Personal Development: Goals and Plans

This report discusses personal and professional development, short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, and personal development plans. It explains the importance of personal development and how to develop skills. The report also provides examples of goals and plans for personal development.

Personal development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development......................................................................4
Discussion and values of short- term goal with identifying three personal examples.................5
Discussion and values of medium - term goal with identifying three personal examples............6
Discussion and values of long term goals with identifying three personal examples...................7
Discussion of Personal development plan.....................................................................................8
CONCLUSION .................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is a process which helps to develop the potential and capabilities of
an individual. It is a lifelong process which helps the peoples to assess their qualities, skills, their
aims and also set some goals in their life to realise and maximise their potentials. It include the
improving career, improvement in self- awareness, fulfilling the aspirations and development of
strength and talents etc. it also involve formal and the informal activities rather than limited only
self- help in order to developing other roles such as counselor, teacher, manager and mentor. It
include the assessment of a person's talent and their skills. It leads to realization of improvement
in quality of an individual's life (Hayashi and Seidenman, 2020).This report will include the
concept of professional and personal development with their different types of the goals, values of
their all types of goals and evaluation of their various sources.
Concept of personal and professional development
Personal development process help to an individual to improve their knowledge . It is that
attitude which is helpful in importing their life, work on their attitude , increase awareness and
develop their skills. With the help of personal development a person can build their confidence
and higher quality life. This skill can be in the form of soft skill and technical skill. All these skills
cane be developed by performing the self- analysis on the our areas for the betterment and
significant abilities to advancement in career or industry. An individual can become a competitive
candidates in any field by focusing on transferable abilities. It is very important for a person in
many ways:
 It is helpful in providing a sense of direction to accomplish the goals and it make decision
making very easy or simple.
 It is essential for self awareness and make enable to get know about the purpose, beliefs
and values.
 After the improvement in personal development,our prioritization become very simple and
quickly determine the best suitable plan (Howarth and et. al., 2021).

Professional development is a process with the objective of increasing and improving the skills
and capabilities of the organisation's staff by providing the facilities of training opportunities and
the education within the organisation. It refers to the continuing educations and other career
trainings after a person entered in the workforce to help them in the development of their talents,
abilities, skills and stay up to date on the current trends. With the help of this activity, workers can
easily learn essential skills to become more productive for the organisation. Now day's the
professional world rapidly becoming competitive and changing continuously. So the professional
development is very important for an individual because,
 It keeps professionals current an the industry trends by learning new opportunities in this
industry.
 It also provide networking opportunities like conference, workshops and new networking
events by meet new peoples.
 It increases the earning potential and boost employee's confidence by expanding their
knowledge base (Nasir and et. al., 2021).
Discussion and values of short- term goal with identifying three personal examples
Short term goals are those, which we want to accomplish in our near future or as soon as
possible. These goals are created for the short time purpose and for 12 months or less than it.
These are helpful to achieve long term goals. It is very easier and simple to accomplish these short
term goals. Short term goals are less ambitious and it require less efforts than the life changing
goals. These goals are basically measurable and achievable for an individual. Short term goals are
better for an individual's career to achieve their professional aspirations and more productive at the
workplace. These goals helps us at the personal level as well as the professional level.
 Boost confidence- It is easier to setting short term goals than the setting long term goals. It
allows us to realize outcome more quickly. Every small accomplishment or achievement
help to motivate an individual to continue on with their goals and also allow them to build-
up their strength to keep moving progressive.
 Provide clear directions- The achievement of short term goal with action and effort
provide a clear direction for futures goals. It helps in preventing the time waste on such

activities which don not allows us to further our goals. A clear goal direction helps an
individual in maintaining their focus on productive goals (Rough and Cowan, 2020).
 Promote career- Continue setting and the achievement of short term goals is a significant
key to moving ahead in the professional life. Without any goals, it is very difficult to
making progress within a years and it create distraction at the time of work. A goal allow
an individual no to lose the sight of their long term career goals.
Examples-
 Improving the networking and communication skills.
 Develop confidence to meet the long term objectives naturally.
 Every day explore something new to unleash the inner capabilities.
Discussion and values of medium - term goal with identifying three personal examples
These goals are set between the short term which can be achieved and the long term goals
which needs a long time period to accomplished. The medium term goals are achieved with in a
time of 3 to 5 years. These goals should be simple and easy to access, these goals need to be smart
which is relevant to the the long term goal of an individual. If a person want to accomplish
something big, then they need to be stretch the goals. The medium term goals make feel bigger
and audacious, it accomplishment of these goal make enable to imagine about the next step. These
types of goals can be related to the skills, career, finance and education.
 Give a vision for the long term goals- The medium term goal is align with the long term
goal. After the attainment of medium term goals, it give a clear vision to set long term
goals and make enable to achieve it. When an individual accomplish these goals, then they
get the ideas about their next long term goal and focuses on working it (Siddiqui and et. al.,
2021).
 Bridge between the short term and long term goals- The mid term goals act as a bridge
between another short term and the long term goals. These goals are short enough to make
the progress and other priorities and long enough that make some significant progress . An
individual can set the medium term goals through the year in case of changing in values
and priorities.
 Motivation- The mid term goals verify the progress of an individual to ensure that they are
on right track. It also motivate them to work and more efforts toward their long term goals.

