Report on Academic Skills and Personal Development Planning (PDP)

This report provides an in-depth analysis of personal and professional development, focusing on the significance of setting short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. It defines academic skills and the components of a personal development plan (PDP), highlighting their importance in achieving individual and career objectives. The report outlines the value of each goal type, offering examples to illustrate their practical application. Short-term goals are presented as stepping stones, medium-term goals as bridges, and long-term goals as the ultimate aspirations. The report underscores the importance of a PDP as a roadmap for continuous improvement, emphasizing its role in enhancing skills, knowledge, and overall success. The conclusion reiterates the value of these concepts in achieving future goals, and the report includes a comprehensive list of references.

Academic Skills and
PDP

Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Definition of personal and professional development.....................................................................3
Value and importance of short-term goals with three examples.....................................................4
Value and importance of medium-term goals with examples.........................................................5
Value and importance of long-term goals with three examples......................................................5
Value and importance of personal development plan......................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8
Books and journals......................................................................................................................8
Appendix..........................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
Academic skills are defined as the talents and habits that could benefit pursuits of academic
these are report writing, communication, research and learning that is used by the investigator in
conducting the reach or making any type of report. It consists of communication, planning,
studying and technique skills that could e used by most of researcher in conducting the report
analysis (Agbo, 2018). Then on the other hand there is a personal development plan which is
made by an individual or a person in order to achieve their gaols and objectives. There are
certain gaols and weakness which an individual should have to achieve in his given period of
time in order to enhance some of the skills and knowledge for his future period so that he could
get more knowledge and be successful in his chosen job position. In this given report it consists
of discussion of personal and professional development plan. As there is an importance and
value of short term, medium term and long term gaols that re to be chosen by myself and with
some of the examples.
Definition of personal and professional development
The idea of personal and professional helps in overseeing different exercises identifying
with upgrading the capacity of a person in learning and development all through particular
vocation of an individual. It gets significant for a person to create and stay up with the latest with
changing patterns on the planet. The major purpose of personal and professional development
plan is that it helps in managing learning and growth of the individual and person career. It is
most essential to learn and enhance skill and knowledge which are up to date and working safely
and legally. Professional development involves developing of person own in the role that could
understand the job in full manner and how they can improve it. Professional development plan
involves enhancing of the various skills and knowledge to carry out their role and responsibilities
in best possible manner (Alam, and et.al., 2019). If it is considered as the effective understanding
of professional development it ensures that area of knowledge and ensuring of the skills are
coming at the highest possible manner. There are some of the examples of professional
development which are accountancy and budgeting, IT training and health and safety.
On the other hand, personal development is thinking about the skills and knowledge and
accomplish their goals and objectives. It can be results in both real life a professional life. It
consists of the improvement in talent and potential at the workplace and organization. It is

understanding of the skills and achievement in how they develop their required skills and
knowledge by the solution that is provided. There can be some of the examples of personal
development these are management training, communication skills, leaderships skills and
handling all the difficult situations.
Value and importance of short-term goals with three examples
Short term goals and objectives are like stepping stones that put person together and closer to
their longer-term goals as these re the goals which are to be made by very individual in fulling
their task in daily or weekly basis (Andreassen, and et.al., 2018). By laying out up of a goal or an
objective is a significant viewpoint, that gives genuine administration of endeavors of a person
for finishing of given assignment. The short-term goals and objective refer to different exercises
attempted to design every last bit of actions corresponding to effectively accomplish individual
objective soon. Typically, the term of such sorts of objectives changes from 3-5 months. Laying
out up of short-term objectives breaks a long errand into short objectives and permits entertainer
to keep himself helped and roused towards finishing of wanted targets.
There are some of the importance of short-term goals which are discussed. As this act as a
mile stone in the journey of achieving long term goals and objectives so this helps the person in
reaching easily to their long-term goals in their future. short term goals help in gauge that how
far a person can go and achieve their long-term goals in most effective manner. More of the
impotence which is seen of the short-term goals is that it helps in seeing the ultimate goals and
objectives that can clearly set their guidelines to helps in attain their long-term goals in most
effective manner. There can be many of the challenges that can be face by the individual in
achieving their short-term goals and objectives but these hurdles and rejection should be face by
individual in achieving their goals and objectives. After short term goals completed, a person can
set their rewards to enjoy their success (Ashford, Caza, and Reid, 2018). There are some of the
examples of short-term goals discussed below:
 Improving in communication ad learning skills.
 Focusing on managing my time.
 Developing presentation and speaking skills in front of audience.
 Focusing on stress management through some meditation
 Developing leaderships skills

