Personal and Professional Development: Importance of Short, Medium, and Long-Term Goals

This report discusses the concept of personal and professional development, the value of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, and the importance of a personal development plan. It highlights the benefits of setting goals and provides examples of each type of goal. The report emphasizes the importance of self-improvement and career growth.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Define the concept of personal and professional development...................................................3
Describe and discuss the value of short-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples ...................................................................................................................................4
Describe and discuss the value of medium-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples......................................................................................................................................5
Describe and discuss the value of long-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples
.....................................................................................................................................................6
Describe and discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example
using your identified goals..........................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is a activity in which person analyse their true potential.
Personal development can assist in prove quality of life by improving skills and knowledge.
Personal development motivates people to be best version of themselves and their goals and
aspirations comes true. It gives a clear direction in which they can achieve their dreams.
Personal development is self focused, it provides a way to see a better person in itself. There are
different categories in it, such as mental, social spiritual, emotional and physical. Persons
expansion in career and educational performance, it helps of person on focussing on many
factors like, skills, operational area, hard skills, personal quality (Bachiknd Kitzman, 2020)). It is
a lifelong process which considers aims for life. Personal development is way to enhance new
skills and have a vision for better career in life, it is an ongoing process accessing aim and
qualities so that they can reach at goal point. In this following report it will have include concept
of personal and professional development, value of short term goals, it will further discuss value
of medium term goals, and will deep dive in the concept and value of long term goals and value
of personal development plan.
TASK
Define the concept of personal and professional development
Personal and professional development is a method for approach of enhancing skill,
knowledge for accomplishing goals. Professional development includes a person develops itself
in order to fit in the job role and improve their performance. It is a long term process. On the
other hand personal development is the overall improvement in the person in their life as well as
in job so that they can focus on goal. Professional development focus on current job and personal
development is a career and aim focus. It is a short term process, personal development is a way
of accomplishing human inner needs as to expand their full potential. It a process which starts
from very young age and ends at till old age. It allows an person to vision a life and provide way
to complete that goals. In comparison, professional development takes place at a particular state
of life (Gonot-Schoupinsky,Garip and Sheffiel, 2020). It is a career oriented process that helps in
satisfy human needs and benefit to employees greatly. Currently professional development
possibilities are a significant to motivating and provides a way to improve skills for ongoing job.
It is a set of tools and training session for professional to enhance their knowledge in their area

and it allows them to gain some new training techniques. There are many examples of
professional development such as, continuing education, participation in professional
organisation, research, improve job performance, skill based training and many more. There
are some examples of personal development which are, leadership training, management
training, time management, communication skill and many others. Personal and professional
development are two different terms but they both are complementary to one another. An
individual needs development in both life and organisation.
Professional development is a collection of tools, resources, and training sessions that enable
educators to improve the quality and effectiveness of their teaching. these resources allow
instructors to depend their knowledge in their field and provide mentoring and the opportunity to
learn new teaching techniques. Participants in seminars or leadership sessions develop and
enhance professional skills, including technical,quantitative, and analytical skills (Hassan and et.
al., 2022).
Describe and discuss the value of short-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples
Short-term goals are goals that you want to achieve in the near future. Short-term goals can be
achieved today, or next week, next month, or next year. For example, a short-term goal at work
may be to increase productivity in the next 30 days. The purpose of setting short-term goals is to
support success and support long-term goals. The more specific and practical your short-term
goal list is, the more likely you are to reach each goal on time Establishing short-term goals for
career can assist the person in better achievement of professional plan. Establishing short-term
goals for career can assist in a better achieve in professional plan. Short term career goals are
essential as it allows a person to eventually achieve long term goals. There are many advantages
of short term goals some of them are discussed below,
 Boosts motivation:- Setting short-term goals most likely to easier than establishing long
term goals and try to achieve them. Sometimes even a small accomplishment can
motivate people and helps in keep moving forward till decided long term goal. Long term
goal are very tough to achieve on a shorter period of time only small tasks can be attain
on shorter period (Horn, 2020).Every tasks give a confidence in an individual to achieve
more goals.

