Personal and Professional Development: Goals, Plan and Analysis

This report delves into the crucial aspects of personal and professional development in today's competitive landscape. It outlines the significance of developing new skills to achieve career milestones. The report presents a structured approach to personal development, encompassing short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, along with practical examples for each. Furthermore, it includes a detailed personal development plan designed to guide future growth and improvement. The report also discusses the concepts of author, reliability, relevance, and purpose, and their impact on information sources. Finally, it lists all the sources used throughout the report, providing a comprehensive view of the research and analysis conducted.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
Personal and professional development...................................................................................................3
Short term goals and examples................................................................................................................3
Medium term goal and examples.............................................................................................................3
Long term goals and examples:...............................................................................................................4
Personal development plan......................................................................................................................4
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................6
Discuss concept of Author, reliability, relevance & purpose...................................................................6
TASK 3.......................................................................................................................................................6
State sources used throughout the essay..................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................8
REFRENCES..............................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
In current competitive world, personal and professional development is highly crucial for
developing new skills so that one can attain milestones in career (Deressa, 2018). The present
report is about personal development where various goals related to different time period have
been constructed for growth of individual along with a detailed personal development plan for
future betterment.
TASK 1
Personal and professional development
Personal development signifies a process which is related with increasing own skill and
potential by persistently analyzing own performance in an effective manner. Here, professional
development is a way of developing additional skills & abilities in order to perform well at work
place and get a better employment opportunity in future period of time.
Short term goals and examples
These goals need to be attained within a time period of 3 to 6 months. Short term goals are
constructed for short period of time and play a significant role in inspiring of an individual so
that medium and long term goals can be attain within predefined period of time (Goyal, 2018).
Short term wins bring enthusiasm and further inspire a person to put more efforts for future
success. In this regard, certain short term goals are mentioned below:
 To get certification of digital marketing by a well known online organization.
 To improve my managing skills in order to create a better work life balance for having
positive relationships.
 To manage stress & anxiety by meditation on daily basis.
Medium term goal and examples:
These goals are formulated for the time duration of 6 months to one year and need to
accomplish in order to fulfill long term vision successfully. Instead of avoiding medium term

goals, each and every individual need to have these goals for ensuring success in personal &
professional life. For this, certain examples of medium term goals are given below:
 To complete my MBA degree with good grades.
 To develop decision making skills for getting growth in career.
 To pursue certain online course for enhancement of my work profile.
Long term goals and examples:
It is stated that long term goals are those which are essential to get satisfaction for an
individual with the whole journey of life. These goals provide everlasting joy and satisfaction
and prepare for a lot of years (Holtby, 2018). These goals keep a person focused and help in
concentrating on right things so that one can achieve desired position in an efficient manner.
Certain examples of these goals are given below:
 To purchase own house at prime location of London.
 To get promotion to position of Chief Executive Officer within company.
 To develop a huge portfolio by investing in different options for gaining consistent
income in old age.
Personal development plan
This plan is helpful in order to identify the loop holes and areas of improvement in
performance which further assist in taking appropriate actions for improvement in week areas
(Hughes, 2020).
Goals Type Level Want to
achieve
Time How
To manage
work life
balance
Short term
goal
4 9 3 months For this, I will
prepare a
complete
schedule for my
whole day so
that I can create
balance

between
personal and
professional
life.
To get MBA
degree with
good grades
Medium term
goal
5 9 1 year Here, I will
attend lectures
on daily basis
and will also
take help of
teachers
wherever
require.
Purchase a
house in
London
Long term
goal
6 10 3 years For this, I will
do saving and
also take home
loan of rest
amount for
fulfilling my
this goal
Get promotion
to the level of
CEO within
company
Long term
goal
9 7 5 years I will put my
whole efforts,
pursue a lot of
online courses,
jot down
experience,
work with
diligence for
betterment of
company to
attain the

position of CEO
in organization.
TASK 2
Discuss concept of Author, reliability, relevance & purpose
 Author: It is the person who write an article, book, journal and other on a specific topic
in order to share own experience, knowledge with others.
 Relevance: It depicts the relevancy of topic with the field of study for individual benefit.
 Purpose: It describes the main aim of study for which the author has been taken out the
study on particular topic.
 Reliability: Reliability shows the authentication of source from where information has
been extracted.
With above discussion, it is analyzed that these all factors put a significant impact over
the sources from which information is taken out. So, it is required to analyze all these factors
while taking information from internet and other secondary sources.
TASK 3
State sources used throughout the essay
Sources Author Purpose Reliability Relevancy
Book
Deressa, 2018 Here, the main
aim is to analyze
scope of
personal
improvement.
Deressa is a well
known author
and have
command of the
subject of
personal
development &
growth.
The book is
relevant as it
provides
significant
amount of
information for
PDP.
Goyal, 2018 Main aim is to There is It provides

Book evaluate
student’s
behaviour,
personality in
terms of goal
attainment
authentic
information can
be found in the
book.
significant
information on
behavioural and
personal
development
thus have higher
relevancy.
Website
Holtby, 2018 Evaluate
significance of
having long
term goals.
It provides
reliable as well
as authentic
information on
long term goals.
It has great
relevancy in
terms of
formulating and
achieving long
term goals.
Website Hughes, 2020 To give a
knowledge
towards goal
setting of person
It is likely to
provide
significant
information and
knowledge
perspective.
There is great
relevancy due as
it focus on goals
formulation .
Book
Lagosh, 2018 Provide
information
regarding plan
of personal
development.
Lagosh is a
eminent writer
having a lot of
creations on the
area of personal
development.
It offers a wide
framework
regarding
concept of
personal growth
and
development.
Website Manso, 2017 Provide
information
about realistic
goals.
The website has
reliable data for
real goals
The author is
highly qualified
thus clearly link
every set of

information with
real goals
Website
Sawers, 2018 Develop
understanding
regarding
various types of
goals.
It is reliable
website due to
having positive
comments of
users.
There is
relevancy in
terms of
providing clear
information
about type of
goals.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded with above information that personal and professional development are
two important aspect of growth. There is requirement to formulate goals for different time
frames. Further, there is a personal development plan for achieving such goals within stipulated
period of time.

REFRENCES
Books and Journals
Deressa, 2018. Church and Development in Post-Colonial Africa: Revisiting African
Development Plan and the Theology of Reconstruction with the Lens of the Capabilities
Approach.
Goyal, 2018, June. Your behavior signals your reliability: Modeling crowd behavioral traces to
ensure quality relevance annotations. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human
Computation and Crowdsourcing.
Holtby, 2018. Grit, Coping, and Math Anxiety: Examining the Pathways Through Which
Devotion to Long-Term Goals May Promote Student Well-Being.
Hughes, 2020. Goal setting in group programmes for long-term condition self-management
support: experiences of patients and healthcare professionals. Psychology & health,
35(1), pp.70-86.
Lagosh, 2018.The Importance of Relevant Professional Development.
Manso, 2017.ERAS—Anticipated outcomes and realistic goals.Journal of surgical oncology,
116(5), pp.570-577.
Sawers, 2018. Business and Sustainable Development Goals: Student Presentations.
Sun, 2020. Classroom social environment as student emotions' antecedent: Mediating role of
achievement goals. The Journal of Experimental Education, pp.1-12.