An Analysis of Personal and Professional Development with Goal Setting

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of personal and professional development, emphasizing its crucial role in enhancing knowledge, skills, and overall quality of life. It underscores the significance of goal setting across short, medium, and long-term horizons, illustrating how these goals contribute to individual success. The report examines the value of personal development plans, outlining their components and providing examples of their practical application in identifying and achieving life goals. It highlights the interconnectedness of personal and professional growth, emphasizing how effective planning and skill enhancement can lead to a balanced and fulfilling life. The report concludes by reiterating the importance of continuous learning and strategic planning in navigating the complexities of career and personal development.

Personal development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 3
TASK 3
Personal and professional development....................................................................................................................3
Value of short term goals...........................................................................................................................................4
Value of medium term goals......................................................................................................................................5
Value of long term goals............................................................................................................................................5
Value of personal development plan in respect of identified goals...........................................................................6
CONCLUSION 7
REFERENCES 8

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is a ultimate long lasting course of action. Through personal
development individual can improvised its knowledge, skill as well as quality of life. It
facilitates aim and purpose of life so that individual can reach and contributes its maximum
potential growth of life. There are three important aspect of personal development. The first
one is enhancing self awareness. Second one is upgrading your identity in front of others.
Third one is recognising and discovering lots of new talents in your own. There are several
topics that is associated with mental, social, spiritual, emotional, physical. This report aims
towards personal and professional development. It consist values of short, medium, long
term goals along with personal examples. Apart from this, report discusses value of personal
development plan by identifying goals of life.
TASK
Personal and professional development
Both personal and professional development collectively depict long lasting process that
consist of systematic mechanism so that individual will maximise its potential or capabilities.
This is one of the continuous process of personal and professional development in order to raise
high value that deliver direction, or assistant so that all skills will execute on track. It enhances
skill and experience while keeping in record in terms of learning and applied knowledge
(Kohnen, 2017). Personal and professional development is the process by which individual and
company is engage in the process of learning and meet overall goal, objective challenges that
comes occur in face of their life cycle development. It is one of the engaging processes of
learning in order to satisfy desire goal by overcoming all type of challenges. It is linked with
needs of individual development along with group needs. It helps in identifying current skills and
knowledge so that individual can prepare itself from challenges that occurs in life cycle of
personal or professional development plan (Hokanson and et.al., 2019). Skills of professional are
attached with counselling and coaching so that it can support learning capacity and ability as per
the requirement of individual. Professional skill combines of leadership and management skill so
that individual will also raise efforts of self through effective mentoring continuous process. It
will upgrade presentation skill and leads towards overall development of life that support in full

filling real purpose of life. Mentoring is such an effective techniques that continuously efforts
towards learning as well as development. This will generate modern form of development that
shape effective career and advance skills in perspective of both personal and professional.
Personal life problems affect the life of professional as well (Lipscombe, 2020). With the help of
efficient mentoring challenges and difficulties of personal can be minimised and individual can
focus on its personal and professional development. The enhancement in both perspective of life
is essential as it contributes balance in the life of individual. It uplift skills and knowledge of
individual and increase capability to manage difficult forms of task so that they can easily
achieve ultimate aim or goal of life with predetermine set objective goal. Lots of potential
opportunity develops in terms to improve career along with personal problem solving
capabilities.
Value of short term goals
The goal that is predetermine by individual in short period of time or it want to achieve in
short span this goal will leads towards short term goal of life. The value of short term goal is at
high level in the life of individual so that these goal will contributes towards success. Short term
goal is also known as proximal goal in terms of building blocks one after one goals of short span
of individual. These goals are much easy to achieve in comparison to other types of goal in life.
This short term goal associated with individual immediate future in order to manage all task and
activity in completion of several task to fulfil purpose of life. Developing short term goal ensure
appropriate map or direction towards perspective of personal and professional life. Short term
goal delivers a solution to a specific problem of personal and professional life (Luconi and et.al.,
2020). When short term goal is appropriate examine and completed then series of success
achieved by individual. It is easy but step wise formulated and provide roadmap in direction to
provide solution of problem. Most of the people much focus upon long term goal rather than on
short term goal. They get stuck on long term goal and neglect the fact of short term valuable
goal. Without short term goal, long goal rarely get accomplished. Short term goals push more
contribution towards long term goal of life. As it delivers clear vision of life. It plays major role
in contributing long term vision for success of personal and professional life. Short term goal is
something that individual want in less than one year.
Personal examples of short term goal

