Concept of Personal and Professional Development

This document discusses the concept of personal and professional development and its importance in achieving goals and enhancing career. It explores the value of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals and provides examples for each. It also highlights the significance of a Personal Development Plan in self-improvement and career 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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long term goals in order to develop or build a successful career. It requires both time and
planning as it is away though which people can plan their career. It normally takes 12 months or
more to fulfil or accomplish long term goals. Three personal examples of long- term goals are as
follows:
 Want to complete graduation with honours and secure a job within three years of completing
graduation.
 Publish an academic paper on programming before graduation completion
 To become a full stack developer and master both back-end and front-end development in
next three years
Value of a Personal Development Plan
Personal development plan can be defined as a self-reflection account that helps an
individual to identify their weaknesses and bring improvement within oneself. It is kind of
detailed action plan that helps an induvial in achievement of their academic, personal and career
goals. This personal development plan is mostly developed by an individual within their
workplace or working environment. It mostly helps an individual in identifying their strengths
and weaknesses and identify ways in which they can bring improvement within themselves. But
most importantly it helps an individual to identify difference between career chosen by you and
career which is for you. It further helps an individual in taking responsibility of their own
learning and development. Example of a Personal Development Plan as per my short, medium-
and long- term goals are as follows:
Focus Area Learning goals Ways to achieve those
goals
Ways to measure
achievement of
those goals
Time period
Academic Bring
improvement
within
academic
grades
Develop a learning
schedule in which I will
distribute time required for
all the academic areas or
subjects. Attend coaching
classes for bringing
improvement within
academic subjects
Results of mid tern
test, assignment
results, feedback
from lecturers can
help in measuring
achievement of this
goal
6 months
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Research skills Enhance
research skills
so that I can
publish my own
academic paper
Attend training sessions,
water tutorials, internet
Feedback from
mentors and
successful
publishing of
academic paper
6 months
TASK TWO
ways in which ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ can affect source use
Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance affects use of a source in many ways. Authors
do affect upon relevance of information with topic. It helps in identify whether Author has
focused upon intended audience or not. Purpose helps in identifying whether the information
reader is looking for is correct for their research or not. Relevance helps in identifying whether
source has the content which is important for reader or not. Whereas reliability helps the readers
in understand whether the research consist of a credible evidence that can help readers in
understanding that information in source is reliable.
TASK THREE
Sources evaluation used for report plan
Source Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
Demir, 2017. It does focus upon
intended audience
Information
required by the
research is correct
It is based on
primary research
so it can be said
that information
in source is
reliable
It is related to
topic
Clark and et.al., 2020. Author has
explained research
though theoretical
framework
Information
required by the
research is correct
It is based on
secondary
research so it
cannot be said
that information
in source is
It is related to
topic
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reliable
Datu, Yuen and Chen, 2018 It directly focuses
upon topic
Information
required by the
research is resent
It is based on both
primary and
secondary
research so it can
be said that
information in
source is reliable
It is related to
topic
Pugh and Broome, 2020 Author has focused
upon learning only
Information
required focuses
upon adult and
cognitive learning
It is based on
secondary
research so it can
be said that
information in
source is reliable
It is related to
topic
Hildebrand, 2018. Author has focused
upon personal and
professional
development
Information
required focuses
only upon PPD
It is a training
module based
upon PPD
It is related to
topic
Bintani, 2020 It does focus upon
learning activities
of students
Information
required by the
research is related
to learnin activities
of students
It is based on
secondary
research and is
reliable because it
is distributed
under the CC BY-
NC license
It is related to
topic
Kivimäkiand Meriluoto,
2018
It does focus upon
intended audience
Information
required by the
research is correct
It is based on
primary research
so it can be said
that information
in source is
reliable
It is related to
topic
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Greenan, 2016 It does focus upon
students
Information
required by the
research is related
and helps students
to plan studies
It is based on
secondary and
primary research
both
It is related to
topic
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bintani, K., 2020, August. Personal Development Plan as a Guidance and Counseling Strategy in
Higher Education. In 2nd International Seminar on Guidance and Counseling 2019
(ISGC 2019) (pp. 18-22). Atlantis Press.
Clark, D., and et.al., 2020. Using goals to motivate college students: Theory and evidence from
field experiments. Review of Economics and Statistics, 102(4). pp.648-663.
Datu, J.A.D., Yuen, M. and Chen, G., 2018. Exploring determination for long-term goals in a
collectivist context: A qualitative study. Current Psychology. 37(1). pp.263-271.
Demir, A., 2017. Importance of data analysis on achieving the organizational goals during the
short term strategic plan: Case of service quality and students’ satisfaction level at Ishik
University. International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies. 3(3). p.110.
Greenan, P., 2016. Personal development plans: insights from a case based approach. Journal of
Workplace Learning.
Hildebrand, J., 2018. Bridging the gap: A training module in personal and professional
development. Routledge.
Kivimäki, V. and Meriluoto, S., 2018. Holistic Perspective to Individual Study Plan: Personal
Development Project Plan. Studies in health technology and informatics. 256. pp.514-
526.
Pugh, M. and Broome, N., 2020. Dialogical coaching: An experiential approach to personal and
professional development. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and
Research. 72(3). p.223.
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