Personal and Professional Development: Goals and PDP Plan

Academic Skills and
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY .................................................................................................................................1
Define concept of the individual and professed improvement...............................................1
Explain the concept of the short term goals with the help of illustrations :- ..................2
Justify and elaborate the concept of average term goals - ...............................................3
Elaborate the value of long term goals by determining the three illustration :- ............3
Justify the value of PDP plan - ...........................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ..............................................................................................................................6
References:.......................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Professional and personal development of an individual include development of abilities,
knowledge, talent and skills to grow his career and accomplish his goals and objectives. It
include different training and learning opportunities (Rosmaladewi, Abduh and Basri, 2020). It is
an ongoing activity for the skill and knowledge development to attaining three type of goals.
These goals include short term, medium term and long term goals. This report will be based on
the concept of professional and personal development of people. There will be a discussion on
three major goals in individual's life. In addition, this report will also include a PDP that help a
person to know about the are of development.
MAIN BODY
Define concept of the individual and professed improvement
The professional and personal improvement program is considered as a uninterrupted
procedure of developing the action plan which are based on the self contemplation,
consciousness, objectives, growing preparation and value related to career, education, self
improvement and many more. It can also be defined as process of developing course of the
action on the basis of planning for developing oneself. Personal development program can be
exploited by a person and organisation both. Main purpose or motive of this action plan is to
accomplish the life goals of an individual by boosting and enhancing inner skills of an
individual. It include different types of the training and other developing programs so that three
main goals of an individual can be achieved. In university, the personal development plan has a
portfolio including a proof of the skill acquired over a particular time period. Whereas, in
professional development, individual's CV is included. Companies also ask their workers to take
part in different training and development programs to complete their PDP. It support an
individual to improve his existing performance at academic and organisational level. It is also
known as the development of talent, knowledge and skills that create and grab the available
growth opportunities. It is concerned with the current performance of a person for the
improvement. It is a never ending process that's last beingness long in individual's life. PDP
outline all the three goals of an individual, short term, medium term and ling term goals. All
these goals consist with a time limit for their wind-up. It make an individual more better and
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Skills and PDP

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Concept of personal and professional development....................................................................4
Value of short term goals and identification of three personal example.....................................5
Value of medium term goals and identification of three personal example................................6
Value of long term goals and identification of three personal examples.....................................6
Value of personal development plan with appropriate example..................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development can be known as the process via which individuals
engage in learning process and meet their pre-determined goals (Pugh and Broome, 2020). This
reflective study will discuss the value of short term, medium term and long term goals and how
as well as when they can be accomplished. It will further discuss effectiveness of personal
development plan and activities involved them can help individuals in accomplishing all goals.
MAIN BODY
Concept of personal and professional development
Personal and professional development the concept where individual people assess their
personal skills and abilities, consider their goals in order to understand and maximize their true
potential. Both the skills are helpful for development of better and effective personality at every
place (Fletcher and et.al., 2020). It gives you proper direction that how to solve any problem with
uses of effective idea. Graceful personality and better way of communication gives better result
on every phase of life. Good and professional personality always attractive because they have
better skills how to perform and how to stand at workplace, school, organization etc. Personality
and professional development makes effective personality.
Personal development:
It is the process for which skills individual required for their growth. It develops a
person's capabilities and potential, quality of changes in life. PD helps to improving various
activities in individual like personality, self-confident, development of talents, social relations,
lifestyle, career development etc. These qualities that individual already has gained from
education and training program. It will develop the good communication process which is very
beneficial for everywhere like if you are working with any organization it is essential that people
have good and clear communication skills (Rusilowati and Wahyudi, 2020). In the organization
and industrial personality development has many formats of operating like business to consumer
and business to business. Better personality and better communication process is helps to become
more confident in every place. Personality developer gives training for how to talk with
confidently within the group and individual.
Professional development:
PD refers to develop different kind of training, formal education, professional learning
process, which helps to improve in individual specialization skills. We all know that education is