Academic Skills and PDP: Personal and Professional Development Goals

This report discusses the importance of academic skills and personal and professional development goals. It covers short, medium, and long term goals with examples and a personal development plan. The report emphasizes the importance of continuous learning and development for personal and professional growth.

Academic Skills and
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Personal and professional Development.....................................................................................3
Discussion of short term goals and identification of three personal examples 100....................4
Discussion of medium term goals and identification of three personal examples......................5
Discussion of long term goals and identification of three personal examples............................6
Discussion of Personal Development plan and examples of personal development plan:.........7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills refers to those skills which are talent as well as habit that pursuit learning,
presentation, research and report (Carcary, Doherty and Conway, 2019). Thee skills are
important as it improve knowledge, learning and information of a person and make them capable
to bear more responsibility. It allow a person to complete a work in effective manner and also
ensure personal as well as professional development. This project report includes discussion of
personal as well as professional development. It consist discussion of short term, medium term
and long term goals along with example.
TASK
Personal and professional Development
Personal Development:
Personal development refers to a process which consist different activities that develop
capabilities as well as potential of a person, facilitate employability as well as building human
capital which enhance quality of life along with realisation of aspiration and dreams (Charlton,
2018). It is life long process which take place over lifespan of individual and is not limited with
different stage of life of a person. It helps a person to assess different qualities and skills that
consider aims and goals in life to realise their potential. It is important in life of an individual for
various reason which are mentioned below:
Clarity of vision of a person: Personal development helps a person to have vision in their life
related to future that provide clear idea to a person about where they will be in future.
Understanding of targets as well as destination in life make it easier for a person to plan things in
effective manner which allow them to attain their goals.
Sharpening existing skills: Personal development ensure learning and growing of knowledge of
a person. It allow an individual to sharpen their skills and allow them to focus on different
developing areas with identification of weakness (Corpus, 2018). It provide individual different
learning opportunities which they can get from different formal courses. It helps them to reflect
on past as well as learning directly from their experience.
Open up about talent: Personal development is important as it enable a person to identify
hidden talent among them. Talent includes things in which a person is excellent which boost
confidence in a person in which they are good. It helps individual to do things in relatively easy

manner and make a person more comfortable about it. It reduce needs of supervision of work of
a person and make a person excellent in doing work.
Professional Development:
Professional Development refers to learning of a person to earn as well as maintaining
professional credentials like academic degree to formal coursework, informational learning
opportunities, attending conference in practice (Dennis, Bailey and Abbott, 2018). There are
different approaches to be adopted by a person for professional development like coaching,
lesson study, reflective supervision, technical assistance, consultation and many more. It can be
considered as training as well as education of an individual related to career. Main goals of
professional development is to keep current trends up to date to develop new skills which ensure
advancement. Importance of Professional development in life of a person is mentioned below:
Expand knowledge base of a person: Professional development can be take place with
continuous education opportunities which can be provided to experience as well as young
professionals for new ideas, increasing expertise as well as solidify their knowledge base.
Individual who get these learning opportunity which get benefits of it as it expand their learning
and knowledge base.
Boost confidence: Professional development increase expertise in a person which also increase
confidence in a person (Cox, Mulherin and Walter, 2018). It is one of important aspect in all
types of industry which can be develop through online courses, training opportunity which allow
individual to boost their credibility and confidence with acquisition of new skills as well as
professional destinations.
Increase earning as well as potential hire ability: Professional development provide
continuous education which helps a person to increase their earning as well as future hire ability
of a person on basis of increasing knowledge and enhancement of skills. It consist credentials,
certification, designation which can be accessed and obtained with increasing values of a person.
Discussion of short term goals and identification of three personal examples 100
Short term goals: Short term goals refers to those goals which can be attained by a person in near
future. These goals are easy which can be achieve by a person within few week, month or within
a year. These goals are those which a person wants to attain soon and does not require much time
and efforts. These goals are important in life of a person due to various reason which are as
follows:

