Personal and Professional Development Plan: Goals and Examples

BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 2
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
Meaning of professional and personal development.............................................................3
Short term goals and its examples.........................................................................................4
Medium term goals and its examples ...................................................................................4
Long term goals and its examples.........................................................................................5
Value of PDP.........................................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
Books and Journals................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Growth and development are two important aspects of everyone's life. In order to
grow and develop at the initial stage during academic studies an individual is require to have
a personal development plan (Abad, 2020). Personal and professional development plan are
the strategic plans which are prepared for the development of an individual on the basis of
their goals. The personal and professional development plans are two different concepts but
both the plan requires a goal to be achieved by an individual with the help of this project.
This report is going to discuss about the concept of both personal and professional
development. On the basis of the plan which has been prepared for both contains three types
of goals. This report also going to discuss the short term, long term and medium term goals of
an individual which they have formulated to achieve their personal development plan. It also
contains three examples of each goal which further provide for the description about the
personal development plan of the individual.
MAIN BODY
Meaning of professional and personal development
Personal development refers to the development of an individual on the basis of their
personal objectives. It contains the goals of an individual which they want to achieve for the
career growth in a particular field. Whereas professional development refers to the
development plan of an individual which has been designed to upgrade the professional skills
of an individual which are required in their professional life or in an organisation. The main
difference between personal development plan and a professional development plan is that
personal development plan has been prepared by an individual for themselves to achieve their
personal objectives whereas the professional development plan is prepared by an organisation
for their employees to help them to achieve the organisational goals. So many times
organisations are requiring to develop several professional skills in their employees which
they require to provide them in order to make them efficient for the work assigned to them.
This requires the organisation to develop professional development plan for their employees
in the organisation. As the personal development plan is prepared by an individual
themselves it is required by them to set a proper goal. These goals are the objectives of an
individual they want to achieve in their personal life (Amatan, Han, and Pang, 2021). In order
to make the goals achievable they are divided in three types that are short term, long term and
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