Academic skills and PDP

Academic skills and
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Personal and professional development.................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
Value of short-term goals.......................................................................................................2
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................2
Value of medium term goals..................................................................................................2
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................3
Value of Long term goals.......................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
References:.......................................................................................................................................5
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................5
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................6
Personal Development Plan....................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills is referred as the ability of a student has in terms of talents and habits that can
help an individual to pursue academic activities effectively suggest learning, report writing,
research and presentations during the academic course (Mason and et. al., 2017). Academic skills
really important asset as it encourages a student to become scholar in studies and to become
valuable outside the classroom. Students with good academic skills outshine themselves in front
of others in classroom and in the professional career. For students it is very important to timely
analyse their academic skills to develop and enhance them for personal development. Personal
development plan is a framework that helps an individual to reflect their identity skills and plan
actions to within timeframe to attain them.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Personal and professional development
Personal development is a process of individual learning thereby engaging an individual to
learn skills that can fulfil the challenges and the goals of the life. Personal development is
basically growth of the skills and capabilities of an individual (Kosovich, Flake and Hulleman,
2017). The aim of personal development for an individual is to enhance and develop the skills
that can deliver the outstanding performance in the personal life and professional life. Time
management good communication skills presentation skills are some of the key methods for the
personal and professional development. Professional development is the improvement of skills
and knowledge during the job by training and development sessions and through peer viewing.
The continuous development of personal and professional skills help an individual to attain
desired goals of the life and it also to build an exceptional personality that can provide an
individual and opportunity to outshine. Any shortcomings in the personal skills can be turned
into opportunities by developing a personal development plan that identify those weaknesses and
set them as goals to overcome them within a time (Pugh and Broome, 2020). Hence personal and
professional development is a way by which individual can nourish their existing skills qualities
capabilities knowledge and develop new ones in order to deliver outstanding performance which
is crucial for the better future and career growth.
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