Academic Skills and PDP Assessment 2 Report on Personal Development

This report delves into the concepts of personal and professional development, emphasizing their significance in career growth. It defines these concepts and explores the value of setting short, medium, and long-term goals, providing personal examples for each. The report highlights how these goals contribute to a structured approach to achieving career objectives and enhancing skills. Furthermore, it discusses the importance of a Personal Development Plan (PDP) as a tool for recording and developing goals, offering guidance for career progression. The report emphasizes the dynamic nature of PDPs in mapping career and personal goals, and it underscores their role in clarifying resources, building career ideas, and enlisting individual leaders. The content provides a detailed examination of the components of personal development planning, making it a valuable resource for students seeking to improve their professional and personal skills.

Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 2
Report on Personal Development
Contents
1. Introduction p
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional development
p
3. Description and discussion of the value of short term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples p
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples p
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5. Description and discussion of the value of long term goals identifying
at least 3 personal examples p
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development
Plan p
7. Conclusion p
Reference List p
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1. Introduction
Personal development is known as the lifelong process as it is considered as a way for
individuals to assess their qualities and skills as well as also considered their aims within life
and in addition to this sets goals so that realize as well as maximum their potential The
activities that comes under the personal development aids in enhancing the abilities as well as
skills (Akrivou, Scalzo, and Orón, 2020). It is vital to recognizes personal goals so that
accordingly career path can be set. Such goals are differ on the basis of the requirement of
individuals. Present Report focuses on the concepts of professional as well as personal
development. It will also examines about short, medium as well as long term goals with
several examples.
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional
development
It is vital for an individual professional and personal development as it aids within career
growth. It enables in gaining as well learning knowledge and skills within an effective way.
As personal development is a process that increase knowledge and basic skills. As it covers
areas of talent that aids within fulling the dreams as well as desires of the employees ans also
aids in facilitating employability. Also personal development is vital as it aids within the
satisfying the requirements such as Maslow needs. Apart from that there are several ways
regarding managing personal development as it involves PDP, developing vision , review of
personal goals and many more.
In the same way the concept of the professional development is aids within increasing skills
as well as knowledge that are associated to the specific profession. It is a regular education,
training and learning of people within their respective career. Also the main aim of the
professional development is to cope with the present trends of knowledge as well as skills
that aids in attaining goals as well as objectives (Dunn, and Doolittle, 2020). It is also
considered as the process which is life long but at the same time it is limited to a specified
career through attaining professional goals as if an individual grow within their career. But
such development differs on the basis of individual's profession. There are several methods
that aids in increasing professional development. But also such development differs on the
basis of individual's profession as these several methods includes development of PDP,
SWOT analysis and many more.
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Thus, such concepts are associated to the development of SMART objectives as it allows
within achieving tasks. By the help of the professional development it is noticed that personal
goals will be accomplish. In a similar way personal goals are also achieved alongside
professional goal. Thus PDP skills as well as knowledge associated to both the concepts can
be involved within it. A PDP can be developed through recognizing weak areas as well as
what improvements that can be needed within terms of professional and personal growth. So
it is vital concept within career growth.
3. Description and discussion of the value of short term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples
For personal and professional development it require to set certain goals so that it can be
accomplished. Without goals development can not occur. As there are various types of goals
so it need to set short term goals so that it gives a base to attain long term goals ( Evers, and
et.al., 2019). These goals gives insight or framework on how medium as well as long term
goals can be attained. They provide a great value as it acts as milestone in journey and
professional development. Besides that, short goals shows that how far we have come and
where we want to go in future. They are just small steps of long term goals. Besides that, it is
essential to break long goals into short ones. It makes it easy to proceed further in systematic
way. Along with that, it is found that short goals gives a clear vision of what is to be
accomplished in future. Hence, there is specific guidelines given as well of attaining long
term goals. An individual can easily attain short term goals as they are only for particular
time period. Hence, it automatically encourage individual to proceed further to form medium
term goals and achieve it. In addition to it, from these goals it can be easily evaluated that
how much efforts is required in it. Besides that, with continue efforts long and medium term
goals can be easily accomplished. Thus, person remain productive and put more efforts to
achieve success and growth in their career and in personal and professional development.
When a person is able to accomplish short goals then it builds self confidence. With
that it becomes easy for that person to grow further in career. Thus, there are 3 examples of
short term goals which is also set. Hence, it will provide a direction to individual to move in
right way. So, when right direction is provided so it becomes simple to follow through it.
Thus, the goals are mentioned as below :
To learn verbal communication skills
To prepare a schedule for 1 month on daily basis
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To finish a book in 10 days.
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples.
Within the personal as well as professional development ,medium term goals are to be
formed to provide insight on weak areas. Thus, before setting long term goals it is vital to set
the long term and short term goals as it gives a framework in order to how to attain milestone
that can be considered as long term goals. Medium term goals interlink between long term as
well as short term goals as it aids within the completion of PDP within this as this is due as it
acts as milestone within journey as well as aids within accomplishing long term goals. In
addiction to this the goals aids within analyzing how far one have to go within order to
achieve their final goals (Greshilova, Kimova, and Dambaeva, 2020). Apart from that
accomplish such long term goals as they required to be broken down medium ones.
Thus medium term goals are enhancing motivation of a person in order to
accomplish long term goals besides the mindset of the people that can be clear that they need
within future. In addition to this medium goals can be considered as useful within keeping
track regarding long term goals. Within such way motivation can be maintained as it enables
within making things easy. The people capable of their goals. So the people get details
regarding how much efforts can be required to achieve within long goals in quick time. These
are the goals that keep motivated individual as well as enhance productivity within their
profession. Apart from that medium goals are also termed as
Enhancing leadership goals.
