Personal and Professional Development Plan: Detailed Report

This report provides an evaluation of personal and professional development, exploring short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals with examples. It delves into the values of a personal development plan (PDP) and develops a PDP to identify the activities and resources needed for skill development. The report highlights the importance of personal development in improving skills and knowledge to fulfill potential, while professional development focuses on enhancing teaching skills and effectiveness for educators. Key aspects of personal development, such as communication, interpersonal skills, adaptability, and leadership, are discussed. The report concludes that personal development is vital for self-awareness and effective career building, and emphasizes that PDP is an effective tool for skill development, with personal development and professional development having different aims and objectives that contribute to achieving final goals.

REPORT OO PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Personal development.................................................................................................................3
Professional development...........................................................................................................4
Short term goal............................................................................................................................4
Personal development plan.........................................................................................................6
Personal development plan.........................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is a process to improve the quality of life by improving the skills
and knowledge to fulfil the potentials (Cappa López, 2018). With the help of this development
process person abilities and its potential get raise, assist employability. This report will evaluate
the concept of personal and professional development. Short-term, medium term and long-term
goal values and their examples. Further, in this the personal development plan values are
discussed and PDP plan is also being developed to know the activities and resource required to
develop the skills.
MAIN BODY
Personal development
The process of the personal development is basically long term or it can be lifelong process
which is helpful in accessing the life goals and upgrade the skill to reach the best potential. This
development is basically assisted to take the action which are required to develop the personality.
With the help of this personal development plan the life of an individual get fulfilled as it assist
to develop the purpose (Cruz And et. al., 2018). This plan ultimately assist to get success and
satisfaction in the life with the skills that are necessary to every point. There are different skills
which are required in the personal development plan that are communication skill, interpersonal
skills, adaptability skill, leadership skill and many more which are being essential while
developing the personality.
The personal development are being more important either person become success or not
it is required for the improvement purpose. This process takes times yet it provides different
advantages when it is used.
Provide clarity of vision: This help in defining the personal vision and the goal of the life get
clear (Na and et. al., 2021). As when a individual develop a goal for himself then it becomes
comparatively easier to work in that direction.
Identifies potential: when in the personal development individual work on the skills and
capability then the individual can get more effective and hidden potentials.

Professional development
The professional development is a method, resource and the session of training for the
educators or the tutor to enhance their teaching skill and the effectiveness (Friar and Beyerlein,
2021). This resource of development help the instructor further enhance their knowledge in the
particular area and also provide different opportunities where they can learn new techniques to
teach. This development is done to fulfil the need of students the instructor uses to improve their
skills and knowledge.
The main aim of the professional development is to provide the opportunities to the tutor
and instructor to learn in their specific subjects. This development process is totally about the
enhancement of knowledge and building the knowledge related to the particular field. The
professional learning also have number of benefits:
Expands your knowledge: The professional development assist to gain maximum knowledge of
the field where the individual want to develop (Toscano and Berbey-Álvarez, 2020). The
individual who is taking this process in use then their knowledge and skills are going to be
developed wider and in detail.
Boost the confidence and credibility: when the individual invest its affords in the particular
subject then their confidence level automatically enhanced by this. The tutor credibility is also
improved in this when they are developing professionally.
Short term goal
The goals which are achievable in short time frame and which are required by an
individual in near future are short term goals. This is being more important because this is
comparatively easy to accomplish by an individual (Kharadze and Gulua, 2018). The short term
goals are effective and assist individual to work on a particular track and motivation is also got
higher with this.
This goal is milestone in the way to reach the final goal in the life. This target is effective
to reach till the ultimate goal or destination. As it is required to break all the long term goal in
sub division or short term goals to achieve them quickly. The short term goal are basically the
integral part of the plan to reach to them in effective manner. These goals assist in bridging the
current condition and where the individual want to be in near future. This also help to develop
confidence to perform the task in the effective manner. The short term goal are helpful in

providing the clarity, focus and direction to the individual with this excitement is also developed
and individual can make effective process quickly (Mityaeva And et. al., 2017). Some benefits
by short term goals are:
Greater focus: The short term goal provide a clear focus and the direction as individual identify
in this that what the individual have to achieve and the time frame in which they have to reach to
that.
Manage the time: When the individual know what they have to do in near future so this will help
in planning the things accordingly and the productivity get also enhance with the help of this.
Three short term goals are:
 To learn the analytical and critical thinking skills.
 To complete my MBA course in finance subject.
 To increase the performance and develop the ability to work in dynamic environment.
Medium term goal: This is the goal which are little wider and longer goals so it can take much
time up-to 6 months. Medium term goal are the goal with interconnect the short-term goal with
the long-term goals (Wasserman and Migdal, 2019). The goal which are helping in the long term
goal and also provide the path to the final destination are the medium term goal. The goal
supports the long term goal and also collectively become the end goal which is being one of the
main goal to achieve. This is comparatively longer and helpful to make a significant change or
progress. Three medium term goals are:
To work as in multinational company in finance department.
To take internship in the market leading company.
To build experience in the field of finance and learn more skills.
Long term goal: This is the goals which are going to be the end goal in the future, this goal need
long time and plans. These goals need number of years together to achieve it effectively. This
goal are refers to accomplishments which are required a significant time and efforts. When an
individual need to achieve its long term goal then they have to make the short and medium term
goals which are mandatory to reach to long term goals. The long term goal are being more

