SE/2015/010 PPD

I'm a second year student of University of Kelaniya, who is currently reading Software Engineering degree. We had a course code to improve our soft skills. The subject was Personal Progress and Development, also known as PPD. It was a vert interesting session which was conducted by Ms.Sarasi. We had this session in every week for two years. Our batch had around fifty students so we are like a family. We got together and had learned many skills and gained experirence apart from academic studies by these PPD sessions. We went field trips and went to workshops so we had a great time. There are countless valuable things that we learned from PPD. Things in the sense qualities, skills, knowledge etc. Few of them are mentioned below , Team working Time management Overcome obstacles and achieving goals  Communication skills Adjusting to the changing environments Decision making & problem solving Creative thinking Improving personality and confidence Leadership skills...

We did an interesting activity on our PPD(personal progress and development) session, it was called "Trust Walk". We were instructed to find a partner for this activity. Then we went to the upper side of the lecture room with our partner. After that had to cover eyes of one of the member in a pair. We had to guide our blindfolded partner through the front of the hall to the outside e=without touching her/him. It was hard to guide because many obstacles were there including some stairs as well. When it is my turn to get blindfolded I was feeling nervous because it was scary but we had a great fun. We did our task well until the end.  We learned many good things for our life from this activity. Some of them are mentioned below, how to overcome obstacles by taking the right decision how to communicate effectively listening and obey your partner  how to build trust according to the situation how to work collaboratively to achieve a goal adjusting to t...

We learned how to write a CV in prior to internships for upcoming year. CV should not be more than 2 or 3 pages. Photograph : Right corner of the first page (optional) Personal Details : Name, address, email and telephone number Personal profile/Objective : Brief description about your aims and goals Educational qualifications : point out tour educational status up to now ex:- currently reading degree in the university, school Skills : Mention your technical and soft skills regarding your purpose of the CV soft skills - language skills, leadership, team work etc. Professional qualification : write your non-academic qualifications under this certificates, diplomas can be mentioned. Work experience :  include the name of the company and your work role as well as the duration Training and workshops : mentioned recently attended occasions only Achievements and extra curricular activities : Awards, places can be mentioned as well as sports and other external t...

In one of our PPD(Personal Progress and Development) sessions we learned about the self reflection and how to reflect ourselves. Basically self reflection is like looking into a mirror and describing what you see.It might be your inner self and appearance as well. In appearance basis we observed ourselves using the camera of our phone.I didn't catch any changes of me, because my appearance is same as before an ordinary looking university student.But apart from the appearance we observed our inner selves.We learned how to do a self reflection correctly. From my observation I identified few things of me that reflects my personality and about who am I. For example, strengths : I have a good tolerance Weaknesses : Easily hurt by others' words Achievements : Got through studies up to university Skills : I am good at aesthetics and good listener Problems : Personal things may affect my studies "Honest self reflection opens your mind to reprogrammin...