Personal Development: Importance of Goals and Personal Development Plan

This article discusses the importance of personal and professional development, short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, and personal development plans. It explains how academic skills can help in personal and professional development, and how setting goals can motivate and guide individuals towards achieving their desired outcomes. The article also highlights the benefits of having a personal development plan, such as improving existing skills, building relationships, and increasing effectiveness.

Academic Skills and
Personal
Development Plan
Title:
Personal
Development

Table of Content
Introduction
Main Body
Concept of personal and professional development
Value of short term goals
Value of mid term goals
Value of long term goals
Value of personal development plans
Conclusion
References
Introduction:
Academic skills are the type of skills that are helpful for the development of an individual in
context of making strategies for personal and profession development. The skills helps in

motivating the person to stay focused on the goals they have targeted on, these skills even develops
a new way of thinking for the betterment of the personality development. Academic skills not just
help in staying focused, it even improves the communication skills be it verbal or written. It
improves the reasoning ability of the students and the capability to analysis the data in the most
suitable manner. These skills will not only help the students in their school or university time but
also during their service time as it will benefit them in making quick decisions, grasp the
information easily and work according to it and even do multiple task in a short span of time. The
skills are related to time management, research skills,self discipline, critical thinking and many
more. (Avlaev., 2020.)
Personal and Profession Development:
Personal and professional development is a manner in which an individual can measure their
own talent, skills and even their abilities. This strategy helps in making aims for their future life that
is waiting ahead for them, it helps in setting goals that the best and realist for in nature. This gives a
sense of realization to an individual and maximise their true potential.
Personal Development:
It is a development which last with an individual for life long and can be worked on it, at
any point of time and at any stage. In this development the person assess their own talents, qualities
and even get the knowledge about the dis qualities within them on which they need to work.
Personal development helps in setting an appropriate life goal which will improve the lifestyle of
the person, this even helps in building confidence within an individual.(Lejeune., 2021.) There is an
importance of personal development according to Maslow and it is know as the Abraham Malow's
process of self- actualisation and states that every individual have an in built need for personal
development.
The personal development can fall in different categories which are mental in this an
individual trains or exercises the brain and stay mentally fit, spiritual maintaining peace, doing
medication, social this helps and improves the communication skills, manner of dealing with group
of people, emotional its a ability to deal with emotional intelligence and understand the feelings to
deal with thoughts and actions and lastly physical it is combination of mental ,social and emotional
development, in this the nutrition, exercise and the amount of sleep affects the physical
development.
Professional Development:
This development deals with the upbringing of the abilities that related to the professional

life of an individual. In this its all about doing training, getting enrolled in the certification courses
that would be beneficial in the professional development. There are educators that help in training
to excel in the field of their profession, there are necessary skills that an individual should know for
not lacking behind their team members like able to analysis the given task, perform in a group task
may be as a leader or a team member. Job training is an essential part of the profession
development, the training should be held in the office within the first week of the job so that the
person is aware about the job. This development is beneficial to both the employee and employer.
Through this skill of development new doors get opened offering new opportunities as the
employee will be more productive, efficient and trained.(Neenan., 2020)
Value of short- term Goals:
The value of short term goals may be for achieving the desired set goals in a very short span
of time. These goals give you an idea as to where you want to see yourself from your current
position. The goals which are specific, measurable are referred as the short term goals, they may be
achieved within 12 months or even in lesser time span. These kind of goals are achievable, and are
much easier to accomplish.
Importance of the Short term Goals:
Setting short term goals gives to a sense of staying focus on your target. It even gives a
boost to achieve the set goal within the time limit. Set targets that are achievable in nature and then
after achieving the target you will built a self confidence, that gives you a motivation to set even
more targets. With setting short term goals, there comes the ability to manage time effectively, it
makes an individual to be on time for any given task.
 Motivation Enhancement: These types of aims build the motivation of the individual and
helps in allow to get the results more quickly. Basically small achievement can encourage
you to keep going with their objective.(Orme., 2018.)
 Provides a clear path: A task list can complete only with the actions that you take to reach
the ambition. If a person have clear vision in terms of its task by which they focus on its
efforts so it will help them to eliminate wasting time and energy on their activities. Because
a clear direction help to attaining the goal very quickly.
 Reduce procrastination: This is a very important tool in business and life too. Basically it
can hold you back for accomplishing the task. These types of aim stop procrastinating and
the reason is that the goals are more achievable. It help to encourage towards work and to
known them their own capability.

