Skill Development: Personal Development Plan for Career Success

This report provides a comprehensive overview of skill development through a personal development plan (PDP). It emphasizes the importance of enhancing skills to adapt to dynamic academic and professional environments. The report details the components of a PDP, including short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, each with specific timeframes and benefits. Short-term goals enhance focus and morale, medium-term goals bridge the gap between short and long-term objectives, and long-term goals provide clarity and direction for career and personal aspirations. The PDP serves as a strategic document for personal and professional growth, promoting progress in skills, career, education, and knowledge. The document concludes that personal development is crucial for gaining experience, developing essential skills, and achieving both personal and professional success. Desklib provides access to this assignment and numerous other resources to support student learning and academic success.

Skill development
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Personal development plan........................................................................................................3
Short term goals.........................................................................................................................4
Medium term goals....................................................................................................................5
Long term goals..........................................................................................................................6
PDP............................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
Reference List............................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
Skills can be referred to the capabilities of an individual that need to be enhances
from time to time basis in order to enhance the performance at the workplace and educational
institute as well. It is very important for an individual to enhance their skills in order to cope
up with the dynamics in the academics as well as workplace too. Personal development plan
is referred to a set of goals and guidelines that help the individual to enhance various
personality development skills (Carter, 2021). A personal development plan is made in order
to accomplish the educational as well as career goals of an individual. A personal
development plan consists of short-term goals, long term goals as well as medium term goals.
Personal development plan
Personal development plan is referred to a set of goals and guidelines that help the
individual to enhance various personality development skills. A personal development plan is
made in order to accomplish the educational as well as career goals of an individual. A
personal development plan consists of short-term goals, long term goals as well as medium
term goals. Each goal has its own tenure of completion. The short term goals are fulfilled in
the maximum of 3 months whereas medium term goals have a tenure of 3-6 months and long
term goals exceed one year.
Earlier, the employers used to make efforts in order to enhance the personal and
professional development of the employees but in the present times due to the
competitiveness, the individuals themselves have to make efforts to achieve their personal
and professional goals. The achievement of personal and professional goals is important in
order to increase the probability of being selected for the job role in an organization. The
personal and professional development of an employee can be facilitated through various
terms such as on the job training as well as off the job training. The development may also
take place through the proper motivation, supervision and control of the employee in the
organization. The personal and professional development also leads to boosting of the morale
of the employee as well as boosts the confidence of the individual (Halim and Tahar, 2020).
Short term goals
Short term goals are referred to the goals that are to be achieved in less period of time. The
short term goals can be considered as short segments for the achievement of the long term
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goals. The short term goals are the goals that are accomplished in a period of less than
6 months. The short term goals add value to the future or the long term goals of an individual
in terms of career. The tenure of short term goals can be as short as a day or a week or a
fortnight. The short term goals need to considered with utmost seriousness in order to brush
up skills to attain the future goals. There are various benefits of short term goals. The
importance or the value of short term goals are discussed below-
 The short term goals help to have a better focus and direction in order to accomplish the
goals of the future. The better focus help in enhancing the productivity of the employee at
the organization that helps in increasing the confidence and employee morale.
 The accomplishment of short term goals will lead to increase in the employee morale
which will increase the working efficiency of the individual at the work place.
 The short term goals avoid the sense of procrastination among the employees as the short
term goals seem easy to achieve and hence it boosts the positive motivation and
emotions of an employee in order to have a positive mindset and leads to optimism
(Razali and Sanusi, 2020).
 The short term goals help the individual to have a measurable progress that can be
measured on a timely basis in order to ensure the completion of the goal within the time
limit. This will further lead to determine and formulate the goals effectively in order to
enhance the skills.
The examples of short term goals are listed below-
 The short term goal can be to complete the task within the time limit.
 The example of short term goal can be to complete at least 5 chapters of the novel by
this week.
 The short term goal in terms of fitness can be to wake up early in the morning with an
aim to work out.
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Medium term goals
The medium term goals are the goals that have a tenure shorter than the long term goals as
well as a tenure longer than the short term goals (Sunyoto, 2020) . The short term goals are
achieved in order to accomplish the goals with a longer duration. The efforts in order to
accomplish medium term goals are made only after the short term goals have been
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accomplished. The short term goals can be changed according to the accomplishment of the
short term goals as they are flexible in various scenarios. The medium term goals act as a
measuring scale in order to accomplish the long term goals. The medium term goals fill the
gap between the long term goals and the short term goals. The medium term goals pave the
way towards the successful accomplishment of the long term goals. The medium term goals
have various benefits. The value of medium term goals are discussed below-
 The medium term goals help the individual to have consistent efforts on the way to
accomplish long duration goals.
 The accomplishment of medium term goals increase the trust and morale of the
individual and boosts optimism towards the longer goals (Sallati, de Andrade Bertazzi
and Schützer, 2019).
 The medium term goals act as a measure to ascertain the efforts for long term goals.
