Academic Skills and Personal Development Plan Analysis Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of personal and professional development plans, focusing on the importance of academic skills and goal setting. It defines personal development plans, highlighting their role in identifying strengths and weaknesses to achieve personal and professional objectives. The report emphasizes the significance of short, medium, and long-term goals, providing examples for each and explaining their value in career progression. It also discusses the five key areas of personal development (mental, emotional, social, and physical) and underscores the importance of continuous learning. The report concludes by summarizing the key elements of a successful personal development plan, including self-awareness, goal setting, and the need for continuous improvement to enhance skills and achieve desired outcomes. The report is designed to help individuals plan their career and personal development through the identification of key areas that need development.

Academic Skills and
Personal Development
Plan

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................................2
The concept of Personal and Professional Development Plan.................................................................2
Value of short term goals with examples.................................................................................................2
Value of medium term goals with examples............................................................................................3
Value of long term goals with examples..................................................................................................3
Discuss the value of Personal development plan.....................................................................................4
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................6
Books and Journals:.................................................................................................................................6
APPENDIX................................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are the habits and talents that aids academic chases such as report
writing, learning, presentations, and research. These includes varieties of skills such as social
planning, test taking, technical skills, communication skills and so on (Bentley, N. L. and Et.al.,
2019). This helps to encourage learner to become more productive in their work which includes
critical thinking in order to succeed in their career. Personal development plan is a concept in
which an action plan is created on the basis of awareness, values, goal setting, plan in which
strengths are examined and identified what type of skills a person is required to improve.
MAIN BODY
The concept of Personal and Professional Development Plan
Personal development plan is consist with planning for a long time period of an
individual in order to identify the methods or ways through which they can get their personal and
professional objective in a certain time. It is consist with goals, values as well as reflection about
personal development of an individual (Coleman, J. N. and Et.al., 2021). Personal development
plan is based on skills which has to be developed by an individual to opt their career goals as
well as personal goals. Personal development plan should be created by manager where an
individual is working so that in order to develop skills first they identify the important skills and
resources that helps to support and organize their employee in the requirements of organisation.
The chief role of personal development plan is to examine those areas of an individual which is
related with identification of strength and weakness in order to plan for a longer period that will
optimize their manageable abilities and skills. It supports an individual in order to develop their
career and personal development through which they examine some key areas that needs
development. It has been identified that there are five major personal development areas which
needs development that is mental emotional social and physical. An individual must develop his
mind set in order to achieve them in a particular time period in which new learning is always
vital to solve problems which they are facing in their life. A personal development plan must
consider with the proper format and a structure; also it should be update on timely basis in order
to think about career objectives of future that they will required to get with a proper
concentration and coordination.
Value of short term goals with examples
The short term goals of an individual considered with the goals which are related with the
near future which can be completed within a week, month or year. It is referred to those goals
which can be achieved as soon as possible. It is a very smart to accomplish the big career
achievements in order to manage time. It is considered with the time period that should be
completed within the 12 months or less than a year. It is also very important to accomplish and
identify the future objectives. In order to set a short term objectives of an individual they can
take help with the accomplishment of better results in a productive way at their workplace or in
order to get proficiency in their job. It will be very supportive to increase or enhance their
motivation level because it will be much convenient for individuals to easily get their objectives

and determined there results in a better way so that they can move forward easily in their future.
An individual must be very clear with his direction which will going to help to reach the long
term goals with more effort and proper into this. It will assist them to reduce energy and save
time. It can be considered as a milestone in order to reach a goal with the proper journey and
helps how an individual have come through his journey and how far he will go with his ultimate
decisions. This needs a significant attention with a clear path that allows an individual to be more
focused in order to save efforts and his time (Hernández, E., 2020). This can be only possible
when he stays motivated and focused on to increase profitability and productivity in an
organisation as well as supportive for learners. Short term goals are significant in order to get
focused with their career goals that helps to easily reach their long-term goals. It will provide
guidance that how long they need to go in their journey. Career development plan is also very
significant through which he can increase and enhance their objectives in a definite period of
time. Short goals can be better understand with some examples:-
 Daily reading of two books for a month.
 To develop my personality so attending seminars or conferences in every month.
 Daily morning exercise for a month in order to develop and maintain a routine.
Value of medium term goals with examples
Medium term goals said to be completed in between short term goals and medium term
goals and where time of completion is 3 to 5 years. In order to achieve medium term goals an
individual must need to monitor as well as organized plan because it needs determination that an
individual is sure about their goals. It helps an individual to stay motivated in order to achieve
their long-term goals in their life. Achieving of medium term goals helps an organisation to
ready to progress further in achieving the long-term goals. Medium term goals represents that
short term goals are achieved. Medium term goals must be very complicated to save energy and
money in order to get done. Medium term goals also helps an individual to face risk and manage
time in their work and personal life (Koole, S. L. and Et.al., 2019). The value of medium term
goals is to progress and evaluate whether it is directing towards their goals have been achieved
on what plan that required to be changed. It is also very important for the students to set a
medium term goals because it is based on long-term values and vision it will help them to create
more opportunities at personal and professional levels. It is important for both aspects that takes
a required time in order to progress and needs a particular time period. It is also very important
to get medium term goals that he should make connections so that it can be available on that
time. Medium term goals are mentioned with some examples:-
 Graduate with some degree.
 To start a new venture within two or three years.
 Develop new skills.
Value of long term goals with examples
Long term goals are very important for an individual for his career in order to get
something very important in their future. It takes a lot of time to get a long term objective done.
It is necessitate with the proper planning and time management and usually it many years to get
completed. It is also necessitate with multiple steps which are required for the completion

