• Creative thinking
• Leadership
• Risk awareness
• Trust 

How to write CV

         CV is an abbreviation for Curriculum Vitae. If a job advertisement asks for a CV, that's a hint that the employer expects a great deal of life experience and accomplishments, including education, original research, presentations.

       These are the best topics to include your CVs.

• Picture: Your good looking photo but it's not a fancy one.

• Contact Information: At the top of your CV, include your name and contact information (address, phone number, email address, etc.). Outside of the US, many CVs include even more personal information, such as gender, date of birth, marital status, and even names of children. Unless you are applying to a job outside of the United States, there's no need to include that information.

• Education: This may include college and graduate study. Include the school attended, dates of study, and degree received.
• Honors and Awards: Feel free to list your dean's list standings, departmental awards, scholarships, fellowships, and membership in any honors associations.

• Thesis/Dissertation: Include your thesis or dissertation title. You may also include a brief sentence or two on your paper, and/or the name of your advisor.

• Research Experience: List any research experience you have, including where you worked, when, and with whom. Include any publications resulting from your research.

• Work Experience: List relevant work experience, including non-academic work that you feel is related. List the employer, position, and dates of employment. Include a brief list of your duties and/or accomplishments.

• Skills: List any relevant skills you have not yet mentioned so far, like language skills, computer skills, administrative skills, etc.

• Publications and Presentations: List any publications you have written, co-written, or contributed to. Include all necessary bibliographic information. You should also include any pieces you are currently working on. Include papers you presented at conferences and/or associations: list the name of the paper, the conference name and location, and the date.

• Professional Memberships: List any professional associations to which you belong. If you are a board member of the association, list your title.

• Extracurricular Activities: Include any volunteer or service work you have done, as well as any clubs or organizations to which you have belonged. You can also include any study abroad experiences here if you have not already mentioned them.

Self Reflction

         Self Reflection is time spent in analyzing our own character and beliefs. As we go through our busy lives, we seldom spend time trying to understand our various actions. Self Reflection is a solution to enrich us and give a deeper meaning to our life.

Benifits of self reflection

1. Strengthening Emotional Intelligence

When taking time to self-reflect you are looking inwards. This helps to build two components to emotional intelligence: self-awareness and self-regulation. Self awareness gives you the ability to understand your emotions, strengths, weaknesses, drives, values and goals, and recognize their impact on others. Self-regulation involves the ability to control or redirect your disruptive emotions and impulses and adapt to changing circumstances. Building these skills will improve both your personal life and professional role as a leader.

2. Acting With Integrity

Becoming clear on your core values will help to strengthen your integrity and lead you to better decisions. Our integrity is often put to the test during stressful times. Taking time to review your key decisions and actions in the recent past and evaluating them against your core values is critical to acting with integrity. Doing this consistently can solidify your values and make the decision making process easier in the future.

3.  Being More Confident

Confidence is crucial for managing a busy, complex life that includes meeting career, family, community and self needs. It helps in effective communications, decision-making, and influence building. The more your reflect on your strengths and how you can build upon them the more confident you will be in the future.  We become more confident in where our strengths lie and how to close the gaps in our areas of weakness.

       Also tthat day our PPd lecturer Madam Sarasi told us to do some curricular activities in our free time to gain above benifits. 

Story Writting

          In this week we got a new activity from Madam Sarasi. First we were divided into 3 groups and asked to face back to the white board.A marker pen was given for every group and we should write a story but a group member can only write one word at a time. 

         One by one in a group went to the board and write the story. There were four rounds. 

         After all rounds completed, we read story when we wrote in board. But after our madam explained about how communication matters to a work, we realized what was wrong with the stories. It was an amazing activity for us.

Emerging Technology Trends

      In this ppd session , We had a very important industry session. It was based on Emerging Technology Trends. The session was conducted by Senior Software engineer at WSO2.
     It was the very important session for us.Because of the new technologies recently come to the it industry. So we can update our knowledge about new trends using in current days
     It was very important session for us.

Expertise

Also we got an amazing experience doing activitiew every in our PPd session. This is the one of experience is the expertise.

Firstly, we divided into four groups with six members.Madam sarasi asked to pick three expertise areas of group members and come up with a product can be implemented our expertise areas.

We work with it is really difficult to find people with same ideas, same talents etc.So we got problems talking with each other.

