Importance of Personal & Professional Development and Value of Short, Medium, and Long-Term Goals

This report discusses the importance of personal and professional development and the value of short, medium, and long-term goals. It explores the concept of personal development plans and provides steps to create an effective plan. The report also includes examples of short, medium, and long-term goals and their benefits.

Individual Report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal & professional development...................................................................................3
Value of short-term goals........................................................................................................................4
Value of medium-term goals,..................................................................................................................5
Value of long-term goals.........................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................8
APPENDICES.............................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Every individual needs to follow appropriate tools and techniques which can help to
improve their knowledge and skills so that individual can easily target to their career
development and boost their performance in academic. In order to make career more bright,
every individual need to pay more attention in their personal and professional development and
create an effective understanding about those skills and knowledge about their career goals. The
main motive of this report is to discuss about the importance of personal & professional
development and define the value of short term, medium term and long term goals so that
individual can effectively achieve these goals. Moreover, this report determines the personal
development plan to improve the skills and knowledge.
MAIN BODY
Concept of personal & professional development.
It is requirements to pay more attention in personal and professional development so that
individual can work on their current skills and knowledge and make plan to improve to develop
new skills as per their career development. Basically personal development plan is considered as
the process which can help to create an appropriate action plan that is based on the knowledge,
capabilities, values, goal setting (Allen-Johnson, 2017). This plan formulates the specific
planning for the development in context of the education, career, and self improvement of the
individual. PDP is like a written document of the self reflection which is useful in improvements
of the career based objects and goals. There are few steps involved in this plan which need to
follow each and every individual so that they can effectively boost their academic performance
level (Buoro and et. al., 2018). The description of all these steps are given below -
 Set goals - In first step, it is necessary to set the goals so that individual can prepare a
plan according to these goals. Individual can set short, medium or long term goals as per
their requirement. Priorities the goals - After set the goal it is necessary to priorities these goals and identify
that which goal is more valuable. Individual need to prepare a list in which they can rank

their goals on the basis of their career need. Individual can analyze do self assessment
and analyze their existing skills and identify those skills which they need to develop.
 Set delaine to achieve the goals- Individual need to set a time line in which they can
challenge themselves to obtain that goal on the specific time period. With the help of
deadline, they can effectively achieve goals (Davies, Curtin and Robson, 2017). Identify opportunities and threats- After set deadline, it is essential to recognize the
opportunities & threats which can help to improve the strength and remove the threats so
that it will make possible to create more future opportunities for the development.
Individual need ro prepare an plan and identify their opportunities and constantly try to
reduce the level of threats. PDP plan helpful to analyze these factors.
 Develop skills and abilities - With the help of effective skills and abilities, individual can
easily obtain their career goals and their dream job role and also perform best in
academic. PDP plan is useful to develop the required skills and knowledge so that
individual can obtain their goals (DiPaola and Wagner, 2018).
 Create and use supported network - It is considered as the necessary steps in which
individual need to create the support network so that they can easily improve their
performance. Individual can contain some people as their support network like teacher s,
family members, mentors, friends and experts. All these people can guide them and
motivate them towards their work.
 Analysis progress - In this last step, individual need to measure the progress and then
prepare a report so that they can easily evaluate their progressive outcome and work
according to their development (Gustafsson and et. al., 2019).
Value of short-term goals
It is prominent to make short term goals because it can help to obtain the success more as
compared to the other goals. It take less time so their is less change of distraction so that
individual can easily concentrate on their goals. Short term goals is like a minimize
procrastination and it lay down an effective clear path which lead the success. The value of these
goals is more because it allows focusing in the single things at one time. This goals is motivated
and encourage the individual and help to initiate to achieve the medium term goals through step
by step achieve the short term goals. This goal helps to provide the quick results so that

individual can boost their confidence level. There are more benefits of short term goals like
provide the great focus on the goals, improve self confidence, time management, measurable
progress, build effective motivate & momentum, overcome procrastination and many more
which can help to attain the goal in a specific period of time ( Mark Pettit, 2020).
My short terms goals
As per the requirement of the career, I have analysed that I need to develop new skills so
that I can effectively overcome the competition level and secure my future with the good job.
The set three short term goals which are discussed below -
1. Keep a Daily Journal - with the help of Personal and professional development plan I
have observed that I need to maintain a journal on daily basis in which I can mention my
daily activities, plans and my whole routine so that I can easily improve my performance
(Ozkaramanli, Özcan and Desmet, 2017).
2. Follow a healthy life style - To get success in an apply manner so it is necessary to pay
more attention on my schedule so that I can prevent myself from the other destructive
activities and concentrate on my career. I need to live a disciplined life so that I can live a
systematic healthy life style which will help me to obtain the long term goals.
3. Play guitar - I am very interested in music and it work like a refreshments and I feel very
energetic. I have a plan to participate in my college musical festival because I am enjoy
music and it provide me strength. So I set a short term plan to learn guitar and I set 4
months deadline so that after 4 months I will participate in my college musical program
and activities and give my best efforts to win the prize .
Value of medium-term goals,
Every individual needs to concentrate on mid term goals because it is very effective and it
more time as compared to the short tem goals. Basically mid term goals provide the best results
so that individual can effectively achieve their day to day operations. This type of goals helps to
make the significant progress and provide the most possible outcome. These goals provide the
more benefits to the individual so that they can effectively manage their life. This goals is
important because individual can set more goals for long dead line ( Zach , 2019).There are
many advantages of midterm goals that individual can consider which will lead the lifelong

