PDP & Academic Skills: Personal and Professional Development Goals

This report explores the concept of personal and professional development, emphasizing the continuous process of learning and skill enhancement to achieve goals. It highlights the significance of setting short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, providing personal examples for each category, such as improving communication and research skills, enhancing career growth, and increasing accuracy levels. The report also discusses the value of a Personal Development Plan (PDP) as a tool for self-improvement, career advancement, and skill development, enabling individuals to identify weaknesses, build confidence, and manage tasks effectively. The conclusion underscores the importance of PDP in aligning personal and professional aspirations, leading to improved skills, confidence, and goal attainment in a dynamic environment, with a recommendation for professionals to formulate PDP plans to achieve their objectives.

Academic Skills and PDP
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Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
1. Define the concept of personal and professional development...............................................4
2. Describe and discuss the value of short-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples......................................................................................................................................5
3. Describe and discuss the value of medium-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples......................................................................................................................................5
4. Describe and discuss the value of long-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples......................................................................................................................................6
5. Describe and discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example
using your identified goals. (This should be included in the appendices)...................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
Appendices....................................................................................................................................10
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Table of Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
1. Define the concept of personal and professional development...............................................1
2. Describe and discuss the value of short-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples......................................................................................................................................2
3. Describe and discuss the value of medium-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples......................................................................................................................................2
4. Describe and discuss the value of long-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples......................................................................................................................................3
5. Describe and discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example
using your identified goals. (This should be included in the appendices)...................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
The personal development plan is defined as PDP tool which uses by children, students, and
organization’s members for the purpose of personal and professional development. This is
important for each individual to have good skills that used to complete task in authentic way.
Personal development plan allows individual to evaluate their own abilities and feel confident to
work. This can help to bring changes in changing environment and manage work effectively
(Senel, and Bagçeci, 2019). Personal skills are gaining by people by working own self and
managing each work. The meaning of professional skills is to get specialization in particular
field and area that supports to become a profession. Academic skills are those skills which learn
by students in their initial or schooling days that could support to make right decision and
maintain higher performance. Different types of goals developed by individual that allows
people to work collectively and attaining higher performance. The current report involves
concept of personal and professional development, value of short term goals, discussion of
medium term goals, and long term goals that used to complete task.
MAIN BODY
1. Define the concept of personal and professional development.
According to (Tang, 2020), Personal and professional development is the continuous
process of engaging individual and learns to meet with challenges in order to attain goals. This is
important as emphasis on helping individuals to shape their career and develop skills. Personal
development is the concept of improving individual capabilities accessing to education and
training opportunities at the workplace that helps to perform job in better way. Professional
development is the activity of building and maintaining staff morale that attracts high quality of
staff to an organization and manage each function. It has defined that goals of individual are
specific where it became important to use their skills to accomplish their goals in certain period
of time. This involves field of knowledge and ability that possess by people to reach their goal by
working on each task. In other words, personal and professional development is the activity in
which individual participates o grow their abilities and controlling the work timely.
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2. Describe and discuss the value of short-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples.
The short term goals are most effective that relates to short period and provide success by
managing all functions and activities. For individual it is important to decide the short term goals
in order to do something bigger or greatest. In other words, short term goal is step by step plan
that allows individual to reach their targets (Parlak, Şahin, and Şeker, 2021). When a work is set
to complete in less than 1 year by managing all functions is known as short term goals. The
examples of short term goals are:
Short term goal 1: To improve communication skills: Communication plays an
important role in which people share their information with others that can help to complete task.
While studying and working at other place communication skills can be improve by individual
that can help to manage each task timely (Aubakirova, and Zeinullina, 2019).
Short term goal 2: To improve decision making skills: This skill involves in short term
period where individual make decision at right time and helps to improve the performance. This
skill is needed to bring changes and take right action in less period of time that can help to
accomplish the personal as well as professional goals (Argondizzo, Marcella, and Sasso, 2020).
Short term goal 3: To improve research skills: This is another skill which relates to
short term and it could be improve in less time. There is need to have willing power to research
the market and reach at the conclusion point. This also helps to put opinion and manage work
(Darussalam, 2020).
3. Describe and discuss the value of medium-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples.
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Medium term goals:
Medium term goals are the ones that are between medium term and long term goals that
are to be achieved (Bowen and Irish, 2019). These goals are the ones that may take a bit longer
time period that is ranging between 6 months to a year. In present scenario there are three
medium term goals that are planned to be achieved as mentioned below:
Medium term goal 1: Enhancing the career growth: Career growth is very important
to achieve a certain specific position in order to work towards better professional development.
As a medium term goal it is important to choose a specific career path that can help in inclination
of development factors (Suizzo, Tedford. and McManus, 2019). Career growth can be achieved
by working towards understand the main career aims and then setting up of small targets to
achieve such long term career goals.