Our teams come up with product ideas then presented it.

• Team 1

               Areas: Taekwondo, Painting, Gaming
               Product: Taekwondo video game       

• Team 2

              Areas: Cricket, Painting, Gamimg
              Product: Cricket video game

• Team 3                

                Areas: Handmade things, Bike riding, Reading

                Product: Eye glass cover

• Team 4          

               Areas: Gaming, Chess, Painting
               Product: Chess video game

Technical Writting @ WSO2

       We  had a interesting session on 12th of september. It was the second year batch of software engineering participated "technical writing" session at WSO2 .It was the first time, I visited to the WSO2. WSO2 is the one of the leading software company in SriLanka.

     Before attended, I don't know What is the technical writting or any job position available for writer for it industry. They clearly explained about technical writing and technical writers. Then, we were learned some English grammar parts.After that we had some exercises to correct the sentences.

Then we had a competition and it was a group activity.It was the write a user manual for a user who wants to withdrawal 1500 rupees from an ATM. They selected a winning team who wrote it very well.

     After the that we got refreshments and then there was a fun activity. It was also a group activity. In the fun activity we had to think about an object and write four sentences described it. Actually it was very fun. The winning team of this game also was given a gift.

By the time, we reached the end of the session and lastly we had some photographs with the team. It was very interesting session and we learnt so many new things.

  

How to face an interview

After long period of semester finally, we had an important session in ppd lecture.It is How to face a interview.It is very important us to face interview in coming year.Interview is very easy use this following steps.

1. Know The Company

This goes without saying! This is what any employer expects from you and they aren’t wrong! Research well about the company you are applying for and know their aim, mission, vision, values and functions. Using this information in your answers will create the right impression in front of your employer. The research is the first and foremost task that you need to do before appearing in any interview.

2. The Introduction of yourself

‘Tell me about yourself’ is every employers favorite question! So be confident in your approach while you tell them about yourself.

3. What Can You Offer?

Thoroughly know the job title you are applying for, the responsibilities and why you are fit for the job. Remember a wide specturm of opportunities awaits you. so, for every point that you make, try to have an instance where you have used that quality.

4. Act Confident Without Hesitation

This can be quite a task considering it’s the first time you are sitting for an interview but you have to pull off this lie. You have to act confident and make the employer feel that you have it all together and perfectly fit the job. Only confidence can get you there without much hassle.

5. Never Lie In Your Resume

Lying can backfire! The person sitting in front of you has ample experience of interviews and can easily know when you are faking it. So keep it real and only write in your CV, what you have actually achieved.

6. Dress Well

 "Job interview prepration" is not as formidable as it sounds. No one can stress enough on the fact that in case of an interview, ‘The first impression is the last impression.’ Put on your best clothes (formal of course!) and look neat when going for an interview for the first time or otherwise.

7. Have Your Questions Ready

Be observant and notice what’s going around you. Once the interviewer is done asking you questions, it is going to be your turn. Return the favor! Ask if you have any questions about the company and the role they are offering you. Just make sure they don’t come across as offensive or rude.

8. Be Eager To Learn

It’s okay to not know everything! If you get stuck on some questions and don’t know what to say, politely let the interviewer know. But also make it a point to ask what the answer was once they are done with all the questions. This shows your eagerness to learn, which is often considered useful from an employer point of view.

9. Deep Breathe

More than anything else, it’s the anxiety that ruins most interviews. Just before entering the room, take a few deep breaths and relax your nerves. Trust me, It always helps!

10. Thank You Mail

Whether or not you are hired, make sure you send the employer a thank you mail after the interview telling them how glad you are to get this opportunity and how you hope to get selected for the same.

So get going and all the best for your job interview preparation!

Plane Rocket

First time in new academic year ,Madam Sarasi announced a new task to do. It is not more challenging one.. but it remembers our childhood.Madam Sarasi divided us into two groups each group have eight or nine.

 

Then said make paper rocket and She gave us six colored A4 sheets. One team got blue A4 sheets and other group got yellow one.Then we had decided which size paper rocket may be occured to fly over the boundary.
So we can make maximum number of rockets using A4 sheets. 

Then Madam gave us a line on the ground and challenged us to send all the rockets over the line.
The outcomes of this task are get ideas from others ,time mangement and use of limited resources. we learn things that helps us to improve our soft qualities

Finally....

