Academic Skills and Report on Personal Development

ACADEMIC SKILLS AND
REPORT ON PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Personal and Professional development.......................................................................................3
Value of Short term goals ...........................................................................................................4
Value of medium term goals .......................................................................................................5
Value of long term goals..............................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
APPENDICES.................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are defined as different skills like writing, presentation and referencing
skills. There are some complex skills also which include: critical thinking, managing
information, understanding assessment etc. (Correll, Rubio and Kane, 2018). Academic skills
encourage students to learn more new things and enhance their knowledge. Academic skills
helps in improving confidence of students. It helps in encouraging students to participate more in
the activities. In this report concept of personal and professional development are discussed.
Describe and discuss value of short term goals, medium term goals and long term goals. Further,
discussion on personal development plan has been done and also identify the goals.
MAIN BODY
Personal and Professional development
Personal and professional development is described as the process of learning through which
company can achieve its goal. Personal development helps in improving skills and learning new
skills. It helps in improving social status of the company. It helps in development of strengths
(Johnso and Marlow,2017.). Personal development performs different roles like, of teacher,
mentor, guide etc. Personal development is a long process which helps an organization to make
plans for future and provides a clear vision as where the company will be in next few years. It
helps in making proper plans and clear ideas that what is the goal of the company and ways to
achieve those goals. Personal development helps in identifying hidden talent. It helps in
improving effectiveness. Personal development is an essential element which will give benefit in
the future.
There are some main areas of personal development:
 Mental: First area of personal development is to develop your mind by improving your
thinking capacity. For development skills read books which will help in enhancing skills.
 Social: In this focus is on improving communication skills and learning new languages.
 Spiritual: This describes activities like time spend in prayer and meditation.
 Emotional: It includes about mood and how to talk to a friend etc.