Personal and Professional Development: Goals and Plans Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of academic skills and goal setting. It explores the value of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals in achieving career aspirations and fostering self-improvement. The report outlines the significance of personal development plans, which help individuals identify weaknesses, set measurable goals, and develop strategies for skill enhancement. The main body of the report delves into the interconnectedness of personal and professional growth, highlighting essential skills like time management, communication, and presentation skills. It underscores how setting and achieving goals, whether short-term, medium-term, or long-term, contributes to a more focused and productive approach to both academic pursuits and professional endeavors. The report includes a personal development plan framework, which reflects skills required to be obtained using a particular plan and measures within a timeframe. The report uses references to support its arguments.

Report on Personal
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Personal and professional development.................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
Value of short-term goals.......................................................................................................2
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................2
Value of medium term goals..................................................................................................2
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................3
Value of Long term goals.......................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
References:.......................................................................................................................................5
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................5
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................6
Personal Development Plan....................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are the abilities possessed by a student the form of habits talents skills that
facilitates an individual to effectively perform their academic activities such as presentations,
research writing, learning, report writing, during the academic year(Mason and et. al., 2017).
Academic skills are vital for a student as it motivates and encourages a student to perform best in
studies and to recognise as a scholar and outshine among other students of classroom. Good
academic skills also help in student to build an outstanding professional career. Students are
required to timely recognise their academic skills and develop a personal development plan in
order to overcome the weak skills by effectively developing and enhancing them. In order to gain
academic skills an individual is required to develop their short term medium term and long term
goals the present report will discuss the value of these goals along with the personal development
plan a framework that will reflect skills required to be obtained using a particular plan and
measures within a timeframe.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Personal and professional development
Personal and professional development is a process of self learning and assessment engaging into
learning activities which will help an individual to give skills and goals for the life that will help
in the personal and professional career (Kosovich, Flake and Hulleman, 2017). Personal
development is the enlargement of the individual skills and capabilities with the aim to enhance
and develop skills which will help in individual to deliver and performance that will provide a
growth in personal and professional life and career. For personal and professional development
some basic skills that are required to be developed are time management, communication,
presentation skills and many more. Professional development is important as it helps in
individual to attend the accurate path for job thereby improving the knowledge and skills during
the working period through training and development sessions and by analysing the Peer work. It
is very essential for an individual to continuously develop their personal and professional skills
in order to attain short term and long term goals of the life and to build an exceptional
personality that will differentiable from the other individuals in a positive manner. Any
drawback or shortcoming in the skills can be turned into an opportunity by developing a personal
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development plan which will recognise the weaknesses set the measures time period to overcome
those weaknesses there by converting them into strengths (Pugh and Broome, 2020). Hence,
personal and professional development is crucial for and student nourish the existing skills and
develop new qualities capabilities skills and knowledge in order to deliver outstanding
performance and quality in the academic activities in the job work for the better future and career
growth.
TASK 2
Value of short-term goals
Short term goals is a stage oriented process of achieving the short duration skills required to be
achieved in the near future for attaining the long term goals. Short term goals are a vision to
accomplish the immediate plans of the near future that help an individual to move forward to
climb the success ladders of long-term goals. Short term goals are important to be achieved so
that individual can bring large changes in the life (Schunk and DiBenedetto, 2020). I personally
enhanced my personal skills that contained my short term goals in order to accomplishment long-
term goals of the future for the professional career. The short term goals help me in achieving the
goals that will provide me with the better performance in my personal and professional
development and also so help me to make my work productive and creative thereby outshining
me in my workplace and providing me with overall job satisfaction. I am highly committed and
responsible to accomplish my short term goals within the particular time period as this keep me
in track towards my long term goals and also boost my personal and professional career thereby
increasing the productivity in my working style (Muenks, Yang and Wigfield, 2018). The short
term goals provide stability and support long term goals and also help me in gaining success
thereby providing value to my personality and also clear my direction and vision towards my
career. Some of my short term goals are:
 Interact with my co-workers to improve my interpersonal communication skills.