development and success. These goals provide the permanent solution to the specific short term
issues. Mid- term goals help to obtain the long term goal so that individual can achieve them
(Tattum and Tattum, 2017).
My midterm goals
With the help of PDP plan, I generalized that I need to follow my passion so that I can
effectively improve my personality so I set three midterm goals so that I can focus on them.
 Certificate course in marketing - I want to build my career in marketing field so that I
have prepared a plan to take certificate course in marketing so that I can join an small
firm for part-time job with my studies. With the help of this course I can take experience
which will help me in my future. Discover new places - I like travelling and visit new location and take pictures for
memory . I also like photography so and I have a good collection of quality picture in
various places. Now I am looking forward to discover new places with my friends. I set a
goal that after my exam me and my friends will go for trip.
 Become independent - I want to become independent that why I set this in to my mid
term goals list. I am trying to get part time job so that I can take care of my own
expenses. I decided that after my marketing certification I will join a firm and start
working.
Value of long-term goals
Long term goals play a crucial role in the development or progress of the future. Long term
goals are helpful for the self improvement and maintain the focus of the individual (Yang, Liu
and Gardella 2020). These type of the goals mainly useful to shape the specific direction in the
development of the career. Individual have more time to focus on their skills and knowledge so
that they can effectively improve new skills and abilities. Individual needs to develop the long
term goals so that they can give more time in career progression. There are some benefits of long
term goals such as Provide an internal compass, challenges to evaluate value, provide more
purpose & drive ( ClutterSavvy, 2019).
My long-term goals

There are some specific long term goal which I determined which are expand below -
 Degree in business administration - as per my interest I decided that i like to shape mu
career in marketing fields so it is necessary for me to pay more attention to learn new
concept of the markets. I am looking forward to take this degree and build my career
brighter so that I can also improve my living standards in the society.
 Learn new skills - To make my career stronger I am set the long term goal in this goal i
will improve those skills which are essential for my career development. I have analysed
that I need to develop leadership skills, critical problems solving skills and make mu base
strong in term of marketing knowledge so that I can use those knowledge to get the job.
 Get job in well established organization - after the patty time job and my degree, I will
try to get the good job. I will provide my job application in various famous organizations
and I also prepared myself for the interview so that during the interview time I will
perform well and it will make possible to get the good job in popular organization.
CONCLUSION
As per this report it can be concluded that every individual need to think about their
career and prepare as personal development plan so that they can effectively develop new skills
and knowledge. This report is discussed about the importance of personal and professional
development and it's benefits. Moreover, this report determined the short , medium and long term
goal . This report also discussed about the personal development plan to identify the. Exist skills
qnr goals and focus on the new goals.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Allen-Johnson, A., 2017. Framework for 21st century school nursing practice: Framing
professional development. NASN School Nurse, 32(3), pp.159-161.
Buoro, S. and et. al., 2018. Short-and medium-term biological variation estimates of red blood
cell and reticulocyte parameters in healthy subjects. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory
Medicine (CCLM), 56(6), pp.954-963.
Davies, K., Curtin, M. and Robson, K., 2017. Impact of an international workplace learning
placement on personal and professional development. Australian occupational therapy
journal, 64(2), pp.121-128.
DiPaola, M. and Wagner, C.A., 2018. Improving instruction through supervision, evaluation,
and professional development. IAP.
Gustafsson, L.K. and et. al., 2019. ‘Best fit’caring skills of an interprofessional team in short‐
term goal‐directed reablement: older adults’ perceptions. Scandinavian journal of
caring sciences, 33(2), pp.498-506.
Ozkaramanli, D., Özcan, E. and Desmet, P., 2017. Long-term goals or immediate desires?
Introducing a toolset for designing with self-control dilemmas. The Design
Journal, 20(2), pp.219-238.
Tattum, D. and Tattum, E., 2017. Social education and personal development. Routledge.
Yang, Y., Liu, X. and Gardella Jr, J.A., 2020. Effects of a professional development program on
science teacher knowledge and practice, and student understanding of interdisciplinary
science concepts. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 57(7), pp.1028-1057.
Online
Mark Pettit , 6 Benefits of Setting Short-Term Goals, 2020, [Online] Available Through <
https://lucemiconsulting.co.uk/short-term-goals/>
Zach , The Value of Setting Mid-Term Goals, 2019, [Online] Available Through <
https://fourpillarfreedom.com/mid-term-goals/#:~:text=A%20mid%2Dterm%20goal
%20offers,the%20course%20of%20your%20lifetime />
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APPENDICES
Value of a Personal Development Plan & construct an example using your identified goals.
Goals Current
Ability
Target Ability Action Judging
Criteria
Time Frame
Play guitar I am
interested in
music but
recently I am
not able to
perform on
guitar.
I am looking
forward to
perform on
my college
musical
program so I
want to learn
how to play
guitar.
I have a plan
to take the
classes from
the tutors and
also take
some online
guidance.
With the help
of my family ,
friends and
teachers I will
analyze my
development.
4 months
Would be
enough to
play guitar.
Certificate
course in
marketing
I want to deep
and good
understanding
and
knowledge
about the
Marketing.
Recently I do
not have good
knowledge
about
marketing.
I will
compete this
certificate
course timely
and learn
various
knowledge.
I will take
admission on
academy so
that I will
take this
certificate and
I will also
follow some
online
channels.
Through my
teachers and
mentors I will
judge my
know about
the marketing
factors.
It can take 12
months.
Learn new
skills
I analyze that
I am good in
leadership
skills and
critical
I target is to
learn these
skills to their
career
To improve
the leadership
and critical
problems
solving , I can
Feedback and
review from
the teachers
and mentors
15 months

problems
solving skills.
brighter. take online
and classes.