How will you evaluate the effectiveness of a self development programme , which are the steps will you take to make more effective ?

in evaluation your success you'd have to compare it to earlier results or someone else's. But, it is seldom that a person will be bias when judging his own work, so it is better to bring a person from outside your circle and show him / her the different positions you took since you started, such as balances and performance indicators, for example, you can use bayt.com to share your results. 

Self Development Programs:

Human Skills: You can develop you human skills reasonably within short period of time. These are the basic human skills:

1.Interpersonal Skill: Make friendship with people and make you popular in the circle.

2.Communication Skill: You can look at “youtube” video and practice your communication skills in front of a mirror. Learn the techniques of communication in a meeting.

3.Team Skill: Make an effort to join a team and develop yourself through support. You may also develop you leadership role slowly while working in a team

 Professional Skill: Please try to have a recognized certification from a reputed institution. These are not very costly. You have to read materials at home or online and then take a certification examination. There are several certification courses which are highly recognized like Company Secretary(CS), Certified  Management Accountant(CMA), Chartered Institute of Supply and Procurement Certification (CIPS), and there are several other courses one can find according to his academic background.

 To judge effectiveness: You can look at the mirror after one year and think what you have attained. Or you can have a mentor/friend who could provide you feedback time to time.

1. Set up KPI's before implementing the plan
2. Have realistic tools to measure progress
3. Evaluate end results against earlier hypothesis

The direct answer is to measure the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) have been set.  Let’s make the leap as What might it look like to apply key performance indicators to every day life? What KPI will indicate that you are successfully pursuing your vision and strategy?

·         How many KPIs should you have? (Enough, but not too many!)

·         How often should you measure?

·         Who is accountable for the KPI? (Asked if you have an assistant.)

·         How complex should the KPI be? (As simple as possible! Too hard and you might stop measuring it.)

·         What should you use as a benchmark?

·         How do you ensure the KPI reflects strategic drivers for success? (Ask the questions from the previous section at least every 6 months.)

·         How could the KPIs be cheated, and how will you guard against this?

Development plan evaluations could be undertaken using the below;

1 A cross-referencing of the development plan number.

2 A description of the development work undertaken.

3 An outcome in the form of yes or no to its achievement.

4 The date that this was achieved so you can map this against the time frames on the development plan.

5 An evaluation of the activity that was undertaken.

the most effective and impartial way is to set up measurable, evaluable criteria for self progress assessment. The list of improvement indicators should not be extremely excessive and should be achievable. The intermediate control period should be also set up to have the time to analyze what's going wrong and what should be accelerated. 

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Totally agree with Mr. Fazlur's answer

I think that you must be more motives to applied any self developed like training course or academic certificates then to begin with, what should you be looking for in your evaluations?

1-    Did training delivered to you as planned, on time and to the appointed audience?

2-    Which training methods worked with which topics and which audience groups?

3-    What specific problems occurred?

4-    How effective was the trainer at engaging the audience and conveying information?

5-    How did the training affect employee performance?

6-    Did the training satisfy regulatory and legal requirements?

7-    Were all stated goals reached? If not, why not?

I agree with the rest answer

Over recent years, the development of strategies in schools and colleges to support individual student needs and encourage autonomous learning has influenced the work of most teachers and tutors. Personal Development Plans (PDPs) draw on good practice in careers guidance and on many of the educational initiatives introduced over the past decade, particularly, Records of Achievement (RoAs) and the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI). The focus of PDPs is a dialogue between student and tutor which clarifies choices, identifies goals and plans appropriate actions. This process aims to raise personal understanding and motivation and, ultimately, school effectiveness.

At our place there called the Performance Appraisal or Key Performance Indicator . This is what will determine the clear benchmark for every employee in all lines department . The need for evaluation of the final results for the reward or the need for employees to do up grade skills training or management training , and other capacity so that all employees can be improved and more effective and efficient