Academic Skills & PDP: A Report on Personal Development Planning

This report discusses personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of setting short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. It highlights how personal development planning aids in identifying strengths and weaknesses, creating strategies for self-improvement, and achieving both personal and professional objectives. The report includes examples of personal goals and a constructed personal development plan demonstrating how to enhance skills like time management, oral communication, and teamwork. The report concludes that continuous personal development is crucial for self-improvement, skill acquisition, and achieving future growth opportunities, with the personal development plan serving as a roadmap for success.

Report on personal
development
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Concept of personal and professional development...............................................................4
Value of short-term goals identifying at least three personal examples.................................4
Value of medium-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples...........................5
Value of long-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples.................................5
Describe and discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example
using your identified goals.....................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Personal development is inclusive of activities helps in developing individual potential and
capabilities and enhance their quality of life while facilitating employability. It includes certain
form of measures through which one can improve their identity and awareness and can further
develop talent in an effective manner (Anquandah Arthur, 2021). With the help of taking
advantage of personal development activities individual can significantly contribute to the
accomplishment of their roles and responsibilities in effective manner. Personal development is a
continuous and lifelong process that helps a person to access their life goals and further upscale
their potential in order to fulfil their goals in an effective manner. It leads individual to expand
self-knowledge and awareness and make improvement in personal skills.
While in terms of professional development it is defined as learning professional skills in
order to have more growth opportunities. Professional development facilitates individual to
develop and improve skills with the help of technical assistance, coaching, consultation,
mentoring and other forms in order to gain more professional development opportunities. Both
personal and professional development plays essential role in an individual life through which
they can fulfil their aims and objectives and effective manner. Present report includes discussion
of the concept of personal and professional development. Report also includes value of short
term, medium term and long-term goals. At last personal development plan is being included in
this report.
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MAIN BODY
Concept of personal and professional development.
Personal and professional development is a lifelong and continuous procedure which
include number of training programs and activities through which one can effectively prepare
themselves for growth and development opportunities. These activities also facilitate individual
to fulfil desired goals and objectives in an effective manner. It has been evaluated that
continuous personal and professional development make improvement in individual learning
ability and further allow them to be an independent learner (Beckman and et. al., 2021). By
taking advantage of personal and professional development one can significantly enhance their
personal skills, conference, knowledge and competencies and can further assure more
employment opportunities in future. Personal and professional development plays crucial role in
an individual life in both personal and professional context, as with the help of this person can
significantly enhance their competitiveness by adding new skills and enhancing current level of
knowledge and capabilities. This can significantly maximize individual awareness and enhance
their growth opportunities.
Value of short-term goals identifying at least three personal examples.
Short term goals are defined as those goals that an individual want to accomplish in the
near future which include today, in a week, in a month or even today. In simple terms these goals
are mainly designed to accomplish soon. Furthermore, it has been underlined that short term
goals facility an individual to be consistent and stay motivated, as with the help of fulfilling short
term goals in a short time period one can accomplish long-term objectives in an effective
manner. Short term goals also play crucial role in an individual through which they can celebrate
short wins and can be motivated towards fulfilling long term goals in an effective manner. In
addition to this it has been evaluated that with the help of short-term goals one can maximize
their productivity and can maintain consistency to fulfil long-term objectives efficiently. It has
been stated that short term goals do not need individual to be long term committed and also
allow them to develop momentum. These goals allow person to be on track and also helps in
boosting their self confidence level. Thus, it has been identified that short-term goes effectively
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facilitate a person to be confident and consistent. Mentioned below there are some certain
examples of short-term goals:
 To attend a personal development seminar.
 To keep a daily journal in order to manage activities on timely basis.
 Make develop a morning meditation routine.
Value of medium-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples.
Medium term courses are basically those objects that usually take longer period of time to
complete comparatively to short term objective (Copur-Gencturk and Thacker, 2021). These
goals can be full ill in 2 weeks or in a year. It has been identified that medium-term goes play
important role through which individual can take necessary steady progress towards
accomplishing long-term objectives. Medium term goals allow individual to be on track and pay
attention towards fulfilling noticeable progress in an effective manner. With the help of medium
term goals person can significantly align their long-term objectives and can undertake significant
steps in an effective manner. In addition to this it has been evaluated that with the help of
medium-term goals person can efficiently align with their objectives in an effective way.
Mentioned below that are some certain medium-term goals:
 Enhance my skills with the help of seminars.
 Save money to buy a new house.
 To build my experience in management field.
Value of long-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples.
Long term goals are basically those goals in which individuals take more than 10 + years to
fulfil. Furthermore, it has been underlined those long-term goals play important role for a
successful career of an individual. These goals basically include those objectives that a person
want to fulfil in the future. Along with this has been identified that in order to fulfil long term
goals there is an efficient need of planning and time as these goals take several years to fulfil.
The main purpose of long-term goals is to make individual capable to strive for more growth and
opportunities in future. These goals are essential for self-improvement of an individual as with
the help of long-term goals person can effectively shape their direction towards career. In
addition to this it has been evaluated those long-term goals efficiently provide individual to have
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a direction sense of greater purpose, better understanding of possible roadblocks and create a
compelling vision (Sims and Fletcher-Wood, 2021). In addition to these it has been underlined
that, long-term goals also allow individuals to undertake best day to day decisions about
professional life and have a great career in future. With the help of planning long term goals one
can determine steps through which they can fulfil their objectives while staying focused and
motivated. In order to set long term goals individuals are required to have a strategic planning
and continuous improvement in their skills and knowledge, as the advantage of these goals’
person can effectively fulfil their personal and professional objectives in a well-defined and
effective manner. Mentioned below some certain long-term goals are given:
 Complete university degree with excellent grades.
