Personal and Professional Development: Importance and Goals

Academic Skills and
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Learning and development is the important part of personal and professional life that is
involving the application of different learning and development tools. For effective analysis and
evaluation of individual personal and professional skills in order to identify the strength and
weakness so it can be further proceeding with the personal development plan for more
improvement and betterment. Personal and professional development plans can be related to
particular reflective factors or selected goal (Kiessling, C., 2021). Academic skills are involving the
set of essential personal and professional skills like, reflective analysis, critical thinking,
referencing, writing and so on. In this report different aspects of personal and professional
development in context to academic skills improvement it is going to be assess and plan for
improvement.
MAIN BODY
Definition of the concept of personal and professional development
The concept of personal and professional development is the process where you can
manage or maintain your learning and growth in career. To stand tall it is very important that one
should keep learning and develop the skills and knowledge. One should must be updated and
make sure that you work safely, legally and effectively. Personal and professional development
helps in overcoming the challenges and helps in acquiring new skills and knowledge to stay
updated and more energetic in work mode (Serin, H., 2017)
(Afanasyev, V.V 2019).
Personal development: When talking about the personal and professional development
one should must think that what skills and knowledge one should have to accomplish the goals
of professional role as well as personal goals. It is very necessary to develop the skills and
knowledge to improve potential for the workplace and out of the workplace. By understanding
what you need to achieve and how to achieve it. One should develop the skills and knowledge to
make a way for the solution. Skills and knowledge always keep you one step ahead. When you
will able to find your needs to develop particular skills You establish the skills that you need to
succeed in your goals (Rubens, A., 2018).

Professional development: professional development includes upgrading and
developing yourself completely according to your role to completely understand the job you do
and how you can improve. Professional development includes developing the important skills
and knowledge that are necessary to carry out your role and work as effectively and efficiently as
possible and that will continue to help you in your professional life. Effective employee or
person and professional development involves ensuring the knowledge and understand the area
of expertise it will help you to be at the highest possible Level at your career (Bibri, S.E., 2018).
Analysis and evaluation of value of short-term goals with some examples
Short term goal of the personal and professional development plan is key milestones to
reach long term goals achievements, that is involving the breakdown activities and task of long-
term goals related to specific aim and objectives of personal and professional development. That
is important to have specific short-term goals related to the personal and professional
development plan because that is the only way to monitor and evaluate the progress of
development. Such as in context to improvement of academic skill like writing or literature
review, that is important to make a short-term goals searches in relation to the writing skills
improvement short term goals are project writing and writing practice for some selective period
of time between 2 to 3 months. In relation to the literature review short term goals are study of
literature review articles and blogs to make more understanding the important aspects and terms
of literature review. This is important because it helps in the reduction of multitasking stress of
particular personal and professional development goals by making the different aspects of goals
into small pieces of achievement. Helps to focus on one thing at a time and have more clarity
(Lejeune, C., Beausaert, S. and Raemdonck, I., 2018).
Examples of short-term goal
 Develop one specific literature review skill in a day
 Make daily writing project and activities
 Study of blogs and video study material in context to literature review and referencing.
Which can further help achievement of long-term academic skills goal.
 Enhance note taking ability.
 Internship and training program and project goal in order to develop professional skills.