Importance of Personal Development Plan and Short, Medium, Long Term Goals

This report discusses the importance of Personal Development Plan (PDP) and how short, medium, and long term goals can help in career enhancement. It covers the aspects of personal and professional development, the value of each type of goal, and the significance of PDP. The report also includes a sample PDP with actionable steps to improve communication, management, decision making, and critical thinking skills. The subject and course code are not mentioned.

Academic skill and
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
Aspect of personal as well as professional development............................................................3
Value of short term goal..............................................................................................................3
Value of medium term goal.........................................................................................................4
Value of long term goal...............................................................................................................5
Value of personal development plan ..........................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The plan of personal development is more significant and crucial application that every
individual must focus upon because it will generate more opportunity to career enhancement.
This is also refers as effective tool through which student and children can easily involve in any
organisation as an effective member by generating more authentic skill for personal and
professional manner (Grise-Owens and et.al., 2018). It is most important as it will raise the level
and rate of efficiency in work. This will turn around more beneficial efforts to develop more
potential opportunity. The various concept has been defined to improve the level of skill and
accuracy in knowledge. The Short, ,medium and long term goal provide direction to fulfil career
opportunity. The report include aspect of personal development plan along with short, medium
and long term goal identification. It also combines value of personal development plan. With
proper direction of personal development plan people in organisation can update their skill and
knowledge in more authenticated manner.
TASK
Aspect of personal as well as professional development
The complete aspect of personal and professional development plan consist of effective
factor which is highly related to update skill and knowledge of individual in more effective and
influencing manner. The overall development will lead to proceed to improve skill enhancement
along with knowledge so that individual can easily defeat the challenge that is coming in the
field of its career. This is essential for both personal and professional area. In area of personal
development there are several skill which is essential are related with particular subject such as
communication, body language as well as confidence (Hirsch, 2017). But professional
development consist of official kind of task that will be properly organised in the way of
improvement. The improvement in overall quality will definitely reflect upon life of personal and
professional as it provide chance to grow in career.
Value of short term goal
Short term goal is curial and important part as it will provide proper layout and direction
to achieve overall goal so that individual will enhance more career opportunity in order to earn
more profits in synchronised way. That is why this is the main reason to enhance the level of

short term goal in personal and professional development. In career stage goal may be gets
fluctuated so it is more essential to develop goal in more determined manner in each filed and
stage of life. This will consist of variation that allow individual to accomplish proper established
target in more authentic way. There are are some particular personal kind of short term goal is
identified as per deep analysis and importance.
 Managing time- This will consider as most essential goal that need to be consider over
section and time in order to manage all work on time in authenticated manner. Now days
most of the people are revolving around in several kind of job task. Here as result the
people will easily manage time work schedule in job (Jabbarova, 2020). This will result
in more accuracy level in particular kind of task job that is highly maintain the issue or
error which are initiated. Here the time management skill is most important for
achievement of short type of goal as it improve skill of both professional and personal.
 Communication skill- Skill of communication is also most important as it enhance
overall development in both personal and professional development skill set in more
authentic manner. Through diverse kind of situation, here the individual and most of
people belongs to different cultural background while performing and accomplishing
established target. To getting deep understanding of each individual in organisation
proper skill of communication is required. As result this will enhance the optimum level
of communication in order to accomplish short term goal and also provide proper
direction and assistance for the fulfilment of work requirement.
 Management skill- Subsequently of communication and time management skill,
management is also priorly important. Lots of variation is much required in skill of
management by the individual. For this skill and knowledge is highly required and very
subjective in terms of authentic way (Jones and et.al, 2017). This knowledge will deliver
proper assistance for individual related with subject authenticity to perform in organised
manner. The deep learning of the management skill is significant to provide opportunity
to grow in both professional and personal life. This goal will be consider as short term
that design frequently by the individual.
Value of medium term goal
Short term goal is not that much sufficient, it require also medium term goal for proper
direction towards medium goal. It will direct life of personal and professional through

