MATCH:UP™ has been designed to enable you to make effective use of all the information in your PROFILE:MATCH® Personal Development Report. This report is based on your personality profile. At the root of all this is your temperament – the basic dispositions that were the starting point for making you the person that you now are. So, some aspects of your personality are ‘hard wired’ being directly inherited through your parents. You cannot change these at will, but you can, and do, manage them. The other influences on your development came from the culture you were brought up in, as expressed through your family, friends and community and its history and institutions. Culture seems to act like a third parent and accounts for a very significant part of your make up.

Your personal development task will be to harness the positive aspects of your temperament, as well as improving and developing the way that you manage other less favourable aspects. MATCH:UP™ will help you to do this, step by step. Everyone has to manage their temperament and everyone can improve their personal performance, but they must take into account both their inherited temperament and the attitudes, habits and values that have been acquired by cultural influences if they are to succeed in achieving effective long-term change.

There are four parts to this programme:

Part 1: Goal Setting
Part 2: Strategy
Part 3: Clearing the Decks
Part 4: Implementation

As you work through this programme, you will need to move backwards and forwards, cycling between these four parts as you build your own Personal Development Plan. For the tasks ahead you will need to refer to your own PROFILE:MATCH^® Personal Development Report.

MATCH:UP™, and the learning experience that it offers to you, will give you a first foot hold on a life long journey. Personal development is a skill in its own right and, as you work through the MATCH:UP™ programme, you will become increasingly independent in the way that you operate the principles on which it is based, and will be able to apply them to other aspects of personal development. The ultimate aim is nothing less than Self Actualisation.

Useful items that may help you to complete your Personal Development Planner:

Highlighter pens
Index tags
Pen

For further background reading, visit www.profilematchassessments.com/development.

For technical assistance, please call PCL on +44 (0)1892 559540.