Academic Skills and Personal Professional Development

Academic skills and PDP

Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Main body...................................................................................................................................................3
1 Discuss the concept of personal and professional development..........................................................3
2 Define short term goals with three examples.......................................................................................4
3 Define medium term goals and their importance with examples.........................................................5
4 Define long term goals and their importance with examples...............................................................6
5 Define personal development plan and its importance........................................................................6
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................8
References...................................................................................................................................................9
Appendixes................................................................................................................................................11

Introduction
Academic skills help the students in order to get their career objective in an effective
manner. These skills include writing, presentation and referencing. The institutions are organised
in order to develop the academic skills into their students so that they can promote the critical
thinking and reflective practice in them (Al-Dosari, 2018). Personal professional development
helps the students to manage their own learning skills and leads to growth throughout their career
prospective. Personal development planning helps in developing an action plan which is based
upon the awareness value with respect to the goal which the students are legally attaining in
order to develop. The report has been discussed about the concept of personal and professional
development and the value of short term, medium term and long term goals. The value of a
personal development plan is also discussed in the report.
Main body
1 Discuss the concept of personal and professional development
The personal and professional development helps the students in order to manage their
learning and growing skills. This skill helps them to learn and develop their knowledge and
experience and ensure that their work will be safe with respect to the future prospective. Personal
skills refers to the understanding of what the individual needs to achieve and the different ways
which can be adopted by the individual in order to achieve their set targets (Becker, 2017). It is
also used to determine the strategies which help the students to get managed there are things in a
specified budget.
Professional skills development refers to the way of developing oneself so that they can
understand the role of their job and what they have to do and how they have to improve in order
to overcome the issues which are faced by the individuals in order to satisfy their job position
(Thurston, 2019). The students can improve their professional skills while taking proper training
from different organisations and such skills can be developed during the academic period of time
also.
The professional and personal skills development helps the individual to get concentrated
towards their skills and knowledge which will be helpful in order to attain the set targets in life.

There are several skills which must be developed by the students in order to get successful in
personal and professional area. Some of them are discussed below:
 Limit time wasting activities: the students who want to get success in their life must take
proper decisions in order to invest their time at a proper place (Blair and Beaumont,
2020). This helps them to ensure that it is truly reflected with respect to their priorities
and not on something else. The student must develop some of the boundaries which help
them to develop their quality time in the productive things.
 Work and personal life balance: it is something which every individual must adopt a
balance between their personal and professional life. The balance helps the students to
enjoy life in every manner whatever they want (Capel and Cliffe, 2020). This helps them
to satisfy each of their work and also helps them to motivate themselves in order to
achieve their targets.
 Change the basic structure of routine: when the individual has determined that it is falling
into a run and assume that their habits are set in stone (Williams, 2018). It is important
for them to look into a different view in order to change their basic structure of life and
determine what they are doing and make their life easier while conducting different
activities which will be helpful for them for getting success in an easier manner.
2 Define short term goals with three examples
Short term goals means the targets which helps the individual to attain the long term
goals. These are the loopholes that must be skills within a short time frame such as some months
or weeks. These are such goals which help the individual to attain their set targets in an effective
manner (Eta, 2018). It helps in determining the next steps which must be taken by these
individuals in order to examine their progress whether they are working in the right direction or
not.
Importance of short term goals
 It helps in developing and effective strategies in order to attain the ultimate targets in life.
It makes it easier for the individual to achieve the bigger goals by dividing it into
different stages.
 It also helps in taking quick feedback which might be positive or negative but helps the
individual to get motivation from it. It is also helpful in order to determine the different