authentication manner. This will also consist of some medium goal example that is essential to
be achieved by individual.
 Better work skill- Those people who recently graduate or pass out from recognised
school and university will always in search of jobs to accomplish their livelihood. Most
of the individual will prefer that job which is highly based upon interest. This will
resultant the fact to update the overall productivity level in culture and structure of
organisation (Lin, 2018). This will build more effective and productive manner in
organisation. This is significant as it based on interest while performing several kind of
jobs. This is the reason by which this goal is kept under medium term goal as it will
boost understanding and importance.
 Growth in career- In modern days, most of the individual are much confused associated
with career option. As pre this fact it will related with competition level, as most of the
people prefer to chose easiest job and perform best. This is most beneficial as it produce
more beneficial result for career enhancement so that they can perform best in
professional life. While choosing career path this is highly required to be determine goal
in University and graduation. Through this individual can boost their skill set of a career
development. This option of career choice, will consider the factor medium goal that
need to be consider. This will be highly inclined towards the factor of development and
provide authenticate reason for personal and professional development.
 Starting accurate job- When individual is being fully trained in period of graduation.
As some point of aspirant that are not able in order to determine some identical accurate
job that individual are opting for (Malakuti and et,al., 2018). Through this result these
are being improving ability to enhancing skill as well as knowledge that is highly
acquired at the time of graduation. As per these factor, it need to be consider as per vital
factor through which the development will not proceed in their personal and professional
one. That is why it is highly recommended with the fact of people in entering world so
that factor of consideration will be carry out in order to develop career in more
authenticate manner.
Value of long term goal
The long kind of goal is very significant in order to play entire advantage in life cycle of
people in more authenticated manner. The long valuable goal is required to be more improvised

by individual so that they can easily achieve the success during the productivity increase in
authenticated. Here are some example are of long kind of valuable goal that is mention below-
 Enhancing accuracy in job- During working in respective job activity that is highly
significant in order to enhance the level of accuracy during the extract in terms of
concrete outcomes (Rebele, 2019). That is why individual is required in order to take up
during the effective kind of strategy so that they can help and enhance ability to deliver
more accuracy level that is allotted in the activity. Through this way skill of professional
knowledge that need to be improvised.
 Expert in allotted organisational task- While becoming more expert in all organisation
during task activity will cover some rigorous kind of training session that is highly
necessary. When group in organisation are not able to provide some training session but
still it is there responsibility to enhance more skill as well as knowledge in company task
activity. As a way to be more expertise that is need to be allotted in activity task. This
will leads to cover more expertise during the allotted task that need to be achieved in
personal and professional plan.
 Changing work position- In context to reach most highest authenticated position in job,
where more experience will counter during the updating skill as well as knowledge that is
highly required (Succi, 2020). As a result most the people that are working in
organisation will enhanced the overall culture that need to be improved by acquiring
more enhancement towards knowledge and skill. Through this way they can experience
more high terms position during organisation.
Value of personal development plan
The overall value in terms of personal development planning that cover more huge
involvement which can not refers in particular section. During as compare to few year, some
formation is being utilise during plan of personal development. It is not only assisted by various
people that are working in organisation so that they can easily aid to grow and enhance more
career during more authenticated way. This kind of research work must be concluded during
some past year through which they can convey some fact of individual that are not looking up
into the skill as well as knowledge with the use of PDP. This has to suffer some critical issue so
that chance of error gets reduced in personal and professional plan of individual. This is highly

recommended by many high level of professional that most plan of personal and professional
development must be in manner of more authenticated way so that they can easily improve their
respective skill and knowledge as per high need and requirement (Tan, 2018). It is highly
mention during plan of PDP in order to assist and provide proper guidance during individual
short, medium and long term goal. This will be consider individual that will be able in order to
enhance some proper quality. In below, plan of personal and professional development is
mention through which skill will be more enhance and develop more career opportunity.
Skill Action
Communication The communication skill can be improvised by
reading book and attending lectures or seminar
based upon tips to enhance communication.
This can be improved during time period of 6
Months. The feedback can be taken from the
subordinate and team members and make
changes accordingly.
Management Management skill is also important in plan of
personal and professional development as most
of the things gets highly managed in
organisation. It can be enhance by getting
proper guidance from the senior staff and team
leader (Wesley, 2017). Only supervision of
senior staff will provide proper guidance to
enhance management skill. This skill can be
improve during period of 8 months. Proper
feedback conducted with senior management.
Decision making While working in organisation taking right
decision at accurate time is most essential. This
type of skill can be improved by gaining some
positive insight and deep knowledge about
analytics. This data supervision can be improve

by more practical exposure in working
environment of organisation. It can enhance
during time period of 1 Year. The feedback can
be conducted while examine proper result of
work done in organisation.
Critical thinking The skill of critical think is most important
through which individual can deal in most
dynamic situation in company. It also can be
only improve by gaining more experience in
working structure in guidance of high effective
team.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that deep understanding of the PDP is more
significant for each and every individual must be associated during colleges, schools,
organisation and University. This is done by the fact that will provide proper assistance through
which people will make overall effective plan in more strategic way so that it can deal with the
issue in more convenient way. The error in skill and knowledge gets rectify in order to develop
more authenticated manner. Through aid of PDP, individual will deal with people in whole
organisation so that they can enhance their ability to enhance overall skill and knowledge set in
more effective and authenticated manner.

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