When I was came to University , I don't know about we have a session to improve our skills. I think we work  only with computers but my thought is a wrong one. After the attending university ,i know about the subject called PPD (Personal Progress Development). In first day , we think this is unnecessory thing to us  and also this is time wasting thing. After few session we can understand  values of this session.  We enjoy some of PPD activities 

I think , i gained from PPD session is blog post writing. I didn't write any blog post before coming university. But  in this session, I know How to create a blog, How to write a blog page and also how to maintain it. Also we can know about some HTML coding methods. After the blog creation, We wrote every activities doing in PPD session as a blog post .

These following  activities we did in PPD session. We gained Leadership qualities, Communication skills, Decision making talents, Creativity, Planing skills, Public speaking, Presentation skills, Time management, Team work and etc. These are the essential things to our future life.

 ** My first Blog post is "What is PPD ?.. ".I search that in Internet and write it. Also I include importance of this session in that heading . But i don't think , we can gain that importance in this session. but it is a wrong thought .In now i know the importance of that one.

 ** Second blog post is "Paper tower challenge..".  Madam Sarasi said us to built a tower using paper .Madam gave us to papers to build that one. Winners of this activity who  built the tallest tower .We gained importance of proper plan and how to work in a team.

 ** Third blog topic is "What we learnt from PPD Session".Briefly introduction of importance of PPD session .Get information using  Internet .

 ** Fourth blog post is "University of Kelaniya". That day we go arround the university and take photos. After that we give introductions about that places in the blog post.In this session I also know about the some places in university before i didn't go.

 ** Fifth blog post is  "Lava river challenge & Stand on  Paper".Lava river challenge is ,we have to cross the lava river by using paper plates. We coldn't put legs  without plates in river and we must keep all the paper plates with human touch .We loss the human touch, we will loss that plate.It is team game .We learnt from that How imporatance of planning,How to work with a team.

Stand of paper game is everyone in the team to keep their feet on the paper and have no part of their body touching the floor.The whole group should stand on the paper to the command without standing out of the paper. After the well finish, the paper would be folded into half and again doing the game. The game continues for few rounds until all groups fails.

 ** The sixth blog post  is "Life goals ". It is  a mind map about "Life Goals". We make a mind map on our future goals under three categories. We do a presentation about it. This activity we clearly know about the future goals .

 ** Final blog post  is "Out Bounding training at Naval Camp....".  We went to the Naval and Maritime Academy in Trincomalee for two days. First day we do some activities ,fire camp and  a talent show. Second day we go through the forest and visited the Navy Museum.

Out Bounding training at Naval Camp....

PPD lecturer Ms. Sarasi had organised a new event for both batch of software engineering students studied in University of Kelaniya. It was a out bound training program. I think 70 of students participated that in both batch and 3 of academic staff including with Madam Sarasi.We started to go to Naval and Maritime Academy in Trincomalee to get new experience at about 3.00am in University of Kelaniya. We had our breakfast on the way.We got a batch photo near a tank on the way.  We reached  the main gate of Navy Camp-Trincomalee at  about 10 a.m.First they gave us place to  change our clothes suitable for activities that we are doing in their.After that we got our lunch in  Naval Institute.Then A one of naval officer introduced about the program very briefly. We were separated into four groups to start our program.They gave name for each group. I was in group "Bravo".

As our first activity ,we had to go through a wood frame without any touching in one side to other side. It can participate only 8 members on a group. Seven members of the our group sucessfully did that task.

In our second activity ,Ten people from the group were participate in this game.One is the leader and other nine are the players .In this task we had a pass a small teak ball through a small pipe in leader's order. There was a destination to where the teak ball  should be passed.But our group could not reach the final line within the time that naval officers  gave us.

As our third activity , They gave us a plastic pipe with some holes. We have to fill that pipe. It was the funniest game ever i was seen. We had to close one open end by keep that on one of our team members stomach. After  we can close other holes by other team member's hand and we have to fill that by carrying water from sea by our hands and mouth.Our team completed the task with a least time. 

In our fourth activity,It was  volley ball game but something different.We had to pass the volleyball one side to another side using  by  "cama" .Four of the members of group pass the ball in leaders order and another member caught that in other side. It is not hard one burt different.

as our last activity , Itwas a tug-o-war. Though it was a common game. but it was very difficult in beach side.

