Academic Skills and Personal Development Plan Report

This report delves into the realm of academic skills and personal development planning (PDP), crucial for career advancement and personal growth. The report initiates with an introduction to academic skills and the importance of PDP, followed by an exploration of various aspects of professional and personal development. Task one defines and differentiates between personal and professional development, emphasizing the significance of reflection. It outlines short, medium, and long-term goals, providing examples for each. Task two focuses on evaluating information sources, highlighting criteria like currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose. Task three presents a detailed analysis of several sources, including authors, purposes, and their relevance to PDP. The report culminates in a conclusion summarizing key findings and reinforces the value of academic skills and PDP in achieving career success, with references and a personal development plan included in the appendix. The PDP outlines skill development areas, target abilities, criteria for judgment, and opportunities for enhancement.

Academic Skills and PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
TASK ONE................................................................................................................................................3
1).............................................................................................................................................................3
2).............................................................................................................................................................3
3).............................................................................................................................................................3
4).............................................................................................................................................................4
5).............................................................................................................................................................4
TASK TWO...............................................................................................................................................4
1).............................................................................................................................................................4
TASK THREE...........................................................................................................................................5
1).............................................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................9
APPENDIX..............................................................................................................................................10
Personal development plan....................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are learning, expertise and knowledge that assist a person (student) in
gaining information and achieving positive outcomes. The idea of personal and professional
growth, as well as the values of various goals will be discussed in this report (Diale, Pillay and
Fritz, 2014). A Personal Development Plan's reliability, author, relevance and purpose will all be
discussed. Finally, personal development plan will be produced, that will assist in analyzing
various talents and making appropriate decisions to enhance them.
TASK ONE
1)
Professional and personal development may be viewed as an ongoing process by which
person or an organization effectively deals with problems and achieves its goals. Personal
development is defined as when a person understands what kind of growth he or she need to
make room for new chances and to seize them effectively in order to achieve a favorable
outcome in their professional development planning. Reflection is focusing on a relevant issue is
highly necessary for personal and professional growth in order to create improvements.
2)
Short term goal is one which can be attained in 3-5 months so an individual want to
accomplish in that time frame (Hashemi, 2015). This is well recognized that accomplishing
short-term objectives provides motivation and the capability to keep on going so that the long-
term objectives may be achieved just as efficiently as short-term ones. Examples of short term
goals are mention below:
 Improve interpersonal skills
 Improving communication skills
 Improving listening skills
3)
Medium-term objectives are those that a person can and wants to achive in a period of 6
to 12 months. This is critical for an individual to have medium-term goals and objectives in order
to appropriately progress toward long-term objectives. Three personal examples of medium term
goals are given below:

 Enhancing multitasking skills
 Develop the dynamic attitude
 Completing several online courses
4)
Long-term goals are those that a person wishes to attain in foreseeable future. These
objectives are well acknowledged to be impossible to attain in a week or months’ time
(Dąbrowska-Paulewicz, Wacowska and Bokwa, 2014). This is critical for an individual to strive
in a certain path in order to reach their goals. Various examples of long term goals are mention
below:
 Creating the leadership skills
 To finish the post-graduation diploma
 Inducing the management skills
5)
Personal development plans are related to all plans that entail evaluating personal
strengths and shortcomings in order to achieve better performance in terms of professional
objective. Personal development is related to process of consciously changing one's habits and
actions in order to improve oneself. This is pursuit of the personal improvement in order to
improve one's quality of life as well as realize one's desires and goals. Personal development
behaviors may be formed by focusing on few areas including such personal talents, personal
progress and personal power.
For an example, Individuals may focus on short-term objectives and while on the way to
accomplishing them, they may assess their commitment and also the flaws and roadblocks that
may arise. After attaining these objectives, an individual focus on personal strengths while
pursuing medium-term objectives and attempting to minimize short-term objectives (Lee and
Choi, 2015). An individual may successfully master their strengths and minimize their flaws by
following this procedure that will aid them in reaching long-term goals.

TASK TWO
1)
There are variety of sources which are anticipated to focus on single method which is
result-oriented by evaluating various viewpoints (Olsen, 2015).
.
 Currency: This is related to timelines of information and date of posted.
 Relevance: It is concerned with importance of information that is related to particular
area.
 Authority: It is related to source of information and authors information.
 Accuracy: Analyzing the truthfulness, correctness and reliability of content.
 Purpose: It is related to reason about information exist.
TASK THREE
1)
SOURCES AUTHOR PURPOSE RELIABILITY RELEVANCE
1 Olsen, B., 2015 Teaching what
they learn,
learning what
they live: How
teachers'
personal
histories shape
their
professional
development
This article is
reliable as
personal
development
plan focus on
improving
learning of an
individual.
Personal and
professional
development
plan is more
relatable as
individual can
improvise their
skills and
knowledge.

