Personal and Professional Development: Understanding Short, Medium and Long Term Goals

This report explains the concept of personal and professional development, the value of short, medium, and long-term goals, and the importance of a personal development plan. It also provides examples of goals and objectives for career development.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Understanding concept of personal and professional development............................................1
Understanding of value of short term goals................................................................................2
Discussion of value of medium term aims..................................................................................2
Understanding value of long term objectives..............................................................................3
Knowledge of value of personal development plan....................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................7
Personal development plan:........................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is basically defined as a idea and concept which
helps in managing own understanding and learning of an individual throughout their work career.
As it is essential that every individual should carry out and regulate their activities in order to
develop their skills along with their knowledge with update along with ensuring that individual
to continue to carry out their work effectively as well as safely (Suryanti and Arifani, 2021).
Personal as well as professional development is also termed to be continuous professional
development which is (CPD). As this report is based on personal as well as professional
development of an individual which are being learned by them through out their career. As this
report includes an understanding and description of personal as well as professional
development, knowledge of value of short term, medium term as well as long terms goals that
benefits individuals to enhance their career learning along with its conclusion.
MAIN BODY
Understanding concept of personal and professional development.
Personal development is generally considered to be a set of activities which helps in
developing capabilities of an individual as well as potential along with generating out human
capital, facilitating employability along with improving quality of life of aspirations and dreams.
As personal development somehow may take place over a course of an individual's whole
lifespan. As goal as well as aim of personal as well as professional development is to give benefit
to individual for managing out their own learning along with growth opportunities throughout
their career (Kösterelioğlu, 2021). As it becomes necessary for every individual to learn as well
as develop their skills along with knowledge for having up to date along with ensuring that
individual should carry out their work effectively as well as legally. Professional and personal
development is essential as it benefits individual in order to expand as well as grow their skills
along with talents that are beyond their recent role and professional in order to prepare
themselves for providing more that makes them high valuable to employers. As some of manners
by which it could helps in managing out individual's personal as well as professional
development that are as follows:
 Identification as well as taking up right opportunities: As by carrying out training
which is not about only learning. As it also requires to carry out search for accurate
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as well as effective opportunities for implementing skills, knowledge as well as
information which could helps in grabbing effective opportunities for them.
 Setting as well as planning up clear goals that are related to what it is needed to
accomplish: As once individual has to defined their goals clearly it becomes easy to
keep as well as manage their personal and professional development.
Understanding of value of short term goals.
As short terms goals are basically defined to be objectives that an individual requires to
accomplish as early as possible. As short time objectives generally provides help in making out
effective changes. As short time objectives is said to be something by which an individual
requires to perform within coming future. As short term objectives basically act as a milestone in
it life journey in order to reach out their long term goals of an individual's lifespan. As it helps
learner to gauge them how far they are to manage along with coming to travel for reaching out a
particular destination of individual (Dunlap, 2021). As in order to reach out to long term
objectives of an individual it is necessary for them to fulfil their present short terms aims as early
as possible that could be able to enhance their potential with their effectiveness. As some of
personal examples of short time goals with their values are as follows:
 Enhancing as well as improvising performance in numbers.
 Earning out a new certificate as well as a degree.
 Improvising networking as well as communication skills.
 Generating as well as improving work life balances of an individual.
Discussion of value of medium term aims.
As value of medium term objectives are generally defines to objectives that takes some
long time to achieve them (Sims, Carter and Moore De Peralta, 2021). As medium term goals
could accomplished in some weeks or months. These objectives generally offers effective as well
as best skills for having development of an individual. As it is large enough to design significant
progress as well as results. As there are different as well as various learners by time which they
are desired to achieve its planned objectives with in a specified period of time. As value of
medium terms goals generally helps individuals to accomplish their goals that is based on
monetary change, as it helps in reaching out long term goals effectively with an ease in order to
have long term progress of an individual in its career path. Along with that medium term goals
offers to have significant growth and progress of an individual (Stylianou and Zembylas, 2021).
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It provides benefits for setting up different goals for making them work over a course of time
that could be achieve within a point of time of time such as five years. As medium time
objectives are considered to be those objectives which could be planned as well as set out by
different objectives at a particular point of time of career as well as lifespan. As by having value
of some of examples of medium terms goals are as follows:
 Thinking out as well as giving about timeline along with managing out risks for
increasing as well as building revenues for having development.
 Taking care of learner's individual's savings alo9ng with money for handling with various
uncertainties as well as emergency (Dietz, 2021).
 Beginning out career as well as developing business for creating out different identity
which are towards society as well as to have development.
 Enriching capability of resume of before applying to any jobs for grabbing out effective
job opportunities.
Understanding value of long term objectives.
As long term objectives are defined to goals that they desires to achieve them with in
coming future period of time. As long term goals as well as objectives requires to achieve them
effectively within coming future (Gray, 2021). It is basically said to be achievement which will
take a significant time, effort as well as planning out different goals to accomplish them. Long
term goals are said to be delayed gratification results of different months as well as years for
keeping out a focus. Long term goals are generally considered to be different that could be
beneficial for an individual to perform out certain goals as well as activities in order to build out
their public image by living in high society. As long term objectives basically could be covered
in some years. As long term goals generally gives out a guide for each day which is beneficial
technique that could help in making out right as well as effective decisions. As long term
objectives basically gives out a benefit in searching more skills along with knowledge that could
have a motive for carrying out a desired goal. As these long term goals generally gives out more
efficiency of working along with building out personal and professional career development. In
relation to values of long term goals some of examples that are to be achieved by an individual
are as follows:
 Defining as well as planning out long time aims of increasing knowledge as well as
building out skills.