All these task, We learn How to work with team, How to do something in leader's order, What is the importance of comunicate with others .

At about  6.00 pm we return to accommodation place  and get ready for dinner in formal dress. After that we returned the same place and make a camp fire and do some activities like drama,singing songs and dance.after that we had our dinner and returned to the accommodation place.

In our secand day at Naval and Maritime Academy .

As the first day we were divided into four groups. Then the task was go through the forest by using compass and map. We start that session also leader's order. They taught us how to face unexpected situations can be happened in the jungle. At the destination we had our tea in beautiful beach side.

After that task we went to see  Naval Museum.We can also get a knowleadge of boats and their technology in this place. also we got information about importance of trincomalee. In this session we also could see LTTE terrorist's boats and their own technology and other thing use in a war. We got our lunch in their and we finished our training session.After that we came back to University of Kelaniya at about 12.00 pm. 

We got nice experience in that session. Also I  thanks for all of the Naval Officers and Madam Sarasi to supply  new experience for us...

Life Goals

As usual in our PPD session ,Madam Sarasi gave us new task .She said us design a clearly description of our living goal in a bristle board which she gave us.So we first divide our goals into three main categories.. 

1. Personal goal
2. Academic goal
3. Professional goal

Under these categories we designed our goals in board she gave us . Also we presented it in front of the my batch mates and madam Sarasi . My goals are,

Academic goal

• Within for years complete my Software Engineering  degree in University of Kelaniya with a class.
• Within my university time will get a Diploma in Computer Networking and robotics.
• Improve my knowledge in computer field .

Personal goal

• Love to travel two or three countries.
• Buy a car in my own money .
• Look after my family members well .

Professional goal

• Got a job in  Company and get experience how to work there
• After got experience join a large company which has big brand name in our field

barter puzzle

Last PPD session was an enjoyable session for us. First we were divided in to 3 groups by madam Sarasi. She was given a three pictures for three groups.We remember that picture.Then Madam said to  leader to tear it in to 100 pieces. Then madam Sarasi took 10 pieces from each group and mixed them all and divided them into three groups. We had to make the picture with a given 45 minute by using pieces of picture . 

 

So we decided to divide our group into subgroups to remake the picture. A one sub group solve front part, another sub group solve the bottom part, and other sub group solve the middle part. We search missing pieces in other group's pieces and exchange their missing one.

All team failed to win this session. but we learnt more from this activity. Some of them are , How to work with team , How to work with other teams , How to  do something within given time , etc..

Lava River Challenge & Stand on Paper

Doing this activity. We can get theses learning outcomes.

• problem solving skill
• communication skill
• leadership
• cooperation

Lava River

First we were devided in to 3 groups and one group had 8 members.Four plates were given to one team to play this game.We should cross the Lava River by using the given plates.So we can't touch the lava river.plates can't placed without human/part of the human on it. If any tile stayed without human touch it will be taken out.Any number of members can go any number of time across the river.

If we lost the human touch of the plate, that plate will be taken. The group that crosses the river in the minimum time will win the game.Those who did this minimum time. They called as winners.

Stand on Paper

We were provided by a paper.The objective of the game was for everyone to keep their feet on the paper and have no part of their body touching the floor.The whole group should stand on the paper to the command without standing out of the paper. After the well finish, the paper would be folded into half and again doing the game. The game continues for few rounds until all groups fails.

University of Keaniya

The University of Kelaniya is a state university of Sri Lanka.It is situated in Dalugama,Kelaniya.The University consists of 7 Faculties and 50 Departments.
Faculties are:

• Humanities
• Social science
• Science
• Commerce and management 
• Graduate studies
• Computing and technology 

Today I am going to show you information about some places in university of kelaniya.

1.  Medical center 
2.  Library 
3.  Faculty of science 
4.  Dharmaloka hall 
5.  Main play ground

 Medical center 

It is situated in front of faculty of management and it is near to faculty of computing.The university health service is organized to help the students of the university to lead an active life free from diseases.This service mainly for students,but staff both academic and non-academic can make use of the service.it is one of important unit in university.It has two units. They are western medical and ayurvedic unit.