 Reach office on time or before time to improve my time management skills.
 Arrange my working area to develop organisational skills.
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TASK 3
Value of medium term goals
The medium term goals arrogant in much longer time as compared to the short term goals as it
requires more potential and more skills and capabilities in order to achieve them effectively
within the given time frame so that individual can move more closer towards the long term goals
(Moyer and Bohl, 2019). The medium term goals aid an individual to analyse the performance
while heading towards the long term goals. Basically the long term goals are the integration of
short term and medium term goals for setting the medium term goals tension to effectively attend
the long term goals. I set my medium term goals to recognise my performance towards long term
goals so that I can analyse my shortcomings in the path of achieving my long term goals. This
helps me in mitigating shortcoming immediately without any hindrance with long term goals.
The value of medium term goals that it takes moderate amount of time and also deeply
understands the key learning’s regarding the skills and capabilities regardless of taking much
time and a longer process before the significant process which means which process is not too
long and enough to be understand the elements that are required to deeply learn the concept of
the skills and capabilities thereby enough time to complete the task within the time frame in
professional and personal development. I am highly committed and dedicated towards my
midterm goals as it take me near to my long term goals and also help me in gaining extra skills.
The medium term goals take maximum two to three years to be accomplished thereby keeping
me passionate and motivated to work hard and maintain the consistency to gain the progress and
growth towards the long term goals. The medium term goals help me in reaching my goals
effectively thereby providing me with overwhelming experience and tons of knowledge and
skills there by keeping me focused towards my goals. My medium term goals keep me e directed
towards my long term goals and also provide me a capability to attain my goals within a period
of time there by bringing essential changes their by developing the skills capabilities to attain the
milestone of medium term goals and help me in converting my dreams into reality (Kirn and
Benson, 2018). Some of my medium terms goals that I want to achieve are:
 To obtain new certification that is to develop new core competency.
 Search for suitable full time job in multinational organisation.
 To learn multiple languages
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TASK 4
Value of Long term goals
The long term goals are important for a student to bring worth and meaningful changes in the
personal and professional life in order to transform dreams into reality and to gain potential
career. Long term goals are attend within 7 to 8 years and are considered as the final results of
the hard work done by an individual in order to grow and succeed in the life long term goals
takes a larger amount of time compared to the short term and medium term goals but provides a
fruitful experience and also helps in the personal and professional development of an individual.
I personally believe that it is very important for a student to have the long term goals in order to
keep focused and motivated towards their academic skills and also to grow professionally and
personally there by engaging themselves into the continuous learning process which help me in
developing multiple skills capabilities and qualities in my life (Rubens and et.al., 2018). The
long term goals help me in enhancing and achieving the capabilities on skills that it a shot me e
outshining professional and personal career therefore long term goals are vital for the self
improvement and also to strive for something that is essential for shaping the direction of a
career. Long term goals also help in taking the big decisions for the professional and personal
development through the course of action therefore it is very important to develop long-term
goals that provides the long term stability to a students for the career and also provide me to
learn transferable skills they were providing me with the various amount of career opportunities
how to set the time frame thereby achieving those goals. Therefore long term goals important
and beneficial for me in keeping me focused and on track to attain goals that helped me to
outperform in my professional career and also leads me to the path of success eventually the
long-term goals will provide me lifelong security for my career and also help me in my personal
development. Some of my long terms goals that I really want to achieve are:
 Secure my funding to buy my own house.
 Gain experience and reach to the senior level position in multinational organisation.
 To start my own enterprise can become famous entrepreneur.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above information that it is very important to put emphasis over the
court academy skills thereby developing the short term long term and medium term goals this
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will provide a track for the person and professional development. Also it is very important to
develop a personal development plan which will help an individual to recognise the measures
and time to attain the particular goals of the life making the personal and professional
development more accurate and efficient for an individual.