(Leung, H. and Et.al., 2019). An individual have to work on certain things and develop his
overall skills so that he can get their long-term objectives in a productive way. These are such
goals which takes significant time and effort but it is very essential and significant for anyone's
life if they have a plan in order to get done. These goals last for an entire working life and assists
with thinking about qualification education system on what type of career they need to develop.
It is involve with important future decisions that what kind of goal an individual desire
(Marovelli, B., 2019). Long term goals are considered with three types of goals such as personal
goals, financial goal as well as career goal. It can take up to or more than five years in order to
get completed but it is progressed from year to year. These goals cannot be done in few hours,
few days, few months or a few years it takes a distinct planning and requires sufficient patience
so that an individual will get his long-term goals. It requires proper dedication of work with short
term objectives and medium term objective. These goals add a significant meaning to an
individual’s life which is very important for career as well as for their life. Examples of long
term goals:-
 CEO position of a well-known reputed firm.
 Build my personal house.
 Work on productive projects.
Discuss the value of Personal development plan
Personal development plan is also known as individual development plan which is used
for self-awareness, aspirations, education, values and training which is specified to be realized. It
is a course of action which is used to create a lifestyle, setting goals, embraces several risk as
well as various alternative plans are to be taken into account. It is essential to improve CV for
those employees make and involvement of participation in training and development in order to
attain their development plan and understand their goals and objectives. It is a significant
procedure which an individual needs to improve his skills, habits through many activities in
order to increase their standards of life. These plans are generally plan in organisation whereas
learning or self-improving which is considered with career action plan to fulfill their personal.
academic or career based objective. While developing a personal development plan it is
significant to outlines those objective which are vital for an individual (Scott, G., 2020). They
are emphasis with personal vision for the near future of an individual which give the clear
direction what they have to achieve in a few months or years. It is very essential to target there
future personal or professional plans in order to progress in the organisation also to meet with
those objective with all aspects. There are several personal development plans are used to plan
with the different things which embraces career change or moving forward with further
education system which may include training, organising or monitoring with those actions which
helps to improve oneself (Continue to appendix 1).
CONCLUSION
From the above about it has been concluded that personal and professional development
plan is a significant procedure in order to enhance and improve the skills and talent of an
individual as well as determined courses or strategies in order to accomplish those objectives.
These are compared with required skills, talent and competencies which is developed by a

manager with identification of some required skills and resources that help their employees in
order to gain their personal and professional objective. It would be dragged to examine the
strength and weakness of an individual and plan according to get their objectives them. This
report is covered with many topics such as concept of personal and professional development
plan, values of three important goal in life with definite examples as well as discussed meaning
of personal development plan.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Bentley, N. L. and Et.al., 2019. 53. DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRESS NOTE ASSESSMENT
AND PLAN EVALUATION (PNAPE) TOOL. Academic Pediatrics, 19(6), pp.e24-e25.
Coleman, J. N. and Et.al., 2021. “I did not plan… that is what hurts”: Pregnancy intentions and
contraceptive use among pregnant young women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. African
Journal of AIDS Research, pp.1-9.
Hernández, E., 2020. Administración educativa. Plan de desarrollo de carrera para docentes en
servicio. Revista de Propuestas Educativas, 2(4), pp.118-138.
Koole, S. L. and Et.al., 2019. Becoming who you are: An integrative review of self‐
determination theory and personality systems interactions theory. Journal of personality, 87(1),
pp.15-36.
Leung, H. and Et.al., 2019. Development of contextually-relevant sexuality education: Lessons
from a comprehensive review of adolescent sexuality education across cultures. International
journal of environmental research and public health, 16(4), p.621.
Marovelli, B., 2019. Cooking and eating together in London: Food sharing initiatives as
collective spaces of encounter. Geoforum, 99, pp.190-201.
Scott, G., 2020. Change matters: Making a difference in education and training. Routledge.
Thomas, B.P. and Thomas-Slayter, B., 2019. Politics, Participation, and Poverty: Development
through self-help in Kenya. Routledge.
Tian, Z., Li and Et.al., 2019. Block-DEF: A secure digital evidence framework using
blockchain. Information Sciences, 491, pp.151-165.

APPENDIX
1. Personal Development Plan:
Skills to be
developed
Development plan Resources Target date
Learning new skills In order to develop
my skills and talent,
are acquire
knowledge, provide
current affairs
foundations.
Online learning , attend
seminars, websites.
By July 2021
Position to CEO To work hard under
my seniors.
Managing time and
take important
decisions which will
exclude my skills
and talent.
Thomas, B.P. and
Thomas-Slayter, B.,
2019. Politics,
Participation, and
Poverty: Development
through self-help in
Kenya. Routledge.
By august 2021
To start a new
business
To create a new
venture it should be
investigate and learn
which is best for to
start a venture.
Secondly rent a small
portion of land in
UK.
Tian, Z., Li and Et.al.,
2019. Block-DEF: A
secure digital evidence
framework using
blockchain. Informatio
n Sciences, 491,
pp.151-165.
By December 2021