Personal Development Plan Report: Goal Setting and Skill Development

This report provides an overview of personal development, emphasizing the importance of setting short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. It discusses the value of each type of goal, providing personal examples for each category, such as establishing strong mentor relationships, improving semester grades, earning professional certifications, and pursuing a PhD. The report also highlights the significance of a Personal Development Plan (PDP) in identifying and developing necessary skills for personal and professional growth. The conclusion reinforces the critical role of goal setting in achieving success and includes an appendix outlining a personal development plan with specific goals and completion dates. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wide range of study tools and resources for students.

REPORT ON
PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Definition of the concept of personal and professional development ...................................4
Description and discussion of the value of short term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples.................................................................................................................................4
Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples.................................................................................................................................5
Description and discussion of the value of long term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples.................................................................................................................................7
Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development Plan.............................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Reference List: ...............................................................................................................................8

Introduction
Personal development is related to the development of personal skills of an individual.
These personal skills plays an important role in many aspects of an individual's life such as
professional career and academic career. It is required for myself to have proper goals to
develops these skills (Faris, 2018)). These goals may be short term, long term and medium term.
Every person must have the ability to set goals for their personal development. The goals of
individual's life represents their ability to perform in any situation. Individual must set those
goals which can be achieved. The non-achievement of goals demotivated the person. Personal
development is required to achieve success in every aspect of life.
(Source : importance of personal development, 2020)
Illustration 1: importance of personal development

Definition of the concept of personal and professional development
Personal development refers to those activities which includes development of personal
skills, capabilities and interpersonal skills. It involves many skills such as communication skills,
interpersonal skills, analytical skills, decision making skills and problem solving skills. These
skills play a crucial role in overall development of individual life style. Communication skills
includes knowledge of different language and quality to represents without any obstacles.
Communication skills is the primary need for any organisation because it attracts the customers
towards organisation.
Professional development related to the series of actions under which organisation
provides proper training, education and different types of skills to their employee after their entry
in any workplace. This development programme is performed by those business organisation
under which the individual appoints as employee (Arishina, Lesher and Starovojtova, 2021).
These organisation organises many sessions and seminars which is taken by various field experts
and business coach to develop professional skills in their workforce. These programmes also
includes many sessions related to motivation of employees which is taken by different
motivational speakers. The main purpose to provide training to employees to develop an ability
of practical application of theoretical knowledge
Description and discussion of the value of short term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples.
Short term goals related to those goals develops set by individual, which they want to
achieve in very short span of time such as in a week. The time period to accomplish these goals
are generally completed in a week . These goals required more focus and extra efforts to be
achieved. These goals are set in those conditions where a need of development in both personal
and profession aspects is urgent. Short term goals play a crucial role in individual's life
Importance of short term goals
Short term goals play a crucial role in personal and professional development of individual and
has many importance in person's life. Some of the importance of short term goals are given
below

 Increases motivation:- One of the most important feature of short term goals is, it
increases motivation in individual's life. It involves achievement of goals in short span
of time which enables the person to continue their momentum of development.
 Provides clear direction:- The time period for the achievement of short term goals is
very less so it requires more attention and focus on goal in comparison to other types of
goals (Johnson, Robertson and Cooper, 2018). This feature of short term goals enables
the person to use their time in right direction and protect them from wasting of time in
unproductive activities.
 Promotes career success:- Short term goals develops ability to achieve goals by
individual in short period of time and increases level of confidence which promotes
chances of success in individual's career.
 Decreases procrastination:- The meaning of procrastination is to delay in doing
something. Short term goals allow less time to achieve objectives, provides clear
direction and list of action plan which mitigates procrastination.
Examples of short term goals
There are many short term personal goals which is important for the personal development of
any individual and the brief discussion related to those examples are given below
 Established strong relation with mentors is a good example of short term goals for
myself. This goals requires various interpersonal skills such as good communication
skills.
 Setting goals related to improve my semester grades. The achievement of this goals
require proper handwork and timely studies from my side.
 I can also add reading two books in month in my short term goals. This habit
develops ability to read books which improves my knowledge.
Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples
Medium term goals related to those goals which takes more time in comparison to short
term goals. The time period for achievement of midterm goals is generally more than month and
may be 6 months. The functional area of this aspect are generally large which require more time
to be performed. It is very important for the student to achieve their midterm goals because it
provides support for the achievement of long term goals.

