Skills and PDP

This assignment explores the significance of goals and personal professional development plan. It explains short term, medium term, and long term goals with examples. It also discusses different sources of essay and their reliability.

Skills and PDP
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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Explain short term, medium term and long term goals with examples..................................3
Discuss Personal professional development plan...................................................................4
TASK2.............................................................................................................................................5
Author, reliability, purpose and relevance.............................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
State different sources of essay..............................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Every individual person possesses diverse perspective according to which they
accomplish goal as well as objective. The level of competition is increased in different field that
make it easy for person to emphasize on objective and how it achieves in proper way. It is
significant for person to increase awareness regarding goal so that they are capable to make plan
accordingly. The primary purpose of report is to understand significance of objective in personal
life. This assignment signifies various kinds of goals as well as personal improvement plan
(Hancock and Walsh, 2016).
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Explain short term, medium term and long term goals with examples
Short term objective must be accomplished in time period between 3-6 months. It is
important for individual person to possess short term goals so that they determine medium as
well as long-term objectives. There are different types of short term objective that is given
beneath:
 To explore something innovative that help in increasing knowledge and level of
confidence.
 The other is related to getting certificate related to digital marketing that is important for
famous organisations.
 The third objective is to increase and handle work life balance in proper way so that it is
easy or possible for me to build proper relationship.
Medium term objectives it signifies goal that are required to accomplished in time period
related to 6 month or above 6 months (McGill, Heikkila and Lazarowicz, 2020).
 To get a degree of graduation from its college along with superior grades as well as
without any kind of backlogs.
 To pay off bike in EMI in timely manner
 To enhance recognition within college and improve understanding along with another
individual person
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Long-term goal these are those type of goal that emphasize on accomplishing within time period
related to one year (Mulherin, Walter and Cox, 2018).
 To buy own within London along with own money
 Improve experience within digital marketing so that I can initiate own business
 Therefore, it is necessary to achieve both goals to increase capability in order to achieve
benefits in timely manner.
Discuss Personal professional development plan
Personal improvement plan signifies written document that signifies system planning as
well as goal of person that required accomplishing in specific period of time. The PDP is
significant as this provide clear or detailed description regarding how individual person achieve
its goal in timely manner. The primary benefit of planning is it needs mind-set of individual
person that is beneficial or advantages for achieving objective (Tongchai, Wichaidit and
Koocharoenpisal, 2019).
Goals Type Level Want
to
achiev
e
Time How
To tackle work life
balance
Short term
goal
3 8 6 months This must be achieving
through appropriate
planning and schedule
for every specific day.
To take degree of
graduation without
any kind of backlogs
Medium term
goal
6 8 1 year It is achieved by me
through attending classes
& achieves good marks
within exams.
To buy own house
within London
Long term
goal
7 9 5 years This is done through
saving money as well as
working hard.
Get growth within
multinational firm.
Long term
goal
9 7 5 years It is achieved through
me in order to get
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opportunities in
international MNC’s.
On the basis of above personal development plan, it is assess that it is significant for
individual person to execute person improvement plans so that goal must be completed or
achieved in timely manner.
TASK2
Author, reliability, purpose and relevance
Author signifies a person who has knowledge regarding particular topic. Along with higher
expertise level of increasing their understanding they are capable to increase knowledge.
Relevance is considered as how it is connected along with field related to study that can
provide benefits to individual person.
Purpose the purpose signifies objective of study and author likely to accomplish.
Relevance it is considered as what information is obtained whether it is reliable or not.
On the basis of above given paragraph, it is also assess that there are different component
that is significant to examine in order to execute planning and carry and perform study in proper
way. In addition to this, there is different kind of component that assists in assessing how
information is used and generated.
TASK 3
State different sources of essay
Sources Author Purpose Reliability Relevancy
Book
Deressa, 2018 Main purpose is
to assess
planning
development
It is considered
as reliable as
data &
information is
acquired
through primary
method by
Author
It is considered
as relevant to
assess because
planning
improvement
must be
connected with
PDP
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Book
Goyal, 2018 The aim is to
assess about
students in order
to achieve
objectives in
timely manner.
It emphasised on
adopting
authentic data &
information
regarding
student
behaviour
It possess high
relevancy as it
provide
understanding
regarding
behaviour of
individual
person.
Website
Holtby, 2018 Analysing
significance of
long-term
objectives
Pays attention
to long term
objective and
possess accurate
data
It possess
higher level of
relevancy
because and
emphasised on
how to achieve
goal in timely
manner.
Website Hughes, 2020 To provide
knowledge in
respect of
setting goal by
individual
person
It rely on
diverse
knowledge as
well as
perspectives
It is linked
because they
emphasised on
setting
objectives.
Book
Lagosh, 2018 To state
regarding
professional
improvement
plan
It rely on PDP
of particular
person
This has higher
level relevancy
it provide
picture
regarding PDP.
Website Manso, 2017 States in respect
of realistic
It aims in
respect of
Author is
famous for
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goals assessing real
goals
mind-set and
possess detailed
related to
objective
Website
Sawers, 2018 To enhance
understanding of
diverse
sustainable goals
This rely on
diverse types of
objectives
Gives clear
picture
regarding goals
CONCLUSION
On the basis of given assignment, it is assess that the goal and objective of individual
person must be heterogeneous that needed to examine so that objective must be achieved in a
timely manner. The decision taken that is based on different kind of goal and PDP. In
competitive marketplace, the proper planning is necessary for achieving benefit in future time
period.
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REFERENCES
Books & Journal:
Hancock, S. and Walsh, E., 2016. Beyond knowledge and skills: rethinking the development of
professional identity during the STEM doctorate. Studies in Higher Education, 41(1), pp.37-50.
McGill, C.M., Heikkila, M. and Lazarowicz, T., 2020. Professional development, performance
expectations and academic advisors’ perceptions of relational skills: a sequential explanatory
mixed methods study. New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource
Development, 32(4), pp.50-69.
Mulherin, K., Walter, S. and Cox, C.D., 2018. National preceptor development program (PDP):
influential evidence and theory. The first of a 3-part series. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and
Learning, 10(3), pp.255-266.
Tongchai, A., Wichaidit, P.R. and Koocharoenpisal, N., 2019. A Professional Development
Program to Enhance Thinking and Problem Solving Skills for Thai Science, Mathematics and
Technology (SMT) Teachers. Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast
Asia, 42.
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