Academic Skills and PDP: Short, Medium, Long Term Goals Report

This report delves into the concepts of personal and professional development, emphasizing their significance in academic and career success. It explores the interplay of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, highlighting their values and the strategies for achieving them. The report also discusses the importance of a personal development plan (PDP) in guiding individuals toward their objectives. Furthermore, it includes a detailed evaluation of eight sources, considering aspects like author, purpose, reliability, and relevance, providing a comprehensive analysis of the information used. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of PDP in helping students to achieve their common goals effectively.

Academic skills and
PDP

Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Task One......................................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development...............................................................................3
Short term goals and their values............................................................................................................3
Medium term goals and their values.......................................................................................................4
Long term goals and their values.............................................................................................................4
Personal development plan and their importance..................................................................................4
Task Two......................................................................................................................................................4
Task Three:..................................................................................................................................................5
Write an evaluation of eight sources you have used in the report plan..................................................5
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................7
References...................................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
Academic skills ways and important role in every student's life as it helps the students to
achieve their career objective in an effective manner. Every Institute is working in order to
develop these skills and knowledge of their students (Angkurasiri, 2018). Personal professional
development also helps the students to manage their own learning and growth throughout their
career. This report talks about the concept of personal and professional development related to
short term, medium term and long term goals and the personal development plan.
Task One
Concept of personal and professional development
Personal and professional development edit the students to manage their own learning
and growing skills (Kelly, 2019). This helps them to develop their knowledge in order to ensure
the safety legality and effectively towards their work.
Personal development means development of such skills which helps the individual to
accomplish the results with respect to their role in their life on the other hand the professional
development means developing of such skills in order to understand the entire role with respect
to their job about what they have to do, how they have to do and in what manner they can
improve it.
Short term goals and their values
Short term goals means the targets which helps the individual to achieve their ultimate
goals. It is like filling the gap between where the individual is standing at present and what he
wants to become in future (Hanelt, Busse and Kolbe, 2017). It is important as it helps in
innovating different effective strategies so that the individual can start their work in respect to
achieve their ultimate goal. At this stage the person can take quick feedbacks in order to
determine the positive and negative aspects and help them to overcome the loopholes.
For example developing writing skills, communication skills, to become a social worker.

Medium term goals and their values
Medium term goals are such goals which are dependent on the activities in respect to
short term and long term goals. It helps to achieve the ultimate targets in one's life. It is
important because it is like a second step in order to achieve long-term schools in an easy way
(McGuinness, Pouliakas and Redmond, 2018). It also helps in determining the current strategies
and examines whether they are useful to attend to the long term targets that need to be modified
with respect to changing time periods.
For example enhancing the confidence level, getting a part time job in order to secure
financial stability.
Long term goals and their values
These are the such goals which an individual wants to attain in future. These kinds of
goals require higher planning and management which cannot be achieved in the shorter period of
time and it also requires the long term strategies (Roberts, Hill and Davis, 2017). It is important
because it gives reason and motivation so that one can achieve the ultimate target which helps
them to satisfy their needs and wants in an effective manner.
Personal development plan and their importance
Personal development plans help the individual to determine at what stage he is standing
and at what place he wants to see himself in future. It helps in determining an action plan on
which the one must be focused in order to enhance their qualities which helps them to attain their
ultimate goals (Greenwood and et. al., 2017). It is important because it helps the individual to
develop their goals and determine the strategies which help them to get positive results. With
respect to employees it is important as this helps them to determine the loopholes which are
present in their skills and knowledge.
Task Two
Describe and discuss how Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevancy will affect the use
of source the articles helps in determining the creditability of the sources and plays an important
role with respect to the quality of work which was done in the report (Kaput, Hegedus and
Lesh, 2020). With the help of a model it is being discussed below:
 Currency: the data which is given in the report is up to date.

