Know about PPD

What is PPD??

PPD means Personal Progress Development.

PPD covers activities that improve our softskills.Such as 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.

The phrase ‘soft skills’ is often used to describe the skills which characterize relationships with other people, or which are about how you approach life and work.


What are the Most Important Soft Skills?

It’s hard to judge which soft skills are most important, but this list is soft skills and the skills which are most likely to enable you to build constructive working relationships with others, or to be a constructive and helpful employee.


1. Communication Skills

Communication skills are always top of the ‘essential skills’ list in any job advertisement. People with strong communication skills can build relationships ,listen well, and vary their communication to suit the circumstances.


2.  Making Decisions

Valued by employers for many reasons, being able to make decisions is key to getting on in life. Sometimes the actual decision doesn’t even matter; what matters is that you have made one and moved on.


3. Self-Motivation


People who are self-motivated get on by themselves. They don’t need close supervision and they are good to work with because they are generally positive about life and can be counted upon to keep going. It also helps to work on your personal resilience and adaptability to change.


4. Leadership Skills

These are the set of soft skills that we least expect someone to develop by themselves.



5. Team-Working Skills

 There is also plenty of thinking to suggest that good communication skills, particularly good listening skills, together with an ability to build rapport will go a long way to support your ability to work well in a team.


6. Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills


Creativity and problem-solving skills are highly valued because they are hard to develop. There are many people who believe that creative thinkers are born, not made, and there are certainly some people who find these skills much easier.


7. Time Management and ability to work under pressure


Many would say that these two skills, which often go together, are more an attitude than a skill. However, they can also be developed and honed, which is why we include them as skills. Highly valued by employers, they are also very useful for organizing a family or a team, and for making sure that the job gets done.

How to Improve Soft Skills

1.     Developing Your Communication Skills

•          Aim to be understood

•          Make eye contact.

•          Monitor your body language

•          Practice speaking

•          Develop your writing skills.

•          Pay attention to the other person's body  language

2.     Strengthening Interpersonal Relationships

•          Build relationships

•          Be friendly with colleagues

•        Network with people inside and                      outside your organization

•          Practice leading

3.     Demonstrating Enthusiasm and Ingenuity

•          Take initiative

•          Do tasks without being asked by                       someone else

•          Seek more challenging work

•          Improve your problem-solving skills

•          Boost your creativity

Through out the PPD activities we can able to get all these personality and develop our softskills.