Personal Development Plan Report: Goals, Sources, and Development

This report presents a personal development plan, detailing short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. It explores the importance of professional and personal development, emphasizing the need for continuous learning and skill enhancement. The report includes examples of goals and strategies, along with a structured personal development plan incorporating skill development, resources, and feedback mechanisms. Furthermore, the report analyzes how 'author, purpose, reliability, and relevance' influence the use of sources, providing a critical assessment of eight sources used in the report plan. The conclusion highlights how personal development aids in achieving targets and building confidence. The report also includes references to support the analysis and findings.

Personal Development
Plan
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Professional and Personal and development. .......................................................................3
Cover the short-term goals by 3 personal examples. .............................................................3
Describe medium-term goals with 3 personal examples. ......................................................4
Discuss the long-term goals with 3 examples .....................................................................4
Describe the Personal Development Plan and build an example using your identified goals.4
Task Two: ..............................................................................................................................5
How ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ affect the use of a source. ....................5
Task Three:.............................................................................................................................5
Judgement of eight sources you have used in the report plan. ..............................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Personal development Plan helps in the development of the individual so that goals of the
individual can be achieved effectively personal development can be in the context of the
education, career, self improvement. It help in developing the skills of the individual so that
goals of the individual can be achieved effectively personal development helps the individual in
increasing its confidence level so that positive of the person can be reflected. It increases the
growth chances of the individual so that individual can be success in life. Success of the
individual is dependent on its personal development which boost the level of confidence in the
individual. Setting up of goals are easy but to achieve that goals depends on the hard work which
an individual does. Handwork is also a part of personal development because hard work is the
main factor in the individual which motivates the person to achieve its target. In this report it will
be observe that how personal development plan helps the individual to achieve its goals (Kroll
and Dussias, 2017).
MAIN BODY
Professional and Personal and development.
Professional and Persona development helps in individual to manage their growth and
learning through their carrier if the individual wants to achieve its targets in the short period of
time then its very important of the individual to continue their learning skills so that their
knowledge can be increased growth can be achieved easily knowledge helps in developing the
overall personality of the individual which helps them to achieve their planned goals.
Professional development helps in increasing the skills of the individual due to which individual
gets motivated towards the achievement of the targets.
Cover the short-term goals by 3 personal examples.
Short-term goals is something which the person wants to accomplish in the near future .
Near future can be a month, week or year. It is basically the goals which individual wants to
achieve soon. There are 3 short term goal which I want to achieve in the coming months.
 Improving my communication skills Hildebrand, J., 2018
 reducing my monthly expenses
 avoiding the use of social media so that my goals can be achieved effectively.
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Describe medium-term goals with 3 personal examples.
These goals take around three months to fours years to achieve according to the capacity
of the individual if the individual have the ability to achieve its goals then it may take few
months to achieve it (Hildebrand, 2018). My 3 medium term goals are:
 Buying a new car for my family.
 Achieving good marks in my graduation
 focus on savings so that I can help my family in future
Discuss the long-term goals with 3 examples
Long term goals are the target which an individual wants to attain in future it may take
years to get accomplished long term goals requires hard work from the individual so that proper
planning of achieving the goals can place. My 3 long term goals are:
 Buying a house for my family.
 Become successful in life
 Help the poor people so that economic development can take place
Describe the Personal Development Plan and build an example using your identified goals.
Skills Resources Feedback Time
Communication skills Seminar, books,
newspaper
Once the skills get
improved feedback
can be taken from
friends,
colleague,teachers
3 months
Problem solving
skills
teacher,mentors etc. Family members,
friends , teachers
2-4 months
Self confidence skills Various motivation
lectures, events
Teacher, co-workers 4 months
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Task Two:
How ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ affect the use of a source.
Author is the individual who helps creating a content for the specific topic so that
individual get knowledge about the topic which is assigned it is basically an individual who
develop and create anything (Ragan, 2018). Purpose of the author can be informing the reader
about the topic which an individual wants reliability is the specified time period for any activity
which is being performed
relevance means how much a particular topic or thing is relevant or connected to the user.
Task Three:
Judgement of eight sources you have used in the report plan.
Author purpose reliability relevance
Kroll, J.F. and
Dussias, P.E., 2017
It helps in the personal
development of the
individual so that
growth can take place
This article was
published in 2018
which help in the
personal development
It helped in increasing
my knowledge and
skills
Hildebrand, J., 2018. It is used in
professional
and personal
development.
This article is used by
professionals
It helped in changing
my way of thinking
through guiding
professionalism
Gorbunova, N.V. and
Sabirova, E.G.,
2017
Pedagogical design of
future teachers'
personal and
professional
route
This article was
written for future
teacher
It help the increasing
the knowledge
Markham, M.J.,
Gentile, D. and
Graham, D.L.,
2017
Experiences within a
cross-cultural
academic
exchange
course of study
and impacts on
professional
and personal
This article helps in
cross culture academic
Provided me a
knowledge of cross-
ethnic academic
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development.
Bennett-Levy, J.,
2019.
It is used for therapist
training
This artist helps the
therapist
It provided the
knowledge of various
therapies
von Suchodoletz,
Jamil, Larsen,
and Hamre,
2018
It is associated with
growth in
preschool
teacher
This article helps the
preschool teachers
It provides the various
teaching skills
Watanabe, Fukase,
Y., Zenba, and
Takahashi,
2020
It is used for
professional
development.
This article helps
mangers
It provides the
management skills
Meakin, B.J., 2021 Patchwork of Practice”
as
autoethnograph
y for personal
and
professional
development
It helps the
professional in
developing skills
It helps in improving
my knowledge of
personal thinking
CONCLUSION
As per the report it has been observed that personal development helps the individual
helps the achieving its targets effectively it helps in building the confidence of the individual so
that personality of the individual can get developed which helps the individual in achieving
success. It also helps in guiding the individual towards the right path so that overall development
can take place.Ragan, D.D., 2018
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Kroll, J.F. and Dussias, P.E., 2017. The benefits of multilingualism to the personal and
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pp.248-259.
Hildebrand, J., 2018. Bridging the gap: A training module in personal and professional
development. Routledge.
Gorbunova, N.V. and Sabirova, E.G., 2017. Pedagogical design of future teachers' personal and
professional route. Man in India, 97(14), p.217.
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Mashizume, Y., Watanabe, M., Fukase, Y., Zenba, Y. and Takahashi, K., 2020. Experiences
within a cross-cultural academic exchange programme and impacts on personal and
professional development. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 83(12), pp.741-751.
Markham, M.J., Gentile, D. and Graham, D.L., 2017. Social media for networking, professional
development, and patient engagement. American Society of Clinical Oncology
Educational Book, 37, pp.782-787.
Ragan, D.D., 2018. A Structured Course for Personal and Professional Development. Honors in
Practice, 14, pp.43-57.
Bennett-Levy, J., 2019. Why therapists should walk the talk: The theoretical and empirical case
for personal practice in therapist training and professional development. Journal of
behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry, 62, pp.133-145.
Dunn, R.J. and Doolittle, S.A., 2020. Professional development for teaching personal and social
responsibility: Past, present, and future. Journal of Teaching in Physical
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von Suchodoletz, A., Jamil, F.M., Larsen, R.A. and Hamre, B.K., 2018. Personal and contextual
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