Academic Skills Report: Personal & Professional Development Plan

This report provides an overview of personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of setting short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. It discusses essential skills such as effective listening, communication, decision-making, leadership, and conflict management. The report highlights the value of a Personal Development Plan (PDP) in achieving these goals and explores the impact of author credibility, purpose, reliability, and relevance when using sources. An evaluation of eight sources used in the report is included to ensure authenticity and validity. The conclusion emphasizes the significance of professional skills and the role of a well-structured PDP in fostering individual growth, referencing books and journals to support the analysis.

Academic Skills and
PDP

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Personal & professional development is the process in that the people and the company
are completely engaged in order to learn the new ideas and methods by which they can enhance
their learning and reach to the desired goals. This also helps in the developing many skills that
lacks in the personality of the individual & also leads to enhance the available skills.
TASK 1
Define the concept of personal & professional development.
Personal & professional development considered as a life log process in which individual
can analyse their own qualities and skills in order to meet out the given targets. Further it also
helps in the effective management of personal and professional lives.
Describe and discuss the value of short term goals anlysing at least 3 personal examples.
It is stated that the goals which are being made for shorter period time and analyse the
gap in the future actions and the current working of the individual. Following are the explains
skill for personal and professional development for short-term goal.
 Effective Listening qualitis.
 Communication Skills
 Interpersonal Skills.
Describe and discuss the value of medium term goals analyse at least 3 personal examples.
The goals that take a bit longer time in order to accomplish. This basically set a bridge
the gap in the short & long term gaols. This basically achieved within 1 to 3 years. Skills needed
to attains such goals are:
 Decision Making Skills.
 Information & Technology Skills.
 Quick problem solver
Describe & discuss the importance of long term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples.
These are the goals which are fixed after the detailed planning and inclusion of
formation of plan so that they can attained with the right approach. These goals are split into
small task so that they can achieve the overall consideration in the effectiveness.
 Leadership qualities.

 Conflict Management Skills.
 Time management Skills.
Describe & discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan & construct an example using
your identified goals
In order to have the appropriate PDP point, an individual require the skills, competency
development and objectives. This is created by the manager in which they work closely with the
employees so that they can identify the required resources and skills by which goal can be
achieved in an appropriate manner.
TASK 2
Describe and discuss how ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ affect the use of a
source.
It is vital to have the reference from the given sources, this is vital to analyse and check
the relevance so that they can ensure the authentic. When the people while doing any assessment
in which such sources of its consideration which thinks has a common aim with the assessment
and it is reliable in order to work effective.
TASK 3
Write an evaluation of eight sources you have used in the report plan.
Numbe
r of
sources
Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
1 Eisele, L., Grohnert,
T., Beausaert, S. and
Segers, M.,
The purpose is to
analyse the better
analysis and the
conditions in order
to formulate the
PDP.
It is the type of
reliable data who is
written by
copyrighted author.
The given
content is relevant
as this focuses on
the personal
development.
2 Beausaert, S., Segers,
M. and Gijselaers,
W.,
This access the
mindset and choices
of the workers with
This article is given
by an expert writer
who have good
Focuses on
provided the
practical

Numbe
r of
sources
Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
the use of PDP and
their further learning
knowledge of subject
matter.
knowledge of the
matter.
3 Lejeune, C.,
Beausaert, S. and
Raemdonck, I., 2018.
The main purpose
of this is to give the
practical analysis for
enhancing overall
job.
This basically
provides the
practical and real
examples. Thus, it is
reliable.
This is related t
the topic as this
described the
PDP and its
values.
4 Tasker, F. This offers he
outline to learn
about the PDP.
It is given by a
copyrighted author.
Thus it is reliable.
It access the
insight in order to
make the PDP so
it is relevant.
5 Katz, N.H., Lawyer,
J.W., Sweedler, M.,
Tokar, P. and Sossa,
K.J.,
This gives the
effectiveness for
Professional and
Personal
development.
It is enlisted by an
expert writer with
less hypothetical and
more real examples.
It gives skills
needed for
personal &
professional
betterment.
6 Kolotouchkina, O.,
Gonzálvez Vallés,
J.E. and Alonso
Mosquera, M.D.H.,
This analyse the
influence of
effective
professional skills.
It is stated by the
famous author and it
is relaibale.
It has addressed
issues and
benefits to solve
it for having
enhancing
professional
skills.
7 Ahmed, F., 2018 This aims to analyse
the effective skills
related to
It is given by a
professional & well
expert author.
It states that the
the skills needed
for professional &

Numbe
r of
sources
Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
communication and
leadership.
personal
enhancement.
8 Artyukhina, A.I.,
Velikanov, V.V.,
Velikanova, O.F. and
Tretyak, S.V.,
This aims to analyse
the betterment for
personal skills
enhancement.
It is stated by the
well knoen and
copyrighted writer.
It is reliable as it
give real
examples to
inculcate
individual skills.
CONCLUSION
From the given report, it is concluded that the professional skills which are vital for the
entire enhacement of the learner. An effective PDP will work for enhancing the development of
the people. Moro ever, author, relevance, purpose and reliability of source will helps in making
the authentic work. Lastly, it also analyse the evaluation of eight sources in order to understand
the authenticity of work.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Lejeune, C., Beausaert, S. and Raemdonck, I., 2018. The impact on employees’ job performance
of exercising self-directed learning within personal development plan practice. The
International Journal of Human Resource Management, pp.1-27.
Katz and et. al., 2020. Communication and conflict resolution skills. Kendall Hunt Publishing.
Beausaert, S., Segers, M. and Gijselaers, W., 2011. The Personal Development Plan Practice
Questionnaire: the development and validation of an instrument to assess the employee's
perception of personal development plan practice. International Journal of Training and
Development. 15(4). pp.249-270.
Ahmed, F., 2018. Leadership and management influences on personal and professional
development and group dynamics: a student’s experience. Nursing children and young
people. 30(2).
Tasker, F., 2015. How to prepare a personal development plan. BMJ.351 .
Kolotouchkina, O., Gonzálvez Vallés, J.E. and Alonso Mosquera, M.D.H., 2020. Fostering Key
Professional Skills and Social Activism Through Experiential Learning Projects in
Communication and Advertising Education. Journalism & Mass Communication
Educator, p.1077695820919633.