Personal and Professional Development: Goal Setting and Sources

This report provides a comprehensive overview of personal and professional development, encompassing goal setting and the evaluation of literary sources. It begins with an introduction to the concepts of personal and professional development, emphasizing their importance in enhancing individual capabilities and career prospects. The report then delves into the specifics of short, medium, and long-term goals, providing examples for each and illustrating their role in achieving overall objectives. A significant portion of the report is dedicated to the value of a personal development plan, highlighting its role in facilitating the achievement of various goals. Furthermore, the report examines the impact of author, purpose, reliability, and relevance when evaluating sources. The report concludes with an evaluation of literary sources, synthesizing the key concepts discussed throughout the document.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development....................................................................3
Concept of short term goals and related examples......................................................................3
Concept of medium term goals with examples...........................................................................4
Concept of long term goals with example...................................................................................4
Value of Personal development plan...........................................................................................5
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................5
Effect of an author, purpose, reliability and relevance on the use of a source............................5
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................6
Evaluation of literary sources......................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is referred as a lifelong learning process that is related to the
access all goals of an individual and develop various skills that are required to attain determine
objectives. It consist all those activities that enhance various capabilities and potential factors in
the individual's personality in order to built human and increase the chances of employment as
well as raise the quality of life. Formal as well as informal activities are helpful for personality
development(Borg, 2018). (Bruni-Bossio, and Delbaere., 2020). On the other hand professional
development is the combination of various tools and training techniques in order to improve
qualities to complete task in effective manner. Both skills are required to achieve overall
objectives of individual.
TASK
Concept of personal and professional development
Personal development is the process to enhance various qualities, capacities and
capabilities in the individual in order to achieve personal short term as well as long term goals.
This is the lifelong development process. Personal development enhance the employability and
boost confidence and lead individual towards the higher quality life. Marlow's self actualisation
step elaborate the personal development. Professional development facilitates the individual to
achieve his career objectives. Various approaches re used to develop professional skills that are
reviewing case study, monitoring and training and coaching. Every work requires different skills
to complete it and these are develop through training.
The main objective of personal and professional development is to help in the
management of learning and grow career opportunities. It becomes important to continue learn
and develop various skills in order to achieve career objectives. Various learning activities are
conducted to develop skills such as on the job learning, attend courses and workshops and
computer based learning.
Concept of short term goals and related examples
Short term goals are that goals that an individual want to achieve in near future. These
goals are accomplished in near days, week , month and even in a year(Finlay, 2019). Basically
short term goals that an individual or group want to achieve very soon. These goals help to

manage time in effective way and completing small goals lead the person towards the
accomplishment of big goals of life as well as career. Three examples of short term goals are
mentioned below:
Example 1: Increase various interpersonal skills and capabilities in order to enhance my
knowledge.
Example 2 : Complete my daily homework on regular bases.
Example 3 : secure 80 percentage marks in class test and mid term exams.
Concept of medium term goals with examples
Medium tern goals are defined as the bridge that fill the gape between the short term
goals like daily activities and long term visions. Medium term goals are accomplishes within the
time more then short term goals. Some medium term goals are discussed below:
Example1: Secure goods marks in the semester exams that motivates me to increase my
potentiality.
Example 2: Increase leadership skills, and develop knowledge and ability to influence
other persons.
example3: Initiate a new business with the concern of view perceptual visual sense.
Concept of long term goals with example
Long term goals are something that an individual and group of person want to achieve in
future(Johnson, and Johnson, 2017). It takes proper time, efforts and effective planning to
accomplished. For the success of career it is very important to decide appropriate long term
goals. Long term goals takes several years to complete. Sometimes these goals use various steps
in the process of completion and these smaller steps can be short term goals of individual. Some
long term goals are discussed below:
Example1: Goal to purchase dream house and buy luxury car in future.
Example 2: Start up a business and utilise all my knowledge in order to make business
successful.
Example 3: Goal to get a degree in administration from the recognise college.