Examples:
1. Learn a foreign language, within a period of 3 months, made me stayed focus on my
learning skills.
2. Targeted to learn the skills of playing chess game, as to play along with my father, I had to
reach my coaching at 5:00pm I use to always stay on time.
3. Submitting of the research paper on the time, while conducting a survey within my area this
even helped me in my communication skills.
Value of Medium- term Goals:
These goals are set exactly after the short term goals are achieved, they can be accomplished
only after the sequence of the short term is fulfilled. The duration of these particular goals are next
fifteen or thirty days it even could be six months.
Importance of the Medium- term goals:
It creates a link between the short term and the long term goals, as medium term goals are
the centre of all the three terms of goals. They work as a medium for creating association between
the other two goals of a worker. Short term goals works as base, which motivates the individual ,
the medium term works as the objective of the task to be achieved by an individual and this is a
great assistant. (Gubbins., 2021)Achieving the medium term goals will bring more closer to the
long term goal, once reaching till this term it works as a motivator to motive the person to quickly
accomplish the set target.
 Creates a link between short-term and long term goals: Medium term targets are the
associations between the other two goals of a worker. Short term act is a base and the more
drawn out ones are the inspiration which are cultivated with the assistance of medium term
objectives. The examples learnt or the propensities adjusted in the brief time frame that
wants upholds in satisfying medium term thoughts.
 Inspiration for persistent objectives: Achieving medium term objectives will help the
assurance of the representative to move further to the drawn out objectives. At the point
when the after effects of these objectives are noticeable in the presentation, they feel
motivated and keep themselves advancing towards it.
 Make a road map for enduring targets: These types of objectives provides a path to the
longer ones. They set a direction that can followed to lead the superior goal of an individual
to be achieved.

Examples:
1. Setting goals of being able to purchase a car from my salary, and that can be achieved by
first setting a short term goal of being employed later on medium term goal to buy a car.
2. Able to purse law degree from a national university as short term goal and then medium
term goal to score the highest on the batch.
3. Be able to pay off the house loan, which I took after achieving my short term goal.
Value of the Long term Goals:
These goals take the longest time in achieving the set goals, such type of goals are time
consuming, require more energy and even dedication. It usually more than year to accomplish the
goal. Such goals are really important as these are the base of whole working and career life. (Borg,.,
2018.)
Importance of Long term goals
These goals provides self enhancement s as it gives satisfaction to the individual for being
able to accomplish the set goal within the time span. It even guides towards the career opportunity
in the future. It even develops the professionalism within the person, as it boost to finish the goal at
a particular set time.
 Self -enhancement: These objectives are a for long time. Consequently they give
satisfactory chance to an individual to constantly work on itself. It helps in building that
improvement as a propensity. It will help in upgrading the productivity and adequacy of the
worker and accomplishing its desires.
 Make the career directions: It defining long haul objectives that will make a person to
choose the bearing it needs to follow. It helps in eliminating that load of exercises which
gets the worker far from the objective. It likewise disposes of the multitude of exercises
which are either time squandering or not important to be performed.
 Development in professionalism: With time all becomes proficient in their work and the
equivalent is finished by the drawn out targets These cravings when achieves with the short
and medium term ones assists a worker with becoming proficient as in these objectives
representative more likely than not acquired different abilities and methods.(Lewko., 2021.)
 Financial extravagance: These types of aims provides financial security to the people for a
long period of time duration and a person tried to focus on safeguard its position in the

business along with handling the bank balance. Both of these dimensions will give them a
monetary protection to its firm employee.
Example:
1. Attending coaching classes to be able to get admission in the top university.
2. Pursue a practice of living a healthy life.
3. Be working in the top MNC for having a secure future.
The Value of a Personal Development Plan:
The personal development plan is used as to keep a documentation of the set goals. It is a
plan in which an individual states all the weakness and strengths to work accordingly on the
betterment of the process of set goals. This plan even helps you in learning new skills which will
improve the portfolio, it even works as a guide in achieving the set goal as it shows the amount of
task still left to achieve the goal. It even motivates in achieving the goal, it brings a clear vision of
reality in front of the individual.
 Make the vision clear-It empowers to have an individual vision of things to come which
gives you a reasonable thought as what and where to remain in next couple of months or a
years and defining its objective in life to makes it simple to arrange an arrangement for
accomplishing your ideal objectives.
 Increase existing skills- It refers to sharpen oneself by focusing on developing areas like
grabbing the opportunities through formal courses and high your past and learn something
new directly from your experience. This will helps to make up itself.
 Drives Satisfaction- An opportunities for self-improvement lacking, individuals move
somewhere else, where development is accessible. These days, cash isn't the main draw that
keeps individuals at a specific employment. They need to learn new things, set up them as a
regular occurrence and see the outcome in further developed usefulness. Thus, it enables
workers to take control, yet not to get controlled.(Callao., 2022.)
 Builds relationship: It alludes to a blend of delicate abilities that can add to the way of
associating with others. An strong professional relationship can assist with discovering some
new information and apply it for future development. Some of examples are relational
abilities, listening abilities, compassion, team building and so forth In short it is a course of
keeping up with associations.
 Improves effectiveness: It empowers individual to produce better results and meet their

target with full efficiency. They must be designed to improve the people. So that they get
mutual benefits by achieving personal as well as corporate objectives.
Conclusion:
As per the analysis of this report it is concluded that the
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