Importance of Personal and Professional Development

Academic skills and
PDP

Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Main body...................................................................................................................................................3
1 Explain the concept of personal and professional development............................................................3
2 explain and determine the value of short term goals with the help of three personal examples............4
3 explain and discuss the value of medium term goals with at least three examples................................5
4 Describe and discuss the value of long term goals with examples........................................................6
5 explain and discuss the importance of personal development plan.......................................................7
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................8
References...................................................................................................................................................9
Appendixes................................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
Academic skills are made up of four skills which includes writing presentation and
referencing. Every college and institute used to work on developing the academic skills in order
to promote critical thinking and reflective practice of their students. Personal professional
development is used to help in order to manage their own learning and growth throughout their
career. It is also called as continuing professional development in which the institutes and other
universities are working in order to develop the professional skills in their students. Personal
development planning is the process of developing an action plan based on the awareness value
goals within the context of career in order to self development. It is also called an individual
development plan or personal enterprise plan (Al-Rashoud, 2018). This report has been discussed
about the concept of personal and professional development and the value of short term, medium
term and long term goals with respect to their personal examples. Lastly, the value of personal
development plans and constructive examples is discussed.
Main body
1 Explain the concept of personal and professional development
The personal and professional development helps the individual to manage their own
learning and growing skills throughout their career. These skills are helpful in order to learn and
develop their knowledge and ensure that they can work safely, legally and effectively. Personal
development means developing those skills in order to accomplish the results with respect to
their roll for life in general. It is helpful in order to improve their talent and potential within
outside the organization(Anderson and Valero, 2020). The personal skills help in understanding
what the individual needs to achieve and the different manners in which they can achieve it. It is
helpful for them to determine the strategies and get it managed with their budget.
Professional development means the way of developing oneself in order to understand the
entire rule of the job about what they have to do and how they can improve in order to overcome
with their loopholes. This helps in enhancing the necessary skills to carry out their roles in an
effective manner. It can be improved with the help of proper training by the organisation and the