Value of Personal development plan
Personal development plan is referred as the quora that are related to set of various goals
and targets that every one want to achieve in his life(Kuo, Lee. and Morris, 2019). Appropriate
plan is being formulated to develop personal skills because these facilitates the person to
accomplish short, medium and long term goals effectively. These plans are different for every
one according their personality and goals that they want to achieve.
Goal Ways to achieve goal Measurement of
success
Time duration
Enhancing various
interpersonal skills and
capabilities
Meet more people and
utilising experience in
written presentation
and structured.
When I will capable
to present my self
confidently in front of
others
4 months
Starting of the new
digital business
Get detailed
information to
manage business.
When I will help me to
set up my own digital
level business
2 years
Get good marks in the
semester exams
Plan my schedule to
for the written and
oral practice for the
exam.
It facilitates me to get
good marks in the
respective exam.
1 years
Improve leadership
skills and abilities
By working on
enhancing my others
team and
communication skills.
When I will be able to
create and lead team
of my digital business
with simplicity.
4 years

Task 2
Effect of an author, purpose, reliability and relevance on the use of a source
It is very important to select author activities that contains reliable, relevant and create a
purpose to the person to read all these sources.
Author: Author is known as the person who write a specific content for the public use
that is quite reliable and relevant. Main objective of author is to write literature in well
maintained manner.
Reliability: Reliability is described as the readers have trust on the validation of the
writing source.
Relevance: It is known as the relatedness of written content with the factual figures. The
work should be relevant.
Purpose: Purpose is the basic reason for which the written literature has been created.
Task 3
Evaluation of literary sources
Literature Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
Effect of an
international
workplace
learning
placement on
personal and
professional
development
(Lazenby,
McCulla, and
Marks,2020)
The literature is
about experiential
learning during
working.
Article is from a
credible source
Australian
Occupational
therapy Journal
It helps in
identifying the
impact of learning
at workplace on
personal and
professional
development.
Professional
development. In
School leadership
and educational
(Ring, 2017) Purpose is to
identify
professional
development
Article is from a
credible source -
Springer
School education
is basis of a
person’s
personality and

change in
Singapore
initiative at
school level.
this will help in
establishing
importance of
student learning
in growth.
Institutional
mechanisms of
university teacher
professional
development
(Webb,
Diamond-Wells,
and Jeffs,2017)
Purpose of the
book is to help set
CPD goal,
mapping
development path
and others.
Article is from a
credible source -
Humanities &
Social Sciences
Reviews
It will help in
determining
teachers’ role in
conditions of
education and
professional
growth.
CONCLUSION
As per the above report, it can be concluded personal and professional development helps
the individual to achieve their personal and career goals. These skills enhance the various
capabilities and abilities in personality of individual. In the process of writing authors create the
content for user that is properly designed , relevant and produce for the specific purpose.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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pp.195-216.
Bruni-Bossio, V. and Delbaere, M., 2020. Not everything important is taught in the classroom:
Using cocurricular professional development workshops to enhance student
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Finlay, J. M. Andf et.al., 2019. A critical approach to aging in place: A case study comparison of
personal and professional perspectives from the Minneapolis Metropolitan
Area. Journal of aging & social policy. pp.1-25.
Johnson, D. W. and Johnson, R.T., 2017. The use of cooperative procedures in teacher education
and professional development. Journal of education for teaching. 43(3). pp.284-295.
Kuo, L. E., Lee, G. S. and Morris, J.B., 2019. Addressing Gaps in Modern Surgical Training—
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171.
Lazenby, S., McCulla, N. and Marks, W., 2020. The further professional development of
experienced principals. International Journal of Leadership in Education. pp.1-15.
Ring, E. A. And et.al., 2017. The evolution of teacher conceptions of STEM education
throughout an intensive professional development experience. Journal of Science
Teacher Education. 28(5). pp.444-467.
Webb, T., Diamond-Wells, T. and Jeffs, D., 2017. Career mapping for professional development
and succession planning. Journal for nurses in professional development. 33(1). pp.25-
32.