Academic Skills and PDP: Exploring Goals, Planning, and Development

This report provides a comprehensive overview of personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of academic skills and strategic planning for students. It explores the concepts of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, highlighting their significance in achieving career objectives and fostering personal growth. The report defines personal development plans (PDPs) and their role in enhancing skills and knowledge, leading to future success. It discusses how academic institutions and students must work together to develop the necessary skills for future professional success. The report underscores the value of these skills in managing learning and adapting to career prospects. The report provides examples of short, medium, and long-term goals and their importance in achieving ultimate life objectives, emphasizing the need for strategic planning and continuous self-assessment. The conclusion reinforces the value of these goals and plans in achieving personal and professional fulfillment. This report is contributed by a student and published on Desklib, a platform offering AI-based study tools for students.

Academic Skills and PDP

Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................3
Discuss the concept of personal and professional development..................................................3
Define short term goals and their importance. Also explain some examples..............................4
Define the medium term goals and their importance in the life of students. State some
examples.......................................................................................................................................5
Define long-term goals and their values. State some examples...................................................5
Define personal development plan and its importance................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
Academic skills should be learnt by the students so that they can easily achieve their
career objective in an effective manner. These types of skills includes writing presentation and
referencing skills which must be developed by the students in there academic life. It is the duty
of the Institutions which are used to organise various courses that can be e blown by the students
in order to encourage their critical thinking and effective practices (Du and et. al., 2019).
Personal and professional skills development must be used by the students so that they can
manage their own learning skills which help them to grow throughout their career prospective.
This assignment is been discussed about the concept of person and professional development and
the values with respect to short term long term and medium term goals which must be analyzed
by the students at the early stage so that they can achieve their goal into an effective manner. The
value of personal development plan is also discussed in the report.
Main body
Discuss the concept of personal and professional development
Personal and professional development Plan must be identified the students so that they
can managed their knowledge and skills which are developed during the academic period. This
helps the students to achieve their ultimate goals of life into a better manner. The steps of stairs
can be used by the students in order to develop their knowledge and experience so that they can
ensure the safest future (Hayashi and Seidenman, 2020). The personal skills are the skills that
must be developed by the students which help them to achieve their ultimate targets. These skills
can be determined by the students so that they can develop their strategies in such a manner so
that they can easily manage the specific budgets.
Professional skill refers to such skills which can be developed by the children so that they
can understand their job role. It is children who they have to do and how they have to recover
their skills. The skills which they have learned in academic skills this helps them to resolve the
issues which are faced by them. This is also used by them to satisfy their job in every company.
The academic skills play an important role in order to improve the professional skills so that the
people can also take a proper training program.

The professional and personal skills can be developed by the individuals as they can
easily concentrate towards their work. This helps them to achieve their ultimate objectives of
life (Garcia-Sanchez and et. al., 2020). There are several skills which must be adopted by the
people so that they can get success in their life. Some of them are discussed below:
 It is important for the children to stop doing such actives which are not profitable for
them. This helps then to take better decisions with respect to their life. They can develop
and invest their time at the proper place.
 It is very important for the students to develop a balance between their personal and
professional life so that they can easily enjoy they both lives at the same time. This helps
them getting satisfaction with respect to their life (Macpherson, Kiersch and
Antonacopoulou, 2020). These are the subjectivities which can be used by the students in
order to satisfy their work as well as their personal requirements which help them to
achieve their objectives into a better manner.
Define short term goals and their importance. Also explain some examples.
Short term goals are such objectives which must be analysed by the students at the early
age as this helps them to achieve their ultimate goals of life into a better manner. This helps them
to to achieve their goals of life into an effective manner. As short-term goals help the people to
determine the several loopholes which can become hurdle in order to achieve there long term
goals. These types of goals can be used by other people in order to analyse the next step which
can be taken by them so that they can achieve their other goals of life (Benoit, 2018). These
goals also help them to analyse what kind of strategies can be used by them so that they can
work in the right direction.
For example: learning, communication skills, writing skills and developing confidence.
Values of short term goals
 These types of goals help students to analyse the strategy which can be used by them so
that they can achieve their bigger goals of life by dividing it into many stages.
 The short term goals also helpful in order to take feedback from them so that they can
analyse that they are working on the right path or not. These feedback help then students
to motivate themselves in order to adopt effective strategies.

