Analyzing Personal Development: Goal Setting and Planning Value

This report provides an in-depth analysis of personal development, defining its core concepts and emphasizing its significance in shaping an individual's personality and boosting confidence. It examines the value of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, supported by personal examples for each category, illustrating how these goals contribute to overall personal and professional growth. The report also discusses the importance of a personal development plan, providing examples based on identified goals, and underscores the benefits of personal and professional development in both workplace and personal life, highlighting improvements in skills, confidence, and overall well-being.

REPORT ON PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Defining the concept of personal and professional development...........................................1
Description and discussion of the value of short term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples ................................................................................................................................2
Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples.................................................................................................................................3
Description and discussion of the value of long term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples.................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
APPENDIX1:PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN....................................................................7
Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development Plan.............................7

INTRODUCTION
The report provides deeper insight into Personal development. It is a process in which
people assess their qualities and skills, and considering their aim they set goals in order to
maximize their potential to achieve the desired goal and achieve the feeling of fulfilment. The
report will be examining the concept of personal and professional development and will be
elaborating its importance in constructing the personality of a person and helping them in
boosting confidence. Furthermore, examination of research will exhibit analysis on discussing
the value of short term, medium term, and long term goals with identifying any three personal
examples of each. Study will also determine emphasis to discuss the personal development plan
and will also be constructing examples based on the identified goals.
MAIN BODY
Defining the concept of personal and professional development
Personal development:
This is the process of improving self entity through activities for the purpose of
enhancing employability skills, wealth building skills and increasing consciousness of a person.
It is a part of human need to grow and reach out to their full potential(Lejeune, Beausaert, and
Raemdonck, 2021.). This process is ongoing as it starts from the childhood from a person's
formatting years and continue to grow till the old age. It allows an individual to set goals, learn
new skills and develop qualities in a person that makes him/her different from others. When all
these skills are developed within an individual's personality he/she becomes more happy and
motivated which provides capability to endeavour personal growth and development.
Professional development:
These are the set of resources, tools and training sessions that improves the qualities of
an individual to help them with their job and stay up to date with the current trends in order to
perform growth to career(Borg, 2018). It provides multiple benefits like expanding the
knowledge base of individuals and boosting their confidence and credibility which may result in
increased hire-ability and earning potential for them.
In many technical fields a person is required to take part in continued education which is
prerequisite for their job to maintain the certification, designation or licence of learning courses.
These needs of employees are met by providing approved continuing education.

Professional development provides individuals with opportunities to learn and apply their
knowledge and skills on their employment field with may further boost their career opportunities
and provide promotions, incentives and additional benefits.
Personal and professional development plan help people to assess their skills and
abilities by considering the aim of life and setting goals to extract maximum potential. Personal
and professional development plan may be undertaken in various ways like training, coaching,
and education programmes(Player, and et.al., 2020). In a workplace benefits of personal and
professional development may be seen by achieving promotions and development of hard and
soft skills in an individual. In personal life it may help and individual to be confident and enjoy
its existence, this may even result in radical alteration in entity of a person.
Description and discussion of the value of short term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples
Short term goals are set of goals which a person desires to accomplish soon or in near
future. By near future, it is meant that the goals may be accomplished in a day, on a week or in a
year. These goals are stepping stones that may tend to look small, but they push the individual
closer to long term goals in accomplishing them(Wang, and Spinney,2017). Following these
goals may lead to big lifetime and career opportunities and boost the productivity of the
individual. These goals minimize procrastination and lay a clear path to success(Wolters, Won,
and Hussain, 2017).
Some examples of my short term goals are:
1. Learn a new language
Knowing different languages carry cognitive benefits, that are undeniable. It is fact that people
who know more than one language have problem solving and critical thinking abilities, and they
have improved memory, it also enhances concentration power and train the mind for
multitasking. Knowing all these benefits I decided to learn a language as soon as possible. So I
decided to learn Spanish during the covid time to upgrade my skills.
2. Exercise regularly
Being healthy is a boon and it may only be achieved by applying personal efforts. The hardest
part is to take the first step, this may be done by stepping out of the comfort zone and making a
consistent routine. I made a goal to exercise for 30 minutes daily no matter what the situation is.
We all know that we don't feel the same all days some days we feel enthusiastic, some days we

are sick, and we might not feel energetic. In those cases I made a goal to reduce the time but
maintain consistency.
3. Establishing a morning routine
Self efficiency may be achieved by establishing a morning routine which may help an individual
in staying productive the whole day(Panadero, Jonsson, and Botella, 2017). It also brings in an
essence of positivity that staying focused towards achievement of other goals and creates focus
to be mindful, energetic, and productive the whole day. I made a short term goal to follow this
routine to get up till 6 a.m. daily in order to gain the above mentioned benefits and advantage
personal and professional development.
Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples.
Medium term goals are goals that may be accomplished only after following a sequence
of short term goals. This goal takes a bit longer time than short term goals, and they are set to
check the progress and evaluation towards long term goals.
These goals may be like traveling to a destination, starting another professional career, buying a
house, or starting a family with any goal that an individual aims he/she is required to achieve
one goal and move towards the other. It may be earning a bachelors degree for making a long
term goal of having a master’s degree. It is required to first gain bachelors degree hence it is a
medium term goal.
Medium term goals hold a great value in order to achieve long term goal as it help's the
individual to boost its confidence and proceed with more enthusiasm towards the long term goal.
The three personal examples of medium term goals are:
Monetary saving:
As saving holds an important part in the life of an individual, helps in emergencies and
cushion sudden loss of job. It is important to make medium term saving goals for personal and
professional development of an individual.
My medium term goal for monitory savings is to maintain the balance of $1000 in my bank
account for three months.
Earn a professional certificate:
Professional certificates holds a prominent importance in professional development and
demonstrates commitment towards professionalism and provides credibility to an

