Personal and Professional Development: Importance of Short-term, Medium-term 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 constructing a personal development plan. It also provides examples of each type of goal and a sample personal development plan. The report emphasizes the importance of continuous improvement and maintaining higher performance.

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INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is the process of engaging individual in
the learning process to meet the challenges and desire goals. Individual is those people
who have knowledge and skills to perform all functions and activities individually.
Professional development means to improve the learning and working skills that provide
the opportunity to receive good chance of performing jobs (Sprott, 2019). The meaning of
development is to bring the continuous improvement in skills and abilities of an
individual and maintaining the higher performance. The personal development mainly
focuses on improving the mental and social skills by bringing the changes in their
thinking capacity. The personal development planning is playing important role as it
comes with number of skills and abilities which are important for students and given
them opportunity to develop the business opportunities. The present report is based on
personal and professional development that will help to develop the understanding and
managing the performance. This report covers concept of personal and professional
development, value of short term goals, medium term and long term goals that all are
important to developing the organizational skills.
MAIN BODY
Define the concept of personal and professional development
The concept of personal and professional development is explained as main
learning skills which is require to perform the functions and activities. If there is good
skills and ability then it will be a good opportunity to grow their business by managing
the all functions and activities. Professional development involves developing the
individual role and understand how to solve the all problems. In the environment there
are many vocational courses in which individuals get enter and start to learn many
things which can help to developing the business skills and performance. It has been
seen that people are facing different types of problems and issues that needs to be
solve by using own skills and abilities. In others words, personal development consider
those activities which are important to improve identity, awareness and knowledge by
setting the goals and objectives particularly. Professional development refers
preparation, evaluation, and mentoring the other people and individual are involved in
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the activities and develop their career in upcoming period. Goals are the defined term
which is decided by people by analysing the requirement and lack of skills that posses
by a person while working ().
Describe and discuss the value of short-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples.
Short term targets are defined as incremental actions which are used by an
individual for the purpose of completing task in short period. Small goals enabling us
and other people to develop their success and bring the changes in their workings. In
others words, where people have decided the goals and wants to achieve within 6
month then consider as short term goals and objectives. It can also cover in several
days, week or months where all functions can be managed properly. This is important
for each student to bring the changes at their workplace and states in how much period
it will be complete (Biryukova, and et.al., 2019).
My short term goals are:
 To find our a good job opportunities as I have good communication, and passion
skills which will use in running the all activities.
 To improve the English writing skills where can be share the all functions and
activities clearly that would help to identify the problems and solve them.
 To involve in social activities as it will help me to share my opinion with others
and get their ideas that can help to bring the new skills.
Describe and discuss the value of medium-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples.
This means goals which considered as best option for making an effective
process and supporting to accept the changes. This are short period than long term
where an individual is require to achieve the goals. In this people decide the goals and it
needs to be achieve within 1 year or less than can help to feel comfortable and good at
the working environment. The medium term goals are as defined:
 Work hard and being promoted is the medium term goals of me as I am working
with number of people and using talent to work effectively that could provide me
opportunity to grow their business (Landuran, and N’Kaoua, 2021).
 To take part in training and development skills which is require to be done within
6 month and develop the abilities.
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 To develop the learning and presentation skills that require to be more successful
in competitive environment and managing the all business activities.
Describe and discuss the value of long-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples.
This means higher goals which needs to be done in longer period. This follow the
principles and laws to complete the task and feeling good while working. Long term
goals are converted in to long term achievement by understanding the task and working
on that regularly. The effective development and improvement of skills enable an
individual to make the right choices in tough situations and bring the good solutions.
This is important for each individual to have long term goals and it provide the good
opportunity to grow and maintain higher productivity. This needs to be very careful and
supportive by introducing new products and services. The long term goals are:
 To travel and visit the different places all around the world that will help to make
me feel comfortable and knowledgeable (Holmes, 2020).
 To deal with foreigner in fluent way and become successful business concern by
using own skills and abilities.
 To be influencer and ideal person in front of all by doing right work at right time.