Library

 It is situated behind the administrator.It is very important for students to improve academic and non academic things.The library was located in several places and finally moved to its present building in 1977.The present library collection encompasses over 230,000 books pertaining to various academic disciplines ranging from Archaeology to Zoology and subscriptions to about 150 academic journals. Further, the library provides electronic access to full- text databases through the terminals located in the Library.

Faculty of science 

Faculty of science in the university of Kelaniya was started in 1967 .It can be seen from the main road which is situated in the left side of the Kelani kanda. It provides education for many undergraduates with maximum effort.When we enter through the main entrance of the faculty we can see the science faculty building which consist with the dean office also.Then we can see the main ground which helps to improve lots of hidden abilities of the undergraduates.Then we can see cthe Dharmaloka hall.When we pass the Dharmaloka hall ,the IT center is in the right side
.

Dharmaloka Hall
It is situated behind the ground.We called it to 'DH'.We use it to functions and some other things. 

 Main play ground

It is situated in faculty of science premises.it is a very big playground.it has a huge boundary wall.we use the playground for our physical training exercises and drills.We also play many games like football, cricket, baseball, rugby, hokey etc.our university annual sports meet is held on our playground.we learn all types of games and sports with discipline and sportsmanship here.I am proud of my university main play ground.

What we learnt from PPD Session

In My first topic I should talk about What is PPD..Now i mention about What i learnt from PPD session in our university life..
I think you also know about What is PPD?

PPD means : aims to encourage an individual to become more self-aware and self-reliant and pay attention to their overall growth while planning for the future. Personal development plans can be applied to a wide range of contexts involving a career, education, relationship or for self improvement..

We can improve our communication skills, team work, creativity and etc in this PPD session and we can get many goals and actions  in this session.Some of them are measurable, achievable, relevant ,time related,and desicion making.They are very useful for building our personality.

We improve our communication progress

We got chance to communicate with our friends in English. Because there are some Tamil and Foriegn students in our batch who can't speak sinhala.so we have to communicate in English with them in our PPD session. Also madam told us dont use sinhala in our PPd session and always talk with others using in English.Then we can improve our knowledge of English and how to communicate with others.

We improve our team working progress 

 In this session, we can build up good relationship between others. It is the best thing i get to my life .we do a drama,and paper tower challenge as a group work.We try to respect others and their ideas.we can improve our creativity and thinking. Also I learnt how to respect others idea and its valuable.

This is if we can get goals and actions in PPD Session..

Measurable  :  We need to know when we have succeeded. Therefore outline as precisely as possible what skills and knowledge wewill have acquired have when we have achieved your goal.

Achievable  :  The goal should be achievable and within our capacity and constraints. we should not set ourself goals that are impossible or unrealistic to achieve.

Relevant   :  think to ourself, are these the right goals? Will they help we get to where we want to be?

Time related   :  ealistically consider how much time do we need to achieve our goal? Some goals can be achieved in the short-term, some may take a long time to achieve. Setting time related goals will be helpful in organising our time effectively and breaking down the goal to smaller elements. With long term goals milestones are extremely important to keep we motivated to achieve our longer term goal.

We can get many benifits in PPD session.. Some of them are mentioned in above the post..
Some are,

• A better understanding of ourself and how we know ourself.
• Being in a better position to make appropriate choices to meet our aspirations.
• Greater awareness of our needs and how to meet these.
• Greater awareness of the unique contribution we can make.
• Gaining a clearer focus to our learning.
• Helping to keep our self motivated.
• A better understanding of how we learn and how to improve our performance.
• More enjoyment and less stress from our learning as we become consciously skilled.
• More awareness of how to apply our learning to new problems and contexts.
• Reflective thinking skills that can strengthen academic performance.
• Clearer ideas about the kind of life and work we want.
• Greater confidence in the choices we make.
• Greater confidence in the skills, qualities and attributes we bring to the career of our choice.
• Being in a better position to compete for jobs.
• Being better able to discuss your skills, personal qualities and competences with employers.
• Better problem-solving and planning skills.
• Developing the positive attitudes and approaches associated with successful professional life.

Some of them are mentioned .. It 's not all .. We can get many advantages in this PPD session.. 

Paper Tower Challenge

According to my point of view , We done it in our PPD session. It is not a game. It is a marvelous challenge for Se guys. It is a group activity which can be develop our soft skills without get in academic career .Leadership skill, Speaking skill in others, time management and thinking skills are some of them.

