A look back

It has been almost two years since I have started learning PPD. At the very first, since this is a non GPA subject, I honestly did not pay much attention, but after doing few activities, I started to like this, maybe a little bit better than some of the boring theory lectures. It did not take me much time to realize that having a good academic knowledge is not the only important thing that matters in your life or career. Your skills and most importantly your attitudes do matter too. PPD was the place for me where I improved myself a lot.
Among the many things I have learnt, PPD taught us to,

• be creative
• be a strategic thinker
• identify our own strengths and weaknesses
• identify our life goals and work hard to achieve them
• be a team leader
• work as a team, negotiate with others and to listen to other people
• how to manage our time
• how to work under stress
• improve our presentation skills
• work with different people and to respect each one's ideas
• how to take immediate decisions
• how to behave in a situation
• how to make a proper CV
• how to face an interview
• how to be a better person and many more

The above mentioned ones are just a few things among many others that I have learnt in PPD. Overall, PPD taught me to be a better person attitude-wise as well as skill-wise. It helped me a lot to improve my personality. Another one of the many important things it has taught me is to be a dreamer, and to work hard to achieve those dreams. This subject also helped me a lot to identify people, interact with people and be socialize among them. It taught me to look at something with different angles of views and to understand a situation better.

I believe it is important to have such a subject included in all the undergraduates' time table. I have gained many things to my life and thank you very much to all the lecturers and facilitators for giving us such a wonderful opportunity. It was not just another subject to me, it was a place which taught so many life lessons as well as a place we had fun and enjoyed ourselves.

Intro to PPD

PPD which stands for Personal Progress Development, is a newly emerged field introduced to help university undergraduates to develop themselves for the better good and to help them adjusting to the corporate world.

It helps you to develop yourself  physically, mentally, socially, emotionally and spiritually as well. Personal progress development is typically the piece to the puzzle we do not give enough attention to when it comes to our overall well-being. Your personality, the inner workings of who you are, play a major role in creating a happy and successful life style.

"Personal Development is the conscious choice to improve one's life to become a better person and to grow as an individual"

                                                                    - http://graphologist.org

• To demonstrate understanding of  aspects of good leadership.
• To demonstrate understanding of the importance of team work in organizations and need to align/manage interests and efforts of diverse groups to meet organizational objectives
• To demonstrate improved levels of communication, leadership and team capabilities.
• to demonstrate improves levels of professional attributes essential for success in the global business environment.

Why do we really need PPD???

Before that, let's watch a video about what people say about Personal Progress Development!

PPD enables you to make the most of the hours given to you. Committing to personal development leads you to develop and maximize all of your potentials, experience as many things as possible on this beautiful planet and leave a visible legacy for generations to come. When you start improving yourself, you actually wake up and go from only existing to actually living your life.








This can be done using several set of activities, methods, programs, tools, techniques and assessment systems that support personal development. There are so many indoor and outdoor activities which can be used to improve your team building skills, leadership skills, communication skills and social interacting skills. There are speaking activities you can do to get rid of your stage fright.

There are so many benefits one can get through PPD.

You'd be able to improve your personality.

It'd help to develop your leadership skills, team building skills, communication & presentation skills, and lot more.

You'd learn how to set your personal goals and how to achieve them.

You'd learn about personal grooming & etiquette.

It'd enhance your sensitivity to physical environment

Fighting for the good life always starts with changing and improving yourself. With finding ways of how you can do things better, how you can do things differently and get better results. It begins with you challenging your beliefs and convictions, exchanging your bad habits with good ones, and developing personality traits like self- confidence, self-discipline and resilience.

So let's do PPD and make ourselves better!