To increase communication skills.
To adapt or learn several types of languages.
5. Description and discussion of the value of long term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples
After medium as well as short term goals as these are considered as long term ones as
these are ultimate goals that can be attained. So these are relied on both medium and short
term goals. It is vital to set such long term goals that highlights what an individual requires to
be achieved within their career. They also achieved with the aids of short as well as medium
ones as they achieved with medium and short ones. It aids within setting purpose of life as
well as gives tight direction to move for the long term goal.
The main value of such goals is it aids people to fulfill their desires and dreams. As
these are the goals that keep motivated the people to makes more efforts within gaining if
knowledge as well as skills where dreams can be fulfilled (Ragan, 2018). As these goals are
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considered as long time period that can be 1 to 3 years as such goals keep motivated person
as well as enhance productivity within their profession. It allows within maintaining
inspiration desires needs to be achieved. Therefore, attainment of such goals termed success
within that. It gives clarity of what anyone wants to become within life as well as obtain all
such things. These are the goals that are having more values as equivalence to medium as
well as short term goals. As it aids in keeping inspiring people to make more efforts in order
to become within future. Therefore, example of such long term goals are mentioned below.
To begin a business.
To becomes General manager.
To becomes a great leader.
Thus, it is analyzed that several types of goals re having great value within personal as well
as profession context. The short goals are considered as the basic one as well as gives the
framework whereas medium ones are keep motivated. So both of these are useful within
accomplishing long term goals. Thus goals required to be breakdown so that it can be quite
easy to achieves long ones.
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal
Development Plan
The personal development plans are considered as the dynamic that aids within providing the
road map regarding the development of career as well as personal goals within the form of
the perspectives of the individual's level. This makes the proper level regarding leveraging
over the commitments to the profession as well as professional level. The PDP have been
considered as an excellent tool regarding recording as well as developing goals so that gives
the appropriate guidance to career. The drafted PDP can be cornered to be blueprint so that
makes the identification of several ways in order to clarifying the resources, build the idea
careers that are required to meet their goals as well as also aids within enlisting the
individual leaders (Serin, 2017).
The PDP have the value within following several terms in order to make relevant level of
discussion as the term focuses on the document over the needed career trajectory. Such as the
clarity- As the documents can be helpful within keeping everything can be accountable can
be regarded the dreams of the people can be achieved.
Motivation- It is considered as the proper updating as well as streams lining can heels within
asking the appropriate level of focused statement in addition of the goals.
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Action- They are considered as the setting of the written goals for the achievement of the
long term as well as short term as according to the creation basis within weekly, monthly as
well as daily actionable items that will move to end game (Serin, 2017).
At last the performance can ads within tracking the performance of provided focus areas with
giving reason to several goals at the time of self evaluation.
7.0 Conclusion
From the above it had been summarized that the development regarding professional
as well as personal development is considered as the vital aspect regarding career building of
people. There are three types of the goals that are set within short, long as well as medium
term. The PDP also consider as the excellent tool in order to record and capturing the
development goals so that gives the proper guidance regarding career. It also makes the
recognition of the short term and long term goals with the recognition of the individual's
strength as well as weakness. Also in addition to this people able to recognizes the areas of
improvement as well as developed action plan in order to accomplish the desired goals and
objectives.
Reference List:
Akrivou, K., Scalzo, G. and Orón, J.V., 2020. How differing conceptions of integrity and
self-integration influence relationships: Implications for management, personal and
professional development. Archives of Psychology, 4(1).
Dunn, R.J. and Doolittle, S.A., 2020. Professional development for teaching personal and
social responsibility: Past, present, and future. Journal of Teaching in Physical
Education, 39(3), pp.347-356.
Evers, O., and et.al., 2019. How do personal and professional characteristics influence the
development of psychotherapists in training: Results from a longitudinal
study. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 22(3).
Greshilova, I.A., Kimova, S.Z. and Dambaeva, B.B., 2020. Designing the model of
professional development of teachers taking into account axiological imperatives of
continuing education. Universal Journal of Educational Research, 8(3), pp.769-778.
Ragan, D.D., 2018. A Structured Course for Personal and Professional Development. Honors
in Practice, 14, pp.43-57.
Serin, H., 2017. The effects of teaching abroad on personal and professional
development. International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies, 4(1),
p.110.
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Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan
Skills to be
Developed
Development Plan Resources Target Date
Improving
communication
skill
In order to have updating the training
material for reflecting changes that can be
accepted within the recent level of
employees meeting.
In order to have the appropriate level of
reviewing
of training materials as well as feedback for
the guidance as well
Kroll, J.F. and Dussias, P.E., 2017.
The benefits of multilingualism to the
personal and professional
development of residents of the
US. Foreign Language Annals, 50(2),
pp.248-259.
3 months
Decision making
skill
In order to have the contribution regarding
session and planning making aspects as
well as proper attempt to evaluate the
decision.
In order to have higher level of authorities in
addition to consulting the effective manner.
Hildebrand, J., 2018. Bridging the
gap: A training module in personal
and professional development.
Routledge.
3.5 months
Time
management skill
To enhance the skills so that tasks as well
as activities are accomplished on time.
Through developing schedules as well as
undertaking small tasks very effectively
Salter, M. and Rhodes, P., 2018. On
becoming a therapist: A narrative
inquiry of personal–professional
development and the training of
clinical psychologists. Australian
Psychologist, 53(6), pp.486-492.
1 month
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