Personal and Professional Development: Goals and Strategies

This report discusses the concept of personal and professional development and the importance of setting goals and creating a plan for self-improvement. It explores short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals and the skills needed to achieve them. The report also provides strategies for developing communication, technical knowledge, and time management skills.

Academic Skills and
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Main Body ......................................................................................................................................3
Idea of Personal and professional development..........................................................................3
Value of Short-term Goals..........................................................................................................3
Medium term goals.....................................................................................................................4
Long term goals...........................................................................................................................5
Plan for Personal development....................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is an ongoing process to assess skills and qualities to maximise
their potential to achieve goals successfully. Planning for personal development is to set action
plan to be based on values, goal setting awareness and reflection for the purpose of self-
improvement (Anita and Novianty, 2020). Several aim and objectives can be set on basis of
goals to be achieved in either short-term, medium-term or long-term. This assist in identifying
different skills to be needed in order to survive in highly competitive environment. This report
contain the detail description of personal and professional development and differentiation is
made on the basis of short-term, medium-term and long-term goals. This report also discuss
about the importance of personal development plan for an individual for self improvement either
personally of professionally.
Main Body
Idea of Personal and professional development
Professional and personal development refers to a lifelong activity to involve in process
of learning by facing the challenges in between to achieve a desired goal by an individual or an
organisation. In order to prepare plan for personal as well as professional development it is
essential to analyse skills currently present deeply so that it can support the learning process
accordingly. There are various skills which needs to be acquired by any individual in order to
achieve their desired goal from their development plan such as coaching, communication skills,
time management skills, behavioural skills and many more to add in it (Kamal, Abdullah and
Ghani, 2020). This tool of development can help an individual to plan for their future goals and
pertaining requirement to reach at that goal. It also include analysation of habits and hobbies of
individuals.
Value of Short-term Goals
Short term goals are an integral part of an individual for their personal as well as professional
life. These goals are set for short period of time usually for a month or two in which the goals
should be achieved. These goals can include basic qualities or skills an individual should
possessed which help them to achieve high goals in their lives. There are many goals which
needs to be achieved in short period to achieve particular skill. One of the skills which can be
attain in short term is communication skills. In order to achieve success in any field one must

have a good oral as well as written communication skills either formal or informal type.
Communication not only include only oral and written communication but also gestures, body
language and all other medium through which a person communicate. In order to improve
academic skills for professional career effective communication is necessary. Another goal
which can be considered as short-term goal is Writing skills (Ramadhani, 2020). To sustain in a
professional career it is necessary to possess good writing skills as it is essential to communicate
in written in case of informal environment. This goal require particular training for a specific
time to achieve individual goals related to this. The short term goals also helps to set grounds for
medium term goals. There are several number of goals which are fulfil by individual in a short
period and after completion of that goal they can set another goal for coming time. As it is an
ongoing process for continuous development an individual can develop number of skills which
will help them life long in future. Another goal can be taken by any individual as short term goal
is presentation skill. Presentation skills are the skills which is acquire by an individual in order to
present themselves or their ideas in front of audience (Utami, Aminatun and Fatriana, 2020). To
achieve this skill there are various factors to take help with such as training from professionals,
knowledge of using graphical format. The basic skill of presentation need good and effective
communication skills as well as confidence level. Other than this in order to achieve good
presentation skills individual can also take training from professionals.
Medium term goals
These are the goals which are to be fulfilled in a period of 6 to 10 months . In order to fulfil the
medium term goals of an individual they need to put continuous efforts and planning of all the
required actions. If short-term goals are effectively planned than it will help in medium term
goals to achieve them successfully. Afterwards these medium term goal will help in setting and
achieving long term goals. There are so many medium term goals which are beneficial for an
individual either in personal or professional careers. In case of professional career numerous
medium term goals can be derived. One major skill needed by any individual in their field is the
generation of technical knowledge required for such field (Yulian and Yuniarti, 2020). In order
to achieve this skill a lot of learning and reading is required as it is technical in nature and there
are less choice for mistakes. To learn those skills an individual needs to go through a number of
professional courses which required a 6 to 8 months of training which assist to achieve this goal.
After achieving this goal an individual is ready to work in that professional field and achieve