Increase focus: Short term goals are those goals which provide clear focus as well as direction
in life of a person as it helps them to achieve what they want. It increase their motivation along
with productivity and allow a person to focus on their plans and actions.
Improve self confidence: Goals set by a person should be smart which includes specific,
measurable, attainable (Newman-Ford, 2018). It boost excitement as well as motivation of a
person which helps them to motivate emotionally and engage them intellectually. Goals of a
person can be more and more powerful in situation where they can achieve these goals. It boost
self confidence as well as esteem of a person.
Examples of Short term goals:
 Learning French is one of my short term goal as I needs to learn French language to
improve my language skill. It will also helps me in future to find out more opportunities
in life.
 Learning computer course as I have lack of technical ability and in order to improve my
this weakness, I join computer classes to learn computer. It is one of require skills for
every job as due to advancement of technology, people are using computers and software
for every purpose.
 Writing my resume is another short term goals as in order to apply for a job or finding a
career opportunity, I needs to prepare my resume which contain my academic and
personal information.
Discussion of medium term goals and identification of three personal examples
Medium Term goals: Medium term goals are those goals which are attained after short term
goals and provide a base for long term goals (Page, Nimon-Peters and Urquhart, 2021). These
goals can be attained in lesser time than long term goals. Medium term goals can be attained
after attainment of short term goals which provide flexible scenario. It is as set of goals which is
existed between short term and long term goals. As long term goals take more time for
attainment, medium term goals helps a person to increase their motivation as it can be attained in
less time and with less efforts. It is important in life of a person for various reason which are
mentioned below:
Increase motivation: Medium term goals can be attained in less time in compare to long term
goals which increase their motivation. It also require less efforts and attainment of these goals
increase motivation of a person.

Consistent efforts: Medium term goals allow individual to make consistent efforts towards
success and allow them to attain long term goals which helps them to get success. It improve
trust as well as morale of individual which boost their optimism for attainment of long term
goals.
Examples of Medium term goals:
One of my medium term goals is to pass semester exams with getting good grades as it helps to
build good image in minds of professor (Sally, 2018). It provide different opportunity to
individual for building their career.
Saving money n end of the year for learning new courses which improve my capability and
provide me opportunity to build career in specific field. It provide me additional skills which
make me different from other individual.
Building network is another medium term goals as it provide me different opportunities. These
people provide me information where hiring is available and recommend me which helps me to
get good grades in exams.
Discussion of long term goals and identification of three personal examples
Long term goals: Long term goals refers to those goals which take time time, planning and
efforts for accomplishments. These goals require years and also take much efforts. These goals
are related to future period of time a it is prepared for future and require proper time and
planning for attainment (Sampaio, Bastos and Marinho, 2021). There are different steps to be
require for attainment of these goals which provide success in personal as well as professional
life of a person. It is important in life of a person for various reason which are as follows:
Clarity: Having clear goals increase motivation of a person and also provide them transparency
for future. It is important for a person to set long term goals as it provide them clarity and
provide roads to reach there. It increase their focus towards attainment of goals and allow them
to move there.
Empowerment: Attainment of long term goals empower a person as person as it require lots of
efforts to attain these types of goals. It helps them to gain different types of knowledge,
information as for attainment of these goals, a person first needs to attain short term as well as
long term goals.
Examples of Long term goals:

Completion of graduation in well recognised colleges where I can get opportunity to improve my
skills and knowledge. It helps me to build my career and develop new skills in me that make me
efficient from others.
Identification of job opportunities is my another goals which is important for purpose of earning
money. Ultimate aim of life of a person is to earn money as it provide them freedom in life.
Getting promotion opportunities in life of a person is another goals (Szenasi and Hey, 2020). It
provide new learning opportunity and make a person more responsible. It increase responsibility
as well as salary of a person which make them satisfied.
Discussion of Personal Development plan and examples of personal development plan:
Personal development plan refers to a action plan which is used to identify individual goals and
action to be taken for attainment of these goals. It ensure improvement in a person and develop
different skills which allow them to meet their goals.
Skills to be
developed
Development Plan Resources Target Date
Communication
skills
Communication skills is
one of important skill which
helps to transfer
information, ideas, thoughts
from one person to another.
It is important on both
academic as well as
professional life of a
person. In order to develop
these skills, a person needs
to join online courses or
needs to join any institute.
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Developing
network
Developing network is
another medium term goal
which helps individual to
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find out best opportunities.
It helps them to identify
connect with new people
and learn new things from
them. For attainment of this
goals, it is important for a
person to attend different
seminars, conference and
other event organised at
college level.
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Becoming a
manager
It is one of long term goal
of a person which provide
them opportunity to learn
new things and gain work
experience. It helps them to
develop new skills and
work with dedication.
Doing work with dedication
and handwork provide them
opportunity for career
advancement.
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CONCLUSION
From above mentioned project report, it can be concluded that academic skills can be developed
through education and training which helps a person to attain their career goals. These skills
ensure personal as well as professional development. There are different types of goals set by a
person in their life which provide them direction to attain what they want. These goals includes
short , medium and long term goals.

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