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

This report provides a comprehensive overview of personal and professional development. It defines the concepts and explores the value of short, medium, and long-term goals, offering examples for each. The report emphasizes the importance of a personal development plan, outlining its key components and benefits for career advancement and self-improvement. It also discusses the continuous nature of personal development and how it relates to an individual's ability to enhance their potential and achieve their life goals. The report highlights the significance of setting actionable goals and creating a plan to achieve them. Furthermore, it includes detailed explanations and importance of setting short, medium and long term goals and its value in professional and personal life. This report provides a thorough analysis of these crucial concepts, offering insights into how individuals can manage their growth and learning throughout their careers and personal lives.

Report on Personal
Development

Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development.................................................................................3
Description and value of short term goals together with examples..........................................................3
Description and value of the medium term goals.....................................................................................4
Description of long term goals and its value............................................................................................5
Description and importance of personal development plan.....................................................................7
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................9
APPENDICE.............................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is considered as the lifelong process as it a way in which people
access their knowledge, skills and qualities while consider their goals in life and set aims so that
they can enhance their potential. There are three aspects of this which includes the spiritual,
physical and mental. It is important to have continuous personal development so that it can make
the individual capable of its potential. (Williams and Raney, 2020). This report shall cover the
professional and personal development, short, long and medium term goals with its value and
personal development plan.
MAIN BODY
Concept of personal and professional development
It is defined as the process with the help of which the individual and organization can get
engage in the learning process in order to meet its challenges and the desired aims/ this
development is associated with the needs of development of individual as well as group. The
main aim of it is to help the people to manage their growth and learning in their whole career. It
is essential that they continue to develop and learn new knowledge and skills and ensure they
work legally, safely and effectively. It not only bring benefit in the professional career but also
helps in personal life as it is aimed to inculcate such knowledge which can bring new career
opportunities for the professional development and contribute in leading healthy lifestyle. It is a
continuous process which is never ending as it consists of the activities which can develop
personal potential and capabilities throughout the life (Bond and Blevins, 2020).
Description and value of short term goals together with examples.
Goals are basically the targets which an individual wants to achieve. The short term goals
are something which a person needs to achieve in near future which may be today, present month
or year. It is something which is to be accomplished in short span of time. The short term goals
help in achieving the professional aspirations and make an individual more productive together
with improving its job satisfaction as a whole. In order to achieve it, it is important to initially set
the short term goals and get committed to achieve it. These may be set to become more

productive in short period of time and the goal of establishing any short term aspirations are
aimed to further the support and success of the long term goals. The more actionable and specific
the goal list is, the more it is likelihood to achieve the goals on timely basis (Markova and et. al.,
2019). These are achieved in less than 1 year time period. The value of short term goals are
illustrated below-
 Boosts the motivation- Setting short period of time goals is easier than going on to set the
long term aspiration as it allows in realizing the results in a quick manner. These small
achievements can help in motivating a person to continue with its goals and also allows
building the momentum in order to keep moving forward.
 Mitigates the procrastination- When a clear goal is set together with its actionable steps
to achieve it, procrastination is cut down often and an individual is motivated to work
continuously even when it is tough to move ahead.
 Provides clear direction- The list of short term goal which is completed with the actions
helps in giving clear direction so that the person can focus on its efforts. This helps in
preventing the wastage of time on the activities which are not connected with the goals
and reduces the wastage of energy and time.
 Promotes career success- If a person regularly sets and accomplishes the goals, it is the
key to move forward in professional life. Without the aspirations, an individual can get
distracted and spends more of the time in not making any progress. So setting short term
goals help in keeping eye on the prize and encourage to not lose any sight of long term
goals for career (Sergeeva, 2019).
Examples:
 Developing communication skills.
 Develop decision making skills.
 Inculcating teamwork skills.
Description and value of the medium term goals
These goals take a bit longer time to achieve. It is something which is to be achieved
somewhere in between the short and long term goal of a person. Since long term goals takes bit
longer time period to achieve it, the medium term aspirations helps in staying motivated as the

