Academic Skills and PDP: Report on Personal Development Planning

This report provides an overview of academic skills and personal and professional development plans (PDP). It discusses the core values of an individual, including talent, habits, learning strategies, and time management, and how these support learning. The report defines PDP as an action plan that includes skills, awareness, reflection, values, and planning to improve oneself in career and education. It highlights the importance of short, medium, and long-term goals, providing examples of each and explaining how they contribute to personal and professional growth. Furthermore, the report emphasizes the value of a personal development plan in identifying areas for improvement, boosting motivation, enhancing decision-making skills, and improving work-life balance. The conclusion summarizes that PDP is a tool that helps individuals enhance their knowledge, moral confidence, and skills.

Academic Skills and
PDP

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills is a term which describe the core values of an individual which includes
talent, habits, learning strategies and various tools for time management that supports a learner to
study and learn those exercises (Bennett, B., 2017). Learning skills will help an individual to
become more efficient and productive in their personal and professional life. Personal and
professional development plan describes a concept which includes an action plan of an
individual which is consist with skills, awareness, reflection, values and planning in order to
improve oneself in his career and education. This will also support to increase the confidence
level in order to present in a bunch of people which includes notetaking skills as well as critical
thinking which are very significant for an individual’s success.
MAIN BODY
The concept of personal and professional development plan.
Personal and professional development plan can be described as a course and pursuit of
enhancing oneself in which individual’s life is improving through various activities and
conscious habits. It can be understood as an official record of an individual which requires to
improve. It can be taken as a reflection of individual which helps him to understand his goals in
order to achieve them and how will he achieve them. It helps an individual to be focused and
think about its future which includes his skills, qualification as well as promotion in order to get
something. For employees, it is a source of discovery, inspiration as well as motivation
(Clemmer, J., 2019). For employers, it can help them to evaluate the performance of employees
and provide them as a basis of personal appraisals in which they are notified about goals of an
organisation which can also meet with the individual goals. It also act as a guide rope in which
individual focus is in line in the course. Employers in the organisation evaluate how employees
meet with their goals, they provides an opportunity to grab it which helps in individual to learn,
study and develop more. Personal development plan as a critical source is an investment in
which individual life is managed in the best appropriate way it also involves obstacles and
hurdles along the way. An individual need to be proactive instead of waiting stuff to be takes
place. It makes an individual to step forward by himself to make it happen. It supports him and
work as a road map in which he set goals for his life in which he can think about his interest,
capability, creating skills, opportunities, competencies and much more. He analyze himself and
evaluate his strength and weakness in order to work on it so that he can be more efficient and
productive in his personal and work life. Personal development plan includes short term, medium
term and long term goals which must be carefully formatting and must be up to date on regular
basis.
Value of short term goals with examples.
Short term goals defines that goals which can be achieved something in the near future. It
can be achieved today, it can takes a week or month but it does not takes more than a year. It
makes an individual to think about his future what he can do right for that and how it will help to
manage the intervals. Short term goals are such goals that requires to complete within a
minimum time period (Irvine, S., Haman, H. and Pringle, M., 2018). These goals are such goals

that it can be achieved in a minimum time period but the completion of such goals can help an
individual in order to achieve something bigger in his personal and professional life. This must
be specific and actionable so that an individual move through it on a regular basis. An individual
moves forward with his first step towards the future. The period of completion of short term
goals mean very from person to person as well as it is also depends on the objectives. An
individual must be keep in his mind that these goals must be completed within the 12 months. It
makes an individual and signifies his life in personal and professional life and become more
productive in their professional life as well as being more satisfied in their jobs (Lodders, N. and
Meijers, F., 2017). Short term goals helps an individual to be more focused towards their long
term goals in future. Short term goals are act as a roadmap for an individual in order to achieve
long-term objectives for his life.
Examples of Short term goals:
 Improve communication skills and try to communicate more with other employee.
 Manage more effectively work life.
 Make an own website.
Value of medium term goals with examples.
Medium term goals are set in between short term and long term goals. When these goals
are established it encourages and motivates an individual in order to take short steps which is
necessary in order to get the long term objectives get sound. Medium term goals requires
minimum 3 to 5 years to be completed. An individual is required to pay attention and must
record the progress in order to track in which visible progress will support a learner as well as
know how much it require more time to get completed. This goals also shows that short term
goals are completed. It makes an individual to face risk and problems in his life and how can he
manage time effectively in their career and personal life. These goals are long enough and useful
to make an imperative progress and short enough that a person's values and priorities won't be
deeply disparate by the time he achieved the objectives. It also represents that how an individual
is determined with his goals and monitor on the timely basis.
Examples of medium term goals:
 Get a master’s degree.
 Planning to start in business.
 Become the manager of team.
Value of long term goals with examples.
Long term goals are those goals in which an individual desires to get something in his
development in the future which needs patience, time and proper planning. These goals take
more than 5 years to be accomplished. An individual needed multiple steps to move forward in
order to achieve long-term objectives which may include short term goals as well as medium
term goals. It supports a person to go through to his decision about career and education and the
development which he require in his future (Ma, R., 2021). These goals are very significant for
the purpose of career in which a person can think about future and job plan in which he want to
grow and maintain his career. These goals helps to make a person significant, defines who is he,

