Report on Personal Development: Goals, Skills, and Career Planning

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of personal and professional development, offering a comprehensive overview of how individuals can enhance their skills, build human capital, and improve their quality of life. It defines personal and professional development, emphasizing their roles in fostering positive attitudes and providing career opportunities. The report outlines short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, providing examples such as improving communication skills, building work experience, and developing leadership abilities. It explores the value of a personal development plan, illustrating how such a plan can clarify vision, enhance skills, and improve effectiveness. The report includes a sample development plan, outlining action steps, resources, and timelines for achieving specific goals related to communication, cost accounting, and leadership skills. Overall, the report underscores the importance of proactive planning and continuous self-improvement for achieving career success and personal fulfillment.

Report on Personal
Development

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
1. Definition of concept of personal and professional development...........................................1
3. Description and discussion of medium-term goals..................................................................3
4. Description and discussion of long-term goals........................................................................3
5. Description and discussion of value of personal development plan and construction of
development plan to identify goals..............................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Personal development refers to those activities which include activities that helps to develop
various capability in a person which enhance their potential and helps them to build human
capital and provide employment opportunity and enhance quality of life (Baker, Jeanneret and
Kelaher, 2017). It helps them to develop various capabilities and skills in a person which provide
them positive attitude towards life. This project report includes description of personal and
professional development. It also includes Short term, medium term and long term long and their
values in life. This project includes construction of development plan of an individual.
MAIN BODY
1. Definition of concept of personal and professional development
Personal Development: Personal development is a future oriented process which helps in
developing various skills as well as qualities. It also helps them to realise their potential ad attain
their objective of life (Cook, Hayden, and Denitzio, 2016). It also includes various capabilities
that develop capability and potential which enhance quality of their life. It also helps them to
realise potential of life of person. Personal development helps individual to increase motivation
as it empowers a person. It provides right through to person which helps them in attaining
ultimate goals of life. Personal development also improves effectiveness of an individual and
allow them to more focus on their work. It provides capability to a person which helps them to
prioritise task and successfully complete that task. It empowers person to perform work
effectively and helps them to develop positive attitude. It helps person to build relation with
others which provide them opportunity in future as it helps them to build a network.
Professional development: Professional development include education, training and
certification that assist a person in providing success to their career. There is different job
available for a person which require different skills and capabilities (David, and Cobeanu, 2016).
If a persona possesses skills in present situation, they may require some additional skills and
capabilities in future. These skills and capabilities help an individual to learn new skills and lost
helps them to become more efficient and better in terms of their skills and knowledge. For
instance, job training is important for professional development of a employees and include all
necessary education as well as learning that helps them to understand work of organisation. A
person can get their professional development through college studies, industry certification,
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training programs, mentoring as well as consultation. Professional development provides various
benefit to an individual as it boosts their confidence level. It improves credibility of person
which helps them work effectively. Professional skills include management skills,
communication, cost management skills, conflict resolution skills, writing skills and many ore. It
allows individual to effective planning their future and also provide varroas career opportunity to
individual.
2. Description and discussion of short-term goals
Short term goals are those which are simple and easily achievable, these can be attained within
few months(Hsu, Lee, and Chen, 2017). It does not take mor than 12 months and helps to
increase productivity of a person. It helps to motivate a person as it helps to attain their goals
within less time. Short term goals provide base of long-term goals and helps individual to focus
on their life. It helps to increase confidence of an individual and manage time effectively. As
these goals can be attained within short period of time and helps them in measure progress of a
person. These goals help to achieve small problem and provide solution of them. There are
various short-term goals of a person which are as follows:
 Improving communication skills: Communication refers to sharing information, idea,
thought and feeling of a person with another. It helps in transmission of information and
helps to provide various opportunity to a person. Communication skills is important skills
for a person as it provides various employment opportunity to them. To improve their
communication skills, person can join various institution. This goal can be achieved
within 6 month and also helps in improved both oral and written communication.
 Attending networking events: Networking events are those which helps in building
network to a person. This network will help them in identification of various employment
opportunity as tit work as reference for a job. It is important for a person to build network
for growth of their career. So, to build network, they can attend many events organised in
universities and other academic events. These provide them opportunity to meet new
people and make network with them.
 Management of funds: Management of funds is again a short-term goal for a business or
a person. Management of funds is a process which include dealing with inflow and
outflow of funds. It is important to manage your funds as it helps a person in future and
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also allow them to save money. This helps an individual to face critical situation in future
like medical emergency, for studies and many other reasons.
3. Description and discussion of medium-term goals
Medium term goal is those which assist in achieving long term goals as it reduces gap between
