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Personal Development: Assessment

Personal development involves activities that help individuals improve themselves, realize their potential, and achieve their goals and dreams. It can occur throughout a person's life and includes both formal and informal processes of developing skills and talents. Personal development also involves helping to develop other people through roles like teaching or mentoring. It is considered both a field of practice, including various methods and programs, and a field of research appearing in academic journals. For personal development to be validated, frameworks with goals, strategies, assessments, and feedback are often used to measure objective improvement.

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Personal Development: Assessment

Personal development involves activities that help individuals improve themselves, realize their potential, and achieve their goals and dreams. It can occur throughout a person's life and includes both formal and informal processes of developing skills and talents. Personal development also involves helping to develop other people through roles like teaching or mentoring. It is considered both a field of practice, including various methods and programs, and a field of research appearing in academic journals. For personal development to be validated, frameworks with goals, strategies, assessments, and feedback are often used to measure objective improvement.

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Personal development

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Personal development covers activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and
potential, build human capital and facilitate employability, 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.[1] 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.[2]
Personal development can also include developing other people. This may take place through roles such
as those of a teacher or mentor, either through a personal competency (such as the alleged skill of
certain managers in developing the potential of employees) or through a professional service (such as
providing training, assessment or coaching).
Beyond improving oneself and developing others, "personal development" labels a field of practice and
research:

 As a field of practice, personal development includes personal-development methods, learning


programs, assessment systems, tools, and techniques.
 As a field of research, personal-development topics appear in psychology
journals, education research, management journals and books, and human-
developmenteconomics.
Any sort of development—whether economic, political, biological, organisational or personal—requires
a framework if one wishes to know whether a change has actually occurred.[3][need quotation to verify] In the case
of personal development, an individual often functions as the primary judge of improvement or of
regression, but validation of objective improvement requires assessment using standard criteria.
Personal-development frameworks may include:

 goals or benchmarks that define the end-points


 strategies or plans for reaching goals
 measurement and assessment of progress, levels or stages that define milestones along
a development path
 a feedback system to provide information on changes

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