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References:
Books and Journals
Aguinis, H. and Gabriel, K.P., 2021. If You are Serious About Impact, Create a Personal Impact
Development Plan. Business & Society, p.00076503211014482.
Kirn, A. and Benson, L., 2018. Engineering students' perceptions of problem solving and their
future. Journal of engineering education. 107(1). pp.87-112.
Kosovich, J.J., Flake, J.K. and Hulleman, C.S., 2017. Short-term motivation trajectories: A
parallel process model of expectancy-value. Contemporary Educational Psychology. 49.
pp.130-139.
Mason, B.A and et. al., 2017. Conflict, closeness, and academic skills: A longitudinal
examination of the teacher–student relationship. School Psychology Review. 46(2). pp.177-
189.
Moyer, J.D. and Bohl, D.K., 2019. Alternative pathways to human development: Assessing
trade-offs and synergies in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Futures. 105.
pp.199-210.
Muenks, K., Yang, J.S. and Wigfield, A., 2018. Associations between grit, motivation, and
achievement in high school students. Motivation Science. 4(2). p.158.
Neverkovich, S.D and et. al., 2018. Students’ internet addiction: study and prevention. Eurasia
Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education. 14(4). pp.1483-1495.
Pugh, M. and Broome, N., 2020. Dialogical coaching: An experiential approach to personal and
professional development. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research. 72(3).
p.223.
Rubens, A and et.al., 2018. Self-awareness and leadership: Developing an individual strategic
professional development plan in an MBA leadership course. The International Journal of
Management Education. 16(1). pp.1-13.
Schunk, D.H. and DiBenedetto, M.K., 2020. Motivation and social cognitive
theory. Contemporary Educational Psychology. 60. p.101832.
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APPENDIX
Personal Development Plan
Goals Duration to
achieve goal
What actions
have been
planned to
achieve the goal
How to measure
performance
How to get to know
that the goal is
achieved
Organise my
working area
that is to
develop
organisational
skills.
(Short term
goals)
6 months In order to
develop and
improve my
organisational
skills thereby
organising my
work area I will
spare few
minutes of my
day to clean up
my workstation
and ensure that
all my files and
papers are
organised
systematically.
Regularly evaluate
how tidying clean
my workplace is as
this will directly
influence my work
quality and
productivity. I will
analyse that there is
no random files of
paper lying on my
desk (Neverkovich
and et. al., 2018).
When there will be
increase in my
productivity and
quality of work and
also when I will be
more focused
towards my work
and through my
overall job
satisfaction I will be
able to analyse that I
have accomplished
my goal.
To obtain
new
certification
that is to
develop new
core
competency.
(Medium term
goals)
2 year
To gain New
certificate to
learn new skills
and core
competency I will
enrol myself into
2 year diploma
course or
certificate course.
To measure my
performance I will
review my
performance card
of year examination
during my
certificate course
and I will also
compare my I
When I will receive
my two years
certificate course
degree I will attain
my medium term
goal.
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Before that I will
make a list of
skills I need to
learn to sort my
choice for
certificate course.
earlier skills with
new skills to
measure the
progress I have
gained through the
certificate course.
To start my
own
enterprise can
become
famous
entrepreneur.
(Long term
goals)
10 years To achieve my
long term goal of
starting an
enterprise how to
become famous
entrepreneur I
will develop my
entrepreneurship
skills and collect
financial and
other resources
required to start
an enterprise in
my interested
area (Aguinis and
Gabriel, 2021).
To measure
performance I will
regularly check my
list of collecting the
resources required
to start an
enterprise and also
calculate my
funding. I will also
so I analyse my
entrepreneurship
skill developed
during the years.
Then I will have
enough finance and
other resources
along with the
dedication and
passion to start a
new enterprise I will
attain my long term
goal by starting new
entrepreneurial
venture and then I
will become
successful
entrepreneur.
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