Personal Development Report: Goals and Strategies

This report discusses the concept of personal and professional development, including the measurement of short, medium, and long-term goals. It provides examples of identified goals and strategies for improving communication, decision-making, and time management skills. The report also includes the creation of a personal development plan and its importance in tracking progress, improving overall performance, and identifying strengths and weaknesses.

PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
An explanation of principle of personal & professional development........................................1
The measurement of short term goals & identification of three personal goals..........................2
The measurement of medium term goals as well as identification at least three personal
examples......................................................................................................................................2
The measure of long term goals as well as identification at least three examples.......................3
The estimation of a Personal Development Plan as well as make an example using identified
goals:............................................................................................................................................4
PDP example with identified goals:.............................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Professional development is explained as the operation of identification of aims and
learning skills to assist in develop as well as succeed at work. This could lead a promotion or job
change and simply in performance in the current job position. It offers to employees training and
development to up-skill them, increases their confidence and keep on top of ever changing
technology and business landscapes. Personal development is associated with the self-awareness.
It is supply the opportunities to take an honest look at the areas of life which are need to
inmprove. This is the procedure on which person get to know who you really are, about the true
value and where you would like to go in life. It will give the sense of well-being as well as
happiness and will assist in succeed and reach full potential. This report is consist about the
concept of personal development with the description of the short-term, long tern as well as
medium terms goals with examples (Sikma and Minshew, 2018).
MAIN BODY
An explanation of principle of personal & professional development
Personal and professional development is help persons to identification of the personal
skills. This is associated with the capabilities, aims if the life, identify the goals to increase their
true potential. Personal development is explained as the activities designed to improve talents,
potential, employability and even wealth. It is helps people to set their personal goals, evaluate
and learn new skills and development of the personal qualities that makes us up. The
professional and personal development of people to a more fulfilled, happier as well as higher
quality lives. The main purpose of these is to improve knowledge and skills in order to facilitate
the individual behaviours. It is assure that the basic knowledge stays up to date for to be able as
well as able to practise. This process is used to attain a career change or a promotion and the
development of soft as well as hard skills. There are some examples which are associated with
the professional development skills such as accountancy and budgeting, legal knowledge and IT
skills or many more. Personal development is looking inward and focusing on ways to better
yourself. It is increase the self-awareness, self-esteem, increases skills as well as fulfils
aspirations. It is generally a continuous process which may used in during the entire lifespan.
The personal development skills are consist decision-making skills, communication skills, time
management skills, problem solving skills and many more.
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Personal & professional development plays a crucial role for the individual who is
associated with professional activity at time of working in a big company. It can gives to
individual to competitive boundary in a huddled workforce, helping differentiate individual and
stand out to future workers. It can assist to individual realising any leadership qualities and
ability as well as potentially widening job search and opportunities available. This is not only use
for the development of new skills but it is also use for refine the existing skills within the
individual as per the requirement of future (Loads, Marzetti and McCune, 2020).
The measurement of short term goals & identification of three personal goals
A short-term goals can be explained as the goals which an individual want to achieve in
their current approaching. The current future means that a weak, month or year. The individual
want to achieve these as soon as possible because these goals are valuable and plays an important
roles in an individual life. The main aim of these are that motivates them regularly and enhance
the productivity. The importance of the short-term term goals are explained as:
Improved focus: These goals are helps to the individuals in gainful attention on a
particular path which are fixed in order to attain their long term goals. If a person have short term
goals then they cannot distract from their progressing goals.
Provide clearness of the whole plan: These shorter goals assist the individual in
understanding the whole projects and maintain a uniformity. These shorter goals are more
directed and fulfilled effectively as well as efficiently (RYZHOVA, and RYZHOVA, 2022).
Examples of short term goals:
 Effective listening skills
 strong interpersonal skills
 communication skills
The measurement of medium term goals as well as identification at least three personal examples
Medium term goals are generally the objectives of the respective that may take more time
to achieve in relation to short term goals. In relation to succeed the medium term goals an
respective take two to five years and these goals plays a crucial role for their progress towards
the long term goals. These goals are vary important for the individual to give the short term and
long term goals as well (Quirke, 2020). The significance of the medium term goals has been
explained as below:
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Act as mediator: It is plays an important role of the medium term objectives for an
individual and this is act as a mediator between long term as well as short term goals. With the
help of these goals the person can effectively determine the factor which assist in achieving the
short term objective and well identify the development towards the long term goals.
