Report on Personal Development: Short, Medium and Long Term Goals

This report discusses personal and professional development along with short, medium and long term goals. It covers the value of each type of goal and provides examples. It also includes a personal development plan. Subject: Academic Skills and PDP. Course Code: BMP3001.

BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 2
Report on Personal Development
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Contents
1. Introduction 3
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional
development 3
3. Description and discussion of the value of short term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples 3
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples 4
5. Description and discussion of the value of long term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples 5
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal
Development Plan 5
7. Conclusion 6
Reference List 7
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1. Introduction
For the purpose of surviving in the corporate world, it is necessary for every person to
have proper personal and professional skills as it is the most basic and important factor of
human being. Any of task of business organization can be completed in an effective and
efficient manner, if the employees have complete skills which leads to the growth of
business organization. Furthermore, it is found that the development of such skills are in
the hand of person itself. They can analyze the skills and develop them by preparing
personal development plan. The purpose of making this report is to discuss about the
personal and professional development along with short term, medium term and long
term goals. At the end, it also covers the personal development plan of individual. In
order to developing skills, the individual should categories their goals on the basis of
relevant time period i.e. short, medium and long term goals.
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional
development
Professional development can be defined as the improvement and increment in the
capabilities of individual by accessing the opportunities of training and education at the work
place or outside the work place. It leads to the development of morale and motivation of
employees. Another name of professional development is staff development.
Personal development refers to the process of improving such skills of individual
which are required while enhancing employment as it leads to the increase in consciousness
and building wealth.
Increase in the competition require higher personal and professional skills. Skills of
an individual are not complete without any of one skill as it help the employees to completing
their task in an effective and efficient manner (Gacs and et. al., 2020). All companies while
doing recruitment, wants to hire the candidates having proper professional and personal skills
so that they can contribute in an effective manner towards the success of organization.
3. Description and discussion of the value of short term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Short term goals can be explained as the goals which an individual wants to achieve
in near future. Such goals are established to achieve in the time period of less than 1 year. If
an individual wants to improve their skills quickly, they should keep their short term goals. It
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plays an important role in the accomplishment of long term goals as it provide proper
support to them.
Importance of short term goals
 Increase motivation: Setting and achieving these goals are much easier as compared
to the medium and long term goals as it gives the result of achievement and failure
instantly and achievement of these small goals create a feeling of motivation in
individual which provide confidence to go ahead and make more goals. Mitigates Procrastination: After getting a clear and cut path or way which provide
clear steps of achieving the goals, delaying tactic removed from the path which
result in the increase in motivation level of individual (Zou and et. al., 2019). They
feel highly motivated and perform well even after the path get difficult. Offers a clear direction: The list of these goals also describe the list of actions
which an individual is required to undertake in order to reaching to the desired goals
as those action provide the directions in order to achieve the goals. It is very helpful
for individual as it remove the wastage of time on extra activities which are not
useful and made only for wasting time and energy.
 Promotes the success of career: In order to moving forward, setting and then
achieving the goals are important aspect in the life of every professional. If any
individual has no goals, it will get very difficult to achieve the progress in their
professional life (Suedfeld 2019). Establishing goals in the life also help the
individual in moving forward towards their career and getting prizes and keeping
constant eye on long term goals which leads to the career growth of individual.
Below mentioned are the examples of short term goals:
 Involvement in social activities
 Improvement in writing skills
 Time management
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium
term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Medium term goals are the goals which comes after the short term goals as these are
made for the time period of less than 3 years or 18 months. It can be said that it works as the
ladder or bridge between short and long term goals. Majorly, individual focus to make them
different from others by developing several skills.
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Short term goals can be achieved in a very short duration of time and long term goals
are those goals which an individual want to achieve but the value of average to mid term
goals is that they help the individual in evaluating the progress and analyzing whether they
are following the track properly which is helping them in moving towards their goals or not.
