Developing Skills: Academic Skills and Personal Development Plan

This report provides an overview of personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of skills and knowledge in the current employability landscape. It highlights how a Personal Development Plan (PDP) aids individuals in identifying skill gaps, setting goals, and developing strategies to achieve them. The report discusses the value of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, providing personal examples for each. It further explores the components of a PDP, including timeframes and strategies for skill enhancement, and concludes with an evaluation of sources used, emphasizing their author, purpose, reliability, and relevance. Desklib offers a range of solved assignments and study tools to support students in their academic and professional development journey.

ACADEMIC SKILLS
AND PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development .......................................................................3
Value of short term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples ...............................................3
Value of medium term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples ..........................................4
Value of long term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples.................................................4
Discussion of the value of a Personal Development Plan ...............................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
This report helps in understanding about need of skills and knowledge for an individual
in current employability scenario. This report helps in understanding about how personal
development plan assist an individual in understanding need of skills and also help in developing
its goal and objectives. This report also focuses on elements of personal development plan and
what different strategies can be used by an individual to achieve goals which are planned. This
report also focuses on understanding about skills and knowledge which can help an individual in
growing and enhancing own capabilities. This report also focuses on importance of personal
development plan and different goals and objectives.
MAIN BODY
Concept of personal and professional development
Personal and professional development focuses on development of skills and knowledge
which is necessary for individual personal and professional growth. It focuses on evaluating and
monitoring development of skills which is helpful in setting goals and achieving those goals.
Personal and professional development includes development of skills and capabilities which can
help an individual in improving its quality of life and getting more employability opportunities.
It also help an individual in gaining competitive edge over other individuals. It can be done on
five different basis which are physical, emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual. By help of it
individual can give shape to its career and individual can also develop its learning skills.
Value of short term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Short-term goals are explained as goals proposed by an individual and focuses on
achieving desired goals in short period of time. Such goals help an individual in completing the
gap between current position and future position. Importance of these goals is that it should be
achieved within short period of time and these goals are considered more actionable and
effective for shorter period of time. Short-term objectives are related with long-term goals of an
individual as it is considered as part of long-term goals.
This type of goals brings clarity to individual about its near future and help in setting goals
important for individual near future. Such goals are effective in time management and also
focuses on developing skills. Short-term goals which need to be accomplished are mentioned
below:

 Developing my communication skills
 Involving in social activities
 Time-management
Value of medium term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Medium-term goals are explained as goals which play the part of bridge among short-
term and long-term goals. Time period for such goals are considered neither long and not so
short. Such goals help individual in keeping themselves motivated and focused towards their
goals. Medium-term goals are dependent upon short-term goals as achieving short-term goals
help in forming medium-term and long-term goals. These type of goals are focused towards
making significant development towards individual. These type of goals are helpful in delivering
quality performance. Medium-term goals which needs to be achieved are mentioned below:
 Developing critical thinking skills
 Getting promoted in organisation
Value of long term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Long-term goals are associated with effective planning and patience as it take time to achieve
such goals. These type of goals are related with future and it needs effective and efficient
planning. Long-term goals can be effectively achieved by accomplishing short and medium-term
goals. Long-terms are considered useful for individual in providing shape to their career and
achieving stability throughout their career. These goals are valuable in long-term employability
scenario.
Some of the long-term goals are mentioned below:
 Completing degree from renowned university
 Work in reputed organisation
 Developing leadership and decision-making skills
Discussion of the value of a Personal Development Plan
Personal development plan is considered as framework which helps in understanding
about skills of individual and helps in setting time-frame in which desired skills should be
achieved by an individual. Personal and professional development plan plays vital part in
achieving desired outcomes by focusing on strategy which is identified by individual. It is also

considered as blueprint for all tasks and activities which should be completed by individual for
enhancing and developing its skills and capabilities.
Chapman, S., Davies, P., Cann, R., Davies, A.J., Jeffery, J. and Lewis, M., 2018. The Impact of
Academic Accreditation and Recognition on Teachers' Engagement with Professional Learning:
A Literature Review.Value of Personal development plan is mentioned below:
 This plan helps individual in planning about their career and planning about path which
should be chosen to achieve career goals.
 With the help of personal development plan individual can set the time-frame to achieve
its desired goals and objectives.
 This plan is also effective in identifying course of action which can be used by individual
to achieve its goals and objectives.
 This plan also helpful in improving personal attributes of an individual and focusing on
driving career growth of individual.
 This plan is also helpful in boosting morale and confidence of individual to achieve its
desired goals and objectives. It also help individual in promoting innovation and boosting
own productivity.
CONCLUSION
This report concludes about the growth and development of individual in current
employability scenario. This report concludes about importance of development by the help of
personal development plan and how does it assist an individual in achieving desired goals and
objectives. This report also concludes about value of skills and capabilities for an individual and
use of personal development plan to develop skills by implementing strategies and setting time-
frame.

Personal Development Plan
Skill Current
Proficiency
Target
Proficiency
Course of Action Time period
Communication
Skills
3 5 Reading books and
writing blogs and essay
30 days
Time Management 3 5 Managing time by
effectively developing
time table for different
activities.
45 days
Team-work 2 5 Collaborating effectively
with team members
60 days
Task Two:
Effect of ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ on use of a source
Effects of these four aspects can be considered as reliable as it helps in finding suitable
information according to need of topic. These four aspects helps in eliminating irrelevant sources
and help individual in gaining appropriate information.
Task Three:
Evaluation of eight sources used in report plan
Sources Author
(s)
Purpose Reliability Relevance
Learning to transform
the world: Key
competencies in
Education for
Sustainable
Rieckma
nn, M.,
2018.
Contribution of
education in
sustainable
development.
Not belong to
time-frame of
more than 3
years.
Helps in
understanding
about need of
professional and
personal

Development. Issues
and trends in education
for sustainable
development, 39, pp.39-
59.
development.
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Chapman, S., and et. al., 2018. The Impact of Academic Accreditation and Recognition on
Teachers' Engagement with Professional Learning: A Literature Review.
Lau, W. S., Zhou, X. C. and Lai, S. M., 2017. The development of mentoring‐relationship
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