Personal Development Report: Short, Medium, and Long-Term Goals

This report delves into the multifaceted concept of personal development, examining its significance in fostering individual growth and professional advancement. It begins by defining personal and professional development, highlighting their roles in enhancing skills, potential, and overall quality of life. The report then meticulously analyzes the values of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, providing concrete personal examples for each. It emphasizes the importance of breaking down long-term aspirations into manageable short-term objectives to reduce procrastination and maintain motivation. Furthermore, it explores the benefits of medium-term goals, which offer a balance between significant development and timely achievement. The report also underscores the crucial role of long-term goals in shaping individuals' life paths and careers. Finally, it examines the values of a personal development plan, emphasizing its role in self-assessment, goal setting, and career planning. The report concludes by summarizing the key takeaways and reinforcing the importance of continuous personal and professional growth.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development...............................................................3
Discuss the values of short term goals identifying three personal examples.........................4
Discuss the values of medium term goals identifying three personal examples....................5
Discuss the values of long term goals identifying three personal examples..........................5
Discuss the values of personal development plan..................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Personal development defines as s lifelong procedures. It is the way of person to assess
their qualities, skills, talent, including their aim in their life or set goals in a order to realize and
increase the potential. It is important because it helps in enables to people to have their personal
vision of future, that provides a clear thoughts and ideas as to what will be in next few days or
months. Knowing the target or destination in a life make it more easy to frame up the plan on
how will achieve the targeted goals (Chen, Huang and Hu, 2019). Below report aim is to analyze
the values of short term, medium term and long term goals. Below report includes the, concept of
professional and personal development. Identify the values of the short term, medium term and
long term goals with examples and value of personal development plan.
MAIN BODY
Concept of personal and professional development
Personal development consists of different activities that are develop a people’s capabilities or
potential, facilitate employability, Create human capital or increase quality of a life as well as the
realization of a dreams or aspiration. Personal development takes place more course of an
individual's intact lifetime. It is not restricted to a self-support, but also can involve in the formal
or informal activities for the developing others in a roles such as a those of a guide, counsellor,
teacher, manager, coach and mentor. When a personal development may takes place in context
of a institutions, it defines to methods, tools, programs, techniques or assessment based systems
are offered to support a positive youth development at individual level at any working place and
learning place (Choy and Chua, 2019). The personal development based on different aspects that
are improving the self awareness, knowing or building own identity, Discovering or developing
the talents and etc. All aspects are important for self growth. Professional development defines to
instructors developing or improving their personal skills to better reach and meet the needs and
expectations of person. The approaches to professional development consider coaching,
mentoring, consultation, technical assistance and reviewing the case studies. The main purpose
of the professional development is make improvement in skills or knowledge in order to the
facilitate an individual, school-wide or district-broad improvements for purpose of a enhancing
the student achievement. At learning place educators are face continuously enhancing
requirements from a federal or state mandates. Professional development ensures the continue to
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be a competent in a profession. It is an in progress procedure or continues throughout
the professional's career. Through professional development person’s skills are enhance and
which are helps to any working place in achieving targeted goals.
Discuss the values of short term goals identifying three personal examples
Short terms goals are act as an milestone in journey to a reach long term goal of a life. They
support gauge how far have come or how the long student still have to set goals or travel on right
path to reach final destination. Also, to accomplish long term targeted goals, students need to the
break them into the short term goals. Short-term based goals help in reduce the procrastination
(DiPaola and Wagner, 2018). They are lain down in clear or specific path to growth, allowing
students to focus on single thing at the single time period. This centre will not only the assist to
students stay motivated and encouraged, but it also assist their productivity as well
as have students to accomplishing their long-term set goal earlier. There are different examples
of short term goals of student;
Develop a one good habit on monthly basis: Students might have never get idea of it
this path: good habits dictate their daily life. Lots of student’s actions are not complete by option
and concurrence, but by habits student adopted on time basis. Habits are more powerful force
that are drives students thoughts or actions or work. They are something students can a drop back
on when they are feeling a blue. So that people must be focus on the building single good habit
on timely or monthly basis to improve their decision making.
Keep a daily Journal: Writing is therapeutic habit that is can ultimately present a best solution
to all the issues as well. It play a huge role in the formulating or organizing in well manner those
sprinkled ideas or thoughts in student’s mind into the potentially more successful ideas and
thoughts. Maintaining a journal is allows to students in align their routine as per particular time
frame or getting out of difficult scenarios that students are face in their daily life (Förster,
Kawohl and Souvignier, 2018). Let loose their personal based creativity or enrich their personal
life by the writing at least single page on regular basis, this is best therapy for all students and
through this they can share all their issues or thoughts with book. This always reminds them to
work on those things.
