Personal and Professional Development

This document discusses personal and professional development, including setting short term, medium term, and long term goals. It also covers the creation of a personal development plan. The sources used in the document are evaluated for their relevance, reliability, and purpose.

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Table of Contents
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Personal and professional development.......................................................................................1
Short term goals with three personal examples...........................................................................1
Medium term goals with personal examples...............................................................................1
Long term goals with personal examples.....................................................................................2
Personal Development Plan.........................................................................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
Ways in which Author, Reliability, Relevance and Purpose impacts on source use...................2
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................3
Evaluation of sources used in report plan....................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

TASK 1
Personal and professional development
Personal together with professional development is pictured as a lifelong process
including a systematic mechanism for maximising potentials (Davies, Curtin and Robson, 2017).
It is also named as continuous professional development which is highly values as it assist in
tracking and documenting out all skills, experiences, etc for keeping record of what is learnt and
applied.
Short term goals with three personal examples
A goal which a person have desires to attain soon are short term goal. These goals have
high value in life of an individual because they lay down defined route for success (Fischer
2019). Proximal goal is another name of short term goal as these acts as building blocks to other
goals. As these tends to be accomplish easier, people emphasise on immediate future with
manageable tasks in completion.
Personal examples related to short term goals are underneath:
 Building good habits of study.
 Developing time management ability.
 Acquiring business management skills (Ozuna, 2015).
Medium term goals with personal examples
Goal that is to be attained after temporal order of short term goals are achieved together
with form aspects to long term goals are outlined as medium term goal. In a life of a person,
medium term goals are more valued as they aids people to stay motivated while taking say to day
steps towards steady progress. It offers best approaches for significant progress (Dobbie and
Fryer Jr, 2015).
Personal examples about medium term goals are mentioned below:
 Learning different languages.
 Travel around the world to explore places and natural environment.
 Improving knowledge related to business management and planning.
Long term goals with personal examples
Goals which takes significant effort, resources, planning and duration for the purpose of
accomplishment are long term goals. These provides something for striving addition to assist
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keeping people focused about where they desires to be in future (Travers, Morisano and Locke,
2015). An individual values these goals as they shape direction of career as well as lives.
Personal examples stating long term goals are underneath:
 Working in a multinational corporation at top position.
 Foster time management skill.
 Building networks.
Personal Development Plan
A documented plan containing information about goals, present strengths in specific
areas, changes required for attaining goals and types of skills required to improve areas of
weakness is personal development plan (Olech, Klich and Perzanowski, 2009). It provides a
roadmap together with visual outline for growth.
Values concerned with personal development plan are wide as it is one of essential
framework for all career minded professional. It enables people for setting vision for future and
gives clear idea about ways to achieve goals (Burnham, 2015).
TASK 2
Ways in which Author, Reliability, Relevance and Purpose impacts on source use
In a source, elements including Relevance, Author, Purpose and Reliability plays great
role in impacting there usage within report plan. Author impacts on source use as they have
responsibility for timely informing to editor about research paper. Similarly, when reliable
source is not used in accordance to material then it negatively impacts on its usage. Likewise,
Purpose of source reflects on the reason it was actually made (Luck and Gaspelin, 2017). When
purpose of source and information in report plan are different then it results in negative impacts
on usage. At last. Relevant source determine appropriateness of information. However, when
source lacks relevancy it results in unfavourable effects on source usage.
TASK 3
Evaluation of sources used in report plan
Source in report plan ….....Author
.....
…...Purpose..... …...Relevance..... …..Reliability.....