 Relevancy: the information which is discussed is a suitable in order to determine the
skills and knowledge.
 Authority: The author and the place from where it is published.
 Accuracy: the information is get from the accurate sources.
 Purpose: the information is authentic.
Task Three:
Write an evaluation of eight sources you have used in the report plan.
Each evaluation must consider the following:
1. Author: Greenwood, C.R., Carta, J.J., Walker, D., Watson-Thompson, J., Gilkerson, J.,
Larson, A.L. and Schnitz, A.,
 Purpose: the main objective of this article is to grab the different knowledge with respect
to short term goals.
 Reliability: As it talks about the different short terms goals and the manner in which the
individual can achieve it.
 Relevance: it is relevant with this report because the report is also discussed about the
short terms goals and their importance.
2. Author: McGuinness, S., Pouliakas, K. and Redmond, P.,
 Purpose: The main aim behind this article is to gather ideas with respect to short terms
goals and objectives.
 Reliability: This is relevant as it talks about the different types of goals which is
discussed in the report also.
 Relevance: it deals with the several ways in which the targets can be achieved.
3. Author: Hanelt, A., Busse, S. and Kolbe, L.M.
 Purpose: the purpose behind referring this article as it talsk about the different ways
which can be used to attain the targets of an business
 Reliability: It deals with the medium terms goals.

 Relevance: It discuss about the things which must be consider by an individual in order to
overcome with the issues faced by them in an organisation.
4. Author: Kaput, J., Hegedus, S. and Lesh, R.
 Purpose: the purpose of this is enhancement in infrastructure with respect to the
technology.
 Reliability: it is reliable because it determines the medium term goals.
 Relevance: the report is also discuss the medium term goals and also states its
importance.
5. Author: Kelly, S.L.,
 Purpose: It’s main aim is to determine the various aspects with respect to long term
goals.
 Reliability: The article is talked about the different ways to achieve the long term goals.
 Relevance: The report is also talks about the long terms goals which an individual must
achieve in order to satisfy their desires.
6. Author: Roberts, B.W., Hill, P.L. and Davis, J.P.,
 Purpose: The main target behind this article is to determine the ways to change the
conscientiousness.
 Reliability: It talks about the different goals which the ones can achieve.
 Relevance: It is also talked about the goals which was discussed in the report.
7. Author: Ulset, V., Vitaro, F., Brendgen, M., Bekkhus, M. and Borge, A.I.,
 Purpose: The article is talked about the cognitive and behavioural development in
childern’s.
 Reliability: the article is important as it talks about the different ways to determine the
short term goals.
 Relevance: It also talks about the different goals which must be aimed by the students os
that they can satisfy their desires in an effective manner.

8. Author: Angkurasiri, P.M.,
 Purpose: The article is discussed about the personal development plan.
 Reliability: It discuss about the different measures which are used by the student to
develop theri plan.
 Relevance: The report is also discussed about the different measures which are used to
determine the different strategies by which the one can plan their different terms goals.
Conclusion
With respect to the above discussed report it can be concluded that personal and
professional development helps the individual to attain their goals in an effective way. It is
important for the students to determine their short term long term and medium term goals so that
they can achieve their career objectives with the help of different strategies. The personal
development plan is an action plan which helps the students to analyse the different skills and
knowledge which are required to be developed in one's life so that they can attend their common
goals in an effective manner.

References
Books and journals
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Greenwood, C.R., Carta, J.J., Walker, D., Watson-Thompson, J., Gilkerson, J., Larson, A.L. and
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Hanelt, A., Busse, S. and Kolbe, L.M., 2017. Driving business transformation toward
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Kaput, J., Hegedus, S. and Lesh, R., 2020. Technology becoming infrastructural in mathematics
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Kelly, S.L., 2019. Faculty perceptions of librarian value: The moderating relationship between
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McGuinness, S., Pouliakas, K. and Redmond, P., 2018. Skills mismatch: Concepts, measurement
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Roberts, B.W., Hill, P.L. and Davis, J.P., 2017. How to change conscientiousness: The
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Ulset, V., Vitaro, F., Brendgen, M., Bekkhus, M. and Borge, A.I., 2017. Time spent outdoors
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