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

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development....................................................................3
Value of short-term goals and three personal examples..............................................................4
Value of medium-term goals and three personal examples.........................................................5
Value of long- term goals and three personal examples .............................................................6
Value of personal development plan and action plan..................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Personal development refers to set of action or key activities that are undertaken by an
individual in order to develop its existing skills, knowledge and capabilities for bright future
ahead. In current scenario, an individual in order to get a better employment opportunity need to
have several skills, knowledge such as communication, interpersonal, decision making and
information technology skills to get a better option ahead in future career. This report has
depicted key information related to personal and professional development, importance of short,
medium and long term goals. Finally, a personal development plan is made that helps in
understanding and planning set of strategies that could be used by individuals to improve its
existing skills and capabilities for bright future.
MAIN BODY
Concept of personal and professional development
Personal and professional development consists of key activities, set of procedure that are
undertaken by an individual in order to improve its knowledge, skills for achieving the set goals
in desired manner. It helps person in entirely understanding about what are the roles and
responsibilities that need to be performed in organisation and the manner in which they can be
improved for better outcome. The process of professional development consists of numerous
activities ranging from enhancing the quality of life, realising the dream, building personal
capabilities and potential and many more. Furthermore, the process of personal and professional
development continues throughout the life of person in order to stay ahead in competition in
crowded workforce (Dunn and Doolittle, 2020). Individuals through personal and professional
development can easily identified its existing skills and knowledge thereby find alternative
method that could be used to improve the same. Metal, social, physical and emotional are four
key main areas that need to be developed by person in order to get a best opportunity in reputable
organisation. As in recent scenario, employers want to recruit only individuals that have number
of set skills, capabilities so that it can easily complete its respective task and company can earn
huge profit margin. Therefore, it can be stated that the personal and professional development is
significant for each and every individual to effectively achieve its set goals in limited time frame.

Value of short-term goals and three personal examples
Short terms goals are objective that are set by individuals for time frame of 2-6 month in
order to achieve higher growth and development in future circumstances. In another words, it is
something that an individuals want to have in near future only likewise, within this week, month
or every this year. So, these are all goals that need to be accomplished as earlier as possible
through undertaking crucial steps. The short-term goals are significant for individuals as they act
as milestone in journey of individual to reach the long-term goals of life. Setting the short-term
goals contribute in motivating the individuals to focus on acquiring more knowledge, key skills
and effectively organised its time and resources to achieve the most of life (Shibankova and
et.al., 2019). In addition to this, the short term goals are even more important as compared to
long term goals as it helps in setting the immediate action that an individual can undertake to
achieve the desired outcome.
Example of short terms goals
1. My short-term goals are to work on my communication and decision-making skills to
effectively share my point of view to other people using appropriate vocabulary, sentence
and grammar. So that the individuals or receiver clearly understand what I want to
communicate or share to it (Saric and Steh, 2017). At the same time, it will help in
enhancing my listening and understanding skills and reason for development of decision-
making skills is that I want to take best decision in limited time possible. So, the
objective is “ to improve my communication and decision making skills within two
or three months.”
2. “Learn to manage stress and completion of task on time by the end of December
2021” is another short-term goal that I want to achieve in near future. As in current
scenario, there are number of stress that an individual faces while completing its
respective task so, I want to manage my stress and all task as per desired (Barnová,
Krásna and Čepelová, 2020). Along with it, I have decided to improve my time
management skills so that I can able to complete the allotted task in minimum time
frame.
3. “Developing a better morning routine such as spending time to have exercise,
meditation for good health and well-being till the end of this year”. This is most