What We Learnt From PPD

Things that we gained

PPD means personal progress development. Simply it’s like a leadership training. This session gave us lot of self confidence and lessons about how to make our decisions, how to work as a team and how to understand each other etc..

We did lots of activities during this semester with miss Sarasi. She gave us lot of confidence to do those activities. I think she is the person who behind our every successful activity.

These are some of our unforgettable activities,

This was our first activity and it is so fun. We were grouped by our lecturer and she told us to go and gather information about outside of the university as a team. This was so helpful for us to get to know each other. After that we did a presentation about what we saw and what we gained during that activity.

While we doing all these things we got lots of experience for our life. Lots of us came this university without any leadership experience. But attending something like PPD session, it helped us to improve our soft skills like how to work as a team, how to care each other, how to communicate with them etc..

 After all these things, we learnt;

·        Importance of a leadership

·        How to work as a team

·        How to lead a team

·        How to communicate with each other

·        How to manage our time

·        Think differently

·        Make eye contact

·        How to do a presentation

·        Make independent decisions

·        Respect each other.

Paper Magic

Paper tower

paper tower is a group activity. It is a tower which is made by papers. When we make that tower we have to focus on two things. Those are

·        Height of tower

·        Stability of tower

So when we make that tower we have to think a lot because this is a game and there is a competition between each team. There are some rules for this game,

•   Must use all the papers.
•   Can only use papers , scissors and  gum tapes.
•   Must make the tower within 45 minutes.
•   Paper tower must be kept on the ground outside of the classroom.
•   Team which makes the highest and most stable paper tower will wins.

Group Work

We were divided into 3 groups. Each team had 8 members. In our group every member had a specific role to play in this game. Before build the tower we made a plan about how we do this. Like all the other teams we also focused on a strong base because stability is necessary. But we have to build a strong base by using few papers. Because we only got 12 papers.

Firstly we made a strong base. We have to speak in English because it is also a lesson for us to learn how to communicate with others in English.

After building a strong base, we focused on middle of the tower.

Then we built the higher part of the tower and completed it.

Things That We Learned

Ø  How to help each others in a team work.

Ø  How to face the problems and find solutions for them.

Ø  How to lead a team.

Ø  How to communicate with others.

Ø  How to design a project.

Ø  How to divide project into pieces and how to combined them all.

PPD

PPD means Personal Progress and Development. It is a life long process. It helps people to develop their skills and qualities.And also personal progress development skills helps people to get on the right track.
As human beings we have to face lot of challenges in our day to day life. So we must have a good personality to face those problems. PPD (Personal Progress and Development) is a great way to overcome them.

There are lot of benefits in PPD,

• It helps us to understand people in our society.
• Teaches us to cope with pressure of our challenges.
• Develops our communication skills.
• Give us a leadership training.
• How to balance our day to day life.
• Creates a visible personal profile among others.