Value and importance of medium-term goals with examples
Medium term goals are those which can be between short and long erm goals and they focus
on achieving their medium-term goals in order to focus on their long-term goals and objectives.
It is not difficult to break short term goals to reach towards long term goals. The time length of
such objectives is by between 6 to 12 months (Bahri, and et.al., 2019). These kinds of objectives
behave like an extension between short moment and long objectives. They guarantee better
effectiveness of work is being delivered by an individual while performing or drawing closer to
any distributed task. It helps in checking up of different undertakings and exercises being acted
in short objectives and guarantees that all exercises are in the know regarding time and are being
delivered with powerful usage of accessible assets.
There is certain importance of these goals which are that medium term goals and objectives
and this is a rewards system can become a difference. These medium-term goals are described as
the “fire” which is burning in the individuals to obtain it objectives and goals. There can be many
of the other goals which are to be defined as the most difficult goals and this helps becomes
challenge for them. Some of the medium-term goals are the those which can results in taking
time to complete and some becomes easy to complete at the definite time limit. Medium term
goals and objectives are referring to the rewards to their progress and this helps individual in
accomplishing their long-term goals (Biloslavo, Bagnoli, and Edgar, 2018). Medium term goals
help the individual in keeping running and learning new and definite things that are to be
achieved by them in future. there are some of the examples of medium-term goals which are:
 To become manager of a company
 Getting expert in various motivation theories used in company.
 Maintain my fitness while doing workout
 Increasing knowledge of management practices
 To lead a team in team effective manner.
Value and importance of long-term goals with three examples
Long term objectives allude to different objectives sets up to achieve a given errand and will
take huge measure of time and endeavors for its fulfillment. It very well may be planning for
definite assessment or any goal which will happen in past for a significant stretch of time. It
ought to be thought of while making long term objectives that it may not get exhausting or
feverish. It is important to have long term goals and objectives which help the person in

enhancing their skills and to get something in their life in good manner (Dong, and et.al., 2018).
These goals take about 5 years to complete.
Long term goals are use for both personal and professional use because they are the who is
not attainable by everyone on their life. If a person is doing more work and efforts then he may
be achieved and if they are not doing any of the efforts then this can’t be achieved. These are
important for both micro and macro level. Long term goals help in allowing making progress
towards achieving their objectives. The best part about long objectives, in any case, is that it
soars your latent capacity. At the point when an individual put out an objective to be cultivated a
year or more from now, then he can dream a lot greater than he could in the event that they were
simply defining an objective to be refined inside the following 24 hours (El-Adly, 2019). Time is
a particularly important asset. At the point when we put out long haul objectives, we are
exploiting that asset. Thera are some of the examples of log term objectives mentioned below:
 Want to purchase new house in future
 Want to start- up new business
 Should have more than 4 permanent bodyguard
 Go on a world trip with family
Value and importance of personal development plan
Personal development plan is the plan which is made by individual in developing their skills
and knowledge and achieving their goals and objectives. These objectives are to be achieved in
definite time period which is decided in advance. There are some of the impotence of personal
development plan is that it is quite simple and it can be made by any of the individual as a
roadmap for them who is studying or who is working at some company. then it is prepared for
the future use and being a proactive in the person future. it consists of goals which are like career
goals, hobbies, personal life goals, relationship goals etc. it is important for the company because
it helps in mental health, and self-esteem, then it consists of enjoyment and building relationship
with the other people and making networks with them (Gruzdev, and et.al., 2018). Then it helps
in feeding love for longtime. Personal development plan helps in making use of time better and
focus on the achievement of their goals and objectives. Then it helps in improving the
perspectives of salary prospectus and it helps in gaining of career opportunities.