…Definition about paper tower challenge…

First, all of se guys divided by three groups by counting.in this challenge. We were provided a gum tape twelve papers and a pair of scissors. Then, the tower that we built in the given place outside of the class. Then we have to build the tallest tower use in papers within the given 45 minutes. Madam Sarasi told us discuss with guys in group to how to do that and make a plan for it .Madam gave marks for the height, balance and rigidity of the tower. All of us went outside and started to make the tower. Madam Sarasi told us don't use “Sinhala”  to speak. She wants to improve our speaking ability in English. She walked from group to group watching our work and reminding to speak in English. Finally all our groups make towers which were able to stand on the ground.

…Problems that occurred & way of solving…

We were building the tower. Tower was increasing its height eventually. After increasing the height of the tower for sometimes, we noted a problem of the tower. It was bending towards the earth. We discussed each other and identified the issue. It was a simple theory. The weight point of the tower is growing up because of the height of the tower. We thought about that and got through it with a solution.  We added four legs to the tower and the legs were more heavy than the tower. We got the weight point down with the help of this method. We made a small thing to fix at the top of the tower, but unfortunately we were unable to fix it because of the balance problem and lack of time. We worked hard to our paper tower challenge in to a successful one.

We clasped our responsibilities to get more advantages from the limited time. We focused on our own task and got it very deeply and made a early plan about the process of the job. When we face the problem of balance losing we discussed about it selected the most successful and most quick solution and implement it as soon as possible. Unfortunately, we can’t do our best.

…To our life through…

We got many tips from this task to our life. The main thing is listening to the leader and following him. Listening to the other members is also main thing I got to my life. We were able to make our job more creative with it. Thinking creatively is also a good thing I added to my life. I learnt that early preparing for a task is also a good habit. The awareness of deadlines is also helped us to make our challenge successful.

What is PPD..?

• P=Personal
• P=Progress
• D=Development

Definition of Personal Progress Development

Personal progress development (PPD): aims to encourage an individual to become more self-aware and self-reliant and pay attention to their overall growth while planning for the future. Personal development plans can be applied to a wide range of contexts involving a career, education, relationship or for self-improvement..

Why we need PPD?

It has been recognised that we need structured opportunities to think about, and plan towards, our future. The exact content really depends on us. How much of your time do we want to give now to planning our future?

• PPD will encourage, we to make the most of our opportunities  to development of our skills, knowledge and experiences.
• To plan our personal, educational and career development
• To encourage us to develop clear ideas about future directions after University.

A Process of Personal Development

Development progress can be a very personal process or it can be a process required by our employer or tutor. As the word “development” suggests, PPD is something which takes place during our time at University and work place.

• Think deeply and in structured ways about our life and ambitions. What does success mean to you personally?
• Have the right information to make good choices.
• Have people you can trust to share our reflections.
• Have opportunities to experiment and test ourselves in new areas so that you have a better understanding of our abilities and limits.
• Have opportunities to develop the knowledge and skills to achieve our ambitions.

We have so many benefits in our personal , educational and professional life using personal progress development.They are,

Benefits of PPD to academic performance

Some advantages of taking a PPD approach to our studies are:

• Gaining a clearer focus to our learning.
• Helping to keep our self motivated.
• A better understanding of how we learn and how to improve our performance.
• More enjoyment and less stress from our learning as we become consciously skilled.
• More awareness of how to apply our learning to new problems and contexts.
• Reflective thinking skills that can strengthen academic performance. 

Benefits of PPD to professional life 

• Clearer ideas about the kind of life and work we want.
• Greater confidence in the choices we make.
• Greater confidence in the skills, qualities and attributes we bring to the career of our choice.
• Being in a better position to compete for jobs.
• Being better able to discuss your skills, personal qualities and competences with employers.
• Better problem-solving and planning skills.
• Developing the positive attitudes and approaches associated with successful professional life.

Many employers now expect employees to understand their own performance - and to know how to adapt to meet times of increased workload, stressful situations or conditions of change. Employees are expected to respond well to change. 

Benefits of PPD to personal life

• Being in a better position to make appropriate choices to meet our aspirations.
• Greater awareness of our needs and how to meet these.
• Greater awareness of the unique contribution we can make.
• Developing a positive, forward-looking approach.