Report on Personal Development: Concept, Goals, and Plan

This report covers the concept of personal development and short term goal, medium period objective, long time target and the plan. It evaluates the importance of personal development plan and its impact on career and professional growth.

Report on Personal
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Discuss the concept of personal and professional development. ...............................................3
Explain and discuss the value of short-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples.
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Explain and discuss the value of medium-term targets, identifying at least three personal
examples......................................................................................................................................5
Explain and discuss the value of long-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples.
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Evaluate the personal development plan.....................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................9
PDP.............................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Personal development refer to the activities that enhance process of an individual
confidence and self esteem. It improve the knowledge and identity, also have a positive impact
on communication skills and facilitates the quality of life. It is life long process to achieve goals
and allows to be more interactive with there thoughts and clarity. It is the way to assess qualities
and skills in order to realise the maximum outcome. It helps to improve the talent of an
individual person, ability, consciousness and wealth. It is essentialist part of any person success
and happiness in multiple subjects. It inspire the growth of life and changing on their own
thoughts. It looks different in every person, it takes time, efforts (Briller and Goldmacher, 2020).
This report covers the concept of personal development and short term goal, medium period
objective, long time target and the plan.
MAIN BODY
Discuss the concept of personal and professional development.
Personal development refer to stability of the person by improving their skills and
development of knowledge. It includes goals and benchmarks to define the plans and
information. It contribute the both satisfaction as well the success of individual life. It consists
the activity of person that develop capabilities, employment, build the human relation and
potential of their life. It helps to gain the confidence, behaviour and attributes by an ongoing
interaction. It makes a person unique. It includes the interpersonal communication, self
confidence, ability to solve the problems, behaviour in organisation and work ethics. There are
some different area we are going over daily such as mental, physical, social, spiritual, emotional
etc.
Professional development refer to the set of tools that improve the quality of teaching, it
is the instructor of developing the skills to better approaches. It includes the reviewing of cases,
mentoring and technical assistance. It helps to increase the access of education and training
opportunities on their job. Its purpose to give the new knowledge and skills on their further
career. It is the process of identify goals and learning new skills for success work and growing.
It defines the structures that improve or change the learning outcome of an individual. It refer to
all the certification, education and training of the people as their needs to success sin the career.

It promotes the high retention rate of employee to work on right skills and more productive by
learn new opportunities and promotions.
Both terms are the process of organisation and individual to meet challenges and desire
goals. It pertains to enhancing the workforce of an individual to seek out their own knowledge
and desire to learn skills. It makes the grater confidence in skills, qualities and attributes to bring
out the career in better position. It also ensure role of the job as effectively possible to continue
with working process. They helps to recognised the necessary skills to solve problems in
efficient manner by managing the time, conflicts and training for different reasons.
Explain and discuss the value of short-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples.
A short term target is a goal which an employee desires to fulfil in a shorter span of time
generally less then the period of 12 months. They are the links between the place where a person
is and the position that individual wishes to be in the future (Williams and Raney, 2020) . These
goals are set with an aim to achieve some long term goal in the career. These goals can help in
becoming more productive, building confidence and providing the satisfaction to the employees.
Setting and attaining short term desires will help a person in following ways:
 Enhances Motivation- Framing and achieving a short term goal is easy and its results
can also be seen and analysed very quickly. There achievement will boost an employee to
set further goals and enhance his personality.
 Clarification of direction- Setting of a target completes with an action plan to follow. It
will give a direction regarding where there is need to pay attention and put efforts on.
This will help in eliminating the activities which waste the time and energy in achieving
these objectives.
 Effective management of time- Measurable goals gives a path to be followed to achieve
a particular target. Focussing on this plan an individual can simply eliminate all those
activities which wastes the time and strength and manage its hours effectively. Adapting
to this habit will also further help in achieving long term desires with ease.
 Overcomes Procrastination- Focussing on achieving the idea will prevent the
employees from procrastination as they will give priority to goals than wasting time in
fun or performing some less important task. It will keep them motivated towards the
work and make them know their own competencies (O’Dowd and Dooly, 2021).
For example,

 Improving communication skills
 Increasing productivity
 Reaching the office on time
 Create a balance among life and work
Explain and discuss the value of medium-term targets, identifying at least three personal
examples.
Medium term goals are set for longer time period than shorter ones, usually for 18
months to 3 years. They act as a link between short term and long term objectives. These are
usually the sub divisions of the long time goals and focusses on having job security by making
own place in the company and adapting the required skills (Hadad and et. al., 2021) .
 Bridge between the short and long term goals- Medium term targets are the
connections between the other two objectives of an employee. Short term acts a base and
the longer ones are the motivation which are accomplished with the help of medium term
goals. The lessons learnt or the habits adapted in the short time period desires supports in
fulfilling medium term ideas.
 Motivation for long term goals- Accomplishing medium term goals will boost the
morale of the employee to move further to the long term goals. When the results of these
goals are visible in the performance, they feel motivated and keep themselves progressing
towards it.
 Builds road map for long term goals- Medium term targets gives direction to the longer
ones. They set a path to be followed which leads to the higher objectives of the person to
be accomplished.
For example,
▪ Security job in the firm
▪ Expanding the required skills
▪ generating work experience
Explain and discuss the value of long-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples.
Long term targets are attained in a longer period of time , generally over three to five
years and works in coordination to short and medium- term objectives. These are specifically
focused towards career and professional development (Dahl, 2019) . It is about where an
employee looks itself after a longer span of time. It can be to get promotion, seek a new job etc.

