Concept of Personal and Professional Development

ACADEMIC SKILLS AND
PDP

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TASK ONE......................................................................................................................................1
Concept of personal and professional development....................................................................1
Value of short- term goals...........................................................................................................1
Value of medium- term goals......................................................................................................1
Value of long- term goals............................................................................................................1
Value of a Personal Development Plan.......................................................................................2
TASK TWO.....................................................................................................................................3
ways in which ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ can affect source use..................3
TASK THREE.................................................................................................................................3
Sources evaluation used for report plan.......................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

TASK ONE
Concept of personal and professional development
Personal and professional development can be defined as a kind of process though which
an individual can engage in a process of learning so that they can meet or achieve their desired
goals and overcome challenges faced by them. It also helps in fulfilling learning and
development needs of an individual. It helps an individual in learning and developing important
skills such as time management, leadership skills, stress management, multi- tasking and many
more. It is important for an individual to focus upon making a personal and professional
development plan so that they achieve their target, goals and enhance their professional career.
Value of short- term goals
Short term goals are extremely important for an individual to be developed because it
helps an individual in aligning their resources and develop a path of success. It helps an
individual in minimizing procrastination. It further helps a person on focusing upon one thing at
a time and enhance their productivity so that they can achieve their long- term goals quickly and
easily. Three personal examples of short- term goals are as follows:
 Bring improvement with academic grades.
 Progress in project and complete it within defined time period
 Finding an internship for training
Value of medium- term goals
Medium term goals are also important for an individual as these goals helps an individual
in making significant progress within their careers. These goals can take from two months to
three years. These goals are set and achieved in such a manner that values and priorities of an
individual are not impacted and remains same. Three personal examples of medium- term goals
are as follows:
 Achieve 70 percent or above in final term examination.
 Figure out career track that I would like to pursue after graduation
 Work on a live project in a reputed organization in order to gain professional working
experience that would help me in developing professional career after graduation
Value of long- term goals
Long term goals are extremely important for an individual to develop as it helps them in
getting a clarity of things they want to achieve in future. It is important or an individual t develop
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