Conclusion
In the given report it has been concluded that personal and professional development plan is
most impotent for the person or individual in attaining the objectives and goals of their future. In
this report there is an importance of short term, medium term and long-term goals that could
helps them in achieving bright learning in their future. it is important to identify short term goals
because it helps in achieving short goals and by this individual could achieve his long goals
even. PDP consist of various resources and goals which are to be given in their near future. so, if
person is making PDP plan then there could be time should be decided in which it is to be
complete.

References
Books and journals
Agbo, M.U.A.M.U., 2018 Effects of Compensation Plan on Employee Performance in the
Telecommunication Industry Industry (A study of study of study of MTN and GLO
Nigerian Ltd Umuahia Branch Nigerian Ltd Umuahia Branch Nigerian Ltd Umuahia
Branch).
Alam, M and et.al., 2019. Government championed strategies to overcome the barriers to public
building energy efficiency retrofit projects. Sustainable Cities and Society, 44, pp.56-
69.
Andreassen, T.W and et.al., 2018. Business model innovation and value-creation: the triadic
way. Journal of Service Management.
Ashford, S.J., Caza, B.B. and Reid, E.M., 2018. From surviving to thriving in the gig economy:
A research agenda for individuals in the new world of work. Research in
Organizational Behavior, 38, pp.23-41.
Bahri, A and et.al., 2019, October. PBLRQA strategy potential in enhancing metacognitive skills
of students with different academic achievement. In Journal of Physics: Conference
Series (Vol. 1317, No. 1, p. 012199). IOP Publishing.
Biloslavo, R., Bagnoli, C. and Edgar, D., 2018. An eco-critical perspective on business models:
The value triangle as an approach to closing the sustainability gap. Journal of Cleaner
Production, 174, pp.746-762.
Dong, X and et.al., 2018. Few-example object detection with model communication. IEEE
transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, 41(7), pp.1641-1654.
El-Adly, M.I., 2019. Modelling the relationship between hotel perceived value, customer
satisfaction, and customer loyalty. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 50,
pp.322-332.
Gruzdev, M.V and et.al., 2018. University Graduates' Soft Skills: The Employers'
Opinion. European journal of contemporary education, 7(4), pp.690-698.

Appendix
Personal Development Plan
Skills to be
Developed
Development Plan Resources Target Date
Communication
skills
My degree of capability in
this space is medium and I
believe I need a few
upgrades. I have likewise
conceived an
improvement plan which
would empower me to
build my capacity and
abilities to be a superior
moderator.
First, I won't keep away
from any chance of show
in coming months. I have
effectively taken an
interest some individual
and gathering
introductions.
Furthermore, I will go to
all workshop.
Thirdly, I have
distinguished some great
books which I will get
done with perusing in next
a half year.
Hasler, H.M. and
Akshoomoff, N., 2019.
Mathematics ability and
related skills in
preschoolers born very
preterm. Child
Neuropsychology, 25(2),
pp.162-178.
Johari, J., Tan, F.Y. and
Zulkarnain, Z.I.T., 2018.
Autonomy, workload,
work-life balance and job
performance among
teachers. International
Journal of Educational
Management.
Between 4-5
weeks
Time
management
skills
I will be completing me
time management skills by
improving so of time
Kushner, T. and Sharma,
A., 2020, April. Bursts of
activity: Temporal patterns
Between 5-6
weeks

which I have wasted in
doing nothing. As I will
try to complete my work
according to the time
decided by me and hence
by this, I will be able to do
and mange my work on
definite time limit without
taking some of the stress.
of help-seeking and support
in online mental health
forums. In Proceedings of
The Web Conference
2020 (pp. 2906-2912).
Leadership skills In context of leadership
skills, I will be using more
of leaderships styles and
motivation techniques in
order to develop my team
which I am getting. Then I
will be focusing on my
team and their needs and
wants and try to fulfil
those demand.
Moral, R.R and et.al., 2020.
Barriers to teaching
communication skills in
Spanish medical schools: a
qualitative study with
academic leaders. BMC
medical education, 20(1),
pp.1-9.
Between 6-7
weeks