Personal Development Report: Goal Setting and Career Development

This report delves into the concepts of personal and professional development, emphasizing their significance in enhancing individual capabilities and employability. It outlines the value of short, medium, and long-term goal setting, providing examples for each. The report further discusses the construction and importance of a personal development plan, highlighting how it aids in identifying and achieving career objectives. The content covers the benefits of improving communication, time management, academic knowledge, and presentation skills. It also examines how to find jobs, and plan career development opportunities. The report concludes by summarizing the key takeaways and emphasizing the importance of continuous self-improvement for personal and professional success.

Report on Personal
Development

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Concept of personal and professional development....................................................................1
Discussion of value of short-term goals and identification of personal short-term goals...........2
Discussion of value of medium-term goals and identification of personal medium-term goals. 3
Discussion of value of long-term goals and identification of personal long-term goals.............3
Discussion of value of personal development plan and construction of personal development
to identify goals...........................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
Books and journals......................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Personal development refers to a long-term process which allow an individual to access various
qualities as well as skills that helps in attainment of aims and goals of life with realisation of
potential in that person (Fenwick, et. al. 2018). This project report include concept of personal as
well as professional development. It includes activities that helps to develop capabilities as well
as potential in a person which provide various opportunity of employability and also enhance life
of a person. It is important for a person to develop themselves for both personal as well as
professional. To develop these skills, a person can join any institution or can access to training.
This personal development helps in providing satisfaction to an individual and also provide them
success in their life. It also includes description of value of short-term goals, medium term goas,
long term goals. It includes value and construction of personal development plan which include
identification of goals.
MAIN BODY
Concept of personal and professional development
Personal development: Personal development refers to a process which include various
activities that helps a person in development of capabilities as well as potential that provide them
various opportunity of employability and improve quality of their life with realisation of theist
full potential (Green, 2016). It is a long-term process as it takes place in entire life of a person. It
allows personal to assess their skills and qualities in order to attain goals of their life. Personal
development expands perspective of a person by learning and improving themselves. It makes a
person feel like stronger as they have improved their skills and also gain experience. It enhances
confidence of a person which is necessary to attainment of goals and success on life of an
individual. It provides direction to pa person in their life in which they have to put their effect to
be successful and also make them more focused about their life. This development is focused
with improvement of social as well as mental skills which improve life of a person.
Professional development: Professional development refers to certification, training as well as
education which helps a person to be successful in their life. This process includes learning
which enhance academic knowledge of an individual. This process helps to improve learning and
skills of a person in order to meet needs of improvement of an individual. Professional
development helps an individual to expands their knowledge of a person. It boosts confidence of
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a person and also enhance their credibility. As through professional development, a person
improves their skills and capabilities which enhance their values and as a result it boosts their
confidence. Professional development enhances skills of a person which provide them various
employment opportunity and also increase their earning. It also provides opportunity to an
individual to interact with people and build network which is beneficial in providing future
opportunity. This development makes a person updated as per new trend in industries and
provide them various career opportunity to build their career.
Discussion of value of short-term goals and identification of personal short-term goals
Short term goals are those which are prepared for short period and can be attained in near future.
These goals can be achieved within few weeks as well as within few months. These goals help a
person in increasing productivity of a person (Hodge, 2016). It helps an individual to provide
them success as well as support for attainment of long-term goals. It boosts motivation of an
individual as these goals are easier to attain. These small successes motivate a person to attain
big goals of their life. It provides clarity to individual and also promote career success in life of
an individual. Some of example of short terms goals are as follows:
 Improving communication: Communication skills are those which include transfer of
sharing information one person to another. It is important skills which is important for
both personal as well as professional development of a person. It also helps to provide
various opportunity to a person like career development, in academics, at work place. It
helps a person to share their views to other and also helps to remove misunderstanding.
 Time management: Time management refers to ability of a person which helps them to
manage their life. It helps them to saves time and invest them time to more productive
work (Saleem, Eagle and Low, 2018). It helps a person to saves time over unproductive
activity. These skills are important for a person which helps them to attain their goals of
life. To learn these skills, a person needs to made schedule of their daikyu routine and
need to eliminate unnecessary activity.
 Improve calculations: This is another example of short-term goals. To improve these
skills, it is import at for a person to do daily practise of solving various sums. These skills
provide various benefit to a person include benefit in academic life, work life, career
opportunely. To improve these skills a person can join any educational institution which
helps them to improve their skills.
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Discussion of value of medium-term goals and identification of personal medium-term goals
Medium term goals are those which take more time than short term goals and less time than long
term goals (Smith, Loughran and Mansfield, 2019). These goals provide direction for long term
goals of a person and provide them progress which work as basis for long term goals. These
goals help to reduce gap in dream as well as desire of a person. Medium term goals are act as