These goals helps in the setting of many medium term goals over the course of their
lifetime.
Examples-
 Development of the new product and services in the market
 Get a degree from the university within 3 years.
 Build the work experience in the organisation for personal growth.
Discussion and values of long term goals with identifying three personal examples
These are those goals which can be achieved in the future and take several year to
accomplish. The set up of long term goals is considered as healthy practise for an individual. It
helps them to develop a clear mindset that increase their focus on career. These gaols are very
important for the professional career and it need various steps , including completion of the short
term goals. It give a sense of purpose and clear direction to an individual and allow them to see
obstacle and shape their interaction within their environment. These goals have measurable and
specific points to identify the time period of their accomplishment. They has long time for
deadline and tied to the result that the individual want to generate (Tang and et. al., 2021).
Importance of the long term goals
 Financial stability– The long term goals help an individual to maintain their financial
stability and the security. The knowledge and understanding of their earning potential in
their whole professional career helps them to make smart and informed decision related to
the investment.
 Anticipate barriers and problems- The long term objectives allow to anticipate the
possible obstacles on the way of our success. If an individual wants to start a new business
or want to expand their business, then it will provide them a clear picture about how their
business will operate and give opportunities to them to anticipate the possible problems.
 Professional development- For the professional development the long term goals helps in
increasing good skills and the experience of a long time period and several years. It is also
helpful in to get promotion on a senior position and increase efficiency ( Weidner, 2021).
Examples-
 Setting up a new business within a time period.

 Reach and maintain our ideal body weight.
 Learn a new software program to develop skills and testability.
Discussion of Personal development plan
It is also know as PDP and it is the self evaluation that is used within the organisation and
higher education. It is beneficial for the mental health and help to reduce the stress and anxiety.
The personal development plan is used by the workers within the organisation as a part of
appraisal process. This plan is very complex and has been interpreted in various ways. It allows an
individual to set a clear , detailed and the achievable goal. They can priorities those objective
which matter most to them. It enable an individual to set the milestones and their final deadlines to
take suitable actions to achieve the goals. The personal development plan helps to bring the vision
into reality and make it very easy to hold themselves for their success. The PDP is very essential
for an individual because of many reasons, which are given below:
 It help a person to determine their weakens and strength and also about their impact within
the organisation. They find the positive points and continue it to improve their efficiency
in order to overcome their weakness.
 It provide a clear vision to an individual and make enable them to accomplish it with the
use of better time (Terroso, Sampaio and Vilaça, 2020).
 It serves a large number of the purpose and helps to meet personal and professorial
objectives.
 At personal level, it help to maintain mental health and the self esteem of an individual
and also build a good relationship and the networks.
 At the professional level, it helps to learning new skills and also provide new career
opportunities.
CONCLUSION
From this report it is concluded that personal development is a significant component to
improve ourselves at the personal level as well as professional level. It is helpful in improving the
inner development of an individual in a positive way. It is also useful in increasing the soft skills

for the development and growth. Peoples set their goals according to short-term, medium-term and
long term goal for their personal development. Every businesses and big organisations also set
these plan to achieve the organisational objectives and for their survival in the market. The
professional development helpful in increasing the aspirations, commitment and the productivity
of the workers by setting up goals and accomplish them within a given timer period. The
professional development offer development opportunities and higher retention to their
employees. By the personal development plan employees get to know about their all strength and
weakness and also their capabilities skills. The persona development plan make enable them to
increase their abilities and skills in the efficient and effective manner.

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Personal level development plan
Skills to be developed Developed plan Resources
Communication skill I am taking online classes Shohag, 2020.
Papanek, 2021.
Get a degree from abroad I am attending colleges
regularly
Giancarli, and et. al., 2020
Lima and et. al., 2020.
Set up own business I am working on professional
skills and development
Belaire and et. al., 2020.
Bian and et. al.,2021