Value of Personal and Professional Development and Goal Setting

Academic Skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Define the concepts of personal and professional development.................................................1
Describe and discuss the value of short term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples......................................................................................................................................2
Describe and discuss the value of medium term goals...............................................................3
Describe and discuss the value of long term goals.....................................................................4
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CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
Appendices.......................................................................................................................................8
Describe and discuss the value of a personal development plan and construct an example
using your identified goals..........................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The academic skills reflect the core set of skills such as writing, reading and presentation
as from which critical thinking and effective practices is getting advances. These are the skills
that assist and encourage an individual to become an effective and efficient learner by which
better success in personal as well as professional carrier is advances (Ahmed, 2018). On other
hand personal development plan is a process through which better values is created as with
support of action plan due to which better values, awareness and goal setting is advances so that
self improvement is induces in successful mode. It is used to assist carrier development by which
both short and long terms goals are attained in improvised manner. The following report includes
concept of personal and professional development along with value of short term, medium term
and long term goals. In addition personal development plan is constructed that assist to identify
goals.
MAIN BODY
Define the concepts of personal and professional development
The “personal and professional development” is a procedure that is used in order to
engage and enlarge the learning process. It is getting advances as while facing certain challenges
and in this desirable targets is achieved in timely basis. The vital aim of personal and
professional development is to organise and manage own learning and working throughout the
carrier so that productive changes is addressed in constrained way. It is essential to make
continuous learning by which skills, attributes, knowledge, experience etc. is getting enhances
along with this continuous effectiveness within working is achieved (Akrivou, Scalzo and Orón,
2020). It basically includes self improvement and advancement within which working potential
and its attributes is enhances. It also build and enlarge working capabilities and capacity that
collectively facilitate employability. In addition suitable contribution is induced as while
realizing dreams and aspiration so that quality of living standard is increases.
The concept of personal and professional development is not limited as it includes both
formal and informal activities is considered. It also helps to make effective development as
might have processed in support of guidance, teaching, learning, managing, mentoring and
counselling as well. It has been processed by personalising certain target and objectives along
with this also referred on the basis of program, tools, assessment, working systems and
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techniques so that supportive alternation and advancement is addressed and achieved (Welp,
2018). It also includes certain activities such as improvisation in self awareness, self knowledge
advancement, building of self esteem and actualisation, development of talent and skills,
enhancement of talent, health improvement, advancement of potential, development of
employability as well as human capital, increase in living standard or quality life, fulfilling of
aspirants and desire, development of personal autonomy, betterment in social abilities along with
prior reflection of adequate plans. It usually works with a process of self development that
induces sustained development so that adequate roles is performed so as to manage competency.
Personal and professional development is normally defines as about a gaining of of
experience and skills as from which working and its sufficiency is developed with satisfactorily.
It along side also prevent progressive advancement of in which probability of success and
development is achieved as by balancing supportive challenges as well (Allen, 2019). It helps to
climb up on success pole so that stagnation is also avoided by which modest amount of values is
advances. It brings more opportunities as in this clear goal is standardised by which easy and
flexible changes is addressed. In addition intentional planning is addressed by which learning
abilities is getting ensure so that significant changes is achieved in timely constrained.
Describe and discuss the value of short term goals, identifying at least three personal examples
The short term goals are those that is required to make quick changes within personal and
professional development. It is basically a goal that an individual wants to perform in future
period of time. It is basically develop in order to achieved certain goal within 12 months of time
period. It is a subscript of long term goal as in this an individual maintains clear focus towards to
goal setting and its achievement. It is basically as a stepping stone process through which
achieving of vision and goals become easier. It is used to develop and design certain path goals
by which accomplishment is considered under a year. Short term goal also assist to break down
the working within different segments and then suitable potential is developed by which
effective networking is addressed in systematic mode (Choy and Chua, 2019). It is also be useful
to induce progressive as in support of project management by which better accountability is
attained and it is also be processed with efficient communication, storing of files, sharing of
views and suitable collaboration. It is actually used to minimise procrastination so that clear and
sustain path of success is established in which balanced focus is maintained so that all the
individual is motivated by which productive outcome is achieved with quicker response.
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