Academic Skills and PDP

ACADEMIC SKILLS AND PDP

Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development...........................................................................3
Value of short term goals...................................................................................................................3
Value of medium term goals..............................................................................................................3
Value of long term goals....................................................................................................................3
Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development Plan.........................................4
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Professional growth is all about gaining new skills and experience. That means your
development is either related to your current role or the role you want to do next. Personal
development fits alongside professional growth so if you want to progress in your career,
you'll need to develop personally first. This report highlights issues such as Concept of
personal and professional development, Value of short, medium and long term goals. Apart
from that it also involves Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development
Plan.
Concept of personal and professional development
Concept behind the aspect of personal and professional development by evolving
abilities possessed by different individuals they can learn new things which can help them to
manage their work and that will help them to keep up with change. With the help of such
things individual will be able to make progress in their career. They need to make sure that
they never leave the side of training or learning more things because more knowledge they
gain more beneficial it will be for them. The whole motive and purpose of this concept is to
keep on improving self skills in order to get better (Pérez Cavana and Lowe, 2018).
Value of short term goals
Short term goals are the starting journey for the individual and path for them which if
achieved in the right manner can make the way for medium or long term goal. By the
progress they have made in time they can make sure that how far they have come along from
the point they started. It is believed by many individuals that in order to achieve goals for
long term it is important to break them in short term. For instance, goals such as improving
reading skills and working on oral and written form of communication will be part of short
term goals (Sasson and Miedijensky, 2020).
Value of medium term goals
Mid term goal offers best between both the goals which will be long enough to make
progress that will be significant and will also cover a short state so that individual does not
change with time by the time they have achieved that goal. Another benefit for mid term goal
is that duration for this goal can be set over their lifetime. Although there are not many
people who prefers to do that (Wailey and Sambade).