Personal Development Plan: Analyzing Goals and Strategies for Growth

This report presents a comprehensive personal development plan, exploring the concepts of personal and professional growth. It defines short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, emphasizing their value in career advancement and skill enhancement. The report discusses strategies for achieving these goals, including the development of research, communication, and decision-making skills. It also highlights the importance of a structured personal development plan for self-improvement and professional success. The report concludes with a personal development plan example, outlining specific objectives and timelines, demonstrating how to effectively manage and achieve personal and professional milestones. This assignment provides valuable insights into the process of self-assessment, goal setting, and strategic planning for career development.

Personal development
plan

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Define the concept of personal and professional development..............................................3
Describe and discuss value of short-term goals.....................................................................4
Describe and discuss value of medium-term goals................................................................5
Describe and discuss value of long-term goals......................................................................5
Describe and discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example
using your identified goals.....................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Personal development plan is explained as the model to analyse the strengths and
weaknesses of the own. Personal development plan helps in setting the goals and objectives for a
time period and helps in setting the strategies to achieve these goals and objectives with
maximum efficiency. This plan also helps in taking the measures to achieve the goals and
objectives which has been made by the individual in the given time period. Personal
development plan helps in understanding the ways of achieving new skills and developing
appropriate plan to develop that skills. This report helps in understanding the business
development plan in a thorough way which includes setting the long-term and short term goals
by individual. This report also covers the ways by which goals and objectives can be achieved.
This plan helps individuals in building their career and achieving new heights in the career and
also helps in motivating individuals by creating needs and wants of skills in future. It also
contributes in the self improvement of individual and how an individual can gain new insights
about own personality. This plan helps in developing your personal goals and how you are going
to achieve them and encourage you to create a backup plan also which motivates you to move
forward if any obstacle comes in your plan (Ashurst, 2017).
Main Body
Define the concept of personal and professional development.
The concept of personal and professional development is explained as the individual
development in terms of achieving it's personal and professional goals which can improve the
skills of individual. It is the process of engaging in achieving the desire goals and objectives.
Personal and professional development is very important for the individual in boosting the career
and in developing the personal skills to satisfy goals and objectives set by the individual. It is the
process of gaining new knowledge and experiencing the new skills and increasing the skill set.
Personal development is explained as the development of individual in terms of it's skills and
setting the personal goals and objective for the development of own (Beygi and Gholipour,
2016). Professional development is explained as the developing the skills which can help
individual in growing it's career and to develop the strengths and overcome weaknesses in order
to gain recognition in the organisation. Individual urge to gain high career growth helps in setting
the goals and objectives for the professional development and decides the path to achieve that

goals and objectives. Personal development includes the development of skills which individual
is lacking and thinks by improving that skills individual can achieve high efficiency in it's work.
Development of individual is a time taking process as skill cannot be achieved in short span of
time, to achieve any skill individual have to practice that skill and understand the skill and then
work hard towards achieving that skill. Personal development is the overall development of
individual as personality and the individual is the one who can achieve anything by planning and
working hard towards the desired goals and objectives. This is very wide concept as personal and
professional development includes many skills which can only be developed by executing better
strategies (Coombe, 2020).
Describe and discuss value of short-term goals
Short-term goals are set by the individual when the vision is set by the individual and to
achieve the initial skills the short-term goals are formulated. Short-term goals are the goals
which are designed to achieve within or less then 3 months. Short-term goals are defined as the
skills which an individual wants to achieve in the near future or which can be accomplished in
less time. Individuals who focus on short-term goals are the ones who wants to achieve the
ultimate goals and short-term goals are the step towards achieving the ultimate goal. Short-term
goals are set when the individual is planning to achieve the goal for the long term and short-term
goals helps in achieving the long term goal in small small steps so that the individual doesn't
panic and the pressure will be less on the individual. Short-term goals are considered as the start
of the ultimate goal and it is considered as the basic which individual have to reach first in order
to get to the final goal. The short term goals should be specific and individual should know what
he or she wants to achieve, secondly the short-term goals should be reliable meaning individual
should know it's potential and the goals should be designed in such a way that can easily
achieved by the individual. Individual should set their short-term goals according to the need and
make sure that the every goal should be achieved effectively and efficiently. Individual have to
track the progress of their goals on daily basis as it would help individual in understanding the
needs and it also helps individual in analysing it's own skills and strengths.
For example- Research skills, communication skills and reading skills these three skills can be
achieved within three months or less than three months time.

