Academic Skills and PDP: Personal Development Plan and Goal Analysis

This report delves into the critical aspects of academic skills and personal development, emphasizing their significance in fostering professional growth. It begins by defining personal and professional development, highlighting how these concepts contribute to enhanced abilities and increased quality of life. The report then examines the value of setting short, medium, and long-term goals, providing examples for each to illustrate their practical application in achieving desired outcomes. A significant portion is dedicated to the importance of a Personal Development Plan (PDP), offering a detailed example to demonstrate its role in career advancement and skill enhancement. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and reinforcing the importance of continuous learning and proactive planning for academic and professional success. The report also references several academic journals and books to support its findings.

Academic skills and PDP

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
1. Concept of personal and professional development................................................................1
2. Value of short term goals along with thre examples...............................................................2
3. Value of medium term goals along with three examples........................................................3
4. Value of long term goals along with three examples..............................................................4
5. Value of personal development plan along with example.......................................................4
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................6
APPENDIX.....................................................................................................................................8
PDP..............................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are the talent and habits that benefits the students in their learning,
research and report writing. Along with this, such skills assist to improve the skills like analysis,
communication, social and technical. Similarly, the present report will help to highlight the
importance of academic skills and shed a light upon importance of personal development plan.
The report will present the concept of personal and professional development and define the
significance of long, medium and short term goals. Lastly, the report will also present the value
of personal development plan and through an example, it provide deeper insight about the same.
MAIN BODY
1. Concept of personal and professional development
Concept of personal development
Personal development consist of different activities that develop a person's abilities and
potential that enhance the quality of life and make employee aspirations. So, it can be stated that
personal development is important because it helps to access the life goals and enhance the
skills. However, it is not necessary that an individual may attain the objectives but through
personal development, individual is fulfilling the life goals, hence, personal development
contributes to satisfaction as well as success in a life. The development takes place over the
course of an individual's entire lifespan because at each stage, individual learning that helps to
improve their personal skills as well (Mantzourani and et.al., 2021). It has been stated that
through personal development, individual increases self-awareness and generate a sense of
direction that in turn assist to improve the overall performance. Apart from this, it is also
examined that personal development helps an individual to be motivated and fulfill the
relationship as well.
Concept of professional development
Professional development is the concept through which instructor improves the skills of
an individual in order to meet the need of a student effectually. Also, there are many approaches
used by the individual in order to improve the performance such as review case studies,
consultation and mentoring etc. In addition to this, the main purpose of professional
development is to afford professionals an opportunity to learn as well as apply new knowledge
as well as skills so that it will help them in their job for better career (Jansen and et.al., 2021).
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As per the individual need, there are different types of professional development forms applied
by the professionals in order to groom the individual as well. Apart from this, it is also analyzed
that through professional development, individual is able to engage themselves though a process
of learning as well as meet the defined goals as well. Also, ….critically stated that professional
development is a wide range of specialized training as well as advanced professional learning in
order to improve the professional knowledge as well as their competency level. In professionally
context, it has been analyzed that professional development assist to increase retention and build
confidence as well among employees.
2. Value of short term goals along with thre examples
Short term goals are act as a milestone within an individual's journey which assist to
reach the long term goal. Also, it assists to reach with person's ultimate goal so that it will help
to improve the overall performance (Chaykina and et.al., 2021). Moreover, shirt term goal
actually reduces the procrastination and keeps an individual be focused upon their own goals.
The duration to meet such type of goal is ranges from 1 week to 6 weeks only. Therefore, it can
be stated that through short term goals, an individual define their objectives which they want to
attain in the near future because long term goal are also met by break down the goals in different
manner. Apart from this, it has been analyzed that through short term goals, individual is able to
attain their future goals and derive the future results as well. Also, goals are important because it
assists to manage the work in accordance with requirement of a people and this in turn promote
a sense of self-mastery as well.
For example
 Improve vocabulary within next 5 week by reading different books that helps to clear the
pronunciation and as a result, individual is able to meet the short term goal as well.
 Explore something new every day will also help to enhance the knowledge in each field.
This in turn assist to enhance the knowledge within near future as well.
 Organize the work station in order to increase the productivity at work within next 4
weeks. Through this goal, individual is able to improve the performance of the company
and able to be productive in near future (Ballardini and et.al., 2021),
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3. Value of medium term goals along with three examples
Medium term goals are based on little extended time periods, which are larger than short
term goals extensively based on stronger working parameters based on extensive working
parameters for academic growth. Analysis of medium term goals enable us to strengthen up
excessive focus towards extensive work productivity growth factors, based on quest parameters
rise evolved on for longer term business goals. Goals are set for medium term time periods for
extensive working strengths based on functional working engagement, enhancement of new
strengthened vision dynamically. Value of medium term goals, extensively can be understood to
be widely diversified based on competitive learning factors, new functional creativity and
extensive growth based within academics (Hawkins, Goddard. and Favero, 2021).. Setting
academic and career oriented medium term goals strengthen up new working vision
productively, based on extensive functional rise proactively and quest rise based on working
synergies. Expanding skills and professional abilities based on functional strengthened working
engagement, new range of vision oriented paradigms and diversely be competent for longer
professional growth. Implementation of medium term goals prepare individuals for higher
effective growth standards, dynamically keeping track of all new skills developed
 Example of medium term goals are getting desired job position which enhances career
