Academic Skills and PDP Plan: Personal and Professional Development

This report delves into the concepts of personal and professional development, outlining the significance of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals within a Career Action Plan. The report includes a skills audit, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas needing improvement. It analyzes personal skills, rates them, and suggests remedial actions with deadlines for improvement. The report then examines the importance of sources, their author, purpose, reliability, and relevance. Finally, it provides a conclusion that emphasizes the importance of maintaining both personal and professional development for achieving success in one's career. The report includes references to various sources to support the analysis and findings.

Academic Skills and PDP Plan

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Concept of Personal and Professional Development..............................................................3
Value of Short term goals.......................................................................................................3
Value of Medium term Goals.................................................................................................3
Value of Long term Goals......................................................................................................4
Value of Personal Development Plan.....................................................................................4
CAREER ACTION PLAN..............................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is a procedure through which an individual can improve their skills
and knowledge in order to survive in the Competitive environment whereas professional
development includes maintain the professional credentials like attending conferences, informal
learning and academic degrees to formal coursework (Hammersley-Fletcher, Schostak and
Darwish, 2020). The project includes the personal and professional development concept
including the value of short term goals medium term goals, long term goals and PDP Plan.
TASK 1
Concept of Personal and Professional Development
Personal development includes the factors which help in improving the potential and
capabilities of an individual, facilitate employability, increase quality of life and build human
capital (Lopes and Calapez, 2021). Personal development is considered as one of the important
change which must be adopted by an employee so that they can achieve their personal as well as
organisational goals. The Changes includes improvement in skills, knowledge, abilities,
capabilities, performance and efficiency in order to fulfil the dreams and accomplish the
objectives (Passmore and Crabbe, 2020). Through personal development an individual can
develop their inner self as well as outer self. Professional development includes the certification,
education and training that is required to employee so that they can succeed in their Career
(Mayer, 2020). It is necessary for the employees to develop their professional skills and
knowledge by becoming more productive and efficient.
Value of Short term goals
Short term goals generally mean to achieve the things in near future it could be today,
week, months and a year. The Short term goals includes time period of One year. The Short term
goal as an individual is to increase productivity, work on communication skills and learn new set
of skills (Gabitova, Shayakhmetova and Beisembayeva, 2018).
Value of Medium term Goals
Medium term goals requires a longer time as compare to short term goals. The medium
term goal is to develop leadership skills, improve decision making and become emotionally
intelligent (Sleiman and A Sayah, 2018).

Value of Long term Goals
Long term goals require a huge time and planning to accomplish, it cannot be possible to
do in a week or year. The Long term goal is to achieve promotion, improve efficiency rates and
gain better management experience (Haleem and et. al., 2018).
Value of Personal Development Plan
CAREER ACTION PLAN
Analyse Personal Skill Audit
Skills Self assessed Score from others Outcome
Leadership skills 6 9 -2
Productivity skills 8 7 1
Decision making skills 8 6 2
Communication skills 7 8 -1
Learn New Set of
skills
8 9 -1
Become Emotionally
Intelligent
6 9 -3
Efficiency rates 6 8 -2
Achieve promotion 8 7 1
Management
Experience
9 6 3
In Above Personal Skill Audit it is been found that there are positive and negative results
shown in analyse of personal skill audit. I need to work on my few skills in order to get succeed
in career professionally and personally.
Strength
 My leadership skill is good which helps
in leading the team and provide
Weaknesses
 I have to improve my productivity
skills so that I can give best

guidance so that they can accomplish
their goals.
 I have effective communication skills
due to which I can easily attract people.
 I can easily learn new skills in order to
improve my knowledge and abilities.
 I am emotionally intelligent as I do not
get influence easily.
 Efficiency rate of mine is good due to
which I accomplish my target on given
time period.
performance in accomplishing the task.
 My decision making skills is not so good
due to which I cannot make productive
decision.
 I have a problem of lack of confidence due
to which I might face problem in getting
promoted for a higher post.
 I have to work on improving the
management experience so that I can gain
more knowledge.
Requirements Personal
audit
(rating
scale: 0-
10)
GAP Remedial
action/strategy
Deadlines
for
remedial
action
Productivity skills
8 Have to work on
improving
productivity skills
so that I can give
my best efforts
achieving goals
and objectives.
Focusing on
increasing
performance and
efficiency.
6 month
Decision making
skills 8 Through decision
making skills I
can take effective
decision which
can help in
leading business.
To take active
participation in
decision making
process.
5 month

Achieve promotion 8 I must work on
achieving
promotion so that
I can expand my
career.
Giving more
productive
outcomes.
1 year
Management Experience
9
I have to gain more
management
experience skills.
Must focus on
concept and
management
principles.
1 year
TASK 2
The Author, purpose, reliability and relevance affects the use of sources as if there is no
author in the sources it might considered as fake information. It is necessary to have a reliable
source as it depicts the well reasoned theory, discussion, through and arguments. The
Information must be relevant and connected to the thought.
TASK 3
Short term goals
Increased efficiency
Sleiman, F. and A Sayah, S., 2018. The Impact of Employees’ Motivation On Employees’
Productivity. Available at SSRN 3793840.
Author- Fatima Sleiman and Samer A Sayah
Purpose- The Impact of Motivation on employees and productivity
Reliability- The source is reliable as it is accurate and genuine.
Relevance- It is relevant as it is connected with the topic.

Communication skills
Gabitova, L., Shayakhmetova, L. and Beisembayeva, Z., 2018. The effectiveness of drama
methods in the development of communication skills. Revista Publicando, 5(16 (1)),
pp.308-315.
Author- Gabitova, L., Shayakhmetova, L. and Beisembayeva, Z
Purpose- To reflect the effectiveness of drama methods in developing the communication skills.
Reliability- The source is reliable and true
Relevance- It is relevant as it is related to the topic
Management Experience
Haleem, F., Farooq, S., Wæhrens, B. V. and Boer, H., 2018. Offshoring experience and
performance: The role of realized drivers and risk management. Supply Chain
Management: An International Journal.
Author- Haleem, F., Farooq, S., Wæhrens, B.V. and Boer, H
Purpose- To increase the experience and performance
Reliability- The above source is reliable which contains true information
Relevance- The Source is relevant that links with purpose.
TASK 4
Hammersley-Fletcher, L., Schostak, J. and Darwish, U., 2020. Leadership, the vanishing
mediator and organisation. In Paradoxes of Democracy, Leadership and Education (pp.
134-146). Routledge.
Lopes, H. and Calapez, T., 2021. Job polarisation: Capturing the effects of work
organisation. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, p.1035304621996064.
Mayer, C. H., 2020. 17 Transforming Shame in the Workplace, Leadership and Organisation:
Contributions of Positive Psychology Movements to the Discourse. New Horizons in
Positive Leadership and Change: A Practical Guide for Workplace Transformation,
p.313.
Passmore, J. and Crabbe, K., 2020. Developing a coaching culture in your organisation. In The
Coaches’ Handbook (pp. 24-36). Routledge.
CONCLUSION
From the above information it is being concluded that it is important for an individual to
maintain both the development whether professional and personal in order to gain success. It can
be said that personal development helps in improving knowledge, believe in yourself, develop
skills, improve awareness and also helps in setting goals. Professional development helps in
feeling more confident and also increases the morale of an individual through which they can
succeed in their field of work.