Report on Personal Development, Academic Skills and PDP

Academic Skills and
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
An explanation about personal and professional development...................................................3
The importance of short-term objectives with three examples...................................................4
The importance of medium-term objectives with three examples..............................................4
The importance of long-term objectives with three examples....................................................5
The importance of Personal development plan and construct a PDP with at least three goals...5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERNCES:..................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals:....................................................................................................................7
APPENDICES.................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
To achieve success in the career, education and personal life, it is very important for a
person to improve his skills, knowledge and experience throughout his life cycle. Personal
Development Plan is pivotal for an individual, corporations and society as well. If one is making
the best of his skills and abilities, then it will deliver positive impact on the personal life and
people around (Alioon and Delialioğlu, 2019). A simple and easiest way to keep eye on the
personal development is by completing a personal development plan. The present report is based
on the facts of PDP which is very essential for the development and improvement of a person.
PDP is involving three types of goals (short-term, medium-term and long-term goals). In the end
of this report, there is a PDP which helps a person to fulfil his aspirations with certain time-limit.
TASK
An explanation about personal and professional development.
A personal and professional development plan or PDP refers to an action plan that can be
used by an individual to find the personal goals that he want to achieve in his life. He will also be
able to know his strong and weak areas, he will be able to know the path through he can achieve
his goals and aspirations of life (Winell, 2019). Also, able to know that hinder his growth and
progress. Hence, it states as an self-evaluation and self-reflection that is hardly used in the
academies or higher education or the organisation. This can be beneficial practice to achieve
personal life goals. PDP explains as the process of developing an action plan dependent on the
values, awareness, goal-setting, reflection and planning for personal development or
improvement within the context of relationship, career, education or self-improvement. It is
recognized with many names such as personal enterprise plan (PEP) or individual development
plan (IDP) which involves the information of one's goals, strengths, competencies, career,
education and steps to indicate how the plan is to be initiated (Blayone and et.al., 2020). This
works and used by both individual and organisation. It helps to improve the current performance
of an individual at his workplace or academy. It is a never-ending process which lasts life long in
order to improve the skills and knowledge of a person. Generally, this plan consist with three life
aspirations of a person that are short-term, medium-term and long-term aspirations. All such
types of aspirations are required to complete with a particular time-limit. PDP makes an
individual different and better. In a workplace setting, it is used to improve the individual and