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

This report delves into the concepts of academic skills and personal development plans (PDP), emphasizing their importance for efficient learning and career success. It explores the conception of personal and professional development, highlighting the significance of skills like communication and leadership. The report discusses short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, providing personalized examples for each, and examines the value of a PDP in achieving these goals. It also covers the benefits of personal and professional development, such as improved focus, better relationships, and increased efficiency. The report concludes by underscoring the necessity of academic skills and PDP for students to become effective learners and for managers to facilitate staff development. The report provides a comprehensive overview of how to set effective goals, create plans, and achieve professional success.

Academic skills
and PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
Conception of personal and professional development...............................................................4
Discuss measure of short-term goals and distinguishing with three personalized example........6
Discuss amount of medium-term goals along with three personal example...............................6
Discuss value of long-term goals along with three examples......................................................7
Discuss value of a Personal Development Plan and build an example using your identified
goals.............................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
APPENDIX:..................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills means to encourage students for become most efficient learners and
determine their skills such as academic writing, presentation skills which are more complex like
captious thinking (Alnaggar, Gzara and Bookbinder, 2019). PDP (personal development plan) is
a organized procedures interpreted by a individual to indicate their own learnedness, their
presentation and accomplishment of students, personal plan and learning improvement. The main
aim of this report is to identify their strength and weakness using personal development plan and
determine goals in life. Several topics are covered in this report which is named as concept of
personal and vocation alteration, describe short term, medium term and long term goals along
with examples and discuss values of a personal improvement idea.
Conception of personal and professional development
The term personal modification is a lifelong procedure that consists of activities to
develop personal abilities, potential and enhance quality of life (Carcary, Doherty and Conway,
2019, July). It is a process to improve skills and raising amount of experience that they have in
job and enables to have personal vision in future in which they gives a clear idea of what or
where they will be in next few years. For examples of personal development are: Improve time
management, to develop emotional intelligence, actively listen, improve their public speaking
skills, develop a growth mindset. The benefits of personal development are motivation means
motivate and empower with right beliefs and thoughts. It improved focus as personal
development will be very clear on how to prioritize tasks in effectively and efficiently manner.
Thirdly in relationships, it will be able enough to find out which relationship is invested and
which to be cut close. The can develop a skills to make most of relationships which have positive
impact in our life. It is helpful to determine how they can achieve their goals and objectives. Few
personal development skills are as follows:
 Good communication always conveys thoughts in form of clarity and confidence.
 Interpersonal skills should be used to help maintain and develop a relationship to make
an opinion (McGill, Heikkila and Lazarowicz, 2020)
 Leadership skills that guide and motivate others and build their confidence level.
 There is a problem solving skill that enables to find a best solution if there is obstacles in
development.

Professional development is a tool that used in wide variety of specific training or
advanced learning that helps to administrators and other to improve their knowledge, skills,
experience and effectiveness (Rachmawati, 2019). They need to develop and improving their
skills to betterment of needs of their students. The main purpose of personal and professional
improvement is help to develop their skills as well as learning growth in perspective to their
business. It is significant to learn in continue basis to develop and maintain skills, cognition up to
date and assure so that work can be done on safely, legally and effectively basis. Professional
development involves to developing a entirely to understand their job and how they can improve
their changes. In an organisation, they can allows to various changes in employees benefits and
help them to attract more about their career. It can provide employees to attending seminar and
conferences for sharpen their skills and knowledge within their profession. It is necessary to
carry out role as effectively and efficiently for something to be continuing throughout their
working life (Cottrell, 2019).
The benefit of professional development is as follows:
Raising retention: In this, many of us employees are there for possibility like training
and promoting offer professional development options. Where workers can display cares about
their career and determine their long term goals if they are interested in this path.
Maintain confidence and quality: in professional development, they can provide
training that allows staff member to build confidence related to work. It is also help to develop
credibility in organisation because to increase a new skills and certification (Tribble, 2020).
Improved efficiency: It is not only to develop new skills but allows various
opportunities for staff member to learn something new about training part. As a professional
development they can share experiences and knowledge for choice their new ideas and their
appearance. It will take a advantage for better and comfortable efficiencies in an enterprise.
Effective personal and professional development determines their knowledge and understand
field of skilfulness at most highest level. For examples; professional improvement related to
computer training, safety purpose transformation and several legal formalities.
Discuss measure of short-term goals and distinguishing with three personalized example
These goals are about future basis that they want to accomplish their goals so soon
(Cottrell, 2019). It can help to better achieve their professional goals be more productive and
improve their overall job satisfaction. In short term goal, they can set their target in future means

