Personal Development Portfolio
A Personal Development Portfolio is a record you make of your achievements.
It is kept in the form of a
log in which you record your
aims and then, later, what you achieved. This is intended to
encourage you to think about your qualities, to record and demonstrate to
yourself and others what those qualities are, to take responsibility for
your own continual learning, and to gain new skills and self confidence.
Employees in a large retail chain are required to set targets for their own
achievements and log their
progress. Every year, their pay rise (if they get one) depends on achieving
the targets set and demonstrating (by the log, for example) that they have
achieved them.
Reflective Diary
A reflective diary is a form of the
personal development portfolio
which is particularly useful for students. It can have many names,
critical log is a popular one, but reflective diary is the term I
think describes it best.
A reflective diary looks forward, describes the present, and then reflects
back on what it wrote. You start it by writing about your aims. Regularly
you describe what you have done to achieve those aims. And regularly you
reflect on your aims, your achievements and your failures. As you go along
you adapt your aims and self-assess yourself.