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 Identification as well as generation of creating out career opportunities by improvising
skills (Lubsky and Chikarova, 2021).
 Being leader of improved skills as well as talents opportunities with personal
development to get effective job opportunities.
 Building out effective communication as well as interpersonal skills that could help
individual to interact with other persons.
Knowledge of value of personal development plan.
As personal development plan is defined to a process that deal in creating out various
action plans that are based on awareness, reflection, objective setting, values as well as keeping
out planning for having personal development in relation to career education, relationship along
with having self enhancement. As personal development plan generally offers out a requirement
for employee and their CVs. As personal development plan also considered to be continuous
development plan that basically consists of a statement of individual's aspirations, strengths
along with competencies, education as well as training. It could also consist of statement of
individual's career (Kumar, Gray and Toren, 2021). As in relation to individual's point of view
personal development plan on basis of short, medium as well as long term goals is carried by
implementing learning goal of decision making skills that could be carried by taking up
development for competency that could help individual to gain effective working knowledge by
using different decision making techniques, along with that skills that are to be enhanced by an
individual is to perform out learning objective of leadership as well as analytical skills that are
required to be enhanced by individual by regularly attending out effective open leadership
development courses by having tailored leadership training courses that could help individual to
enhance their learning and knowledge and along with that for enhancing analytical skills learner
could set out goal of accomplishing their analytical skills by taking out participation in various
training workshops which are based on critical thinking along with strategic management. As
with a mind to develop these goals for achieving out short, medium as well as long term goals it
is essential for individual to build its communication skills that could be beneficial for them to
carry out their ideas of learning out new concepts along conveying essentials messages and ideas
to other individuals without having any hesitation. As by implementing personal development
plan in individual's lifespan it could help learners to gain knowledge for increasing out their
skills for having their personal and professional development so that individual could be able to
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get effective job opportunities. By having personal development plan it could help individual to
generate their career development skills so that they could be able to focus on their development
for living quality lifestyle(Gaham, 2021).
As personal development plan generally provides as visualize outline as well as roadmap
in order to have growth opportunities by clearly identifying skills differences to carry on certain
activities for filling up that gaps.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from above report that it is essential for every individual to have
their development on personal as well as professional basis so that they could be able to enhance
their career opportunities in an effective way. It is essential to carry personal and professional
development which could help them in learning as well as maintaining their sense of living,
learning for keeping out a sense of performing out various tasks and activities. This report carries
as brief explanation of concept of personal and professional development which helps
individuals to carry out their career in an effective way. Also along with that this report carries a
brief explanation of value and description of short, medium as well as long term goals with
specific examples. As on basis of different goals that are being planned by individual in order to
perform out their activities personal development plan has been designed in order to achieve
goals of individual in an effective way. At last this report explains about various goals as well as
objectives that are to be planned by an individual in order to build their career learnings along
improvising their knowledge as well as understanding to work.
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Dietz, L., 2021. The Impact of Professional Learning: Writing High-Quality Individualized
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Gaham, J.C., 2021. The Relationship Between Professional Learning Community Characteristics
and Teacher Collective Efficacy in Two Midwestern Schools.
Gray, W.P., 2021. Elementary Teachers’ Implementation of Inquiry-Based Instruction.
Kösterelioğlu, İ., 2021. THE EFFECT OF THE ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE
2023 EDUCATION VISION DOCUMENT ON TEACHERS’PROFESSIONAL
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Kumar, R., Gray, D.L. and Toren, N.K., 2021. Pre-service teachers’ desire to control bias:
Implications for the endorsement of culturally affirming classroom practices. Learning
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APPENDIX
Personal development plan:
S no. Learning goal Present
proficiency
Target
proficiency
Development
opportunities
Time scale
1 Leadership
Skills
Being too
flexible as a
leader I scored
average in
leadership skills
that are to be
developed.
To effectively
balance
authoritative
factors of
leadership to
making employees
follow guidelines
through
participative
leadership style.
By participating
in open
leadership
enhancement
courses such as
Tailored
leadership
training courses
3 months
2 Analytical
Skills
Currently I am
having average
analytical skills
To develop
proficiency for
visualizing,
articulate as well
as resolve both
intricate and
fundamental
problems along
with challenges.
To enhance this
skill I will
participate in
analytical skills
training consists
on critical
thinking as well
as strategic
management
2 months
3 Decision
making Skills.
In recent
scenario I
scored average
in decision
making skills
which further
To take Speed up
as well as
authentic even in
most difficult
situations.
For developing
this competency,
I will increase
further
experience as
well as
4 months
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needs
enhancement
knowledge of
business analysis
process. Also I
will make usage
of Six Thinking
Hats technique
which could help
me to evaluate
various factors
related to
conditions.
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