Academic Skills and PDP: A Comprehensive Guide

Academic skills
and PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
Conception of personal and professional development...............................................................4
Discuss measure of short-term goals and distinguishing with three personalized example........6
Discuss amount of medium-term goals along with three personal example...............................6
Discuss value of long-term goals along with three examples......................................................7
Discuss value of a Personal Development Plan and build an example using your identified
goals.............................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
APPENDIX:..................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills means to encourage students for become most efficient learners and
determine their skills such as academic writing, presentation skills which are more complex like
captious thinking (Alnaggar, Gzara and Bookbinder, 2019). PDP (personal development plan) is
a organized procedures interpreted by a individual to indicate their own learnedness, their
presentation and accomplishment of students, personal plan and learning improvement. The main
aim of this report is to identify their strength and weakness using personal development plan and
determine goals in life. Several topics are covered in this report which is named as concept of
personal and vocation alteration, describe short term, medium term and long term goals along
with examples and discuss values of a personal improvement idea.
Conception of personal and professional development
The term personal modification is a lifelong procedure that consists of activities to
develop personal abilities, potential and enhance quality of life (Carcary, Doherty and Conway,
2019, July). It is a process to improve skills and raising amount of experience that they have in
job and enables to have personal vision in future in which they gives a clear idea of what or
where they will be in next few years. For examples of personal development are: Improve time
management, to develop emotional intelligence, actively listen, improve their public speaking
skills, develop a growth mindset. The benefits of personal development are motivation means
motivate and empower with right beliefs and thoughts. It improved focus as personal
development will be very clear on how to prioritize tasks in effectively and efficiently manner.
Thirdly in relationships, it will be able enough to find out which relationship is invested and
which to be cut close. The can develop a skills to make most of relationships which have positive
impact in our life. It is helpful to determine how they can achieve their goals and objectives. Few
personal development skills are as follows:
 Good communication always conveys thoughts in form of clarity and confidence.
 Interpersonal skills should be used to help maintain and develop a relationship to make
an opinion (McGill, Heikkila and Lazarowicz, 2020)
 Leadership skills that guide and motivate others and build their confidence level.
 There is a problem solving skill that enables to find a best solution if there is obstacles in
development.