efforts to attain ultimate goals of a person in their life. These goals are prepared for specific time
and can be measurable as it helps to measure progress of a person. Example of medium-term
goals are as follows:
 Network building: There are various event occur in college life of a person in which
they interact with another person and also build network. This network is important as it
provide them benefit in finding career opportunity and employment opportunity. These
network helps a person to build more contacts and provide references while applying for
any job.
 Enhancing academic knowledge: Another medium-term goal includes enhancing of
academic knowledge. To build career it is important for a person to enhance their
academic knowledge which can be done. To enhance academic knowledge, it is
important to take admission in a reputed organisation which are providing suitable course
individual interested in. It is also important fort them to take all important class as it helps
to enhance knowledge as well as skills of a person.
 Presentation skills: Improvement of presentation skills is another long-term goal o a
person as it helps them to represent their thoughts on particular topic. This presentation is
given to a specific audience which ask question after completion of presentation. To
improve this skill, it is important for candidate to participate various activities conducted
in organisation.
Discussion of value of long-term goals and identification of personal long-term goals
Long term goals are future oriented goals which require proper planning, time and efforts of an
individual (Tang and Giddins, 2016). These goals help an individual to develop their career
which is a life long process. As career development takes place in entire life of an individual.
Long term goals strengthen career of a person and provide them internal assessment to take
various important decision in their life. These goals evaluate values of individual and make their
goals more purposeful. These goals provide opportunity to a person to enhance their skills and
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acquire knowledge that provide them opportunity for personal development. Example of long-
term goals are as follows:
Finding job: Finding job is another long-term goal which helps a person to find career
opportunity in their life. It is important for person to find a job as it is ultimate goal of their life.
It provides financial stability to an individual and also helps to them in fulfil their requirement.
Career development opportunity: Career development opportunity is one of opportunity which
provide growth to career of individual at work place. It includes promotion, salary increment to
an individual. This helps a person in fulfilling their various need and desire.
Save money for travelling world: Another long-term goal is to save more money to travel
world. To travel world, a person require finance and to get finance they need to save their
money. To save that much money, proper planning is important and one can also invest their
money which also provide interest on their saving amount.
Discussion of value of personal development plan and construction of personal development to
identify goals
Personal development plan: Personal development plan refers to statement which include
action based on value, reflection and awareness, for personal development for education, career
as well as self-improvement (Taubman–Ben-Ari et. al. 2019). This plan includes goals of a
person and time length to achieve these goals. To develop personal development, it is important
for individual to identify strength and weakness. It provides clarity of goals to a person that helps
to identify in which direction they need to put their efforts. To also empower a person by
enhancing their skills, capabilities, knowledge and learning in life.
Personal Development Plan
Goals Goal
type
Action plan Source Time
period
Judgement
Improving
calculations
Short
term
goal
To improve
calculations skills, an
individual can join
educational institution.
But joining education
institution along is not
sufficient as it requires
(Abate,
Beasley,
and
Hamm,
2020)
3
months
After joining
education institution,
it improves
calculation of
individual and also
provide them benefit
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hard work and
practices. This practice
helps to improve
calculation of a person.
in classes.
Enhancing
academic
knowledge
Medium
term
goal
To improve academic
knowledge, one need
to take admission in
college. It is also
important to attend all
classes on regular basis
and complete all
assignment given by
teachers on time. It
helps to improve grade
of a person and provide
future career
opportunity.
(CHENG,
2016)
2 years Result of this action
plan is that it
improves academic
knowledge of a person
Which provide them
various skills and
knowledge of
different topics.
Finding a
job
Long
term
goal
To attain this goal, a
person needs to
prepare a CV with
complete information
include personal details
certification, training,
qualification and
experience. They also
need to upload this CV
to various job
searching websites and
can also sit in campus
placements.
(Dunn
and
Doolittle,
2020)
3 years Result of this this
action is that it helps
to find a suitable job
with good benefits. It
also provides career
growth to a person.
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CONCLUSION
From above mentioned project report, it can be concluded that personal development refers to a
proves which helps to enhance skills and capabilities of a person which make their life better.
Professional development includes enhancement of knowledge, learning and skills through
education and training. Both of these development helps a person in providing various future
opportunity to them. These helps them to remove their weakness and enhance their strength. A
person set different types of goals in their life including short term goals, medium term goals and
long-term goals in their life. Short term goals can be attained within less time whereas medium
term goals take more time than short term goals. Long term goals are those which takes more to
attain and are future oriented. All these plans enhance value of a person and provide direction to
individual for development of their career. These helps individual to provide various opportunity
in their life. Individual also use personal development as a tool which information related to
goals of life and action to be taken to attain these goals. Aim and objective of these goals is to
enhance provide overall development to an individual and also provide them direction to attain
their goals.
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REFERENCES
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CHENG, C.K.E., 2016. Developing teachers’ personal knowledge management competencies
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Green, M.R., 2016. The impact of social networks in the development of a personal sports
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Hodge, A., 2016. The value of coaching supervision as a development process: Contribution to
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Tang, J.B. and Giddins, G., 2016. Why and how to report surgeons’ levels of expertise.
Taubman–Ben-Ari, O., Skvirsky, V., Strauss, T. and Morag, I., 2019. Pre-term delivery,
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