Report on Personal Development: Academic Skills & PDP Assessment

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of setting short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. It highlights the significance of a Personal Development Plan (PDP) in achieving both academic and career objectives. The report explores the concepts of personal and professional development, detailing how these contribute to skill enhancement and career advancement. It further elaborates on the meaning and value of setting goals, providing examples for each category: short-term, medium-term and long-term. The report concludes that a well-structured PDP is essential for individuals aiming to enhance their skills, manage their growth, and achieve their desired future success.

Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 2
Report on Personal Development
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development....................................................................3
Meaning and value of short term goals with specified examples...............................................4
Meaning and role of medium-term goals with any 3 examples..................................................5
Meaning and value of long-term goals with any 3 examples......................................................6
Meaning and value of personal development plan......................................................................6
Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8
Appendix..........................................................................................................................................9
Personal development plan.........................................................................................................9
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Introduction
Personal and professional development plan is related to work effectively and make
systematic changes and manage suitable growth for the individual profession. With the help of
evaluation to make proper for the growth of an individual prospective in order to conduct the
research and make a report. This report, different concept to analyse the systematic change and
inform the appropriate change and make a growth in planning for individual's own perspective.
All is related to make successive growth for appropriate growth and achieve future growth within
the different aspects (Busby and Harshman, 2021). This report is the extension report of
assessment one and make a deep understanding about the meaning and value of PPD, short-term
goals, medium-term goals and large-term goals. All is related to helpful for gaining effective
growth and in making an attractive PDP. With the help of this report, an individual can learn
different aspect of learning platform and know more about the deep understanding about life
goals, progress and research.
Main Body
Concept of personal and professional development
These two are the different terms which help an individual to work and make significant
aspect in identifying and managing different aspect for the growth and overcome the
opportunities in market. The process of improving yourself through the major use and effective
growth for increasing skill and develop the nature for understanding the concepts and building
wealth. This would be beneficial for the society to manage effective growth and motivate the
personal changes to work in the academic and professional development. Whereas, the meaning
of professional development is basically related to increase skills and make growth in effective
education and possibilities for the growth and achievement of the opportunities and manage as
per the progressive changes with higher quality and staff organisational growth. All is related to
work and make effective achieve and desire for addressing managing sources to accomplish the
development process in the field (Earle and Bianchi, 2021).
With the continuous development and enhancing activities basically help the growth and
development of the activities. With the help of make personal development is not only important
for the growth of spiritual full-time to analyse the concept and make future career changes. This
will be helpful for the growth and achievement to make authenticate process for the own
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prospective and individual development. With the help of continuous professional development
and make systematic changes for the process development. This make the growth and
achievement for their own learning and development process for the learning. These two terms
are beneficial for the growth and achieve effective growth and make effective outcome for
addressing major changes and applied personal and professional development plan. PPD are very
helpful in achieving different concept of learning management and make their own development
in the achievement progress. With the help of effective result and achievement of future
activities will be helpful for the progress in short, medium and long term goals.
Meaning and value of short term goals with specified examples
Short-term goals are work and act as the milestone of the project and effective journey
for the growth and development of long term goals. This will be helpful for achieving success
and make systematic growth to achieve the targets of long term goals. For understanding major
changes to analyse effective growth and make adoptive nature for the use of long term goals.
With the help of achieving different goals and make appropriate growth to achieve suitable
changes and analyse the growth over the period of time (Elufiede and Barker-Stucky, 2021).
There are suitable changes and make growth for the lose of motivation and get too busy for
achieving their long term goals. But without the help of short term goals, an individual can not
be related or achieved their long term goals with so ease manner. These are the hardest goals for
achieving and make suitable changes and analyse the role for understanding better writer and
achieve effective growth in order to complete the basic objectives.
These goals are related to effective adaptability and achievement in the near future, and
as per the near future targets short-term goals are effective and appropriate for increasing
motivation. All of these are related to achievement and success of the growth and make
appropriate growth to analyse the marketing objective and try to analyse effective growth for
addressing desired time scale and period. With the help of these goals, an individual is related to
achieve standard and make smaller activities for addressing effective time and manage activities
for the growth to complete work style and achieve success rate in the daily activities (Fleer,
Fragkiadaki and Rai, 2021). These are related to make effective techniques to analyse achieve
some other goals and make effective techniques and achieve suitable growth for addressing daily
basis challenges and achieve the growing standard of the individual.
 To complete an online communication course within 2-3 months.
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 To analyse and developed one soft skill within the duration of 3 months.
 To develop different ways for connecting industry professionals and getting job within 2
months.
Meaning and role of medium-term goals with any 3 examples
These are the goals which are related to achieve within a bit longer time and achieve
different concept for addressing in more than 3 months. These goals are related to make
achievement different sector and make effective growth for accomplish within the specified time.
With the help of major changes and growth for addressing priorities to analyse the concept and
make effective approaches to analyse systematic growth and adoptive technologies to analyse the
growth and approaches (Mifsud, 2021). These medium term goals are related to work and make
effective objective for managing need and achieve objectives. With the help of appropriate
challenges and achieve effective growth are related to manage suitable growth for addressing
effective changes and make suitable growth over the period of time. This will be related to major
different growth and adopt major challenges to analyse the perspective for addressing issues and
manage the objective growth for analysing the position and make suitable growth. All of these
are related to achieve very effective nature.