2 Dąbrowska-
Paulewicz, S.,
Wacowska, A.
and Bokwa, M.,
2014
Personal and
professional
development as
a value in a
knowledge-
based society.
Overall personal
and professional
development
plan assist
people in
improving
significant
knowledge. As,
its source is
reliable with the
topic.
PPD is relevance
with the study
that discussed in
the report as it
directly focusses
on developing
their skills.
3 Lee, O. and
Choi, E., 2015
The influence of
professional
development on
teachers’
implementation
of the teaching
personal and
social
responsibility
model.
Professional
development is
focus on
implementing
various model to
develop specific
skills that help in
attaining career
growth.
Professional
development is
directly
influence
individual
capabilities and
knowledge to
improve their
skills and
knowledge.
4 Hashemi, M.,
2015
The Effect of
Mentoring on
Succession
Planning:
Focusing on
Individual
Development
Plan
This source is
reliable because
overall
performance of
individual is
improved with
the help of
development
plan.
Proper
mentoring over
the succession
planning is
positively
influence
individual and
also improvise
their knowledge
as well.

5 Diale, B., Pillay,
J. and Fritz, E.,
2014
Dynamics in the
personal and
professional
development of
life-orientation
teachers in South
Africa, Gauteng
Province.
Personal and
professional
development is
important as it
improve
individual
performance by
developing their
skills.
PPD is effective
as it assists
individual as its
life- oriented
because it helps
them in
improving
overall
performance in
their career.
6 Blaik Hourani,
R. and Stringer,
P., 2015
Professional
development:
Perceptions of
benefits for
principals
Professional
development
perceptions are
beneficial for
individual as it
provides
opportunities to
attain career
growth.
Personal and
professional
development
plan provide an
individual with a
leverage to opt
for different task
according to the
circumstance.
7 Harris, B.,
Cheng, K.F. and
Gorley, C., 2015
Benefits and
barriers. Journal
of Workplace
Learning.
Workplace
learning is
effective for
developing
individual skills
and knowledge
towards
specified task
and activities.
This source is
relevance with
the personal and
professional
development
through which
individual can
increase
possibilities of
attaining better
career growth.
8 Hicks, P.J., Domain of Personal and With the help of

Schumacher, D.,
Guralnick, S.,
Carraccio, C.
and Burke, A.E.,
2014
competence:
personal and
professional
development.
professional
development
provide path to
individual to
improve their
skills and
knowledge.
PPD, individual
can address their
weakness and
also improve
their strength as
well.
CONCLUSION
From the above-mentioned report, it can be summarized that academic skills and learning
help an individual to improve their career growth. Thus, it is important for an individual to focus
on short term and long-term objectives in order to attain opportunities for attaining success. This
is possible by developing personal and professional development plan as it includes skills that
are needs to be developed. With the assistance of this, individual can improve their skills and
knowledge in specified period of time.

REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Olsen, B., 2015. Teaching what they learn, learning what they live: How teachers' personal
histories shape their professional development. Routledge.
Dąbrowska-Paulewicz, S., Wacowska, A. and Bokwa, M., 2014. Personal and professional
development as a value in a knowledge-based society. Polish Journal of Management Studies, 9.
Lee, O. and Choi, E., 2015. The influence of professional development on teachers’
implementation of the teaching personal and social responsibility model. Journal of Teaching in
Physical Education, 34(4), pp.603-625.
Hashemi, M., 2015. The Effect of Mentoring on Succession Planning: Focusing on Individual
Development Plan. Journal of Research in Human Resources Management, 7(2), pp.25-52.
Diale, B., Pillay, J. and Fritz, E., 2014. Dynamics in the personal and professional development
of life-orientation teachers in South Africa, Gauteng Province. Journal of social sciences, 38(1),
pp.83-93.
Blaik Hourani, R. and Stringer, P., 2015. Professional development: Perceptions of benefits for
principals. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 18(3), pp.305-339.
Harris, B., Cheng, K.F. and Gorley, C., 2015. Benefits and barriers. Journal of Workplace
Learning.
Hicks, P.J., Schumacher, D., Guralnick, S., Carraccio, C. and Burke, A.E., 2014. Domain of
competence: personal and professional development. Academic pediatrics, 14(2), pp.S80-S97.

APPENDIX
Personal development plan
SKILLS CURRENR
T
ABILITY
TARGET
ABILITY
DEVELOPMNET
OPPORTUNITIE
CRITERIA TO
JUDGE
TIME FRAME
Interpersona
l skills
Low High Meeting with people as
well as attending
meetings, sessions and
conventions, is
critical to increase own
competence level.
Acknowledge the
expertise of
others.
35 days
Team
developmen
t skills
Ordinary High By performing the
various types of the
activities with team.
Through asking
from mentors and
clarify the roles
2 months