Personal and Professional Growth: Academic Skills and PDP Report

This report delves into the significance of academic skills in personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of habits and communication methods for individual growth. It explores a personal development plan (PDP) through the analysis of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, highlighting their respective values with personal examples. The report underscores how short-term goals promote career success and motivation, medium-term goals bridge the gap between short and long-term objectives, and long-term goals ensure financial security and self-improvement. Furthermore, it discusses the value of a personal development plan in reviewing progress, propelling career advancement, and providing a concrete action plan for addressing weaknesses and achieving desired goals. The conclusion reiterates that personal and professional development involves continuous learning and skill enhancement to overcome challenges and achieve career aspirations.

Academic Skills and
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
Personal and Professional development......................................................................................3
Description of value of short term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples.....................4
Description of value of medium term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples................5
Description of value of long term goals and identifying at least 3 personal examples...............5
Description of value of a personal development plan.................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan........................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
For every individual It is important to have the academic skills which involves the habits
and the appropriate methods of communication that is being used by the individual in order to
manage the individual growth and their general adherence. Personal and professional develop is
defines as the major consideration to the individual life as it helps in getting the personal growth
and also can choose the career according to their considerations(Tattum and Tattum, 2017). For
managing the personal skills development plan, It is vital to have the appropriate set of skills
which are needed for the development of the individual in their future career. In this respective
report, personal and professional development plan is being discuss with the help of analysing
the short-term, medium-term and long-term goals. Moreover, It will analyse the importance of
personal development plan.
TASK
Personal and Professional development
It is defines as the individual own growth and methods which helps in managing the
skills in their behaviour. This is majorly an task which ensure the growth of the person can be
managed with full potential. Personal development is concern with the qualities which are
generated in the individual's personality which implies in the self-actualization for the individual
so that they can understand needs in their life. This helps in building the inherent needs and
security of the individual in their life phases related to the personal development. This is majorly
the method by which all the needs of the individual can be attained and they get confidence
through all this. Self analysis is the key which also helps in the personal development of the
individual by which they can focuses in all the nature and methods in which they work with new
ideas by which personality can be enhanced.
Professional development includes all the aspects and the behaviour in which an
individual needs to gain which helps in settling the future growth of the individual. This defines
all the nature and the ways in which person can easily idealise the elements that helps in having
the career growth and the major indicator by which growth of the person can be rightly practised
and implemented in their behaviour. This is to be done with the help of proper training and
courses and also adapt the schedules by which they can gain their target. The personal and
professional development helps in provide the way in which all the growth and the management

person for future can be seen. This also helps in analysing the reflection of the business with the
help of skills and tactics that are needed in the future growth of the individual(Purpura and
Schmitt, 2019). They can control all the aspects and the employees engagement in actions and
reflection related to the growth and the management. This PDP helps in gaining the future targets
and the goals which merely improves the standard and the quality of life and also helps in
adopting the development and the methods in which all the opportunities can be raised.
Description of value of short term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples.
Goals are objective that someone want to reach or achieve. Short term goals are viewed as
something that an individual needs to achieve soon that might be today or in the near future.
These kinds of objectives are accomplished in an extremely brief time frame and it helps in
achieving the goals of person and contributes in making the individual more fit and useful so that
there is improvement in the work fulfillment. However to achieve the short term objectives, it is
vital to set them at some prior level and then become dedicated in order to carry out and achieve
it. The significance of Short Term objectives are examined there under-
 Promotes career success- whether individual set their regular work and task to do it
becomes the key to move ahead in their professional life. Without making the goal,
individual have distracted and engage in such unproductive activities that to not make
any progress in their life. It is necessary to have the short term goals by which the
individual can be influenced and focus in achieving the long-term goal with the aim of
settling their career.
 Gives clear direction- a set of actions give the click clear direction and motivation to the
individual by which they can be focused on their efforts. This majorly help in
eliminating the wastage of time in the various actions which are not associated with the
goal and leading to reduce the time and energy of the individual.
 Mitigates Procrastination- Whenever there is clear goal being set up and breaking it into
small small short terms goals that can be easily achievable, it leads to reduce
procrastination.
 Boost Motivation- As the short term goals keep on achieving it boost up the confidence
to continue all the short term goals on the way on finally achieving the final long term
goal.