Medium term goal 2: working on my individual skill development: There are some of
the specific skill sets that are required to be developed in order to perform the assigned job roles
and responsibility (Hadjar and Niedermoser, 2019). In medium term goals the individual will be
working towards enhancing the present level of skill sets that includes technical skills,
communication skills and resource management skills. All these skill are very important for the
purpose of improving the present knowledge base on context of performing the identified job
roles.
Medium term goal 3: Enhancing the career growth: while working towards enhancing
the present career growth it becomes important to make career a priority, focussing on skill set
where communication is critical. There is establishment of deadlines to achieve the laid
standards of performance (Ito, and Igano, 2021).
4. Describe and discuss the value of long-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples.
Long term goals:
Long term goals are the important and vital goals that are playing a very important part in
the complete life-cycle. Long term goals have to be changed as per people in order to achieve
productivity and success in authentic manner (Kupryaeva, and et.al., 2021).
Long term goal 1: Enhancing accuracy level: My long term goal is to enhance my
present level of accuracy. Individual have to work by using some of effective strategies in order
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to enhance the accuracy level of tasks (Badrudin and Hale, 2019). It will lead towards
improvement in professional working of a individual.
Long term goal 2: Being an expert: It is very important to enhance the expertise level to
have high amount of specialisation in order to perform various activities. In organisations it is
necessary that each individual has to work toward acquisition of knowledge and skills to have
expertise level while the allotted job tasks is performed. Expert roles help in dealing with various
issues or complication that arise in the course of performing the assigned job roles and
responsibility.
Long term goal 3: Changing work role: For the purpose of reaching to high designated
positions it becomes important to timely work in job rotations to enhance the level of skills sets
that is learning of multiple skill sets at a point of time (Annan-Aggrey, Bandauko and Arku,
2021). Working on multiple tasks at a point of time leads towards a career transition and growth
that helps in dealing with failures.
5. Describe and discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example
using your identified goals. (This should be included in the appendices).
Personal development plan is the planning process of creating action on the basis of
awareness, reflection, goal setting and values for the purpose of self-development. This is
important for each individual to understand or analysis their own weakness in which they feel
uncomfortable to work and make efforts to improve in better way. Study is the way that revealed
IQ level of individual and helps to bring the changes in their thoughts. This is most important for
people to identify their abilities to work and managing task continuously. It has seen that people
are weak in some skills then it should be construct PDP plan that can help to improvise the skills
and abilities in relation to particular field and supports to accomplish goals (Goldberg, and et.al.,
2019).
The personal development plan helps to create plan, career change, learn something new,
removing barriers and increasing skills that can help to build confidence level and manage each
work effectively. It is valuable for each individual as assist to develop their career and getting
success in their life that supports to manage each activity (Kavlak, and Bayazit, 2019). Thus, it
has been recommended to professionals to formulate PDP plan by using their skills and ability to
work that can help to attain short, medium and long term goals in changing environment. In
relation to current project a PDP plan has been prepared that have shown in Appendices.
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CONCLUSION
From the report it can be concluded that personal development plan is the process of
improving skills and abilities of people who wants to work by managing all functions. Personal
development refers to own working where people learn by doing mistakes and observing people
how they manage task. Professional skills refer to ability of individual which used by people to
become a professionalism in order to performing task effectively and attaining goals. This can
help to develop the learning skills and confidence level of each individual so that work would be
done timely. When an individual analysis their own skills and weakness then it needs to
formulate the personal development plan that can help to know in what time period skills will be
improve and supports to accomplish personal and professional goals.
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Hadjar, A. and Niedermoser, D.W., 2019. The role of future orientations and future life goals in
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Suizzo, M.A., Tedford, L.E. and McManus, M., 2019. Parental socialization beliefs and long-
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Appendices
PDP PLAN
Skills that needs
to improve
Measurement Development
activity
Resources Target date
Improve
research skills
While studying I
found that I am
weak in research
skills that creates
challenges to
manage work
and control
activity.
For improving
research skills I
will follow a
researcher that
would help to
how to conduct
research on
particular topic
and manage task.
To study market
and conducting
survey or
questionnaire
that helps to
know how to
reach targeted
goals.
This is short term
goals which can
be improve
within 8-10
month by using
all resources.
Improving
learning skills
Learning skill is
important for me
but I felt nervous
and less
confident in
learning task or
work that affects
working progress
and task.
To improve
learning skills, I
should
participate in
each activity,
sharing feedback
with people, and
using academic
skills that would
help to improve
learning skills.
This can be
improve by
speaking with
family and
friends, listening
news in different
language that can
help to
understand goals
and supports to
complete project.
The medium
term goals will
be improving
with course
period in which
individual
entered to learn
new.
Improving
career
development
skills
Many of students
are confused to
make right action
about their career
and they fails to
perform well due
to lack of career
To develop the
career skills there
is need to focus
on one job,
specific
qualification, and
training &
There is need to
acquire and get
skills which is
important to
perform specific
role, should be
focused on task
This skill will be
improve more
than 2 years as
course take time
to develop skills
and abilities of
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build skills. development that
influence
individual to
perform well and
complete goals.
and supports to
accomplish
goals.
individual.
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