Personal and Professional Development: Goals and Plan

Academic skills and PDP

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Main body..................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development...............................................................3
Short-term goals.....................................................................................................................3
Medium-term goals................................................................................................................4
Long-term goals.....................................................................................................................5
Personal development plan.....................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References .................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
Personal development is to defined as process of accessing to indvidual skill or
capabilities on order to achieve goals in a specific manner. It refers to taking advantage of
awareness, goal-setting, values as well as reflection to plan personal development in
professional career (Kyttälä and et. al., 2019). It will help an individual in self-improvement
and also provide them with a number of various techniques to do so. There are various
objectives which are to be examined to different goals which are required to be fulfilled by
an individual in order to achieve their objectives. There are various short-term, medium-terms
as well as long-term goals which are used by an individual in order to achieve all their
objectives. It is crucial for a person to work on their skills continuously with aim to enhance
them. The following report describes personal and professional development for individuals
taking into context they are short-term, medium-term as well as long-term goals. A personal
development plan to develop career of an person is also described.
Main body
Examine the concept of personal & professional development
Personal and professional development plan is a process in which individuals,
organisations and teams are successfully engaged in order to learn and develop various skills
which can help them in achievement of their goals. It is used by peope with purpose of
ensuring that their objectives are accessed in proper manner. (Neiles, and et. al., 2019). They
require engaging themselves into personal and professional development which will
continuously help them in achieving their goals and objectives. There are a number of
different ways through which achieve all their goals and objectives. It is needed by them to
make sure that they are using several mediums to learn different skills and also achieving
personal as well as professional development. Individuals can successfully analyse all the
skills which they require and develop habits which will help them to attain all those skills.
Short-term goals
Short-term goals are set by an individual to make sure that they are successfully
achieving goals for a longer period of time. It requires only 1-3 months by an individual to
achieve all these goals. These are basic qualities that an individual requires in order to
achieve their goals and objectives. These short term goals are necessary for individuals for