Along with this, it also help in making the choice of plan according to their need which state
clear path to reach at the desired position and achieve the long term goals (DeGraw, L.,
2020). By setting medium term goals, individual feel more motivation towards their long
term goals which are beneficial for them. Below mentioned are some examples of such goals:
 Improvement in English speaking skills of an individual
 Moving towards the promotion after getting job
 Gaining experience of management
5. Description and discussion of the value of long term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
It can be defined as the goals which add some meaning to the lives of individuals as
these are made for the time period of more than 3 years. It may be made for 5 years, 10 years
or 20 years. It is necessary for individual to prepare an action plan so that they can achieve
the objectives and goals in an effective and efficient manner (Bryan 2019). Such goals are
made to do the work since long time ago. For the purpose of achieving these goals, the
individual is required to go through with several beliefs and principles. By achieving these
goals, individual wants to bring changes and make themselves totally different from others. It
include 7 steps in order to achieving the long term goals such as make goals not wishes, being
specific, writing down the goals, break or classify the long term goal in small goals and doing
work over them. At the end, reevaluation and adjustment of progressive work has been
started. Below mentioned are some examples of long term goals:
 Starting a new owned business.
 Managing all the tasks in an effective and efficient manner
 Complete the trip of whole world.
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal
Development Plan
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Personal Development plan can be defined as the action plan which prepare the
individual so that they can do improvement in their knowledge and skills. In simple words it
can be said that it leads to the improvement of talent, employ ability, potential, consciousness
and ability which result in the reaching at dreams and creating wealth (Techagaisiyavanit
2021). Basically it shows the path which goes upward as it helps in analysis the strengths and
weakness as well.
Along with this, various of well known people define that the set of traits and
characteristics which establish a framework which shows the difference between one person
from all the others. All of people are different in the personality and all people wants to
distinguish themselves on the basis of various skills.
7.0 Conclusion
From the above report it is concluded that personal development plan helps the
individual in analyzing and knowing about their skills and how they can do improvement as
well. Basically it prepare an action plan that what and how an individual should do the
actions so that they can achieve the goals in an effective and efficient manner. Short term
goals and long terms goals are important along with medium term goals which leads to the
improvement of skills and knowledge in individual. This report is showing a personal
development plan which show the chart of improvement in skills of an individual. It is very
essential to do development in everyone's life. It should not be stop as long as the person
survive as their desires. Furthermore, it is analyses that the person prepare their goals on the
basis of time period of achievement which are explained above in the report.
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Reference List
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Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan
Skills to be
Developed
Development Plan Resources Target Date
Problem Solving
Skills
A business organization face various problems
in the operation cycle, hence the individual is
required to develop such skills which are also
helpful in making a positive working
environment in the organization. For the
purpose of developing the skills of problem
solving, individual is required to study various
case studies related to corporate world.
By reading such articles and situations, the
individual get to know about how to deal with
situations. Along with this, they are required to
solve various hypothetical problems in the
organization.
This will provide the practical knowledge and
experience of solving problems.
Hill, M.A., Overton, T.L.,
Thompson, C.D., Kitson, R.R. and
Coppo, P., 2019. Undergraduate
recognition of curriculum-related
skill development and the skills
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Education Research and
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Lin, Y.T., 2019. Impacts of a
flipped classroom with a smart
learning diagnosis system on
students' learning performance,
perception, and problem solving
ability in a software engineering
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By February 2022
Learning about Managing the people at work place is an Singh, D., Pant, P.K., Pant, H. and By July 2022
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managing the
people
important task which is performed by the
manager of organisation. If an individual want
to become a manager of organisation, they are
reqired to develop such skills.
For the same skills, individual have to learn
about the various approaches and theories of
management which help them in the generation
of such skills. They can learn approaches and
theories from vaious books nd journal. After
that they are required to learn from their seniors
that how to apply those approaches in real and
practical world according to various situations.
The development of such skills may leads to the
consumption of 1 year.
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and Mayer, R.E., 2019. Adding
immersive virtual reality to a
science lab simulation causes
more presence but less
learning. Learning and
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Opening a new
business
It comes under long term goal. For the purpose
of starting a new business, the individual is
required to learn about all the aspects of
business operations. They are required to
develop management and leadership skills along
Baier-Fuentes, H., Merigó, J.M.,
Amorós, J.E. and Gaviria-Marín,
M., 2019. International
entrepreneurship: a bibliometric
overview. International
By the end of 2022
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with the accounting and relationship
management activities.
For the same purpose they can read all the
aspects through internet and books. PESTLE
analysis is also useful for them as it state all the
factors which influence the business operations.
Entrepreneurship and
Management Journal, 15(2),
pp.385-429.
Claire, C., Lefebvre, V. and
Ronteau, S., 2020.
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systematic literature review of a
nascent field. Entrepreneurship &
Regional Development, 32(3-4),
pp.281-312.
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