Flexible in nature: This is other one important the the medium term objectives in which
an individual can make changes in the belief as priorities at some time. This is assist the
individual to production adjustment as per the requirements (Akiri and Dori, 2022).
Examples of medium term goals:
 Problem solving skills
 Decision-making skills
 innovation technology skills
The measure of long term goals as well as identification at least three examples
The long term goals is aspect for individual that want to do further in future. Long term
goals is required long time of period as well as planning. These are not achieve in a weak or in a
year because it will take more than 24 months. This is an ultimate objectives that is meant to be
achieves through a series of goals over a long period of time. Many professional set long term
goals to set up a clear path of smaller goals as well as opportunities that may lead to their success
or fulfillment. This is plays an important role in the self-improvement as well as personal
development of an individual (Horace and et. al., 2021). The importance of long term goals can
be explained as below:
Established confidence: Long term goals used by an individual for future concern as
well as it gives them to pay attention on their strategy in completing the goals. The main target of
a respective is on long term objectives results in developing confidence within them.
Stay motivated: This goal is help to individual in motivate them toward their goals ad
objectives. These long term goals are give a particular as well as ambitious which effect in
boosting up the individual and impact as a motivational way on their presentation (Williams
Rathert and Buttigieg, 2020).
Example of long term goals:
 Management skills
 leadership skills
 Time management skills
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The estimation of a Personal Development Plan as well as make an example using identified
goals:
A personal development plan is refers o the self reflection or the self-evaluation of any
individual. This development plan is basically used when it comes to the higher education as
well as workplace. For example, if a person want to learn a new languages and this can assist in
attaining the objectives. When it develops a PDP plan, it is give motivation for the intention of
attain the objectives through transfer the vision into reality. A PDP is made with the different
goals and ambition for different people.
Helps in tracking the progress: A personal development plan is help to individual to
examine the progress to achieve goals easily (Wells and Hainline, 2021).
Improving the overall performance: In relation to PDP, it assist in improving the
overall execution of an respective and supply toward the accomplishment of individual goals as
well as objectives.
Encouragement motivation: In context to personal development plan, is help to create
and discovers the morals for individual and participate in the success of objectives as well as
goals.
Help in improving the active skills: The PDP is assist in the change and improving the
skills which are assist I the achieving the goals and targets.
Help in the identification of strengths and weakness: With the help of personal
development plan, individual can easily understand their weaknesses and strengths which nay br
contribute in the achievement of the targets and results (Chan, Darwish and Shamim, 2021).
PDP example with identified goals:
SKILLS GOALS STRATEGY TIME DURATION
Excellent
communication skills
Short-term goals For increasing
communication skills
there is firstly
necessary the
command on the
written and verbal
4 month
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communication. These
re required to transfer
the personal thoughts
and ideas as well as
understand that others
want to say. This skill
is necessary for the
educational and
professional levels to
in determination the
listener with
appropriate language.
It is also includes the
paying attention to
non-verbal message
without letting be
distracted.
Decision-making
skills
Medium term goals Decision making is
important to achieve
the organizational
goals and objectives
within giving time. It
utilizes the best
resources properly and
satisfies the employees
at the workplace.
These can be decide
on many matters as
what goals their
organization will
pursue, uses of
2-3 years
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resources, perform the
each required task
(Focho, 2018).
Time management
skills
Long term goals It is a process of which
are associated with the
planning as well as
controlling the time to
spend on particular
activities. A good time
management modify
an individual to
complete more on a
shorter time period,
lower stress as well as
leads to career success.
5 years
CONCLUSION
It is analysed by the above discussion, that professional and personal development
planning plays an important role in the growth and development of individual. It is consider that
the development of the personality in positive context is help in achieve bigger targets and used
some strategies. There are some different kinds of goals are present accordant to the period of
time. These goals are explained as short term, long term as well as medium term. Personal and
professional development plan is also plays a important role in attaining the success into shorter
time period. These have various goals have their personal significance because they contribute
into context of attaining their various period of time. It is assist in beware of strengths and
weaknesses and impact on the organization. Thus, personal development plan has their personal
important roles in people's personal as well as professional life.
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