Personal and Professional Development: Importance of Goals and Personal Development Plan

Personal and professional
development

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
Define the concept of personal and professional development...................................................4
Describe and discuss the value of short-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples
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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
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Describe and discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example
using your identified goals...........................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
In the life of an individual, personal and professional development play a crucial role by
development of a dynamic personality (Blanton, Broemmel, and Rigell, 2020). It is also key
responsibility of a person to focus on personal development in academic life for overall
development of values. In the development of professional approach in career related life, it is
also important for an individual to focus on different aspects of professional development in an
ethical manner. This project includes application of personal development plan in order to
develop effective approach in career related and academic life. This report also includes value
and importance of different short, long and medium term goals for overall development of a
candidate.

MAIN BODY
Define the concept of personal and professional development
The personal and professional development are both supportive and meaningful in making
a student competitive in academic and career life. This includes various goals and objectives that
are to be achieved by an individual to focus on long term growth of an individual. Personal and
professional development in recent times are compulsory for a student in order to develop an
effective and dynamic approach for individual growth. The concept of personal development
also makes a student more competitive in academic environment which is desire of every student
(Carpenter, and Harvey, 2020). The professional development is also considered as one of the
major tools and techniques that are effective in development of a student. In the personal
development, there is a crucial role played by appropriate strategy and planning frame work.
This will help the individual to maintain discipline in order to develop an ethical approach in
self-development. Skill management is also developed with the help of professional development
in order to develop different skills like time management, problem solving and decision making.
In order to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of a student, it is essential to focus on
personal development plan. The professional development is also helpful in increasing
competitive strength of a student which is mostly important in developing a competency edge
over other students. Also the professional development helps an individual to gain good job
opportunity in career related life. The value of personal development is also effective in order to
develop a major strategy which also includes appropriate planning frame work in career life. All
the students take help and support of personal development in order to achieve major academic
goals.
Describe and discuss the value of short-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples
Short term goal is something that a person wants to do soon. They help to make a big
change in a student life. In other words, short term goal is something that a student or a person to
do in near future it can be today, in a week, or in a month (Galitskikh,. and Davlyatshina, 2017).
After accomplishing these goals, a sense of motivation and accomplishment is arousing in a
student. In academic life, short term goals are very much effective in providing a self-
development approach. Most of the successful students in academic life, formulate short term
goals and achieve them with support of seniors and professors. Short term goals are achieved