Double productivity level: This play huge role in personal growth of student, in current
scenario students is getting very lazy and they play their game on phone, there is no physical
activity for their health. In short term goals students can add this thing and work on their
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productivity level by adopting different techniques and tools. Students can invest their time at
right place and on right websites so that they can learn something different and increase their
personal productivity level.
Discuss the values of medium term goals identifying three personal examples
A medium-term goal provides best of the both worlds: extended enough to create
significant development while a short sufficient that students are not a totally different people by
time they accomplish right goal. Another advantage of a mid-term based goal is that students are
can set lot of them over route of their lifetime. There are some examples of medium terms goals
of students;
Buy a new bike: In current scenario each one have dream to purchase its own bike.
Many of students do part time jobs for full fill their medium term goals. Purchasing new bike is
medium term goal because bike is based on electronic equipments and life of bike is maximum
2-3 years. In youth, they are constantly change their phones, bikes and other things which are
trendy in market and when company introduce new thing their mind jump on new things. That is
why is includes in medium term goals.
Preparation for exams: This is medium term goals, because students are prepare for
their exams for different class or sections and each class have particular time frame to complete
by giving exam and get result (Maharaja, 2018). There is fixed time period for each exam so that
it is includes in medium term goals. After giving one exam students need to focus on next exam.
Pay of wedding: Expenses of wedding or a any event is considered in medium terms
because. In wedding there are lots of expenses of food, drinks, venue and other things, people are
looking for some specific time period such as for one or three days. After wedding people
require to pay whole amount. They plan for wedding before one year or six months before.
Discuss the values of long term goals identifying three personal examples
A long-term based goal is something student wants to achieve in their future. Long-term based
goals need long time or effective planning. Students are not something that they can do on this
week and even this year. The Long-term basis goals are mostly at least some years away. This
says a lot about the who they are, where they are going or what they value for plan. Long term
based goals are things students want to get further in future, frequently on regular timescale of
some months and years. In this, long term based goals are require a effective deal of specific
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time frame or regular planning in term to eventually meet them. These goals are important for
the self-improvement of person. They provide them something to struggle for or assist to keep
them more focused towards their goals. Long-term goals assist them to shape path of their lives
or careers. Example, student may have an long-term based goal of becoming a leader or manager
(Marhuenda-Fluixá, 2018). Long-term goals are provide them something to the frequently keep
do efforts towards or it reminds them of how they all of hard work that student have put into the
accomplishing their short-term basis goals will ultimately pay off. There are some examples of
long term goals of student:
Get a degree: Getting degree from well reputed institute is big dream for many of
students. Because degree of education is helps in future for job and getting good position in well
known company. This is considering in long term goals because degree helps to students for their
entire life.
Buy a house: Buying a house as per person’s needs is big dream of many people. Buying
house is long term investment and goals for person because people are buy house for life time,
they are not change house frequently.
Saving for future: Saving for further retirement is most important part for surviving
their life on the basis of savings. Because at the time of retirement there are less income sources
are available for many of people.
Discuss the values of personal development plan
Personal Development Planning (PDP) refers to the QAA as the framed or supported procedure
undertake by the learner to reflect on student’s own knowledge, performance or better
achievement or to planning for their educational, personal or career development. Include the
how students are learning or become more effectual learners. The personal development based
planning is procedure of the creating an plan of action based on the awareness, reflection, values
setting of goals or planning for the personal development in context of education, career
relationship and their self-improvement. Plan of personal development are often a needs for
candidate CVs or resume. Personal Development Plan is also known as the PDP, it is a
documented based plan that are outlines student’s goals, what are strengths they already have in
those field, what student require to make some changes to get those goals or what skills or talent
student require to improve in weakness areas (Rahmatillah and Desiana, 2019). Make a
assurance to them by the drawing up the PDP of their own. A key personal development of
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goals for staff examples for workforce or students are selecting the field of focus, set the
schedule or monitoring the progress. Leadership development based goals are the alike, however,
considers people identifying the development requirements, learning opportunities or
formulating the effective action plan. There's a diversity of the reasons to take on the personal
development based planning. As well as the facilitating the career succession or promotion,
personal development plan also can disclose the opportunities for better career change and
explain the narrower based goals such as the focusing on a improving single base and a few
effective skills (Rose, 2018). There are seven stages to develop the personal development based
plan that are; Set yourself goals, Priorities those goals, Set deadlines for when people want to
accomplish them, Recognize the threats or opportunities, Develop skills or enhance the
knowledge, Use suitable network and Measure the progress.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded the above report, personal and professional development is more
important for developing skills, knowledge and talent. Through these people can survive any
where such as workplace and any learning place. Making short term goals are important to set
they daily routine and maintain the better life. Medium term goals are essential for the achieve
target which is based on particular and short time frame which are explained in above report.
Long term goals are important for life time of for many years such as saving for retirement,
setting up the business and many more. Personal development plan is essential to improve
personality of and get more knowledge which are require for their life.
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