 Developing good practice related with study. Individual can set up short term goal
of completing syllabus semester wise in order to brings maximum marks.
 Building time management capacity. Sort term goal of collectively task should be
completion within short period of time act as short term goal.
 Obtain business administration skills. While executing any business plan short term
goal of administration or management skill enhance performance of business.
Value of medium term goals
Goal of medium terms are set up short term goal that can be achieved along with long term
goal that desire to be achieved in future. As long term goal are hard to achieve that is why
medium term goal focus and leads to achieve long term goal (Mardapi, 2018). These goals are
combines in between three to five years. In individual life medium term goal are much valuable
because it increase motivation for completion of predetermine goal. This is one of the best
approach that directs towards clear vision and inspiration for enhancement of progress in
personal and professional growth. The medium term goal generally take several months till five
years in completion of goal. This is valuable outcome after achieving short term goal. This will
strengthen individual personal as well as professional life wile solving different types of
problems. The individual can increase its turnover in achieving goal in order achieve success and
progress in satisfying purpose of life.
Personal examples of medium term goal.
 Learning several types of languages. This type of goal comes under medium term
as it takes several months up to five years as language learning is time taking
process.
 Travelling to new places and exploring natural environment. It is one the medium
term goal because travelling and exploring consume much up to many years.
 Enhancement in ability of business planning or management. While operating
business operations planning is acts as medium term goal because it is keep on
revolving as per changing environment.
Value of long term goals
The long term goal combines of appropriate planning, efforts, optimum resources as well
as duration so that it can accomplished on predetermine goals of life (Mikhaylova , 2020). This
will consist of high motivation and concentration as it is more time consuming and long term

goal which need to be accomplished in future. People give more values to these long term goal as
it is most time consuming goal more than five years which is very futuristic and required much
focus and dedication in completion of long term goal (Montecinos and et.al,. 2020). Long term
goal are essential for career growth and development. Career is associated with whole working
life cycle of individual. This help in identifying need of education that is essential for doing any
job or future business plan. This is very futuristic and dedication goal that requires more focus
towards final destination. These type of goal are time consuming and achievable in future. For
successful implementation of long term goal individual require proper planning and appropriate
time. Because these are not short or medium type goal that require not much time as compare to
long term goal. A clear vision and appropriate guidance is much needed while successful
completion of long term goal. These goal are generally more than five till ten years. This are
most difficult one type of goal that individual have to accomplished in pre determine time. That
is why it is much needed to be more focus, dedication and concentration so individual can
effectively achieve this target. This will enhance career growth in more professional way along
with solving personal problems of individual.
Personal examples of long term goals
 Working in high profile multinational company. In multinational company,
individual at high profile position requires more dedication and concentration so
that, it deliberately focus on completing long term goal. Successful completion of
long term objective will leads towards development of individual along with
company.
 Promote time management skill. Long term goal ensure time management capacity
that is much needed in managing activities of multinational company.
 While generating networks. It is one the difficult task and require much time that is
why it is acts as long term goal of individual.
Value of personal development plan in respect of identified goals
Personal development plan is combines of lots of valuable information that is associated
with goals or strengths that is essential for improving skill in the process of personal
development plan (Traga Philippa , 2020). Personal development plan improves quality of live
and living standard that uplift personal and professional life. Through successful personal
development plan dreams will turn around into face of reality and passion will explore its limit.

There are some components that need to be address while developing this plan. First one is
straight forward vision in case of where individual desire and to be in future. Second one is
enhancement in skills that is required for accomplishment of vision. Third one is examine current
capabilities in comparison from pre determine capabilities of action plan (Verdon, 2020). Fourth
one is determine priority level. Five one is matching whole idea and skills of current as per
predetermine plan. These components aids in identifying goal or propose of life. Through these
process one can easily enhance someone skills and habits so that goal can be easily identify. The
feature personal development facilitates success if it is created correctly.
Examples of personal development plan in identifying goals are as follows-
Set goal- Setting up goal does not require that much time as individual can done in morning
face that is hardly few minutes consuming. It may include like buying spiral book and develop
layout of high propriety goal of life in face of morning with involuntary mind.
Planning your day- The whole planning as well as organising leads towards better
groundwork for up coming future day. This will provide appropriate direction what to do and
how to do at given period of time (Zwozdiak-Myer , 2018). This will strength visualisation
process of individual and all essential will leads towards completion in end of the day.
In simple words personal development plan is all about proper layout in written format in
respect of self reflection and perfection. This may cover personal, career and academic goal that
enlarge individual learning and experience in order to improvised own skills of personal. The
ultimate aim of this is generate plan in individual want to succeed along with future course of
action that is going to be accomplished in future. There is great importance of this as it drives
some drastic change so that it will leads towards overall development of individual in respect of
both professional as well as personal one.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that objective of personal and professional
development in order to manage own success, growth or learning throughout career
development lifecycle career. This is all about where individual are in current situation and
where individual want to be including its planning for growth and development. It is very
essential to regular upgrade skills and knowledge so that it can facilitate work activity in
effectively forms. The values of short, medium, and long plays important role in developing

personal as well as professional development plan or purpose of life. It is essential part of
life that provide balance in both perspective of personal and professional one.
REFERENCES
Books and Journals

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