Academic Skills and PDP

This report discusses the concept of personal and professional development plan (PDP) and its importance in achieving short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. It also provides examples of each type of goal and actions to achieve them. The report emphasizes the significance of PDP in improving skills, knowledge, and abilities to create growth opportunities for individuals. A Personal Development Plan is available at Desklib.

Academic Skills
and PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Concept of PDP......................................................................................................................3
Discuss short-term goals with three examples.......................................................................4
Discuss medium-term goals with three examples..................................................................4
Discuss long-term goals with three examples........................................................................5
Importance of PDP.................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERNCES:..................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals:................................................................................................................7
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................8
Personal Development Plan:...................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development of a person involves the development of skills,
knowledge, abilities and talent in order to grow in his career and achieving his goals. It involves
various learning and training opportunities. It refers to an ongoing activity of developing skills
and knowledge in order to achieve three goals of his life. These aims are short-term, medium
term and long term aspirations (ALVARADO, 2020). This report is based on the concept of
personal and professional development of an individual. The three major goals of a person are
discussed with some examples. Additionally, a PDP is created which helps a person to know the
areas of development and improvement. It includes certain time limit for the completion.
TASK
Concept of PDP.
Personal and professional development plan can be explained as a process of developing
a course of action based on self-reflection, awareness, objectives, values and planning for
developing oneself within the context of learning, profession or improvement. The PDP is also
named as IDP i.e., individual development plan or PEP i.e., personal enterprise plan. Generally,
it contains a statement of one's strengths, aspirations, education and training, competencies, steps
to indicate how the PDP is to be achieved. In the university, personal development plan contain a
portfolio including proof of skills acquired over a specific time-frame. While, in professional
development, a CV of an individual is including. Organisations also asked their employees to
participate in various training programmes in order to complete their PDP. So, it is important and
necessary for both an organisation and an individual (Buendía, and Macías, 2019). The main
intention to prepare PDP is to complete the life goals of a person by developing and improving
the inner capabilities and skills. By developing PDP, a person can create various growth
opportunities to build his future. It involves various learning and training programs so that the
three goals of a person can be obtained. This will make him more productive at workplace. It
highly focuses on the current performance for the improvement. This lasts very long in a person's
life, that's why it is called as never-ending process of development. It is considering the three
goals i.e. short-term, medium-term and long-terms goals. All goals have particular time limit for
the succession. It helps to create a highly productive person. When a person build his skills,
knowledge and abilities, it improves the overall organisational productivity. A person can grow

in his career by adding responsibilities and duties in his job. Therefore, the entire concept of
personal and development plan is all about the skills, learning, knowledge, capabilities of a
person (Esterhuizen, 2019).
Discuss short-term goals with three examples.
Short-term goals are the goals which must be acquired in the near future. These goals can
be set to obtain today, tomorrow, week, month and the next year. The achievement of short-term
goals can support and motivate a person to achieve long-term goals. When the short-term goals
are particular and actionable, it can be achieved in timely manner. These goals are such goals
that a person wants right away. Short-term aspirations are might seem small but it can motivate a
person for the bigger achievements in his work and personal life. In an organisation, setting
short-term goals can help a person for his career in order to become more productive and useful
in the company. It also provides the job satisfaction. To achieve short-term aspirations, an
individual first understand how to successfully set goals and then make a commitment to seeing
them through. Suppose a person want buy his dream house to live and for that cause he needs to
work hard and give him best in the company, so that he can be promoted and increment in salary
will help to complete his dream (Jack, Kinloch and O’Brien, 2019). To achieve higher position in
the company, he will need to work on his skills and knowledge. These goals act as a support to
achieve success. The following are some examples of short-term goals:
 Improving one soft skills
 Create a morning routine
 Learning a new language
Discuss medium-term goals with three examples.
Medium-term goals act as a bridge between short-term goals that can be accomplished
and long-term aspirations that requires longer time to be accomplished. These goals take little
more time than short-term aspirations. Since long-term aims requires longer time frame to be
completed, medium-term aspirations acts as a motivation to take further steps towards
achievements. These are the aspirations that requires more than a year up to three years for the
completion. There are countless aspirations that can be achieved within minimal time. Such
goals can be taken as a motivation for the further achievements. In order to attain long-term
aspirations in a life, short-term and medium-term goals can be found as a stepping stone. These
goals are essential for a person and a company in order further achieve future goals. SMART

goals of a person can act as a guide to encourage and satisfy the further aims within a certain
time limits (Mah and Doherty, 2021). The examples of medium-term goals are mentioned
underneath:
 Starting another career
 Travelling
 Buying a house
Discuss long-term goals with three examples.
Long-term aspirations refers to the aspirations that a person want to achieve in his near
future. These aspirations are essential for creating a successful career. A planning and time-
management is required by the person in order to gain the long-term aspirations. They are the
ones that takes longer period of time and cannot be attained this week, month or year. These
goals are generally many years away (Niculescu, Sterca and Bufnea, 2020). It requires many
steps to achieve the long-term goals. These steps can be short-term goals. For example, GED
exams can be a long-term aspiration of a person. This could take many years of going colleges
and educating. Going to next standard can be a short-term goals, accomplishing such goals can
support a person to reach the long-term goal. The examples of long-term goals are discussed
below:
 Get promoted to a managerial position at work.
 Become a thought leader in the industry.
 Earn a professional certificate.
Importance of PDP.
Personal and professional development plan can be explained as an official record of
individual's skills, abilities, core competencies and knowledge that need improvements or
developments (Nkwanyana and Mutereko). It provides a self-evaluation and self-reflection on
what an individual want to attain in his life and how to move forward about it. In an organisation,
for the employees, a PDP acts as a source of inspiration, discovery and motivation. For
employers, it can be used a basis of performance appraisals. They communicate overall aims and
objectives, but they can also encourage to be focused on the development. It provides a reason
and something to work towards, whether it is new skills, qualification or promotion. It
encourages individuals to seek out growth opportunities in order to develop, learn and study. It is
a resourceful investment that helps an individual to manages his life in a productive way and to

