Comprehensive Report: Personal Development Plan and Source Evaluation

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of personal development, focusing on goal setting, time management, and communication skills. It begins with an introduction to personal development and its importance, followed by an exploration of short, medium, and long-term goals. The report then delves into the evaluation of sources, discussing how author, purpose, reliability, and relevance affect the credibility and usefulness of information. The main body includes a detailed evaluation of each source, assessing its strengths and weaknesses. Finally, the report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the significance of personal development for achieving professional and personal objectives. The report also includes a personal development plan outlining specific goals, resources needed, and timeframes for skill improvement in areas such as communication, stress management, and time management.

Report plan and
evaluation of
sources

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal development...............................................................................................3
Value of short term goals............................................................................................................3
Value of medium term goal.........................................................................................................3
Value of long term goal...............................................................................................................4
Value of personal development plan...........................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Discussion how author, purpose, reliability and relevance affect the source.............................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
Evaluation of each source ..........................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
Personal development plan.........................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Personal development plan is a action plan based on person own reflection, experiences
and goal setting. Evaluation is done for the analysing person own gaols and how he can able to
achieve it (Duckworth and et.al., 2019). This report includes personal development and
evaluation of sources.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Concept of personal development
Personal development is the procedure of analysing their skills, capabilities and qualities,
by considering their aims and setting of gaols and objectives in order to maximize their potential
and productivity. On the other hand, professional development concern with training, education
and certification that a person needs to succeed in his life. Professional skills depends on
different job.
Value of short term goals
Short term are like stepping stones that push a person towards his long term goals. They
develop in the path of long term goals. Short term goals keep the person focus on his life gaols.
These goals are easy to achieve and also they helps in minimizing procrastination. They helps in
focusing on one thing an this focus will helps the person in getting motivated towards his
objective. It increases productivity and person can achieve long term goals quickly (Felten and
et.al., 2019). They can be completed within 6 months. Example of short term goals are:
 Waking up at 6:00 a.m. And write at-least 1500 words.
 Getting familiar with new technologies.
 Improve my communication and networking skills more.
Value of medium term goal
After completion of short term gaols, mid term goals come on the way. Mid term goals
are those which are actually more than short term goals and less than long term goals. They are
mostly completed within three to four years. Mid term goals actually offers best of the world. As
they have enough time to complete. There are some of the examples of mid term goals are: \

 Go on a dream trip.
 Start my new business.
 Buy a new house
Value of long term goal
Long term goals are very important for the everyone's career. They helps the person in
thinking about what studies and what job he needs to choose in near future. An individual can
achieve his long term goals first by achieving his short term goals. They are made for self
improvement. Long term goals helps the person in shaping their direction of his live and career.
They allow you to constantly keep working towards the goal and how hard work is more needed
by the person in achieving his objectives (Freeman Jr, Chambers and Newton, 2016.). There are
certain example of long term goals. These are:
 Improve my emotional intelligence and stress management.
 Getting my dream job.
 Goal to become a effective public speaker.
Value of personal development plan
Personal development plan is the process of creating an action plan which consist of
person's own self- reflection and improvement. This is based on education, values, awareness
and goals setting. This plan helps a person to look on his strength and weakness. Personal
development plan is important because it helps an individual to plan a career change and build
his current skills and capabilities. This also helps in becoming dedicated and enthusiastic and
ability to learn more. This is also important because even if a person failed to achieve his goals
and objectives then it will show employers that how dedicated a person is towards his goals. This
plan is usually made for getting detail of his long term and short term goals. This also shows that
what resources are needed by him to achieve his goals and what can he will do after getting those
skills and capabilities (Marcus, 2016).
TASK 2
Discussion how author, purpose, reliability and relevance affect the source.
It is important to choose a work which is reliable, relevant and add purpose to the to the
source. There are various purpose or goals of an individual. This will help the person in
achieving those objectives. Authors refers to the person who is writing a literature. Purpose is the

goal or objective which a person needs to achieve. Reliability is the level of verifiability or trust.
Relevance refers to the knowledge whether the purpose can be achieved or not in define time
duration (Norman and Ford, 2019).
TASK 3
Evaluation of each source
Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
Erich C. Dierdorff,
2020.
Time management I will be able to mange
my work in given time
limit.
This will help in
managing time
effectively and
efficiently. By this a
person can able to
mange all the task in a
definite time.
By Alison Doyle, 2020 Communication skills I will be able to speak
confidently and
effective. This will
helps me in making
others impress.
Communication skills
helps the person in
making effective
communication with
the each other.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that personal development is very necessary
for every person to achieve his goals and objectives. This helps the person in increasing his skills
and capabilities within a time limit.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Duckworth, A.L and et.al., 2019. Self-control and academic achievement. Annual Review of
Psychology, 70, pp.373-399.
Felten, P and et.al., 2019. Reimagining the place of students in academic
development. International Journal for Academic Development, 24(2), pp.192-203.
Freeman Jr, S., Chambers, C.R. and Newton, R., 2016. Higher education leadership graduate
program development. New Directions for Institutional Research, 2015(168), pp.79-89.
Marcus, N.H., 2016. Individual Development Plan: A Tool to Help Graduate Students Assume
Control of Their Futures. Oceanography, pp.31-31.
Norman, L.B. and Ford, J.A., 2019. Undergraduate prescription stimulant misuse and academic
strain: The role of college major and graduate school plans. Journal of Drug
Issues, 49(4), pp.756-771.
Online
Time Management, 2020. [Online]. Available through <https://hbr.org/2020/01/time-
management-is-about-more-than-life-hacks>
Communication Skills for Workplace Success, 2020. [Online]. Available through
<https://www.thebalancecareers.com/communication-skills-list-2063779>

Appendix
Personal development plan
Goal Resources Target ability Time
duration
Communication
skills
For this, resources which I
need for improving this
skills is that I should listen
to others first and then
speak about any topic. I
need training for that and
daily I will write 1500
words to improve my
English as well.
After the achievement of this
skill I will be able to
communicate effectively with
the other persona and with my
superiors also. I can feel
confident.
This task can
be completed
in within 4-6
months.
Stress
management
For this I need proper
meditation and some
medical treatment so that I
can able to feel relax.
By this I will be able to manage
my stress and feel relax. I take
more stress when I need to
perform multiple task. By taking
meditation and medical
treatment I can be able to
manage my all work efficiently
without taking stress.
This overall
task needs
about 7- 8
months.
Time
management
For time management I
need to perform various
task at definite time. I will
take training for that I will
start managing my time
accordingly.
By this i will be able to manage
my work within a given time
limit.
6-7 months
around.