Academic Skills and PDP

This report discusses the concept of personal and professional development and the importance of setting short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. It explores various skills such as time management, technical knowledge, and communication skills. The report also provides a personal development plan to help individuals enhance their academic skills and achieve their goals.

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 planning is a process in which action plan is produced which
will help in enhancing skills and qualities of an individual. It is basically taking advantage
from awareness, values, goal setting, reflection and planning so that personal development as
well as professional career development for an individual can help them in self-improvement
techniques. There are a number of different objectives which can be classified according to
the goals that are required to be met by individual (Andersen, 2019). These are short-term,
medium-term and long-term goals. It successfully helps in assessing all the current situation
that an individual is going through and the situation of environment and market as well. In
the following report description of personal and professional development along with various
short-term, medium term and long term goals necessary for individuals are described. A
personal development plan is also created so that one can develop personally and
professionally.
Main body
Concept of personal and professional development
Personal and professional development refers to a process in which individuals, teams
and organisations are engaged in a process of learning and developing new skills and
experience. It is necessary in order to make sure that all the coming challenges are met with
and desired goals can be successfully achieved. It is necessary to make sure that when is
engaged in personal development in order to continuously move the necessary for learning.
There are various skills which can be developed through counselling, communication,
coaching time management and so on. Personal as well as professional effective phones
which are helping individuals in order to reflect and record videos learning achievements. It
is necessary in order to make sure that organisation unity visuals can continue in achieving all
the goals we have set for them. It is required by individuals to analyse all their habits and
hobbies which will help in setting up the goals.
Short-term goals
Short-term goals are necessary goals for an individual‘s personal as well as
professional development as these can be successfully achieved within short period of time.
An individual can easily achieve the short-term goals in a time of one or two months

(Shephard, 2018). They are usually basic qualities which an individual requires in order to
achieve the goals for longer period of time. There are a number of such short-term goals
which can successfully help a student in enhancing their academic skill along with the future
of their professional career. Communication skill is one of them. Both written as well as oral
communication of a student needs to be excellent while they are continuing their academy
career. Along with this they also need to work upon their gestures, postures, language, vocal
and other factors that will make their communication skills more effective. Improving all
these factors will allow them to have a long-lasting effect on the second person they are
communicating with. In order to successfully developed written skills there are a number of
format presents and help from experts can also be taken by individuals for the same purpose.
Short-term goals can also act as a base for various medium-term and long-term goals. In
developing short-term goals is a continuous procedure which never ends. It is necessary for
individuals to understand the need to develop continuously which will ultimately help them
in long run. Presentation skill is another short-term skill that can be acquired by individuals in
a short period of time. It is necessary that an individual is capable enough to communicate the
information and ideas they have to others. Practice and guidance from professional are some
of the ways through which the skill can be achieved. There are also a number of different
graphical representations which can be successfully used by an individual in order to work
upon their presentation skills. All the short-term goals will help an individual to develop
successfully in their personal and professional career.
Medium-term goals
The medium-term goals include all the goals which require around 6 to 8 months in
order to achieve successfully. An individual is required to put in continuous efforts and plan
all the activities in order to make sure that the medium-term goals can be achieved
successfully. Some of the short-term goals are also very effective which helps in forming a
foundation for the medium-term goals. The medium-term goals also lead an individual
towards fulfilment of various long-term goals in future. There are different medium-term
goals that are benefiting an individual in personal and professional career suggest technical
knowledge. It is often seen that certain field of job requires technical knowledge about
different subjects in order to become an expert (Khoury, 2020). The learning sessions
included in this can be very worst. Before an individual requires more time in order to
achieve these goals. It can successfully help an individual in working as a professional in
certain field of which they have proper knowledge. In future these medium-term goals can

also help an individual in attaining promotions and development in their professional careers.
Another medium term skill which can help an individual in the personal and professional
career is listening skills. It is necessary for an individual to make sure that they have a good
listening power which will result in proper communication between two or more people.
Often with the help of good listening skills when can avoid conflicts while communicating
and the information that is to be communicated will reach the receiver correctly. Listening
skills also allows an individual to take ideas from others and develop their own creative ideas.
If an individual who have good listening power can successfully develop leadership skills in
long run. One of the major medium-term goals can be optimistic thinking and positive
attitude. This is the need for an individual in personal as well as professional career. It is
often seen that while decision-making the mental state of an individual is required to be calm
and positive. Building positive attitude in individual can also help them to influence others.
This is also one of the major quality which is required in a leader. It is necessary that a leader
is optimistic and positive so that they can influence others with your positive attitude. All
these medium-term goals are effective for an individual which will help them in setting the
long-term goals and also achieving all of them successfully for a better career.
Long-term goals
Long-term goals include all those goals which require approximately one year to
around three years for an individual to achieve it successfully. It is highly dependent on an
individual that they are successfully making goals and a devoted towards it in order to
achieve all the long-term goals (Ang, 2019). Long-term goals are necessary for an individual
as they will successfully keep them motivated and encouraged throughout the journey of
attaining the skills required for their goals. Leadership is one of the major long-term goal
which will help an individual in successfully achieving all their professional goals. There are
a number of short-term and medium-term goals which are required by an individual in order
to make sure that they can achieve the long-term goal of leadership skills. Communication
skills, listening skills and positive attitude are major requirement for an individual which will
help them in being a good leader. One of the other long-term skill that helps individual to
develop personally and professionally is decision making skills. Decision making is
necessary for an individual while working in professional field which will help them to
successfully achieve promotions and development in their professional career. Management
skill is another long-term skill that every individual requires. There are a number of things
that individual required to manage while working professionally. This can include time