short term steps are necessary for slow progress towards long term aspirations. The main aim of
these goals is to focus on long term goals which are difficult to achieve. These are achieved in
mainly three to five years and are driven by the accomplishment of short time goals. The
importance of medium term goals is discussed below-
 Bridging gap between short and long term goals- Setting medium time period goals are
the result of short term goals and helps in achieving the long term goals as it motivates to
set medium term goals so that the ultimate target is accomplished. It fulfills the gap
between short and long term goals as it is aimed to achieve long term goals but is
encouraged by achievement of short term goals.
 Keeps enthusiasm high- The achievement of medium term aspirations keep the
enthusiasm going on which helps in achieving the ultimate goals,. As these goals take a
bit longer time than short term goals, so it keeps the fire burning as it makes the journey
seems out there.
 Reward system- Achieving medium term aspirations give the feeling to reward yourself
as it the key to move forward in professional development. Rewarding yourself
continuously can help in achieving the goals as it increases the morale of human being
and motivates to move forward in near future.
 Helps in comparing progress for long term goals- Setting medium term aspirations helps
in making the comparison of the progress which is being made after each progress. It
usually helps in achieving the career needs in small amount of time as it is aimed to
encourage an individual to achieve long term goals by comparing its progress from past
(Weller, 2019).
Examples:
 Developing creativity skills.
 Developing problem solving skills.
 Inculcating active listening skills
Description of long term goals and its value
These aspirations are something which is to be achieved for the future development.
These are achieved in future and require more time and planning to achieve it as it takes years to

achieve it. It needs good amount of time and planning on daily basis so that ultimate aim is
achieved. It takes multiple steps and completion of other together with short term goals along the
way to achieve long term goals. It is something which takes significant amount of efforts, time
an planning and are often regarded as delayed outcome of gratification of months and years to
focus on. These may be of three types such as career goals, financial goals and the personal
goals. It takes more than 5 years of time period to achieve it. The importance of long term goals
are narrated below-
 Self- improvement- Setting any of the long term aspiration gives an individual to strive
for and also helps in keeping focus on whatever an individual do. It helps in making
regular improvement in order to achieve the ultimate target of personal and professional
life.
 Pays off for achieving short term goals- The importance of long term goals is that it pays
off for the hard work which is put on by the individual to achieve its short term
aspirations for the ultimate long term goal. The achievement of these goals is the reward
of achieving short term goals as they are aimed for career development.
 Goals and measurement- Once the long term plan is correctly placed, it helps in stetting
the measurable goals which are aimed for the professional development. These goals are
designed to set the measurable goal such as getting dream job position or moving ahead
in career such as promotion to vice president post.
 Financial security- The long term goals helps in accomplishing the financial stability as
it gives understanding of the potential earning in the course of career which helps in
making a person smarter and more informed about the decisions relating to investment
and makes you smart to save money for future (Galustyan, Berezhnaya and Beloshitsky,
2017).
Examples:
 To develop leadership skills.
 To inculcate the management knowledge.
 To become technology savvy.

Description and importance of personal development plan.
It is important for an individual to develop its professional career and personality and for
that a personal development plan is important. It is a process which involves creation of the
action plan that is based on values, awareness, reflection, planning and goal setting for the
personal development I context to education, career, relationship or the self- improvement. It is a
documented plan which outlines the goals, the strength in that area which is also present, what is
needed to be changed to achieve the target and what skills are required to be improved in the area
of weakness. It usually includes the statement of an individual’s aspirations, competencies or
strength and the steps required to indicate as to how the plan may be realized. It involves the
statement of one’s lifestyle priorities and career, analysis of opportunities and risk involves
together with alternative plans (Vaughan and Mertler, 2020). The importance of personal
development plan is discussed below-
 Propel career from position of power- There are number of insights which are gained by
the personal development plan and these insights provide the greater confidence and
clarity on living the life of individual choice. With the better self- analysis, a person is
better equipped and abled to launch its successful job search.
 Concrete action plan- the personal development plan provides the insight for the actions
which are required to be taken to realized the identified goals. It helps in collecting the
available resources in order to better address the weakness so that goals ate achieved.
 Review progress- Through the best persona development plan, an individual can review
its progress as to the goals for which it can created the action plan. It helps in mapping
out the successful future but takes constant review, update and reflection in order to keep
focus on what to achieve and what steps are required to achieve it (Williams, Rathert and
Buttigieg, 2020).

CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above report that personal and professional development is
referred to as the process through which a person is engaged in learning process in order to meet
its challenges and desired goals. There are mainly three types of goals, which includes firstly the
short term which are for very short span of time, second is medium term which are longer than
short term goals but shorter than long term and the last is long term goals which are longer
period of time. These are important in the personal and professional development of a person as
it aspires a person develops the skills which are essential for career development. The personal
development plan is an action plan which is used to develop such skill set that helps in
accomplishing the short, medium and long term goals.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bond, M.A. and Blevins, S.J., 2020. Using faculty professional development to foster
organizational change: A social learning framework. TechTrends. 64(2). pp.229-237.
Galustyan, O.V., Berezhnaya, I.F. and Beloshitsky, A.V., 2017. Professional and career
development of teachers. Journal of Contemporary Educational Studies/Sodobna
Pedagogika. 68(4).
Markova, S.M., and et. al., 2019, May. Forecasting the development of professional education.
In Institute of Scientific Communications Conference (pp. 452-459). Springer, Cham.
Sergeeva, M.G., 2019. Formation of economic competence of the head of the educational
organization in terms of professional development. Revista San Gregorio. 1(30).
Vaughan, M. and Mertler, C.A., 2020. Reorienting Our Thinking Away From “Professional
Development for Educators” and Toward the “Development of Professional Educators”. Journal
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Weller, J., 2019. Critical reflection through personal pronoun analysis (critical analysis) to
identify and individualise teacher professional development. Teacher Development. 23(1).
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Williams, E.S., Rathert, C. and Buttigieg, S.C., 2020. The personal and professional
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Williams, T.R. and Raney, S., 2020. Relational cultural supervision enhances the professional
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APPENDIX
Personal and professional development
Skill Current
ability
Target
ability
Resources Judging
criteria
Time frame
Communicatio
n skill
Average High I will develop
this skill by
undergoing a
diploma course
to inculcate the
verbal and non-
verbal
communication
skill. Moreover,
I will also read
expert author’s
books and
articles so that I
can learn the
technique of
communication
.
The progress
shall be
judged by my
result of
diploma
course and I
will also take
review from
my peers and
family.
6 months
Problem
solving skill
Average High I will inculcate
this skill by
practicing on
hypothetical
situations and I
will also read
books and
articles of
The feedback
from my
superiors and
peer which
help me in
judging my
progress
towards the
12 months

expert authors. road of the
development.
Management
knowledge
Low High I will develop
this skill by
undergoing
course of
management so
that I can learn
the principles
and concepts of
management.
My result
from course
will tell my
progress
regarding the
development
of this
knowledge.
2 years
Active listening
skills
Low High I will develop
this skills by
following some
tips such as to
be attentive and
relaxed, not to
interrupt in
between and to
maintain eye
contact. A little
concentration
level and
patience will
help me in
developing this
skill.
The feedback
from my
peers and
family
members will
help me in
judging the
development
of this skill.
3 months
Decision
making skills
Average High I shall develop
this skills by
practicing on
hypothetical
The feedback
from peers
and superior
will help me
6 months

situations so
that I can take
good decisions.
I must focus on
the problem
before making
decision.
Reading
articles of
expert writers
will also help
me.
judging my
progress.
Moreover the
outcome of
result will tell
everything.
Leadership
skills
Low High I will inculcate
this skill by
undoing a
course so that I
learn the
qualities of
leadership.
The result
from my
course shall
be judging
criteria for
this skill
development.
3 years
Technological
skills
Low High I will develop
this skill by
undergoing the
course of
information and
technology so
that I can learn
all the
programming
and functions
of technology.
My course’s
result will be
my progress
outcome and
my judging
criteria.
3 years
Creativity skills Low High I will develop The review 1 year

this skill by
reading books
and articles of
expert authors
so that I can
learn the tricks
of creativity. I
will also
practice my
creative ideas
to turn them
into reality.
from my
peers and
superiors will
help me in
judging the
development
of this skill.
Team work
knowledge
Average High I will inculcate
this skill by
reading expert
articles and
books so that I
can work n a
team. Moreover
I will try to do
my task in
team.
The feedback
from team
members will
help me in
judging the
progress of
this
development.
6 months