Academic Skills and Personal Development Plan

Academic Skills and
Personal Development
Plan

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................................2
The concept of Personal and Professional Development Plan.................................................................2
Value of short term goals with examples.................................................................................................2
Value of medium term goals with examples............................................................................................3
Value of long term goals with examples..................................................................................................3
Discuss the value of Personal development plan.....................................................................................4
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................6
Books and Journals:.................................................................................................................................6
APPENDIX................................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are the habits and talents that aids academic chases such as report
writing, learning, presentations, and research. These includes varieties of skills such as social
planning, test taking, technical skills, communication skills and so on (Bentley, N. L. and Et.al.,
2019). This helps to encourage learner to become more productive in their work which includes
critical thinking in order to succeed in their career. Personal development plan is a concept in
which an action plan is created on the basis of awareness, values, goal setting, plan in which
strengths are examined and identified what type of skills a person is required to improve.
MAIN BODY
The concept of Personal and Professional Development Plan
Personal development plan is consist with planning for a long time period of an
individual in order to identify the methods or ways through which they can get their personal and
professional objective in a certain time. It is consist with goals, values as well as reflection about
personal development of an individual (Coleman, J. N. and Et.al., 2021). Personal development
plan is based on skills which has to be developed by an individual to opt their career goals as
well as personal goals. Personal development plan should be created by manager where an
individual is working so that in order to develop skills first they identify the important skills and
resources that helps to support and organize their employee in the requirements of organisation.
The chief role of personal development plan is to examine those areas of an individual which is
related with identification of strength and weakness in order to plan for a longer period that will
optimize their manageable abilities and skills. It supports an individual in order to develop their
career and personal development through which they examine some key areas that needs
development. It has been identified that there are five major personal development areas which
needs development that is mental emotional social and physical. An individual must develop his
mind set in order to achieve them in a particular time period in which new learning is always
vital to solve problems which they are facing in their life. A personal development plan must
consider with the proper format and a structure; also it should be update on timely basis in order
to think about career objectives of future that they will required to get with a proper
concentration and coordination.
Value of short term goals with examples
The short term goals of an individual considered with the goals which are related with the
near future which can be completed within a week, month or year. It is referred to those goals
which can be achieved as soon as possible. It is a very smart to accomplish the big career
achievements in order to manage time. It is considered with the time period that should be
completed within the 12 months or less than a year. It is also very important to accomplish and
identify the future objectives. In order to set a short term objectives of an individual they can
take help with the accomplishment of better results in a productive way at their workplace or in
order to get proficiency in their job. It will be very supportive to increase or enhance their
motivation level because it will be much convenient for individuals to easily get their objectives