what he want to achieve in his life and where he is going. Long term goals provides direction,
purpose and values in a person's life. This includes stuck satisfaction consequences not in weeks,
months or years but take an appropriate time with concentration. These goals makes a person
significant in his professional life as well as work life where an employer may get to know that
he has a convincing and genuine goals which can help to fulfill the organisation goals as well as
his personal goals. This goals signifies that a person is motivated, ambitious and passionate in his
work in the organisation. When a person newly recruit in the business the employer need to
know that he will stay for a short term period or provides his dedication to the organisation as
hiring and training process is pretty costly. Long term goals requests patience and focus to stay
uninterrupted awaiting a person achieve the ultimate objectives of his life (Manwaring, G.,
2017). It requires proper dedication of work in all goals. A person must be focused and must
have to work hard to develop his overall skills so that he can achieve long term goals in the best
suitable manner. These goals are such goals which last for the whole life of a person and
supports in his key choices of life.
Examples of Long term objectives:
 Learn a French language.
 Improve the emotional intelligence.
 Start volunteering on a regular basis.
Value of a personal development plan.
Personal development plan is also understood as individual development plan or personal
enterprise plan. It specifies a report in which aspirations, strengths, education and training
competencies, stages or steps of a learner are included which reflects that how a plan is to be
cherished. It embraces a person analysis of lifestyle, positioning, opportunities, threats, risks,
curriculum vitae and so on. PDP helps a person in a simplest way to plan for future, establish the
direction in order to grow in his career, makes responsible towards career. It is considered as a
lifelong process of a person which must be frequently revised. The objective of PDP plan is to
make easier an ongoing employability through required knowledge and improving corporate
skills. Whatever ambitions and objectives a person grips an altered into the real-world action
plan drafting an organized course and implementing that takes current learning, exchangeable
skills, training requirements as well as perceived obstacles to results. This can be considered as a
reflection of a person which provides honest appraisal by including strengths and weaknesses of
a person. It enables a person to know what appropriate leadership is required to him and what
management training is required to him. A person must be aware about his idea about their
personal and professional objectives in order to deliver strategic plan so that he can guide
accordingly in order to achieve those objectives (Mendenhall, M.E., 2018). The very start stage
of PDP plan needs a certain degree of clear vision, honest self-analysis and a goal which should
be imperative to the corporate goals. It highlights and signifies in order to differentiate all of the
above mentioned goals. PDP can be prepared in many formats and structure, some of them may
be complex and others are not. It does not include right or wrong structure to create a PDP plan
but somehow supports and person and offer an idea towards work and make them visible and
motivated in their progress of success. The personal development plan outlines the personal

objectives of a person, defines how significant they are as well as facilitate what plans are
accessible in order to accomplish them (Ward, E., 2019). It will also need to formalize any
hurdles that might get in his growth but it can be overcome with the help of contingency plan
through which a person will be moving forward without any hassle. (Continue to appendix. 1)
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been summarized that personal development plan is a tool
which helps to detect the appropriate areas which requires development so that it will help an
individual in their personal and professional life both. These plans are very important in a
person's life which helps to boost motivation and enhance his decision making skills. It is also
signifies the work life balance. Therefore, this process of personal and professional development
plan improve their knowledge moral confidence and skills of an individual.

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APPENDIX
1. Personal Development Plan
Skills to be
developed
Development plan Resources Target date
Learning new skills
(communication
skills)
Being a person and a
learner in my
corporate field I have
to be confident
enough in order to
communicate with
my colleagues and
other employees in
the organisation
without any hassle. I
have the personalities
that attracts others but
have to improve my
communication skills
in order to improve
my presence among
others and give and
take knowledge and
opinions. I need to
grab opportunities
and perform several
activities in order to
make a better
communication
which can be helpful
to improve my skills
Online learning,
attend seminars and
Websites,
By December 2021

in a productive way.
To start a new
business
I am planning to
development
entrepreneurship
skills for which I
have to learn and
explore the
knowledge about
ownership. I am
looking forward to
make an investment
with a small part of
land.
Mulders, M.,
2019. 101
management models.
Routledge.
By July 2022
Learn to speak
foreign language
(French)
I am speaking to
speak and learn
French language and
increase my
knowledge in other
languages. Watching
videos and online
sessions will help me
to learn French.
Passmore, J. and
Sinclair, T., 2020.
Progressing your
Coaching Skills.
In Becoming a
Coach (pp. 247-257).
Springer, Cham.
By December 2025