 Shape the direction of career- Setting long term goals will make an individual to decide
the direction it needs to follow. It helps in removing all those activities which keeps the
employee away from the target. It also eliminates all the activities which are either time
wasting or not necessary to be performed.
 Self improvement- These targets are a for long time. Thus they give adequate time to a
person to continuously improve itself. It helps in building that improvement as a habit. It
will help in enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the employee and achieving its
desires.
 Helps in professional development- With time all becomes professional in their work
and the same is done by the long term objectives. These desires when accomplishes with
the short and medium term ones helps an employee to become professional as in these
goals employee must have learned various skills and techniques (State and et. al., 2019) .
 Financial Security- Long term objectives give financial stability to the person. In long
time period an individual focuses on safeguarding its position in the firm along with
maintaining a safe bank balance. Both of these aspects will give a financial security to the
employee.
For example,
▪ To get promoted to a higher position
▪ Master the required skills
▪ Building out a professional network
Evaluate the personal development plan
it is the process of creating the action which is based on the awareness, goal setting, planning,
reflection, values in context to career, relationship, self improvements and education. It
represent with opportunities and work to inspire someone. It includes the clear vision in detailed.
It is the written report of self reflection and clearing of action to fulfil the academic, carrer and
personal growth. It is essential to make the outline of personal target, its specific to each
individual to plan the specific future goal on the short, long ambition. It helps to make the
changes and increase the current learning by push new strategies. It gives a well thought and
realistic future aim to track the career position. It generate the skills and cognitive work. It work
as the support network to measure the progress of life. It often required the employees
description in business and professional life of an person. Every people makes plan to organise

personal goal and achieve them. It helps to gain the insight earning of a new career. There are
five steps to reach the PDP like self assessment, makes the future goals, apply new strategies, use
useful resources and manage the time period, it will help to reach the objective efficiently (Hui,
Kwok and Ip, 2021) .
Importance of product development plan
 It gives the clade vision of future, by gives some ideas as to do, where. Knowing and
target the destination it will help to draw easy to reach or achieve the goal.
 It helps to sharp the existing knowledge of work by learning and growing of the past
qualification.
 Time management change the behaviour of person to increase the productivity and
specific goal.
 It makes the smooth communication skills by written and spoken of presenting message,
create more confident in nettings, seminar and etc.
 It provides the swot of personal life by analysing the internal and external skills.
 It focuses on own sustainable development by accompanying on some innovative ideas
rather than use the traditional activities (Belenkova and Sazonova, 2021) .
CONCLUSION
From the above information it has to been concluded that personal development is
important factor to set a activities that one can have to reach their goal by enhancing the self
knowledge. This report also covers the three types of goals short, medium and long term that
influence the every person towards their targets with time. Product development plan helps to
know the future targets and makes the outlines of the ambitions. It helps to avoid the weapons
that occur will occur in future, it helps to understand the identity of carter goals and values for
explores.
REFERENCES
Books and Journals

Belenkova, L.Y. and Sazonova, S.A., 2021. Formation of motivational competence as a
condition for successful professional development of future teachers-psychologists
of inclusive education. In SHS Web of Conferences (Vol. 113). EDP Sciences.
Briller, S.H. and Goldmacher, A., 2020. Designing an anthropology career: professional
development exercises. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Dahl, K.K.B., 2019. Professional development lost in translation?‘Organising themes’ in Danish
teacher education and how it influences student-teachers’ stories in professional
learning communities. Research in Comparative and International Education. 14(3.
pp.357-375.
Hadad, S., and et. al., 2021. Professional Development of Code and Robotics Teachers Through
Small Private Online Course (SPOC): Teacher Centrality and Pedagogical Strategies
for Developing Computational Thinking of Students. Journal of Educational
Computing Research. 59(4). pp.763-791.
Hui, Y.K., Kwok, L.F. and Ip, H.H., 2021. CRESDA: towards a personalized student advisory
for professional development. Interactive Learning Environments. 29(2). pp.329-
342.
O’Dowd, R. and Dooly, M., 2021. Exploring teachers’ professional development through
participation in virtual exchange. ReCALL, pp.1-16.
State, T.M., and et. al., 2019. Bridging the research-to-practice gap through effective
professional development for teachers working with students with emotional and
behavioral disorders. Behavioral Disorders. 44(2). pp.107-116.
Williams, T.R. and Raney, S., 2020. Relational cultural supervision enhances the professional
development of postdoctoral residents of color in health service psychology. Journal
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APPENDIX
PDP
Skills Current
ability
Target ability Action plan Judgement
criteria
Time frame
Communication
skill
Average High I will achieve
this skill by
reading books
and articles of
expert articles.
I will also take
any formal
course to
develop this.
The feedback
from my peers
and superior
will judge my
development.
3 months
Information
technology skills
Low High I will develop
this skill by
undergoing a
diploma course
so that I can
gain the
knowledge of
this.
The result of
my diploma
will judge my
development
scale
6 months