Academic Skills and PDP

This report discusses the concept of personal and professional development and the value of short term, medium term, and long term goals. It also explores the importance of a Personal Development Plan (PDP) and how 'Author, Purpose, Reliability, and Relevance' affect the use of sources. The report concludes with an evaluation of each source used for personal development planning.

Academic Skills and PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development....................................................................3
Value of short term goals with 3 personal examples..................................................................3
Value of medium term goals with 3 personal examples. ...........................................................4
Value of long term goals with 3 personal examples...................................................................4
Value of a Personal Development Plan.......................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Describe and discuss how ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ affect the use of a
source..........................................................................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
Evaluation of each source...........................................................................................................6
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Academic skill encourage student or an individual to become an efficient learners and
this also improve morale of learners to enhance confidence for participating among different
course. This also offer valuable perspective outside classroom with enhancing perspective to
gain success in macro environment (Viljaranta and et. al., 2015). Personal development planning
is defined as a process to establish aim and objectives that are required by an individual to
accomplish in their career. This report highlights on detailed plan that describe and discuss role
of personal development planning. In the last, evaluation of source will also included in report
plan that include purpose, author, relevance and reliability aspect.
TASK 1
Concept of personal and professional development
Personal and professional development explicated as a process which lead individual to
learn and formulate method which engage individual efforts among individual and organisation
goal. It helps to improve both aspects including individual personal and professional goals so
plan is recognise as an important area for person.
Value of short term goals with 3 personal examples.
From the perspective of Richard Cleeve, 2018 Goals which is achieved within small
period of months are known as short term goals and it is utilised by me to perform and complete
work soon. Some example of short term goal are mention as follow:
 Attending the class- The first goal which is achieved by me relates with attending the
class and it leads me to improve my learning skills. Online learning is a source for
attending the class (Munn and et. al., 2016).
 Demonstrate a picture- Another important perspective is to formulate transparent
picture for future for enhancing my career opportunities. Personal growth is another
important feature to achieve success.
 Focus on goal- With the term prioritize means organisation adopt method to decide
method which are right and effective for business. Personal power is a major source for
short term goal.

Value of medium term goals with 3 personal examples.
With the point view of Jane Smith, 2018 one of the best business advice provide attribute
to obtain success by formulating an effective plan. In context of medium term-goals individual
generate bridge among all daily activities which leads them to work as per goals.
 Improvement in research skill- Researcher conduct investigation among actual topics
which aids person to work as per selected topic. Research is a medium term goal as
individual require time for understanding research aspects. Primary and secondary are
important source to enhance research skill.
 Formulation of notes- One of the major difficult aspects relates with development of
notes (Mackey and et. al., 2017). This is because I face challenges in formulation of notes
while listening the lecture. So another medium term goal is to learn techniques of
generating notes. Personal improvement work as a source to formulate notes.
 Work for specific idea- Various ideas are generated but as per learning aspect individual
learning work for specific perspective. It encourage individual to go for a single or
particular activity as it helps to work for specific goal. The source for specific idea relate
with personal analysis.
Value of long term goals with 3 personal examples
As per point view of Minnesota State educator, 2019. Long term plan refers to desire that
individual want to accomplish in future. Long term planning require more time and planning to
implement in an appropriate manner.
 Create long term strategy- To accomplish success and establish as a professional
individual it is essential for completion of work as per decided strategy. It is a long term
perspective because strategy are complex to formulate. Objective identification is a
source for long term strategy.
 To work as industry leader- Another long term goal which is decided by me relates
with enhancing my professional skill (King, Gonzales and Reinke, 2019). Empowerment
is a major source for industry leader.
 To learn time management- Time management is an important perspective and this is
also helps me to focus and prioritize all goals in an organised manner. Learning from
daily activities is a major source of time management.

Value of a Personal Development Plan
PDP provide a framework that leads to identify areas related with strength and weakness
of an individual. Personal plan are also used to guide and optimize skills which are beneficial to
improve future.
Personal development plan
Objective Success Criteria Action Implementation
To attend and learn
from Online class
To recognise success I
am focused to solve
online test. Further,
success is measure by
analysing results of
online test.
In order to accomplish
objective. I started to
learn lesson from
digital platforms.
On other side, to
implement the online
perspective. I
undertake and analysis
gap from previous
mistake.
Notes generation Another important
feature to accomplish
success is to analyse
notes efficiency.
To formulate notes I
am focused to manage
them at time of
learning.
To implement notes
practice I am focused
towards adoption of
quick learning
technique. Example-
identify of
communication
method.
TASK 2
Describe and discuss how ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ affect the use of a
source.
All sources which are utilised by researcher to manage and complete project undertake
different aspect that included paper, project and speech. Author, purpose, relevance and
reliability aspect impact on organisation source (Jackson, 2014). It also refer source evolve time
perspective. Online learning, objective identification etc. are some sources for formulation of
plan. The perspective of management is impacted because information is not measured as per
purpose. Similarly, all authors present different perspective so it create confusion for researcher.

Last, aspects are reliability and relevance which impact on goals because each individual
formulate goal with their own perspective.
TASK 3
Evaluation of each source
 Author- Their is minimum impact is identified because author provide only generic
information to individuals.
 Purpose- Purpose for online learning is good so this helps to improve work methods and
learnings.
 Reliability- Individuals undertake reliable factor as this helps in arranging all resources
properly.
 Relevance- All factors are relevant and important for organisation as it improve learning
for individuals.
Their are different sources is used for formulation of organisation plans and in context of my
personal development plan. I performed work in different areas which helps in improving overall
perspective. The first source is online learning and it is positive because this helps in improving
my skills and ways of learning (Hurwitz and Schmitt, 2020). Negative aspect define challenges
as large online methods are present for online learning. Personal growth and power are another
two important perspective which is also used to improve information. On other side, negative
aspect both of them make challenges to manage work as per individual basis. Primary and
secondary sources is also important for individuals as it helps to manage work by ensuring
information origin. Negative aspects define it is a time consuming process. Personal
improvement as well as personal analysis perform positive aspect to generate contract for
persons and on other side, both aspects are negative to manage unbiased source. Learning
method from routine activities is positive and important for individual because it helps to verify
and learn techniques from existing situation (Harris-Keith, 2015). Further, negative aspect that
daily activities not helps to learn specific ideas and methods for improving work performance. It
leads in minimising learning articles and information.

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Munn, J and et. al., 2016. The academic skill needs and competency of first year health science
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