today, next week, a month or year. The purpose of short term goals is to make big changes and
this lays down to clear defined goals and focus on one thing at a particular time. To improve the
short term goals is every significant for everyone because these goals must be turn and determine
each and every stage of life. These goals are directly helps to determine whether their accomplish
objectives are done every day or not to reach their long term end. It is possible to achieve easily
because they have not lead to provide incentives (Sally, 2018). When setting short term goals,
keep them SMART placed for simple, measurable, achievable, and relevant, time bound. Value
of short term goals is lay down to clear and better path for success and allow concentration on
same thing at a particular time. The time frame of short term goals is 1 month, 4 to 5 weeks or
les than 1 year. It is focused on these goals to act driven but help to achieve long term very
easily.
Examples of short term goals:
 Improve work related skill
 Develop their presentation skills
 Communication skills
Discuss amount of medium-term goals along with three personal example
These goals are determine ready to be achieving for an individual person short term goals
and their long term goals. It takes a longer time to achieve their goals and could be achieved in
next 2 week, a month or 6 months also (Kneale, 2019). These goals are achieved only after
sequencing of short term goals and which will build together to form of long term goal. It will
affect both personal and professional life of a person in most documented way. It helps an
individual can motivated while fetching each and every day path is essential to be progressed
towards long term goals. It cannot be limited because long time interval between both these goals
should have a blurred focus and modification in short term. These goals are needed to
accomplishment of long term goal and in case of medium term goal are set to a period of one or
two years. Medium term and long term are interconnected to achieve a goals and objectives. For
related to start-up and newly companies, medium term goals is last long more than one year but
less than five years. These goals have a plan to apply their rules and policies to ensure that short
term goals does not incur. The value of medium term goals are to offer a both type long term as
well as short term, in case of long term to make adequate development and short term that they

are not completely finished by a person at a specific time to achieve their goals and objectives
(Kneale, 2019).
Examples of medium term goals:
 To start a new business
 Buy a house
 Betterment of work skills
Discuss value of long-term goals along with three examples
These type of goals means to fulfil their objectives will takes time, effort and various
plans to achieve (McGill, Heikkil and Lazarowicz, 2020). It is the outcome of may be more than
a year or five years plan that they want to achieve in future with necessitate to decide a better
deal and plan to reach their goals and objectives in an proper manner. Sometimes in long term
goal it takes many time to accomplish their goals, these small- small steps can be short term
goals. Long term goals are viewed as a distance they determine goal because these goals require
more time to accomplish their objectives. Firms wants to solve their problems permanently and
to reach a overall targets in a year that means long term planning are enactment competitive
condition in political, social and economic and develop various strategies related to long term
plans. It is more difficult as compare to short term goal. The value of long term goals are those
things to ads true meaning in our lives, finding more depth in relationships and places to guide
their everyday life is great tool for helping to make a right decision in life.
Examples of long term goals:
 Learn to speak a foreign language
 Addition experience in leadership function
 Increase their accuracy in job task
Discuss value of a Personal Development Plan and build an example using your identified goals
It is all about creating a long condition plans to achieve various goals and objectives and
identify how they can achieve these goals (Oates, 2020). The personal development plan (PDP)
which is also known as IDP (individual development plan) includes a statement of one strengths,
education or training part and how plan is to be accomplished. The main goal of this plan is to
manger their career employees and personal improvement. The main function is to help
employees that reach better goals and objectives as well as to improve their chances of job
performance system. It contains a responsibility of employees CVs and who participate in