success in that work. This will also help them to grow in their career and achieve their long term
goals which can be promotion in the career. Another type of medium term goal is to improve
listening skills for better communication.
Also a person should have good listening skills as that is part of communication skills. Listening
the things properly and understanding what they want to say is also important. Many p0eople
lack listening skills but the person who is able to listen properly is able get many inputs and
learns from every person. To solve conflict it is important to first listen to the situation of the
person and take measures to solve the problem. A leader also required to have good listening
skills to lead the team (Anthony and Ziden, 2020). To solve the conflict it is important to listen to
the problem of the person and then take measures. Good listening skills are required to achieve
success. Another skill that is required is being positive and spread positivity. A person should be
positive in every situation and deal it with positive attitude that will help to solve all the
problems that arise in path of the person. Good decision-making is also required to achieve
success in life as if the decision making power is weak then there will be many problems that the
person has to face. So the decision making and positive attitude are related to each other a person
who is positive is able to take good decisions. The medium term goal helps to achieve the long
term goals.
Long term goals
Long term goals are the goals which are formulated for long term. They are formulated to be
fulfilled within the coming years. Most probably it is set to be achieved in 1 to 3 years but can be
set for more than three years which is completely depends upon the individual who is setting that
goal. Long term goals is very essential for any individual in order to get dedicated and intended
towards their personal as well as professional life. One quality an individual wants to achieve in
long run is the quality of leadership. In order to achieve this quality in any organisation every
individual needs to have a good experience as well as various levels of short term as well as
medium-term training (Thomas, 2020). This log term goal requires a lot of efforts and generally
take one or more years to be a good leader. In order to achieve a leadership skills one should
possess a good communication as well as listening skills and these skills assist to develop
leadership skills in long period of time. Another skill or goal every individual wants to achieve is
development of decision-making power. It is one of the required skills which are needed in a
professional life. In order to increase decision-making power one is need to analyse and examine

all the options available for the decisions and required a comparative study of all the the
alternatives available with them which can not be developed in short term or medium term
(Geerts, Goodall and Agius, 2020). This quality or skill needs a lot of time and experience to
develop in any individual and development of this skill will help an individual to grow in their
professional life. Another example of long term goal which can be considered here can be
develop management skills. Management skills is a wider term and includes many parts like time
management, managing a team etc. It is profitable for a person to learn management skills as that
help to achieve all the activities successfully (Nurramadhani, Lathifah and Permana, 2020).
Along with that management is required in every part of life. Engagement skill can not be
acquired in a short period of time it required good time period and regular practice to gain
management skill. Once a person has became a good manager than all the problems are solved
and the person is able to manage professional as well as personal life. So the long term skill that
a person should have is management skill.
Plan for Personal development
Plan for personal development is created to raise various skills. Personal development plan
contains several action plans and strategies to achieve several new skills and deepen the existing
skills (Afifah and Sari, 2020). It is easy to prepare own personal development plan by an
individual as they know themselves better than anyone else. This plan will also help to achieve
desired objectives or goals either short term, medium-term or long term.
Skills or Quality Plan of action/
Strategies
Skills Evaluation Time required
Communication
skills
Taking help from
articles and books by
reading them is an
outstanding mode to
develop skills of
communication as it
will help in
improvement in
Assessment of
communication ability
can be done by
fetching help of others
and fetching reviews
by them in respect of
development or
1-2 month will be
required to
successfully acquire
the necessary
communication skills.

vocabulary. It is also
important to to
communicate with
others with good
gestures, postures and
body language
improvement in skills
Technical knowledge To perform well
professionally it is
necessary to adopt
professional skills.
This may include
indication certain laws
related to field of
work and taking
professional training
sessions.
It can be assessed by
revaluating the use of
enlightened skill in
actual life and
potency that is bring
forth with the help of
skill
.
The following ability
will need
approximately 8
months consider all
the needed courses.
Time management It is essential to rigid
priorities in order to
realize which project
is to be performed on
priority basis and how
the time is to be
bifurcated between
several projects. This
will assist in
successfully finishing
the task in granted
time.
Time management
results can be
assessed by
comparing the real
time taken with the set
goals and objectives
at first.
It will need more time
to evolve time
management skill
which can take a year
or more.

CONCLUSION
By analysing deeply from above report it is clear that a personal development plan plays an
essential role in life of an individual. It helps an individual to assess themselves in a deep manner
and identify the skills they need to grow in their career. It assist them to set their goals according
to their interest and field in which they want to go. In order to achieve their desired long term
goal they can be divided in short as well as medium-term goals and then be achieved in an easy
manner. Short term goals require less working while medium term goals required to be worked a
little longer. In order to achieve either of the goal it is required that individual should
continuously working on improvement of their skills. These goals also helps individual to
increase their dedication to work hard in their academic career. Working in accordance with
personal development plan will assist to achieve all the objectives and manage the entire task
effectively in their personal as well as professional career.

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