 This type of goal helps the student to get more focused towards their short term and long
term goals (Ahmad, Zhang and Yan, 2020). This helps them to work on such schools
which are unrealistic in present scenario. This helps the students to make possible what is
impossible for them and for the same they developed several strategies to achieve it.
Define the medium term goals and their importance in the life of students. State some
examples.
The medium term goals are such objective which helps the student to achieve their long-
term goals as these goals are dependent upon the short cools. These goals helps the students in
order to analyse the strategies with their adopted by them in the short term goals as it plays an
important role because it is a link between the short and long term goals (Busco, 2018). It can
also say that it is very important for the students to fill the gap between these goals so it is
necessary for them to analyse the medium term goals. The students are responsible to analyse the
perfect academic courses which are offered by the students which helps them to develop their
knowledge and skills in such a manner so that they can achieve their ultimate goals of life. It is
very important for the people to analyse the progress and evaluate all the factors in such a
manner so that they can determine what is beneficial for them and what is not.
For example: developing confidence level, getting a part time job.
Importance of medium term goals
 It is important for the people to analyse the existing techniques which are used by them in
the medium term goals so that they can determined that it is worthy to continue in the
ultimate goals or not.
 This is treated as the second step which can be used by the individuals in order to
schedule there strategies to achieve main objective of life.
 These goals are used by the students in order to analyse and think about the plan which
can be executed by them in order to achieve the ultimate goals.
Define long-term goals and their values. State some examples.
Long term goals are such goals which can be analysed by the students so that they can get
satisfaction in their life. These types of goals are required higher planning as this helps the
people to manage the risk which can be occurred in future. These types of goals are required
higher period of time as it cannot be achieved in week or months because they are required years

and years in order to develop the skills so that they can achieve their ultimate goals (María-del-
Mar and et. al., 2018). It is important for the students to determine their short and medium term
goals so that they can achieve the ultimate objectives.
For example working in a multinational organisation or developing a Startup in the
competitive market.
Benefits
 These types of goals are helpful for the students so that they can analyse there main
objective of life as it requires hard working in order to achieve it (Cook and et. al., 2018).
 These types of coal cannot be achieved in a shorter period of time so it is important for
the students to determine the ultimate objective at the early age.
 These types of goals use to motivate the people as it is resulted in satisfaction of life and
the people are also working in order to satisfy the future needs into a better manner (Siraj,
Kingston and Neilsen-Hewett, 2019).
Define personal development plan and its importance
Personal development plan refers to an activities which can be e used by the people so
that they can improve their skills and knowledge which helped them to achieve the ultimate
objective of life into an effective manner. This action plan helps the people to identify the area of
focused which can be used in order to improve the quality of their work so that they can achieve
their dream of life into a better manner. The personal development plan it is also helpful in order
to analyse the potential limits and investment which can be e used by the students in order to
process their talent into professionalism as this help them to achieve a satisfactory life in future
(Boyd and et. al., 2018). These types of action plan also used in order to boost the self
confidence of the students so that they can use it and work and their daily routine which helps
them to develop their skills in to effective manner and resulted in achieving the ultimate
objective of life.
Importance of personal development
 These types of plan help the students to analyse their future objective of light so that they
can start working at the early age.
 The steps of plan can also use in order to analyse the several strategies which can be
achieved by them

 It is important for the students to get motivation from somewhere so that they can achieve
their ultimate objective.
 It is important for the workers also to get motivated from the employer which helps them
to to invest more hours at the workplace so that they can provide better outcomes as it is
important for the people to develop a personal development plan which helps them to
satisfy their job role into an organisation.
 The result of such types of long term goals helps in maximize the productivity of the
people and they also used in order to analyse the fastest route which can be adopted by
them in order to achieve their ultimate objective of life.
Conclusion
From the above discussion of this report it can be says that the personal and professional
development plan play a important role as it helps the people to achieve their set objectives of
life. As these plans help them to analyse the short, medium and ultimate objective of life and also
determine the strategies which can be used by the students for the people in order to achieve it.
The academic Institutions plays an important role while developing the skills and knowledge in
the people so that they can achieve it. The report is also been discussed about the importance of
short medium and long term goals which must be determined by the students as it helps them to
divide their ultimate goes into three stages so that they can analyse the strategies which are being
adopted by them are beneficial for their growth or not. The personal development plan also play
a important role in the life of the student as it helps them to achieve their personal goal of life in
their future as it leads to satisfaction for themselves. The plan is also used by the people in order
to achieve the ultimate knowledge which can be used by the students in order to achieve their
goals.

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