Academic Skills and PDP: Personal and Professional Development

Academic skills and
PDP

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................3
TASK 1...............................................................................................................................3
Definition and concept of personal and professional development...............................3
Values of short term goals.............................................................................................3
Values of medium term goals........................................................................................4
Values of long term goals..............................................................................................4
Personal development plan...........................................................................................4
TASK 2...............................................................................................................................6
Description of Author purpose, reliability and relevance affect selection of sources....6
TASK 3...............................................................................................................................6
Evaluation of different sources.......................................................................................6
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic and personal skills help an individual to perform various tasks and get
reputable job in organisation for future growth and success in both personal and
professional life. Person need to learn new skills and capabilities throughout life in order
to become special personality and achieved greater success than others. The report is
about development plan and evaluation of sources which have covered points such as
explanation of concept of personal and professional development. It has discussed
about importance and value of short, medium and long term goals and personal
development plan.
TASK 1
Definition and concept of personal and professional development
Personal and professional development refers to enhancement of various skills,
capabilities and knowledge of individual so that it can gain growth and success in both
personal and professional life. There are various skills that need to be presented in
person such as better communication, decision making, problem solving abilities and
effective management of time to get reputable position in huge organisation (Smith and
Firman, 2019). Person need to have both soft and hard skill in order to manage task
and work with other people in profession career and personal life.
Values of short term goals
Short term goals are most essential as individual in their personal and
professional life sets goals that can be attained in limited time period say 1-2 months so
that its requirements can be fulfilled. These are basic, important goals that can be
achieved by putting some of efforts such as communication skills or ITC skills. Personal
short term goals of my is to improve my both oral and written communication skill so
that I can easily share information to other people by use of gesture, body language and
other medium (Aziz and Pangil, 2017). At the same time improve my written
communication by learning various medium, language, image that need to be used
while communicate with different technology so that other person understand it in
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