important because this help in keeping individual more focussed and helpful as well (Fischer and
et. al., 2018). This is the motivation element for the individual to constantly keep working
towards the final goal and this goal help to shape the career and lives of an individual when it
accomplished.
Long-term goal may take the years to complete them so the short term goal being
important here which reminds you of persistent. Basically there are a different way to reach till
success yet the individual have to clearly define the way with the help of short-term goals. The
long term goals are having advantages that are:
Empowerment: The process of long term goal are helpful in retain the complete memory of
everything which is experienced by the individual and also help to take further decision-making.
The self- determination of an individual which is help in to perform the task that will contribute
in the achievement of long term goal (Greco and Kraimer, 2020).
Clarity: When there is a clear goal in front of individual then that individual is being more
motivated and feel more transparency for the future. The person make it all the efforts in
achieving that goal and there is only one mind set.
Three long term goals are:
To become the leader in the finance field.
To become the head of financial department in the multinational company.
To organize the classes regarding the finance department.
Personal development plan
The PDP plan is the process in which action and activities are being planned according to
the awareness, reflection, setting the goal, values for personal development within the context of
use of the career. This tool is effectively used to organize and target the personal and
professional development (Yigletu and et. al., 2021). The personal development plan assist to
achieve the short-term as well as long -term career objectives. The professional development
plan is helpful to organize the idea of learning activities to specific competencies. To develop a
personal development plan there are some key aspects which are essential in that are:
 Strength of an individual that will going to contribute in career goals.
 Key area of performance and the skills which are need to improve.
 The updated skills which are helpful in job performance.

The personal development plan is an important method or technique which is useful in
targeting the future personal growth (Hirashiki and et. al., 2019). This tool uses to outline the
goals and identify the strength an individual have in that particular area and where the changes
are needed to achieve the goals. With the help of this plan the goal is set clearly and also
prioritize the task for that. This planning assist to make the vision of an individual into reality
and also make it easier to be accountable for the success as well as its failures. This plan is
different when used by different type of people as per their individual goals. This plan consists of
strength, weaknesses, goals and the area of development. One of the personal development plan
is described below:
Personal development plan
Skills to developed Activities Resources Time required
Communication skills More interaction with
the people.
Listening to the people
and their thoughts (Na
and et. al., 2021).
Practising the written
communication skills
formats.
Books and different
articles are required to
get know the way
which has to be used
while communicating
to some individual.
The phone and emails
are also can be used to
improve the
communication skills
as this will help to
practise.
4 months
Problem solving skills To improve this skill
identification of
problem is must on
which the individual
have to work on.
Further, in this the
Working out with
different logical puzzle
and the games
(Rafsanjani, 2018).
Web resources, blogs,
reports are being
6 months

solution of that
problem are being
examine.
The evaluation of the
option to find the most
suitable option and
work on it.
preferred to overcome
and improve this skill.
Creativity In this practise the
dreams and make the
mind more dynamic
and involve in the
activities in which
individual have the
interest.
In individual also
should take the advice
and also take the
feedbacks as well.
Confidence is being
more essential
Brainstorming the new
ideas.
Exploring the multiple
solutions.
Mind maps and flow
charts are also being
used (Cruz And et. al.,
2018).
12 months
Team work Tracking the activities
and time which is
spent on a particular
task (Cappa López,
2018).
Work with delegation
Improve the efficiency
in the work so that
coordination enhances.
Effective
communication is need
to work in team and
perform better
Having a supporting
nature will also help in
working in team.
8 month

CONCLUSION
This report concludes that the personal development are vital and required for each
individual to enhance the skills and knowledge. With this individual get self-aware and make its
career more effectively. The personal development and professional development are different
because personal development is life long process and professional development is used by
instructors to increase their skills as per the need of the students. The short, medium and long
term have different aim and objectives all are needed to achieve the final goals and all need to be
achieved before reaching the end goal. Further this concludes that PDP is effective tool that is
need to develop the skills and with the help of this individual can reach to its maximum potential.

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