.
Davies, K., Curtin, M. Kerryn To explore impact Present source is The source is
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and Robson, K., 2017.
Impact of an
international
workplace learning
placement on personal
and professional
development. Australi
an occupational
therapy journal. 64(2).
pp.121-128.
Davies,
Michael
Curtin and
Kristy
Robson
an international
WPL placement
had on perceived
personal along
with professional
development of a
group among
therapy graduates.
not relevant with
report material as
it is based on
international
workplace
learning
placement which
is totally different
from report.
highly reliable for
information in
report plan.
Fischer, F., 2019.
Politics, values, and
public policy: The
problem of
methodology.
Routledge.
Frank Fisher For moving
policy evaluation
beyond current
focus on
efficiently
achieving goals.
It is relevant with
mentioned report
plan as it
addresses
concerns for goal
attainment.
It is reliable
source as it
includes content
to achieve goals
effectively.
Ozuna, J., 2015. The
effects of self-
management and self-
management with goal
setting on student
apathy. Texas A&M
University-Commerce.
Jones Ozuna To analyse effects
of self
management
along with self
management with
setting of goal on
apathy of a
student.
It is relevant
source as it
provides aspects
to manage self for
devising goals
related to apathy.
Highly reliable
because it
discloses effect
related to self
management with
goal setting.
Dobbie, W. and Fryer
Jr, R. G., 2015. The
medium-term impacts
of high-achieving
charter
schools. Journal of
Will Dobbie
and Roland
G Fryer
To analyse
medium term
impacts related to
high achieving
Charter School on
score outcomes.
The source is not
relevant to
presented report
plan as it is based
on non test score
results.
It is not reliable
source as it is not
collected from
adequate
respondents.
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Political Economy.
123(5). pp.985-1037.
Travers, C. J.,
Morisano, D. and
Locke, E. A., 2015.
Self‐reflection, growth
goals, and academic
outcomes: A
qualitative
study. British Journal
of Educational
Psychology. 85(2).
pp.224-241.
Cheryl J
Travers,
Edwin A
Locke and
Dominique
Morisano
To explore
academic growth
through in-depth
reflective growth
objective setting
methodology.
It is relevant
source as it
explains about
self reflection,
goals for growth
and academic
results.
It is a reliable
source as most of
the information is
similar to present
report plan.
Olech, W., Klich, D.
and Perzanowski, K.,
2009. Development of
a new Action Plan for
the European bison.
Oryx. 53(2). pp.214-
214.
Wanda
Olech and
Daniel Klich
To analyse steps
required in
developing a new
action plan for
European Bison.
It is not relevant
to existing report
plan as it is
prepared for
European Bison
despite of
graduate student.
It lack reliability
as it is out of date
material.
Burnham, D. H., 2015.
Create Your Personal
Leadership
Development
Plan. The Discover
Your True North
Fieldbook: A Personal
Guide to Finding Your
Authentic Leadership,
p.199.
Daniel
Hudson
Burnham
To explore about
developing
personal
leadership
development
plan.
It is relevant
source as it
guides an
individual for
developing self
leadership.
It is a reliable
source as it is
published few
year back and
have suitable
content.
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Luck, S. J. and
Gaspelin, N., 2017.
How to get statistically
significant effects in
any ERP experiment
(and why you
shouldn't).
Psychophysiology.
54(1). pp.146-157.
Steven J
Luck and
Nicholas
Gaspelin
To demonstrate
about how
common along
with seemingly
innocuous
methods for
quantifying along
with analysing
ERP effects.
It is absolutely
not relevant
source as it is all
about significant
effects in ERP
experiment.
It is a reliable
source as
generates massive
datasets that
reflects on
research
appropriateness.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Burnham, D. H., 2015. Create Your Personal Leadership Development Plan. The Discover Your
True North Fieldbook: A Personal Guide to Finding Your Authentic Leadership, p.199.
Davies, K., Curtin, M. and Robson, K., 2017. Impact of an international workplace learning
placement on personal and professional development. Australian occupational therapy
journal. 64(2). pp.121-128.
Dobbie, W. and Fryer Jr, R. G., 2015. The medium-term impacts of high-achieving charter
schools. Journal of Political Economy. 123(5). pp.985-1037.
Fischer, F., 2019. Politics, values, and public policy: The problem of methodology. Routledge.
Luck, S. J. and Gaspelin, N., 2017. How to get statistically significant effects in any ERP
experiment (and why you shouldn't). Psychophysiology. 54(1). pp.146-157.
Olech, W., Klich, D. and Perzanowski, K., 2019. Development of a new Action Plan for the
European bison. Oryx. 53(2). pp.214-214.
Ozuna, J., 2015. The effects of self-management and self-management with goal setting on
student apathy. Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Travers, C. J., Morisano, D. and Locke, E. A., 2015. Self‐reflection, growth goals, and academic
outcomes: A qualitative study. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 85(2).
pp.224-241.
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