Importance of medium term goals
It is very important for personal development of individual to set medium term goals. It
helps them to achieve supremacy in their life style and brief discussion related to the importance
are given below.
 Provide base for long term goals: - One of the most important feature of midterm goals
is that it provides support in achievement of long term goals. Long term goals consist
series of activities and it is not possible to achieve success in all activities as a whole so
these goals are divided in small parts in term of midterm goals (Bachik and Kitzman,
2020). Considerable time is provided to achieve each goal and the completion of all
medium term goals is regarded as the achievement of long term goals.
 Helps to develops interpersonal skills:- Midterm goals enables the students to develops
interpersonal skills in their life style. Interpersonal skills include self-awareness, effective
communication skills, decision making skills and negotiating skills. All these skills are
very important for the career of student because it attracts other people towards them.
 Helps them to progress:- Medium term goals enables suitable growth in many aspect in
student's life. It motivates students to continuously make efforts to achieve big mile
stones in their career. It provides right direction to students which protects them to waste
their efforts in unproductive activities.
Examples of medium term goals
Here are some examples of medium term goals which I have develops for the development my
personal skills are given below
 Earn professional certificate or diploma is important example of medium term goals
which I can add in my resume. This initiative makes my resume attractive in front of
interested persons.
 I want to try to learned new skills in my short term goals and these skills can be
developed by attending various workshops.
 Completing bachelor's or master's degree will be good example of medium term goals
for myself.

Description and discussion of the value of long term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples
Long term goals related to those goals and objectives which requires long time to be
achieved. The time period for the achievement of these goals are generally 2 years, 4 years and
maybe more (Long term goals, 2021). These type of goals requires proper planning and resources
in long term. The satisfaction of long term goals requires long time period because it consist
activities whose performance are not possible in short span of time.
Importance of long term goals
It is very important for the success of individual to have long term goals in their life and
these goals plays significant role in overall development of human being because it develops
different skills and qualities in their personal development. It has many importance and the brief
discussion related to that importance are given below.
 It helps them to achieve actual success: - The success of short term and medium term
goals is not regarded as actual success because it provides support to individual for
achievement of long term goals. Actual success need time, efficient resources and
continuous efforts. The achievement of these goals enables individual to enjoy great
heights. These goals require several sacrifices in many aspects of individual's life.
 It helps to develop vision and foresightedness: - Vision is related to the ability of
person to see something and makes proper decision about that. Foresightedness refers to
the capability of a person to see future trends and conditions. The activities of long term
goals take long time period and in this time period, individual experienced different
aspects of life which makes their vision effective.
 Motivation of individual: - The achievement of long term goals provide adequate
motivation to any individual because the fulfilment of these goals develops confidence to
achieve every possible goal in any individual.
Examples of long term goals
There are many examples of long term goals and the brief discussion related to those examples
are given below.
 The goal related to relating to getting a PHD is a good example for long term goal for
myself because the achievement of this goal requires long period of time.

 To become my own boss may be an adequate long term goal for myself. This requires
long experience of the business.
 Writing my own book is a great example for long term goals for me. It requires specialise
knowledge about subject and also great communication skills.
Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development Plan
Personal development plan is a systematic record of individual's skills and what skills
should be developed in near future. It is related to the those format under which the following
skills to be developed by individual in prescribed time are written. Personal development plan
provides purpose to employees through qualification and new skills for promotion. It increases
morals and expertise of employees. There are five areas on which I have to improve such as
mental, spiritual, social, emotional,and physical. Personal development plan provides clear
vision to individual for their development. The brief discussion related to personal development
plan of individual are given in below appendix.
Conclusion
From this report, it is concluded that goals play an important role in the success of any
individual it provides systematic knowledge related to different types of goals and objectives.
This report describes various examples of short term, long term and medium term goals. (Baker,
Jeanneret and Kelaher, 2017). there are various skills which individual has to develop in
themselves to achieve the desirable success in their life. The final part of this report contains
Appendix of personal development plan which consist different types of goals of individual
along with their completion dates.
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Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan
Skills to be
Developed
Development Plan Resources Target Date
Time
management
skills
I have to develop time management skills to
become successful in both academic as well
as in professional life. Time management is
the basic need for any aspect of life.
Punctuality impact positive on the mimds of
others.
(Stebbins, 2017) 20/10/21
Interpersonal skills It is required for me to develop
communication skills, so that I can interact
with different personnels and established
healthy relations.
(Pisklova and Bekoeva, 2021) 15/10/21
Academic skills I have to develop academic skills in me to
achieve my academic goals such as
completing graduation and post graduation.
These achievement makes my resume
attractive in front of recruiters.
(Proctor, 2018) 18/10/22
Managerial skills I need to develop various managerial skills
in my behaviour because it is very important
to influence the others in organisation and
these skills makes me better option for
business organisations for their managerial
post.
(Hunt, 2018) 12/07/22

Professional skills Professional skills require work experience
and proper training. I have to attend various
training sessions provided by companies to
develop my professional skills. This
professional skills helps me to gain
promotion in my corporate life.
(Ekine, 2018) 18/23/23
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