management, human resource management, and management of raw materials and so on.
Therefore it is necessary for individuals to make sure that they’re successfully working
towards their management skills. Achievement of management skill can also help in
individual to become a good manager. An individual first required to manage themselves in
order to do so they are to analyse all their strengths and weaknesses (Nguyen, 2017). People
can successfully enhance their strengths and work on their weaknesses in order to diminish
them. Using all these practises can help a professional to develop different long-term skills.
In order to achieve proper management skill and individual is required to attain certain short-
term skills and medium-term skills which will help them to develop in future.
Personal development plan
Personal development plan is a plan which an individual creates through the help of
different strategies and action plan. It helps individual and in enhancing their skills for their
personal and professional development. It is a continuous process which will successfully
help individuals to make sure that they are developing in order to achieve all the short-term
and long-term goals they have set for themselves. Below provided is a personal development
plan which helps in enhancing various skills in an individual that are short-term, medium-
term and long-term.
Skills Strategies Evaluation Time required
Time management It is required by
individuals to make
sure that they are
setting their priorities
in order to
understand the
importance of task
that is to be
performed. Along
with this all the tasks
are to be divided into
various schedules so
that they can be
successfully
completed in the
The results of time
management can be
successfully
evaluated comparing
the plan of time
management to the
actual performance.
It is necessary that
the plan which is
evaluated for
completing a task
and the results in
which the task is
completed are equal.
Time management is
a time taking scale
which can easily
require around one
year for an individual
to achieve this skill.

required time period.
With the help of this
all the small
activities of the task
can be successfully
completed in the
given time period.
Technical knowledge In order to
successfully work in
professional field it is
required that
individual is working
on technical and
professional
knowledge. This will
help them to
successfully work in
certain field and also
gain expertise in this
field. There are
various reading and
classes that can be
taken from
professionals in order
to successfully
achieve technical
knowledge.
In order to evaluate
technical knowledge
one can review the
skills they have
achieved and the
knowledge they have
gained through
classes and different
resources. One can
effectively
understand the
development of these
skills using different
test as well
(Dahmarde,
Khodabakhshi and
Rad, 2018).
In order to
successfully acquire
technical knowledge
it is necessary for an
individual to devote
6 to 8 months in
professional training.
Communication Communication skill
can be easily
developed by reading
more books and
articles available
which can
Evaluation of
communication skill
can be easily
conducted by
individual taking the
help of others. It is
In order to achieve
communication skills
and individual
require around two
months in which they
can successfully

successfully help an
individual to improve
their vocabulary. It is
also necessary that
one is continuously
practising with their
peers and colleagues
in order to make sure
that they can take
their feedbacks to
work upon their body
language, posture
and languages.
Practice is one of the
major way and
strategy that can be
used by an individual
in order to enhance
their communication
skills.
necessary that they
are taking feedback
from their friends
and family is in order
to work on their
communication skill
and enhance it.
achieve the required
skills.
Conclusion
Taking the above report into consideration it can be concluded that development of a
personal professional development plan will help individual to analyse all the needs that that
are required for successfully setting up their career. It is helping individuals to identify all
their goals and also analyse various skills that are required by them in order to successfully
attain all these goals. There are some short-term goals which require less working time as
compare to other goals. The medium-term and long-term goals require more time to attain as
compare to the short-term goals. It is necessary that individual is continuously motivated so
that they can work hard to achieve all the set goals and objectives. Taking help from personal
development plan individual can achieve all the required skills to develop in personal and
professional career.

References
Books and Journals
Dahmarde, H., Khodabakhshi, M. and Rad, G.M., 2018. BIRJAND TEACHING
HOSPITALS NURSES'ATTITUDE TOWARDS PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Nguyen, H.L., 2017. Thesis C-Personal Development Plan in Windsor (Doctoral dissertation,
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Ang, J., 2019. Sponsorship and the Development of Women Leaders. In The Game Plan of
Successful Career Sponsorship. Emerald Publishing Limited.
Khoury, H., 2020. The Trump Plan: Personal Views from Palestine and Israel. Palestine-
Israel Journal of Politics, Economics, and Culture, 25(1/2), pp.84-86.
Shephard, K., 2018. Researching higher education for sustainable development: Plan A, plan
B and moving beyond thought-limiting Clichés. In Sustainable Development
Research in the Asia-Pacific Region (pp. 17-30). Springer, Cham.
Andersen, N., 2019. Developing a personal reconciliation action plan. Incite, 40(3/4), p.25.