individual(Dyjur, and Lindstrom, 2017). Therefore, for aiming at long term job benefits I aim at
medium-term goal of earning a professional certificate in the time period of 3 months.
Get promotion
Promotion plays a major role to boot the confidence of an employee and helps in getting
credentials for its outstanding performance. This helps in professional development of an
individual therefore I have set a medium term goal to get promoted in coming 4 months.
Description and discussion of the value of long term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples.
Long term goals referred as goals which require significant planning, effort and time for
achievement. They are delayed outcome of moths or years of focus. They begin by creating
realm in heart that appear out of reach initially but hopes, wishes, hard work, and transformation
may lead to fruitful results that may change a person's life.
These goals are necessary for self-improvement and leads to personal development of an
individual. They keep the person focused and help them to shape the path of their career and
lives. These goals give reason for an individual to constantly keep working for long term results
for this they are required to follow set of shot term and medium term goals to be focused and
boost the confidence.
It takes years for these goals to be accomplished, therefore achieving short term goals may help
an individual to be persistent. These goals are highly significant for personal development as
everyone holds different path of success, therefore combining goals may help the person in
reminding of long term goal. It will further result to boost the confidence for sooner
accomplishment of long term goal.
Three long term goals that I am personally working towards are:
Purchase own house before my 30th Birthday
Being stable in life is the utmost priority of any individual, and for this creating long
term plan helps an individual in its personal development. Being independent and making my
own house has been my priority from very beginning for this I created short term saving
programs. Those plans helped me in generating enough monetary fund to buy a lavish house for
myself that fulfills all my desires.
Establish an own business firm

Establishing own firm requires a lot of financial stability and information about market.
I'm developing all the skills that are required for this purpose and taking sufficient training and
acquiring professional certificates, This will result to build my knowledge and will help me in
establishing my own firm till the age of 40.
Learn to play piano like an expert
The ability to play musical instruments give peace to mid and benefits healthy brain. It also
strengthens the memory of an individual in long term and protects the hearing problems due to
age. Therefore, my long term goal is to learn piano.
CONCLUSION
The report has discussed personal and professional development and discussed the values of
short term goals and analyzed that these goals are stepping stones that tend to look small, but
they push the individual closer towards long term goals and also presented 3 personal examples
of short term goals like establishing morning routine, learning a new language and exercising
regularly that may advantage the personal development of an individual. The study also shed
light on medium term goals and figured out it's importance for achievement of long term goals.
The research presented 3 medium term goals like monetary saving, earning a professional
certificate, and getting promoted in 4 months to boost professional development of an
individual. The research also provides information about long term goals and presents three
examples of the same. Learning has also portrayed development plan to structure professional
development.

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APPENDIX1:PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development Plan
Skills to be developed Development plan Resources Target date
1. Problem
solving
As I mentioned above
that I desire to open
my ow business firm.
Hence, For achieving
that goal I need to
improve my problem
solving skills in which
I lack and increase my
credibility. Only then I
may be capable to run
a firm. For improving
thus skill I need to
identify the problem
and think in a
analytical way to
examine the
appropriate solutions.
On behalf of past
learning, O need to
learn lesson and act in
a proper manner.
Lehto, M.R., Nanda,
G. and Nanda, G.,
2021. Decision‐
making models,
decision support, and
problem
solving. Handbook of
human factors and
ergonomics. pp.159-
202.
By January 2022
2. Communicatio
n
My level of ability in
this area is week. As I
mentioned above that I
desire to learn a new
language during the
covid time and set it as
Najafi, K., and et.al.,
2017. Investigating
employees’ and health
care practitioners’
communication
skills. Iranian Journal
By December 2021

my short term goal. I
came across the fact
that my
communication skills
are weak and need to
follow a development
plan in order to
improve it. Thus, by
socializing more and
interacting to more
people and expressing
my views about issues
I may improve my
communication skills
of Psychiatry and
Clinical
Psychology. 23(2).
pp.208-217.
3. Time-
management
Time management is a
very important skill
that needs to be
developed in recent
times for personal and
professional
development, I carry a
casual behavior and
thus lack this skill
therefore for
improvement I need to
be organized in my
work and start my
tasks early to finish
them on time, and
schedule deadlines for
tasks to increase
Aeon, B. and Aguinis,
H., 2017. It’s about
time: New
perspectives and
insights on time
management. Academ
y of management
perspectives. 31(4).
pp.309-330.
By February 2022

accountability.