Description of value of medium term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples.
It is defined as a goal that takes few longer time as the aim is to achieve somewhere between
the short term and long term goal of the individual. Video madam Google help the individual to
stay influenced as they give the short step that are important for the progress towards the long
term goal. The main focus of this goal is to bring emphasize on long-term inspirations which are
difficult to achieve. These goal can take 3 to 5 years in order to achieve them. Importance of
medium term goals are explained below:
 Bridge the gap in the short term and long term goal- after setting the medium term goal,
that results of short term goal and long term goal can be measurable as it works as a
motivator in order to achieve the final target. It bridge the gap between the long term and
long term goal as its main consideration its two accomplishment of the the final goal.
 Reward system- when the medium term goals are obtained, it motivates the individual
and give the feeling to give reward to themselves as they have a hard journey of
professional development. Rewarding yourself is a key to motivate the individual for
their effective working by which they can move ahead in the future.
 Keep individual motivated- the accomplishment of the medium term goals helps in
influencing the individual which ultimately helps in reaching to the desired goal. As this
goal take longer time in comparison to the short term goal so it keeps the fire burning that
is necessary for the professional development.
Examples
 Enhancing active listening skills
 Be a problem solver
 Inculcating thinking creative ability
Description of value of long term goals and identifying at least 3 personal examples.
These are the goals that is required to accomplish for the future development of the individual
as the main consideration is to get something in the near future so it requires sufficient time and
planning. The planning must be done on the regular basis so that an individual can reach to their
final goal. It includes various steps infix in the short term goal by which long term dedication can
help in achieving the final goal. Long term goals can take years or month as it is integrated with
effective planning time and delay in results. These goals can take more than five years to
accomplish. Value of long term goal are given below:

 Financial security- the long term goal is the basis of having financial security for the
individual as it helps in understanding the potential earning during the career
development that ultimately make individual more focused and informed about the
related decision to investments. By making long-term goals and individual can get the
ability of saving money in an appropriate manner for their future which ensures its
financial security.
 Goals and measurements- it is an important part of the long term goal as it helps in
setting the measurable targets which are necessary for the professional development.
They are mainly designed to set the measurable goals by which an individual can move
towards their dream job position(Gill and et.al., 2021).
 Self improvement- every goal is set by the person helps in getting focus on their working.
Long term goals are set with the aim of making continuous improvement by which final
targets can be achieved which is leading to have personal and professional development.
Examples
 To become the technological savvy
 To become efficient in management knowledge
 To be a good leader
Description of value of a personal development plan
It is necessary for the individual to to develop their professional and personal life and for that
they must have the effective planning. It is referred to the process which includes creating of
action plan that is based on the awareness planning, reflection setting of goals and the
significance of personal development for the individual career(Galloway and Uccelli, 2019).It is
the plan which is documented and outlines the target that are present in the area as what changes
are necessary to reach to the goal and what what all the skills required by which an individual
can improve in an particular area of their weakness. The importance of personal development
plan is explained below:
 Review progress- by making the personal development plan the individual overview its
progress related to the set goals. It helps in in analysing the successful future but this
also required regular improvement it and constant review of their progress. It also helps
in setting what is necessary and what is to be eliminate in order to achieve the desire
goal in their personal development plan(Ebadi and Rahimi, 2018).

 Propel career from position of power- personal development plan helps in creating higher
level of creativity and confidence to the individual of its own choice. With the help of
meta analysis the individual can easily able to launch a successful job search by their
own.
 Concrete action plan- PDP plan also includes the various steps that are necessary in order
to achieve the goal that gives insights to the individual. It also helps in collecting the
various resources that are available in order to overcome in address individual weakness
so that they can reach to their ultimate goal in order to have personal
development(Beausaert, Segers and Gijselaers, 2021).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is concluded that personal and professional development refers
to the process in which an individual includes the learning process by which they can overcome
the various weakness and challenges in order to reach their desired goal. There are usually three
types of target involves short term medium term and long term goals which can be varies
according to their time limit in order to achieve them. These goals are the essential part in the
personal and professional development of the person which inspire an individual to enhance their
set of skills that are necessary for the carrier development.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Crotty, Y., Farren, M. and Kilboy, L., 2019. Professional Development Meets Personal
Development: Impact of a Master's Program on Alumni. The Wiley Handbook of Global
Workplace Learning, pp.263-276.
Ebadi, S. and Rahimi, M., 2018. An exploration into the impact of WebQuest-based classroom
on EFL learners’ critical thinking and academic writing skills: A mixed-methods
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Einat, T. and Michaeli, N., 2018. Personal development and empowerment of adolescents at risk
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Galloway, E.P. and Uccelli, P., 2019. Beyond reading comprehension: exploring the additional
contribution of Core Academic Language Skills to early adolescents’ written
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Gill, N. and et.al., 2021. Childhood Obesity Is Associated with Poor Academic Skills and
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Haney, A.B., Pope, J. and Arden, Z., 2020. Making it personal: Developing sustainability leaders
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Purpura, D.J. and Schmitt, S.A., 2019. Cross-domain development of early academic and
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Tattum, D. and Tattum, E., 2017. Social education and personal development. Routledge.
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Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan
Skills to be developed Development Plan Target Date
Active listening skills In this area, the competency
skill for me is low and I
believe that improvement is
needed. I have made this plan
that helps me in enhancing my
skills. I will read book and
journals to be expert author so
that I can learn this skills for
next 6 months.
By March 2021
Problem solving skills I am having moderate level in
this skills and I feel that I must
need to improve this skill for
my development so I will try
be the open minded and
flexible thinking by which I
can get improvement for next
6 months.
By March 2021
Management Knowledge I am having moderation in this
skills and I must bring
improvement in this. For this,
I will go through with the
article and also learn teh
important principles and
models of management. I can
take full consideration in
learning knowledge of
management for next 3 years.
By March 2024