Personal Development: Importance of Short, Medium and Long Term Goals

Report on Personal
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Personal and professional development.................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
Value of short-term goals.......................................................................................................2
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................2
Value of medium term goals..................................................................................................2
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................3
Value of Long term goals.......................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
References:.......................................................................................................................................5
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................5
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................6
Personal Development Plan....................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are the abilities possessed by a student the form of habits talents skills that
facilitates an individual to effectively perform their academic activities such as presentations,
research writing, learning, report writing, during the academic year(Mason and et. al., 2017).
Academic skills are vital for a student as it motivates and encourages a student to perform best in
studies and to recognise as a scholar and outshine among other students of classroom. Good
academic skills also help in student to build an outstanding professional career. Students are
required to timely recognise their academic skills and develop a personal development plan in
order to overcome the weak skills by effectively developing and enhancing them. In order to gain
academic skills an individual is required to develop their short term medium term and long term
goals the present report will discuss the value of these goals along with the personal development
plan a framework that will reflect skills required to be obtained using a particular plan and
measures within a timeframe.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Personal and professional development
Personal and professional development is a process of self learning and assessment engaging into
learning activities which will help an individual to give skills and goals for the life that will help
in the personal and professional career (Kosovich, Flake and Hulleman, 2017). Personal
development is the enlargement of the individual skills and capabilities with the aim to enhance
and develop skills which will help in individual to deliver and performance that will provide a
growth in personal and professional life and career. For personal and professional development
some basic skills that are required to be developed are time management, communication,
presentation skills and many more. Professional development is important as it helps in
individual to attend the accurate path for job thereby improving the knowledge and skills during
the working period through training and development sessions and by analysing the Peer work. It
is very essential for an individual to continuously develop their personal and professional skills
in order to attain short term and long term goals of the life and to build an exceptional
personality that will differentiable from the other individuals in a positive manner. Any
drawback or shortcoming in the skills can be turned into an opportunity by developing a personal
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