Describe and discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example using
your identified goals.
As per view point of personal development plan is important and valuable for
each individual as it bring the new skills and abilities to perform the functions. When
people entering in to daily routine cycle then it they formulate the personal development
plan which is needed to analysis the all functions and activities that are important for
running the business. Personal development plan is the the tactics and strategies which
is used to identify the weak areas and bringing the changes in their working which can
help to managing the all functions. This plan is mainly depends on needs and
requirement of an individual where kind of products and services are introduced to
managing all organizational working and accomplishing the personal as well as
professional goals (Kiessling, and et al., 2021). It has been seen that planning
document is contributing to guiding the individuals and completing the work on time
which can help to attaining the higher performance. The personal development plan is
giving the many benefits to individual as it helps to know what are the skills having in
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person and how to become a successful by improving skills. A personal development is
the plan that will help the individual to plan a career change and build the current skills.
A PDP Plan is constructed below:
What do I want
to learn
What do I have
to do?
What support
and resources
will I Need?
How will I
measure
success?
Target date for
review?
To improve the
writing skills
This is my short
term goals
which I wants to
achieve by
improving the
writing skills.
I have to access
the colleges,
library, and
regularly
practices of
writing.
Teacher and
junior will focus
my skills and
gives feedback.
3 Month
Improving
training and
development
skills
For this I will
start to
communicate
with people and
members who
are working in
organization
(Lejeune,
Beausaert, and
Raemdonck,
2021).
To improve this
I need to
support of my
senior, leader
and extra
classes from
where I could
learn or get
training.
My team
members and
self-
actualization
activities will
help to measure
the skills.
8 Month
To learn and
deal with
foreigners
This will help
me provide the
good job
opportunity in
outside and
support to
become
By getting the
language
classes, using
fluent English
and
understanding
the different
Clients,
manager and
other who are
proficient in this
work will
measure the
abilities.
3 Years
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successful
business
concern.
culture this skills
can be
improved.
The above personal and professional development plan is being prepared by
analysing the own skills and abilities as it helps to know what are the skills in which an
individual is lack and how it can be improved. The PDP plan is more effective tool which
is used by individual for the purpose of bringing improvements and accomplishing the
business goals. The management should have proper understanding and knowledge
about particular task as it supports to know how the personal development plan is
valuable and how to build the strategies for improving their weak areas. In other words,
PDP plan is more effective tool that keep connection between mode of development
and individual skills which is important to complete the work and attaining the higher
performance (Trodd, and Dickerson, 2019).
CONCLUSION
From the report it can be concluded that meaning of personal and professional
development is number of different things which is require to be done in given period
and solve the issues. The personal and professional development is mainly uses for
identifying the own skills and bringing the changes in their working that can help to
complete the work on time. Goals and objectives are decided by individual who focuses
on their skills and time period. If an individual is having personal and professional skills
then it will be good opportunity for them to improve their talent and get the best results.
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Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan
Skills/
Traits to
be
Develope
d
Development Plan Resources Target Date
Multi-tasking
need to be
improve
The meaning of this skill is a person who
have different task and activities to do as it
develop the understanding and managing
the all functions. This skills can be develop
by going through practical as well as
theoretical aspects that develop the
understanding level and attaining the higher
performance. This will help me to gain the
knowledge and would ready to work at ant
time by handling many task and activities.
Thus, multitasker is the needed skills that
should have in person for the purpose of
handling all workings.
Elbe, P., Sörman, D.E.,
Mellqvist, E., Brändström, J.
and Ljungberg, J.K., 2019.
Predicting attention shifting
abilities from self-reported
media
multitasking. Psychonomic
bulletin & review, 26(4),
pp.1257-1265.
6 -9 months
Conflict
resolution
While working at workplace it is natural to
arises the conflicts between employees,
employer and others people that needs to
be solve. If I would have this skills then I
can perform the all functions effectively and
getting the work done from employees by
solving their conflicts. I decided to develop
the conflict resolution skills by gaining the
personal and professional skills. This
Ay, S.Ç., Keskin, H.K. and
Akilli, M., 2019. Examining the
Effects of Negotiation and
Peer Mediation on Students'
Conflict Resolution and
Problem-Solving
Skills. International Journal of
Instruction, 12(3), pp.717-730.