Describe and discuss value of medium-term goals
Medium-term goals are set by the individual and this the mid way part of reaching the
ultimate goal. I personally thinks that the setting the goals and objectives helps in planning for
the future and it this planning will help me in achieving the goals and objectives with the
efficiency. Medium-term goals are the ones which can be achieved in the terms of three months
to eleven months. In my opinion medium term goals helps me in analysing my progress in order
to reach my ultimate goal and helps me in understanding how effectively and efficiently I have
achieved my short-term goals. Medium-term goals helps me in bridging the gap between my
ultimate goals. Medium- term goals gives me a great exposure in terms of my career growth and
it also helps me in achieving the skills which I have made for the short-term. I have identified my
strengths and weaknesses during my short-term goals and now I am planning to achieve the
medium-term goals which includes the opportunities for me in the future to grow my career. The
first medium-term goal is to get experience in the corporate filed as it will help me in
understanding the dynamics of the market and industry I am thinking to make my career. The
second medium-term goal is to develop my decision making skills as it can be developed by
working in an organisation and to take the decision in the organisation activities so that my
decision can help the organisation in achieving it's goals and objectives. The third and final
medium-term goal is to develop my skill set and fully understand my strengths and weaknesses
so that it can give me a insight of my personality.
Describe and discuss value of long-term goals
Long-term goals are considered as the final goal for which individual has been working
and planned the whole path to achieve that final goal. Long-term goal is the final goal which help
me in achieving the end goals and objectives. Long-term goal are the goals which are meant to
achieved between twelve months to fifteen months. Long-term goals are the goals which are set
by me in order to achieve the final goals which is achieved by me by following the steps which
included short-term and medium-term goals. I have totally understood my strengths and
weaknesses during my short-term and medium-term and now I am focused on setting up my
long-term goals. First long-term goal of mine includes the leadership skills as I am looking to
develop my skills if I get promoted in a organisation where I have to take important decisions
regarding the operations and function of the organisation then I have to focus on developing my
leadership skills as I have to set example in front of the employees of organisation by doing the

efficiency and effectiveness in my work and by effective working of mine it can influence the
employees to work hard. The second long-term goal of mine includes the analytical skills which
helps me in analysing the market trends and helps me in understanding the market dynamics. The
third long-term goal of mine is to learn the different languages as it helps me in interacting with
the clients of different country and it helps me in communicating better with the client which
results in effective communication.
Describe and discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example using
your identified goals.
Personal development plan helps in understanding the skills needed by the individual and how
individual is going to achieve that goals. Personal development plan is a structure which helps
individual in planning about the goal and objectives individual wants to achieve and in what time
individual is going to achieve those tasks and decides the steps by which individual is going to
achieve the desired goals and objectives. Personal development plan is used by the individual
when he or she have to achieve or want to learn new skills in order to grow their skill set and this
plan also helps in understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the individual.
The personal development plan of my goals is mentioned below:
Basis Strategies Analysis of skills Time period
Communication In order to
improve my
communication
skills I have to
start reading
newspapers and
blogs.
Used in
organisation and
day to day.
3 months
Research My research skills
can be developed
by doing research
on any particular
topic and using
primary and
Used to research
about any other
organisation or
competitor.
2 months

secondary sources
of data.
Reading Reading skills can
be developed by
reading
newspapers,
blogs, letters etc.
Used in
organisation and
also in day to day
work.
3 months
Decision-making My decision-
making skills can
be improved by
making effective
decision for my
organisation and
analysing the
situation before
making any
decision.
Used in
organisation for
better
performance
9 months
Corporate
working
experience
Corporate work
experience can be
gained by
working in the
organisation for a
time period which
can help me in
getting familiar
with the
organisation
decision.
Needed by
organisation to
find skilled
employees.
7 months
Understanding Strengths and Helps in 8months

strengths and
weaknesses
weaknesses can
be identified by
doing SWOT
analysis.
understanding
individual
personality
Leadership Leadership skills
are obtained by
leading the team
from the front and
effectively
managing the
team.
15 months
Learn different
languages
By joining
different courses I
can learn new
languages which
will help me in
effective
communication.
Helps in
interacting with
people who
belongs to
different culture.
14 months
Analytical Analytical skills
of mine can be
developed by
analysing the
market scenario
and by
understanding the
facts and figures.
Helps in
analysing the
situation of
organisation in
market and
competitor
position.
15 months
CONCLUSION
This report helps me in understanding the importance of personal development and
professional development for the individual. This report also gives the brief idea about the

importance of personal development plan in developing the skills of the individual and how it
helped me in understanding the goals and objectives for the long term and short-term and
medium-term. This report helps me in defining that skills which are needed by me in order to
grow my career and skills which can help me in developing my personality. The overall report
helped me in understanding the need of personal development plan for the better growth and to
diversify the skills set of mine.

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