This will be related to achieve effective growth and play and important way to complete
short and long term goals. All is related to achieve suitable changes and make growth for
analysing effective nature for accomplish medium term goals. The use of medium term goals are
related to manage effective changes and work as per the respective growth and adoptive nature to
analyse the market and make appropriate management process for analysing marketing objective
and achieve the growth of their own personal development (Lindvall and et.al., 2021). There are
the link in between short and medium term goals as the achievement and effective process are
helpful for addressing relevant example and manage the objective possibilities to make some
effective changes and manage appropriate growth in the market.
 Complete an internship from any other recognized university within 6 months.
 To achieve good marks within the upcoming semester.
 To save money for my birthday.
Meaning and value of long-term goals with any 3 examples
The meaning and value of the short-term goals are related to effective growth and
adoptive nature for managing and make appropriate growth for addressing changes in the
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personality and life style. This will be helpful for make link in between the future and strengthen
the different perspective to analyse the marketing objective and make sure for using different
proposal to complete effective changes. All is related to make effective growth and use more
than a year to complete a long term goals. It will be related to the different values in life and
achieve suitable changes for the nature and progress of the lifestyle. This would be helpful for
considering approaches and make a common systematic work for managing the work force and
adopt the lifestyle for addressing effective techniques and make sure for analysing the
performance and make systematic changes for make direction in the managing targets. All is
related to achieve suitable changes and impact on the different perspective of the individual life
style (Nguyen, 2021). These long term goals actually provide the growth and make sustainable
changes and make growth for addressing effective adoptive nature and make subjective
performance for analysing major changes and make perspective growth.
It would be helpful for the different aspect and make a growth in managing platform and
complete the separate growth sector for analysing their own value and progress. For the
improvement of the long term goals is basically related to the achievement and progress for
addressing effective issue and make sustainable changes in the long term director of the
company. All is basically related to achieve something effective and make sure for working
effectively and manage the career through the major prospective and need. There are three
example which are related to the growth and make effective use of long term goals within an
individual life (Sevim and Akın, 2021). This would be beneficial for the achievement and
success rate of the different personality.
 To complete my degree from the university within 1 year.
 To become a leader or a manager in particular professional field.
 To buy a house within several years.
Meaning and value of personal development plan
The use and value of personal development plan is related to manage and invest
something for achieving critical sources. This will be helpful for the individual to analyse the
concepts to work and make obstacle to managing hurdle and work as per the progressive nature
in the way (Termini and et.al., 2021). With the help of PDP, an individual can work and try to
achieve their skills and learning knowledge instead of waiting for the things to happen and make
slow growth in their life. The use of personal development plan is one of the effective technique
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which is started from the initiative plan and work through the use of efficient time, resources and
proper planning. With the help of PDP, an individual can lean forward and make effective
framework for make a roadmap and sometimes provide a direction to work in self-reflection
changes. This is very essential feature for the growth of personal-development-plan to make and
written down in the framework otherwise it can be vanish into the air within the short time.
Further, the use of personal development planning is related to be more realistic and feasible for
achieve and recover to make effective use of data (Tannehill and et.al., 2021). It will be helpful
for the growth and achievement of the individual to make a aim and achieve that in the desired
period. Which actually helpful for the growth and make progressive need to complete the target
and achieve the effective growth in their personal and professional career. The use of short,
medium and long terms goals and having the knowledge and differentiate about personal and
professional development plan. Helps the individual to work and make significant aspect of
personal development planning to grow in future and achieve all the desired perspective.
Conclusion
From the above report, it is concluded that the use of personal and professional
development is very effective and essential for the use of an individual. These plans are helpful
for considering effective knowledge and make systematic growth for analysing the position and
make suitable challenge within an appropriate time use. All of these are related to manage
effective growth and achieve development goals and achieve the desired future growth in the
successive plan. These long-term, medium-term and short-term goals to work and make
systematic changes and make different growths. All is helpful for considering effective
technologies and make suitable growth for analysing the management policies.
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References
Books and Journals
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professional development: a longitudinal study. Chemistry Education Research and
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Earle, S. and Bianchi, L., 2021. What role can professional learning frameworks play in
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Elufiede, K. and Barker-Stucky, C., 2021. Personal and Professional Support: Finding
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Fleer, M., Fragkiadaki, G. and Rai, P., 2021. Collective imagination as a source of professional
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Appendix
Personal development plan
Skills needed to be
developed
Development
strategies
Resources Target date
Professional
knowledge
I have to develop
different form of
knowledge and make
online gain to the
knowledge. This
knowledge can be gain
through different
sources and
installation or up-
gradation of software.
This will help mine to
complete my
professional
development plan and
increase my
knowledge area.
Rao, G.V. and Vijayalakshmi,
D., 2021. Preference for Mode
of Learning for Knowledge
and Skills by Professional
Management Students During
the COVID-19 Pandemic
Period. Management and
Labour Studies,
p.0258042X211020604.
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For improving this
skill I tried for gaining
more type of
languages and make
sure for addressing
effective techniques by
taking online classes.
Cannity, K.M. And et.al.,
2021. Acceptability and
efficacy of a communication
skills training for nursing
students: building empathy
and discussing complex
situations. Nurse Education in
Practice, 50, p.102928.
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Targets for future
planning
I tried for gaining
more knowledge and
basic ideas about
planning and make
effective customer
satisfaction for the
growing need and
basic knowledge.
Romkey, l., Ross, t. and
munro, d., 2021. Future skill
development in undergraduate
students through work in stem
outreach. Proceedings of the
canadian engineering
education association (ceea).
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