The example of medium term goals are-
 The medium term goal can be to learn french as a foreign language (Denning and
Tedre, 2019). It helps to develop career in various field as learning additional skills
helps a person in getting good opportunities.
 Another medium term goal can be to pass the semester exams with flying colors. It
helps a person to creating good image in minds of their professors. It also helps
individual in finding opportunities as getting good grades create good impression in
minds of employers.
 The medium term goal can be to save 300 bucks by the end of the semester. for
applying for online courses(Sasson and Miedijensky, 2020). This helps to learn
additional course which provide me opportunity while doing interviews for finding
jobs.
Long term goals
Long term goals are those goals which are important in life of a person as it includes those
goals which take time to attain and require proper efforts of a person (Escandón, Martinez
and Flaskerud, 2016) . To attain these goals, a person needs to take at least 2-4 years and also
encourage people in order to pursue their dreams. Long term goals of a person provide
various benefits to a person which are as follows:
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 Long term goals of a person provide clarity of goals to them which is important for
motivation as well as getting transparency in path of future of a person. Setting of
long term goals for a person helps to get direction in attainment of final and real
goals.
 Setting long term goals of a person helps to increase focus of a person towards life
and career. It helps a person to identify what challenges and barrier they may face in
attainment of goals and also allow them to find solution in order to attain those goals.
 For attainment of long term goals, a person is engaged in gaining experience and
engaging in decision making process. This empower them as to attain these goals, a
person require to develop skills and capability which provide support to an individual.
For attainment of long term goals of a person, it is important to develop skills, knowledge and
capability. Some of example of long term goals are as follows:
 Long term goals includes purchase of 2BHK flat as it is dreams of many person to
buy their own house (dos Reis, Costa, and Milan, 2017) .
 Become a leader is another long term plan as it helps to direct group or team in order
to attain group goals
 Become a managers is another long term goals of a person as it provide them
recognition at workplace and provide good salary. It helps to take responsibility to a
person and improve their income level.
PDP
Personal development plan refers to document which includes various strategies and action to
be taken by a person in order to attain their goals (Byrnes, 2018). This personal development
planning is important for a person as it promote progress in skills, career, education and
knowledge of a person. Personal development has values in life of a person which are as
follows:
 It provide clarity to a person related to their skills, knowledge and goals to be
enhance. Personal development plan helps to provide clarity which helps to attain
personal goals of a person.
 Personal development plan helps to inspire people in order to improve their skills with
aligning their skills with career goals. This helps them to motivate them to put efforts
in order to achieve goals of a person.
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 It also helps to direct people by identify action to be important to be taken in order to
attain long as well as short term goals.
Conclusion
From above mentioned project report it can be concluded that personal development is
important in life of person as it helps them to gain experience and develop various skills
important in life of a person. There are various types of goals to be developed by a person in
order to develop skills and gain knowledge. These goals are of three types including short
term goals, medium term goals as well as long term goals. Short term goals are those goals
which can be attained a person within less time where as medium term goals are those which
take much time in compare to short term goals and also these goals provide base for long
term goals. Long term goals are those which are important in life of a person and take much
time like years. Personal development plan refers to a plan which includes action to be taken
by a person in order to attain personal development of a person.
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Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan
Skills to be
Developed
Development Plan Resources Target Date
Time management
skills
Time management skills is one of important
skills which is important in order to saves time
and skills development. This is one of short
term goal as it can be attained within 6 month.
To develop this skills, a person needs to prepare
schedule of their work in order to manage time
effectively. Preparing schedule along is not
enough, but to follow it also important.
Nowell, S.W., Watson, L.R.,
Crais, E.R., Baranek, G.T.,
Faldowski, R.A. and Turner-
Brown, L., 2020. Joint attention
and sensory-regulatory features at
13 and 22 months as predictors of
preschool language and social-
communication
outcomes. Journal of Speech,
Language, and Hearing
Research, 63(9), pp.3100-3116.
By December 2021
Completing
graduation
Completion of graduation is also one of medium
term goal of me. Completing graduation is not
sufficient but also completing it with getting
good grades is important. Skills development,
participating in different activities, completing
assignment on time are important along with
completion of graduation. For this, a person
Samah, R., Isahak, A. and WA,
W.A., 2020. Excellent teacher
practices in teaching and learning
Arabic language and literature
based on ibn khaldun strategies
[Amalan guru cemerlang dalam
pengajaran dan pembelajaran
By June 2023
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needs to take admission in good college. (Pdp) bahasa dan sastera arab
mengikut strategi ibnu
khaldun]. Journal of Critical
Reviews.
Become manager Long term goals of me is to become manager as
it helps to getting good salary, responsibility and
reputation in market. To become manager of
organization, it is important to do hard work
and dedication. For this, I needs to gain
experience in any field.
Zwozdiak-Myers, P.N., 2020.
Communication in physical
education. In Learning to Teach
Physical Education in the
Secondary School (pp. 262-283).
Routledge.
By January 2025
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