focus on areas of development to get rid off hurdles in the growth such as lack of skills or
knowledge. This allows a person to be proactive in his work rather than wait for things to be
done automatically. A person takes required steps to make things possible in his favour. While
considering a personal and professional development plan, it is necessary to know the strong and
weak points of a person (Raiker, 2020). One must understand the fact that success cannot be
achieved all time but will provide an useful experience for his life. PDP consists with
commitment towards goals that means various types of goals must be attained within a certain
time-frame. It works as a roadmap in a person's life that delivers right directions to make a bright
future and career. This involves various resources through which a person can improve his
knowledge and skills. The value and significance of PDP is discussed below:
 It helps a person to become more dedicated, encouraged and enthusiastic towards his
work.
 It aids to maintain work and personal life.
 It outlines specific goals of a person.
 It helps an individual to face difficult and challenging situations.
 It aids in identifying the weak points in which a person is lacking.
 It creates growth opportunities for a person.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is concluded that a person should identify various
aspirations that he wants to achieve in his career. Personal development plan act as a significant
role in a person's life in order to detect the key areas which needs development. This plan helps
to improve the job performance and create a bright future. Developing skills and knowledge can
help a person to boost various skills which can be used in his further life.

REFERNCES:
Books and Journals:
ALVARADO, M. S. R. A .A., 2020. UNIVERSIDAD DE EL SALVADOR AUTHORITIES.
Buendía, X. P. and Macías, D. F., 2019. The professional development of English language
teachers in Colombia: A review of the literature. Colombian Applied Linguistics
Journal, 21(1), pp.98-111.
Esterhuizen, P., 2019. Reflective practice in nursing. Learning Matters.
Jack, B. A., Kinloch, K. and O’Brien, M. R., 2019. Teaching nurses to teach: A qualitative study
of nurses’ perceptions of the impact of education and skills training to prepare them to
teach end‐of‐life care. Journal of clinical nursing, 28(9-10), pp.1819-1828.
Mah, J. W. and Doherty, M., 2021. Sensorimotor Intervention Group for Children with ADHD
and Sensory Processing Difficulties: A Feasibility Study. Journal of Child and Family
Studies, 30(2), pp.447-459.
Niculescu, V., Sterca, A. and Bufnea, D., 2020, November. Agile and cyclic learning in teaching
parallel and distributed computing. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSOFT
International Workshop on Education through Advanced Software Engineering and
Artificial Intelligence (pp. 27-33).
Nkwanyana, B. and Mutereko, S., Human Capital Development for Public Governance in South
Africa.
Raiker, A., 2020. Praxis, pedagogy and teachers’ professionalism in England Praksa, pedagogika
in učiteljska strokovnost v Angliji.
Tangney, S., 2018. Promoting engagement, active learning and student ownership. In Transition
In, Through and Out of Higher Education (pp. 81-112). Routledge.
Turganalina, Z., 2020. Criteria-Based Assessment in Kazakhstani Mainstream Schools:
Teachers’ Perspectives and Experiences.

APPENDIX
Personal Development Plan:
Skills Goals Importance Actions Time-duration
Time-
management
skills
Short-term
goals
Time
management
skills are very
important in a
person's life in
order to increase
productivity and
enhance focus
in working
It will also help
me to reduce
procrastination
and distractions.
Through good
time
management I
can control my
time to boost
productivity.
And it will also
help me to
complete work
which is in
priority list in a
simplest and
easiest way.
In order to manage
my time effectively I
will make a priority
list in order to
complete those task
which needs urgency
and have certain time
limit for the
completion. I will
also make plans for
each activities and
tasks that my seniors
give me and try to
execute plans
accordingly. I can
also develop and
manipulate strategies
to complete those
task in an effective
way.
1 year
Leadership Medium term In an In order to develop 2 years

skills goals organisation,
leadership skill
plays an
important role
in in influencing
and inspiring
others. It is very
significant for
developing my
career.
Managing and
leading people
will help me to
acquire my
dream
achievements.
leadership
skills within
me, I came
across
several
management
courses from
reputable
universities
so that I can
develop the
leadership
skills within
me. Hence,
this
management
skill will
help to
achieve my
career
aspirations
(Turganalina,
2020)
.
Problem-
solving skills
Long-term
goals
As I want to
develop my
career in
management
field, it is
important for
me to improve
With an intent to
develop
problem
solving skills
within me,
reading
journals and
5 years

my problem-
solving skills in
order to help my
juniors in their
issues which
affects their
performance.
By enhancing
problem-solving
skills within me
I can better
manage and
solve the things
in the company.
books can be
a better
option for
me to
analyse
different
situations
and take
appropriate
decisions
according to
them. By
developing
hypothetical
situations I
can provide
different
solutions in a
best possible
way
(Tangney,
2018).