functional work abilities, based on extensive functional growth diversity paradigms
extensively.
 Applying for new commercial job, based on professional vitality determinants enable
business to diversify and expand work culture phenomenon. Medium term further opens
up working abilities, for new academic experience growth rapidly, evolving towards
exponent functional creativity and group working targets.
Building up my experience within new field dynamically enhances scope for larger productivity
in new commercial domain opens up platforms, for expected rise among working time periods.
This further heads on competent growth rise among working abilities as per new strengthened
benchmarks set by supervisors (LEITE, FRANÇA, and LEITE, 2021).
4. Value of long term goals along with three examples
The long term goals have specific long term time period set standards, which requires
long term time planning and working optimistic growth evolving among work targets for higher
competitive performance. Long term goals also have longer time based frequency, where
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individuals aim to enhance functional engagement with high motivation competently based on
functional parameters rapidly. It is necessary for self-improvement, within individuals for
striving new opportunities and further competitive work performance standards actively. There
is also exponent focus on driving lives and career business objectives, where improving work
performance and increasing earnings are essential (Humpherys and Lazrig., 2021).Value of long
term goals primitively expand new work culture rise, based on informative growth rise
dynamically and strengthened optimistic targets. It also further correlates with personal as well
as professional work goals, based upon new strengthened productivity and achievement towards
shaping identity profoundly.
Improving earnings and savings within professional career
 Becoming mentor or leader within professional work, based on new idealistic growth
benchmarks based on functional growth ruse dynamically and larger strengthened
creativity within professional expertise. As long term goals are set for longer time frame,
it further aims to strengthen up new engagement expertise goals rapidly based on
exponent functional growth rapidly.
 Long term goal such as achieving professional degree within academics and achieving
desirable results in specific time frame further adds to new strengthened working
engagement goals. To achieve degree and attaining quality benchmarks rapidly engages
new strengthened business connectivity goals, optimistically brings on larger scale rise
proactively (Giannakas., Troussas and Sgouropoulou, 2021).
 Saving enough to retire is also one of the long term objective, where it is essential for
keeping personal and professional growth in check and also achieving new scale
engagement rapidly. This further heads on profound rise based on confident productivity
goals, leveraging extensive functional rise proactively for strong satisfaction parameters.
5. Value of personal development plan along with example
Personal development plan has strong role for career change growth rise dynamically,
based upon varied career skills rise potentially for new strengthened working engagement. PDP
opens up new learning opportunities for achieving functional rise diversely based on higher
strengthened rise innovatively, synchronize higher optimistic benchmarks within career.
Implementation of PDP further heads on competencies rise, based on new synergies and training
schedules for new defined learning growth dynamics within career domains. Clarity,
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empowerment, confidence within goal setting further opens up new working pace for new
specific work essentials dynamically based on larger scale growth. It creates motivation, work
life balance priorities and also informatively builds up knowledge for new scale rise proactively
for higher succession based goals. PDP enables business skills to evolve on among individuals
within academics, based on new working specific rise horizons and keep track of skills learned
within academic and professional integrity targets. It enhances scope for competitive
performance growth rise, based on new working objectives and larger scale working operatives
for new dynamic competencies significantly (Theobald, 2021). Example of PDP , will enable in
depth functional work record abilities to be evolved on significantly based on productive new
specific learning abilities dynamically based on professional expertise.
CONCLUSION
Professionally acaedmic exerience among individuals can be enhaned by bringing on
working expertise and skill based working compeencies evolved, for larger scale new expertise
and talent development. From the above analysed aspects within report, it can be concluded that
academic and professional experience growth further plays strog role in busness operatives
dynamically for new speciifc working engagment in academics. The report has concluded in
depth analysis of short term goals, examples for imprving short term learning opportunituies rise
based on significant learnings. Short term goals are formed within period of 1-6 months, further
medium term goals are based on little longer time periods than short term goals and examples
have furter segregated for new professional growth. Study further concluded long term
objectives such as higher business skills optimisation, professionally atatining degrees and
increasing savings for larger effficacy. Report also conclude PDP importance, for creative
working engagement goals and new productive commercial vitality domains which opens up
socpe for strignent creativity.
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REFERENCES
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Chaykina, Z. and et.al., 2021. Personal and professional development of additional education
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and Quality of Living in the City (pp. 4014-4014).
Giannakas, F., Troussas, C., and Sgouropoulou, C., 2021. A deep learning classification
framework for early prediction of team-based academic performance. Applied
Soft Computing. 106. p.107355.
Hawkins, W., Goddard, K. and Favero, C., 2021. A Cocurricular Program That Encourages
Specific Study Skills and Habits Improves Academic Performance and Retention
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Mantzourani, E. and et.al., 2021. Reflections of mentors and mentees on a national mentoring
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APPENDIX
PDP
Skills and
competencies to
be learned
Time target Resources to be used Monitoring and
evaluation
Data analytics
skills and
professional
working abilities
in complicated
projects.
6 months Research papers, training sessions
by mentors and learners will enable
me to learn professional work
experience productively.
I will monitor
and evaluate this
skill, by working
optimistically
towards new
productive
learning
opportunities,
expanded
working channels
and specific
working rise on
projects.
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Leadership skills
and professional
expertise to take
up new learning
opportunities.
3 months Taking up professional training
sessions from supervisors, working
on new leadership theories learning
in research papers
I will monitor
and working
evaluation based
on analysis of my
team working
details, keeping
track of all new
projects
undertaken and
getting
feedbacks.
Multi-tasking
ability
2 months Taking up new working and
learning opportunities within career
professional working abilities based
on new determinants.
I will monitor my
multi-tasking
skill, by keeping
check on results
and getting
feedbacks from
supervisors.
Multi-tasking
ability also plays
strong role for
operative
innovation, rise
on productive
channels for
expertise growth.
Decision making
professional
ability
3 months Taking up new projects and
professional career rise expertise
business scale professional abilities
worked on strategically (Creating
I will monitor my
decision making
results, by also
keeping track of
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all work tasks
and heading on
profound focus
on working
experiences rise.
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