Monitoring, recording and evaluating performance developmentWhy monitor your personal development plan?

Monitoring your personal development plan is important as it:

• provides information on your progress and comparison to original data
• allows you to judge if the training programme is effective and helps you make changes
• provides valuable feedback
• improves motivation
• checks the intensity of training
• allows targets to be reset or new targets to be made if they have been met
• allows the recording and comparing of data
• identifies new strengths and weaknesses/future development needs