Creating a Personal & Professional Development Plan for Success

This report provides a comprehensive overview of personal and professional development, emphasizing its importance in both academic and career life. It explains the difference between personal and professional development plans, highlighting how each contributes to an individual's growth and skill enhancement. The report details short, medium, and long-term goals, providing examples and discussing their respective values and importance. It also examines the significance of a personal development plan, its role in improving skills, and enhancing work quality. Furthermore, the report evaluates the impact of author, purpose, reliability, and relevance on the utilization of sources within the project, offering a critical assessment of the sources used and concluding that personal and professional development are crucial for achieving competency and success.

Personal and
professional
development plan

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Explanation of personal and professional development plan......................................................3
Overview of short term goals with relevant examples................................................................3
Value of medium-term goals along with different examples......................................................4
Importance of long term goals with examples............................................................................4
Significance of personal development plan................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
The ways in which author, purpose, reliability and relevance impact on utilisation of a source
.....................................................................................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
Evaluation of sources which are used in this project..................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
In academic and career life personal and professional development play an important role
by developing personality and knowledge of a candidate. Many institutions in this competitive
environment focus on professional and personal development in order to make student
competition oriented (Ahmed, 2018). It is important for an institution to focus on personal and
professional development to develop overall nurturing of a candidate. In this report there is a
brief explanation of professional and personal development. This project also covers a brief
overview of short, medium and long term goals with specific examples. The project also contains
value and importance of personal development plan in career and academic life. This project also
covers the ways in which different authors, purpose, reliability and relevance affect use of any
particular source.
TASK 1
Explanation of personal and professional development plan
Personal development plan
The personal development plan is related to personal life of an individual where the
opportunity to enhance skills related to social life is covered in a precise manner. Personal
development mainly increases strengthens and skills of an individual which are essential for
personality development (Allen-Johnson, 2017)). It is the major responsibility of a person to
formulate personal development plan with extensive self assessment to gain growth in life.
Professional development plan
In life of an individual the professional development is a major document which is
helpful in development of career related skills. In the era of stiff comparison between different
companies, various companies demand professional skills which are to be fulfilled with the help
of professional development plan (Allen, 2019). In order to increase confidence related to
professional life it is important for an individual to give focus on professional development plan.
Overview of short term goals with relevant examples
The short-term goals are targets which are to be achieved by an individual in a time
period of 6 months or less than 6 moths (Klobes, 2018). These goals are simplified in a specific
sense in order to provide a candidate opportunity to achieve them in a short period of time.
Examples

 Development of problem solving skills
 Enhancing time management skills
 Development of communication skills
Value of medium-term goals along with different examples
Medium-term goals are generally framed for the period of 1 year and achieved
accordingly (Howard, 2020). It is easier for a candidate to achieve medium term goals as they are
set for a limited time frame. The medium term goals are helpful in development of personality of
a candidate and are helpful in growth in a medium span of time.
Examples
 Increasing reasoning skills
 Development of managerial skills
 Stress elimination
Importance of long term goals with examples
Long term goals are considered as time consuming goals as they are for the time period
of more than 1 year (Bond, 2020). These goals develop intelligence and experience in an
individual which are very useful in career and academic life.
Examples
Significance of personal development plan
In career and in personal life personal development play a major role by increasing skills
of a candidate in a precise manner. It should be compulsory for all students in their career related
life to develop personal development plan for personal growth. The personal development plan
increases importance of a candidate in social life and increase engagement of a person in
academic life (Baecher, 2020). Another importance of personal development plan is it improves
quality of work or task performed by a candidate.
Goals Learnt Tactics Used Support and
resources required
How success is
measured?
Target date
for review
Communication
skills
I will improve
my
communication
I will take support
of my father.
I will decide a
time period for
achievement of
8 months

skills by going
through support
of my seniors,
this goal.
Time
management
skills
I will read books
related to time
management
(Caena, 2021).
I will take support
from online articles
that are related to
time management.
I will acquire
knowledge from
different
management
models of time
management
(Ermasova, 2017)
3 years
Saving funds I will try to save
maximum funds
in bank by self
motivation
I will take advice
from my mother.
I will estimate the
cash flow budget
to check the flow
of the cash (Geia,
2017).
3 years
TASK 2
The ways in which author, purpose, reliability and relevance impact on utilisation of a source
While using a source there is main impact caused by author, reliability and relevance so a
reader or write must consider them in a precise manner (Choudhury, 2019). The information is
main part of knowledge which totally depends on the ideology of the author. Purpose also fulfils
the main aim behind study in which a particular knowledge is distributed in the mind of
candidate. In the academic life research reliability depends on different sources due to which it
has to be real and genuine (Davies, 2017). Sometimes hypothetical knowledge which is
developed by author is also prove wrongful and misguides all the contents.
TASK 3
Evaluation of sources which are used in this project
Sources Author Purpose Relevance

Book (Lim, 2018) This book is helpful in
social life development
of an individual.
It is relevant for
professional life
development of
individual.
Book (Makovec,
2018)
It helps in increasing
time management skills.
This book is relevant for
youngsters and adults for
career development.
Book (Morozova,
2020)
The main purpose to
develop behaviour and
personality of a
candidate.
This book is relevant for
immediate motivation.
Book (Pugh, 2020) In the academic life this
book is important for
personality development.
This book is important
for motivating and
developing time
management skills
Book (Schmidt,
2017)
Helpful in increasing
problem solving skills
It is related to develop IT
related skills.
Book (Sergeeva,
2019)
It develops a brief
practical knowledge
In this book there is a
significant relevance for
management skills.
Book (vonSuchodol
etz,
2018)
It is important in
development of career
related skills
The understanding of
deep knowledge about a
particular subject related
to personality.
Book (Weller, 2019) The development of
academic skills
It helps in providing the
guidance through the use
of team teaching.

CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it can be concluded that personal and professional
development play a crucial role in life of an individual. This report concludes that an individual
must develop a professional development plan with stating short, medium and long term goals
and achieve them in specified time frame. This project also concludes that it is important for a
candidate to create a deep understanding of professional and personal development in order to
gain competency edge in career related life.

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