business training are asked to accomplish their personal development plan. The value of personal
development plan is not quite big because many organisations are moving towards PDP as a way
not only identifies interest but a succession of planning tool. It enables that they know their
reference & destination because it is easy to make attraction a plan on how they will attain goals
and objectives at a certain time period (Oates, 2020). If there is no requirement from enterprises,
nurse should used at least three goal for Personal Development Plan which are named as short
term professional, long term professional and one is personal which should be able to increase
their superior qualities.
CONCLUSION
From the above information, it has been understood that academic skills and PDP are
made up of a core skills such as presentation skills which as critical thinking and note taking
because it helps to encourage those students who have become a good and efficient learners.
They include those skills that are highly moveable and play a vital for success in any career path.
With the help of PDP, professional development plan requires skills and development to
objectives of staff member to accomplish and continuous improvement of career development
plan. It is significant to inspire those students who have become efficient learners and determine
their thinking is highly transferable for success in any career path. It is a process for creating a
action plan for reflection, goal setting and personal development in context to career. It is
mandatory for managers to make a appraisals before yearly, they are also helps to dreams and
desire stay in night. It is helpful for students to get along more impressive and believe how they
acquire to become more efficient person. Managers use professional development plan by
working closely with staff member to identify important skills and resources to support career
goals and organisation needs. In this report, several topics are covered which are named as
discuss personal and professional development plan, describe short term, medium term and long
term goals along with their examples and values also and value of persona development plan
with make an examples of various known goals.

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APPENDIX:
Skills to be Formed Improvement Plan Equipments Target Date
Communication
skills
To learn the basics of
non-verbal
communication.
Participation in group
communication
exercise.
Online websites, e
learning websites,
diary and fax
machines.
By April 2020
Presentation skills More practice that
they will rehearse
multiple times.
Online websites,
coaching, TED talks,
networking events.
By May 2020
Experience in
leadership function
Consider business
needs, goals and
objectives.
For consider training
and development
program.
Mind tools, master
class management,
online executive
leadership training.
By Dec 2023
Learn to speak
foreign language
Learn basic German
vocabulary.
Attend English
speaking classes.
Focus on BBC
languages, live lingua
projects, MIT open
course ware
By June 2026
Work related skills Improve their time
management.
To develop a reading
habit.
Modify their public
speaking skills,
Self management,
learning websites and
various technologies
are applied related to
work
By August 2021
To start a new
business
For develop my
business, firstly I have
to purchase a land and
investigate which is
Sonderegger, M.,
Bane, M. and Graff,
P., 2017. The
medium-term
By January 2022

best or suitable for
business.
dynamics of accents
on reality
television. Language,
93(3), pp.598-640.
Buy a house To buy a house, to
solve my financial
problems, hire a
architecture and make
money for a very long
period of time save
then and buy a house
Woolley, K. and
Fishbach, A., 2017.
Immediate rewards
predict adherence to
long-term
goals. Personality and
Social Psychology
Bulletin, 43(2),
pp.151-162.
By August 2021
Betterment of work
skills
For betterment, start
reading a newspaper,
reading, writing daily
a long paragraph and
participate of other
volunteer activities
related to work.
Changwony, F.K.,
Campbell, K. and
Tabner, I.T., 2021.
Savings goals and
wealth allocation in
household financial
portfolios. Journal of
Banking &
Finance, 124,
p.106028.
By November 2023
Increase their
accuracy in job task
To improve my job
task firstly I need to
complete all previous
task which I have not
completed yet then
start other work so at
least a knowledge
how to do perform
Carey, G., Nevile, A.,
Kay, A. and Malbon,
E., 2020. Managing
staged policy
implementation:
Balancing short‐term
needs and long‐term
goals. Social Policy &
By February 2025

tasks. Administration, 54(1),
pp.148-162.