Concept and Importance of Personal and Professional Development Plan

Academic Skills and PDP

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Concept of Personal and Professional Development...................................................................1
The value of short-term goals......................................................................................................1
The value of medium-term goals.................................................................................................1
The value of long-term goals.......................................................................................................2
The value of personal development plans...................................................................................2
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

Introduction
Personal and professional development plan plays an important role in life of an
individual, in terms of enhancement of skills and knowledge. For developing career in any field,
it becomes essential for each and every person to concern on developing abilities first (Roth and
et. al., 2019). This report is going to entail the concept and importance of personal and
professional development plan. Along with this, value of short, medium and long-term goals,
with some illustrations in career development also being described.
Concept of Personal and Professional Development
Personal and professional development plan defines as a set of traits and specific
characteristics that provides a framework, for identifying skills that need to be developed for
making career more bright (Infante-Moro, Infante-Moro and Gallardo-Pérez, 2019). In another
words, it provides a roadmap that contains skills, strategy and education requires for
development of career and achieve professional goals. Its primary purpose is to aid an individual
in reaching the short, medium and long-term career goals, with strengthen of current job
performance skills through a structured approach. With goal setting, professional development
plan aid in organizing the ideas into a cohesive plan which starts with short-term goals then
moves to mid and long-term goals.
The value of short-term goals
Setting goals is considered as one of the important concepts that helps in making a
framework to achieve career milestones (Ranieri, Giampaolo and Bruni, 2019). Short-term goals
provide vision to individuals of an ideal future and way to achieve long-term goals. It bridges the
gap where a person is right now and where to head in future. It also allows individuals to focus
on doing the essential things for achievement of something; see where to headed and what needs
to achieve; identify areas where progress need to be made for developing both personal and
professional skills (Infante-Moro, Infante-Moro and Gallardo-Pérez, 2019). For example –
Improvement in communication skills through taking some classes, numerical abilities and
project management skills are some short term goals which can be developed within three to four
months.
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