 Mitigates procrastination:- When a person have clear vision and take actionable steps
in order to achieve them, procrastination is able to cut off so that they are highly goal
driven and more motivated to continuous try to achieve them even though it can be touch
than tougher.
 Provides a clear direction:- A short term goal provides a true direction for completing
goals. A short term goal is a set of list of multiple goals or tasks which includes actions to
accomplishing goals it focus on affords and focus. It can assist the person in reducing
time on actions that prevent from wasting time and energy.
Describe and discuss the value of medium-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples
Mid term goals are those goals which can take slightly longer period of time than short
term goals, but they have shorter time period than long term goals. People can achieve medium
term goals once after short-term goals. These goals are essential for mapping the progress
towards long term objectives (Kokun,Baranauskienėand Shamych, 2018). It help assist them in
analysing direction whether they are on the right direction or not. If people want to achieve
larger goals than mid term goals can help in managing work into smaller tasks. There are many
importance of the mid term goals which have discussed below,
 Creates a link between short term and long term goals:- Medium term goals creates a
bridge between short term and long term goals. Short term is an action to beginning of
the particular tasks and mid term goals helps them to achieve goals at smaller tasks. The
particular time frame requires a brief time to settle down satisfaction and thoughts of a
person.
 Inspiration for persistent objectives: Medium term goals access a vision to complete
goals on time. Achieving mid term goals will assist in have assure of moving further and
make objectives. At a point after noticing itself mistake or error while accomplishing
goals than it will help in motivate themselves and keep moving forwards in order to
achieve objectives.
 Make a road map for enduring targets: If a person want to achieve a target goal then
they have to create a road map to achieve those target. These plan assist in providing a
right direction for longer period of time. In this they set path so that they can better

achieve their goals. For example, security of the job in business, increase skills, enhance
(Lauring, Guttormsenand McNulty, 2019).
Describe and discuss the value of long-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples
Long term goals are simply an objective that helps in accomplishing goals in the future,
merely it requires a specific time and planning to complete. It does not just take months but it
can take years to achieve and this process sometimes requires more planning and steps involve
while thinking of achieving. It requires lot of energy and time, this process is future oriented and
it is important for career growth. There are some importance of long term gaols available such
are listed below,
 Self -enhancement: It is a future focused process, so accordingly it provides an
opportunity for the individuals to focus themselves and eventually work on that skills.
This process assist in creating an improvement as a change. By focus on themselves they
will able to increase productivity and performance in every field as they can better
achieve their decided objectives on a certain period of time.
 Make the career directions: Long term goals are set for the future so along with the
goals they provides a way to better their objectives. It helps in minimizing errors in the
business environment as they make a direction where to go and how the goals should be
achieved it can take workers away from mistakes and also it can reduces time limit.
 Development in professionalism: This process in essential in terms of setting career
goals and direction by which it can be achieved. By giving enough time to an particular
activity the task will be easy and easy to attainable. By time every person can become
proficient in that. If a person ha able to achieve short and mid term goals than it will
become easier for them to achieve long term goals with efficiency.
 Financial extravagance: Individuals all is need is a job security. Long term goals
provides financial security to individuals for a longer period of time, this helps in
increase sustainability in the organisation of an employee. If a person sets long term
goals and also able to achieve that so it will gain trust of company. By this a person
enable to get monetary support from its organisation.

Describe and discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example
using your identified goals
Personal development plan is a act of improving skills and knowledge of a person
itself. It is a self evaluation and reflection plan so that they can have improvement in the overall
skills so that they can achieve their career goal (Ying and et. al., 2020). It is a career oriented
plan. Some of the importance of personal development plan has been discussed as,
 Make the vision clear- This plan helps an individual to think and have a vision of seeing
themselves in next few years that how and where they will be. According to this they will
have a right vision to set their career objectives and achieve them.
 Increase existing skills- If a individual is setting a long term goal than they will able to
achieve current goal by their skills. It refers to focus on development on areas which is
related to future.
 Drives Satisfaction- A chance of improvement in individual in self improvement it assist
them in move forward in life. Only monetary value is not enough for the individual but
they want to gain experience, increase skills and knowledge so that they can see a
development I n themselves it will further help them in achieving long term goals.
 Build relationship:- A strong hold on professionalism in person can help them to deveop
in life by many qualities like, listening, team building and many other.

CONCLUSION
From the above following report it has been concluded the concept of personal development, it is
a long term plan which focusses on overall development in an individual it help sin achieving the
goals which has future purpose. This report further included personal and professional
development and importance and short terms goals, medium term goals, long term goals and
explained their importance in a persons life. Short term goals have shorter time limit and vision,
medium term goals is an link between short and long terms gaols, and long term is future
oriented process, it usually takes years to plan, implement and achieve. It will also included
personal development plan and value of it in an individual's life.

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