3 months
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provide an opportunity to grow their working
and attaining the higher performance.
Leadership When people or employees are working in
organization then they needs a leader who
have leadership skills as it influence the
employees and getting the work done in
effective time period. I will develop my
leadership skills by taking the session of
leadership programmes and classes. This
can help to gain the personal as well as
professional growth by getting the positive
results. This can also help to managing the
higher productivity and profitability.
Thomas, E.V., Wells, R.,
Baumann, S.D., Graybill, E.,
Roach, A., Truscott, S.D.,
Crenshaw, M. and Crimmins,
D., 2019. Comparing
traditional versus retrospective
pre-/post-assessment in an
interdisciplinary leadership
training program. Maternal and
child health journal, 23(2),
pp.191-200.
3 months
Team building Without team members to perform the
particular task can be challenging that
affects the business. For improving my
team building skills I need to analysis the
skills set of members by assigning task and
engaged in the activity that will help to
know how to perform the particular
activities and functions.
Dawdy, K., McGuffin, M. and
Fegan, C., 2020.
Understanding team dynamics
to promote team building in a
radiotherapy
department. Journal of
Radiotherapy in Practice, pp.1-
6.
6 to 8 month
Time
management
skills
Times is the valuable for all as it helps to
know in which time period work will be
done. I will improve my time management
skills by preparing the schedule of all
working, giving them priority and controlling
the each function timely which can help to
maintain the higher productivity. By
preparing the schedule and chart it will be
easy to mange the work according to
decided time. The people is require to have
Rimmer, A., 2019. How do I
improve my time management
skills?. BMJ, 366.
3 to 6 months
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time management skills and abilities which
can be used to managing the all functions
and activities properly.
Fund
Management
The fund management is the important
skills that should have in individual for the
purpose of preparing the budget and
allocating the fund in to business activities.
This skills is used by those people who are
interested to get or settle the fund balance
in different activities. This can help to
maintain the higher productivity and
profitability at the workplaces by arranging
funds and balances.
Upadhaya, G. and Gupta, K.,
2019. Market Timing Ability of
Indian Mutual Fund Managers:
An Empirical Study. OJAS,
p.2.
3 years
Openness to
Experience
This is another skills which is require to
perform the the functions by sharing the
knowledge, innovating new ideas, and
accepting the changes which are most
important that can help to develop the
business performance and productivity at
the workplace. This skill encourage the
individual to work properly and introduce
the innovation in their work that can help to
maintain higher productivity.
Tan, C.S., Lau, X.S., Kung,
Y.T. and Kailsan, R.A.L., 2019.
Openness to experience
enhances creativity: The
mediating role of intrinsic
motivation and the creative
process engagement. The
Journal of Creative
Behavior, 53(1), pp.109-119.
1 year
Decision making
skills
This skills is related to making the right
business decision and bringing the changes
at their workplace. This trait will help to
analysing the own skills and making the
right business decision that can help to
developing the individual as well as
organization performance.
Mandinach, E.B. and
Schildkamp, K., 2021.
Misconceptions about data-
based decision making in
education: An exploration of
the literature. Studies in
Educational Evaluation, 69,
p.100842.
2 year
Computer skills The environment is changing day by day Obichukwu, P.U., Olelewe, 6 to 12 months
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where people are using computers and
mobile phones to recording, keeping data
secure, and managing the all information
which can help to managing the higher
performance and attaining the productivity
at workplace.
C.J., Igboamalu, P.N., Ugo, C.,
Abdulrahman, A., Okanazu,
O.O., Ike, J.O. and Abdullahi,
M., 2021. Evaluation of Extent
of Computer Appreciation
Skills Acquired by Secondary
School Students for Economic
Empowerment. Journal of
Educational and Social
Research, 11(3), pp.263-263.
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