long term goals and present situation (Kubyshko, Kruk, and Fedotov, 2018). Achieving this goal
can take more than 12 month and helps to achieve long term goals of a person. There are various
medium-term goals and example of these goals are as follows:
 Graduate from college: Completion of studies from college and universities is a
medium-term goal for any student. It provides them opportunity to learn something new
and also to enhance their skills. It provides them completely new experience as they
interact with new people and also to build network with them which is important to
identify right job. It also helps them to enhance their theoretical knowledge and improve
their written abilities. In college there are various activities conducted which helps them
improve their skills related to oral communication, written communication, leadership
and many more.
 Learning cost accounting skills: Student can also learn various new skills as per their
academic skills. One of medium-term goal is learning cost accounting skills which helps
them in attaining their long-term goals it identifies job in recognised enterprise. Cost
accounting skills include identification of cost of any product and also in identification of
total cost of organisation. It helps them to provide various employment opportunity as all
business need to adopt cost accounting for purpose of identification of cost of their
enterprise.
 Build work experience: One of medium-term goal for a person is to build work
experience for a person which helps to provide career growth in future period of time. It
boosts growth in their career as they have experience of working in any enterprise.
Companies are likely to hire a person who has work experience in heir field as it saves
their efforts to provide them training.
4. Description and discussion of long-term goals
Long term goals are those which a person want to attain in future period of time. To attain these
goals proper planning and time is required by a person (Miao, 2016). These goals are important
for a person for successful career. To attain these goals a person, need to put various steps and
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can be attained in future. These are important for career as well as working life of an individual.
There are various benefits of setting long term planning as it provide vision to a person in which
they put their efforts. Some of example of long term are as follows:
Finding job: One of long-term goals for any student’s life is to identify suitable job as it helps
them to build their career. It is important for any person to have a job as it provides them
financial stability and allow them to be independent. To find a job, a person needs to develop
various skills and capabilities in themselves. It helps them to lean something new and also
provide career growth to them. It is ultimate goal of one’s life to earn money to meet their
requirement and expectation.
Developing leadership skills: Leadership skills is one of those skills which helps a person in
Maintain career life. Through leadership a person can influence others to work in order to attain
group goals. A person can develop leadership skills in long period of time as it takes time to
develop leadership skills. These can be developed by taking various responsibilities and initiative
in various activities and work. These skills can be developed by taking initiative in assignment
and activities conduced in school ad college life of a student.
Maintain Career life: Maintaining career life is another long-term goal of a person as it
provides them opportunity in better career growth in life. A person needs career growth in their
life time as it enhances their skills and capabilities. It also increases their experience which helps
them to take additional work responsibilities. This increase productivity of a person and increase
their vault in organisation.
5. Description and discussion of value of personal development plan and construction of
development plan to identify goals
Personal development plan refers to a plan which include action plan of an individual to increase
their values, awareness and also helps in goals setting(Osgerby, Marriott and Gee, 2018). This
plan includes goals as well as objective of a person and helps to achieve these objectives. This
plan helps a person in improving their skills as well as capabilities and assist them to attain their
objectives. This plan provides clear vision to a person which provide the direction to attain their
goals. It also enhances skills of a person which allow them to take more responsibilities on them.
It increases effectiveness of business and improve motivation of a person. Improvement in skills
also boost confidence in an individual.
Skills to be Goal type Action plan Source Time Judgement
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development period
Communication
skills
Short term
goal
To improve
communication
skills a person
can join an
institute or any
online program.
It helps them to
communicate
effectively.
This
communication
sills do not
include only
oral
communication
but also
effective
written
communication.
(PLANNING,
2018)
2 months This is one of
skills which
can be judge
by any person
with whom
individual
communicate.
These people
include
friends,
family,
teachers or
colleagues.
Cost accounting
skills
Medium
term goal
Cost accounting
skills can be
improving
through taking
classes in
universities as
they are
providing
course related
to improve cost
accounting
(Preston and
Fraser-Thomas,
2018)
1 year Cost
accounting
skills is used
in offices as it
can be judge
in office in by
finance
manager.
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skills of
individual.
They can also
join program of
improving cost
accounting
skills. It is a
medium-term
goal and it
takes more time
than shirt term
goal.
Leadership
skills
Long term
goal
Leadership is
one of
important skills
for personal
development of
a person. It can
not be
developed in
few weeks or
months as it
takes time to
develop. To
improve
leadership
skills, they can
take initiative
in any work and
can participate
in various
(Vasyagina,
Vasyagina, and
Seryy, 2018)
3 years This
leadership
skills can be
judge by top
management
in officers as
these can be
development
in growing
phase of
career.
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activities.
CONCLUSION
From above mention project report, it can be concluded that Personal development refers to
enhancement of skills and capability of a person. It provides them various opportunity in their
life and also increase value of their life. There are various types of goals which person develop as
it provides them direction in life. Short term goals are for very short period life within few
months. Medium term goals are those which can be attained in more than 12 months. These
goals help to reduce gap between long term goals and present situation of an individual. Long
term goals are those goals which are prepared for future. These include ultimate goal of a person
and require efforts and hard work. To achieve these goals a person, prepare development plan
which provide them direction to attain these goals as it includes action plan.
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