 Secure money to complete second term education.
 Learn swimming like an expert.
Describe and discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example using
your identified goals.
Personal development plan includes certain steps or process that helps in creating an action
plan which is based upon goal setting, values, awareness, reflection and planning for personal
development in context with self-improvement, education, career or relationship. Personal
development planning allow individual to enhance their skills and capabilities and provide them
a clear path and idea to have access of target destination. It facilitates an individual to draw up a
plan and the manner in which their long-term short term and medium-term goals can be
accomplished in an effective manner (Wahab, 2021). Personal development plan plays essential
role as this provide framework through which person can evaluate or identify the areas of their
weaknesses and strengths and can further take advantage of significance strategies and procedure
in order to overcome strength, as to optimise and kept align with their existing level of
capabilities as well as skills. Personal development planning is having significant value in an
individual life, as this allows them to enhance their current level of competencies while
identifying strength and weaknesses.
In addition to this it has been identified that, personal development is basically a written
account of self-improvement and reflection. It is basically a detailed action plan that allow
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person to achieve their career personal or academic goals in an effective manner. Personal
development plan plays essential role through which one can make improvement in self with the
help of creating actions and developing a certain time period to fulfil them. This plan facilitate
person to build their current skills and learn new skills and knowledge in order to achieve new
heights in their career. Furthermore it has been identified that personal development plan
provides significant direction and keep individual to be motivated on their career progression.
With the help of this plan one can be dedicated and enthusiastic towards learning new skills and
capabilities. This plan plays important role in making continuous self-improvement through
which person can have an idea to accomplish them to determine objectives in an effective
manner. Personal development plan is having significant value in terms of measuring success
and make individual motivated it helps an individual to be realistic with the help of clear time
scales that helps in sharpening existing skills in a well-defined and effective manner. Personal
development plan also helps in improving one confidence at great extent. Thus, according to the
above-mentioned discussion it has been identified that personal development plan is having
essential role and value and act as a framework through which identification of strength and
weaknesses can be done, that further facilitate towards developing strategies and measures with a
time scale in order to fulfil objectives, as to assure futuristic opportunities. Mentioned below
personal development plan is being given:
Skill Current
Proficiency
Target
Proficiency
Course of Action Time period
Time management 8 10 By prioritizing tasks with
the help of scheduling
them on timely basis. By
setting week priorities
and avoiding multi-
tasking.
40 days
Oral
Communication
7.5 10 Take advantage of online
communication lectures
45 days
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on continuous basis.
Team Working 6 10 By working in a team and
take suggestions in the
form of feedback and
guidance from team
members.
35 days
CONCLUSION
As per the above-mentioned report it has been concluded that personal development is a
continuous process through which individual can be proactive and can learn different type of
skills in order to fulfil aims and objectives by enhancing self-confidence and awareness. This
report states that personal and professional development plays essential role in an individual life
through which they can gain recognition from society and individual. Both personal and
professional development is important in an individual life through which they can ensure future
growth and development in both personal and professional aspect. Present report states that
personal development allow individual to significantly enhance their knowledge and make
improvement in attitude and awareness while developing self-potential and skills. Along with
this report also identifies that it is essential for an individual to develop short-, medium- and
long-term goals in order to accomplish personal and professional objectives. In addition to this
from this report it has been identified that personal development plan is an essential element for
an individual in the process of personal development planning through which they can fulfil their
aims and objectives and effective manner, as personal development plan allow individual to
improve their skills and capabilities in a specific period of time. This allows individual to
accomplish goals and sure more growth opportunities in future.
REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Anquandah Arthur, J., 2021. The gospel of prosperity and its concept of development: A
Ghanaian Pentecostal-Charismatic experience. Religion, 51(1), pp.90-104.
Beckman, K and et. al., 2021. Self-regulation in open-ended online assignment tasks: the
importance of initial task interpretation and goal setting. Studies in Higher Education, 46(4),
pp.821-835.
Copur-Gencturk, Y. and Thacker, I., 2021. A comparison of perceived and observed learning
from professional development: Relationships among self-reports, direct assessments, and
teacher characteristics. Journal of teacher education, 72(2), pp.138-151.
Howell, E., Perez, S. and Abraham, W.T., 2021. Toward a professional development model for
writing as a digital, participatory process. Reading Research Quarterly, 56(1), pp.95-117.
Sims, S. and Fletcher-Wood, H., 2021. Identifying the characteristics of effective teacher
professional development: a critical review. School effectiveness and school improvement, 32(1),
pp.47-63.
Wahab, W., 2021. POTENTIAL ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT PLAN TOURIS OBJECT
BANYIS WATERFALL IN THE VILLAGE OF THE WORKS COMPETITION OF LEDO
DISTRICT BENGKAYAANG DISTRICT. Cross-Border Journal of Business
Management, 1(2), pp.189-203.
Xu, C and et. al., 2021. Long-and short-term self-attention network for sequential
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