Personal Development and Planning: Goals, Strategies, and Evaluation

This assignment presents a comprehensive personal development plan, outlining the importance of personal and professional growth. It delves into the value of short, medium, and long-term goals, providing examples for each. The document includes a detailed personal development plan table, specifying goals, activities, resources, timeframes, and success criteria. Additionally, it discusses the role of personal development planning in achieving objectives and enhancing skills. The assignment also addresses source evaluation, emphasizing the author's purpose, reliability, and relevance, and includes an application of the CRAAP test for assessing source credibility. The document concludes with a table summarizing the author, purpose, reliability, and relevance of the cited sources.

Personal planing and
development

Table of Contents
TASK One.......................................................................................................................................3
1. Personal and professional development..................................................................................3
2. Value of short term goals........................................................................................................3
3.Value of medium term goals....................................................................................................3
4.Value of long term goals..........................................................................................................4
Task Two.........................................................................................................................................6
Task Three.......................................................................................................................................6

TASK One
1. Personal and professional development
Personal development refers to a lifelong process that helps individual person in
identifying their skills and qualities. It helps in determining ability of a person and improves
skills for better future. Personal development skills helps in improving qualities that are essential
at workplace. It aims at setting goals in order to maximise potential of individual. It is important
to develop personal skills because it is used at workplace. It may includes following activities
like, improving self awareness, career, developing strengths or talents, improving health, social
status (Albrecht, Moscardo and Dwyer).
Professional development can be defined as training and education that an individual
person is required to get future growth in life. Thee are different skills which are essential at
workplace and different jobs are having various needs. A person should have some important
skills that are needed in every company such as, good communication skills, interpersonal skills,
teamwork skills, problem solving, leadership. Some examples of professional development are,
continuing education, research, improve job performance, skill based training, increased duties
and responsibilities, approaches to professional development (Hildebrand).
2. Value of short term goals
Short term goal is defined as something that an individual person wants to achieve in
some time or near future which means in week, month or today. These goals are made to achieve
success in future and help in developing personal and professional skills. Sometimes, to achieve
long term goals short plans are made to ensure that targets can be achieved (Serin).
Personal short term goals are:
 I want to make proper time table to manage my day to day activities.
 I want to improve my personality.
 I want to explore something new everyday.
3.Value of medium term goals
Medium term goals can be defined as goals that is to be achieved within 2weeks , a
month or till 6 months. These goals are made when an individual person fails to accomplish short
term goals but want to achieve long term goals (Ahmed).

Personal medium term goals are :
 I want to enhance my knowledge.
 I want to get good job.
 I want to improve my communication skills.
4.Value of long term goals
Long term goals can be defined as activities that need significant time, proper planning
and efforts. These goals should be achieved by making proper plans or strategies and focus on
accomplishing targets and helps in improving skills that are essential at workplace. These goals
need time to be achieved like, 10 months,one year, 2 year or more than that. It requires proper
planning and at every step improvements should be made in plans so that goals and objectives
can be accomplished within the time which was set (Jansen and et.al).
Personal long term goals are:
 I want to buy a house.
 I want to complete my studies.
 I want to go start my business.
Personal Development Plan
Goals need to be
achieved
Activities that
need to be
undertaken
Resources Time Criteria for
success
Make time table I need to make
time table to
improve my time
management
skills and follow
that.
I will take help
from my friends
and my teachers
to make time
table.
Within 2 weeks After achieving
my goal I will
able to manage
my time
properly and
complete my
work on time.
This will help
me in future at
workplace to

manage my day
to day activities
on time.
Get a good job I have to work
hard and
complete my
education with
good marks.
Take help from
google and search
companies which
is appropriate for
me.
I will achieve this
goals within 6
months.
If I will work
hard and get job
then I can
purchase a
house.
Buy a house For achieving this
goal I have to get
good job.
Search place
where I want to
buy house and
price with the
help of google.
I will achieve this
goal within 1
year.
This is my long
term goal which
I have to
achieved and I
will be happy
after
accomplishing
my goal.
Role of personal development planning
Personal development planning helps an individual person in achieving its goals and
objectives within time that is fixed. While making plans a person should identify short
term,medium term and long term goals that are to be achieved and set the time frame within
which a person want to achieve. It helps in developing plans or strategies to accomplish set goals
and also helps in identifying skills to be improved (Christie and et.al).
It plays an important role in developing skills and qualities of individual person. It
provides an view that helps in improving performance, personality and enhance knowledge. This
helps in identifying strengths and weakness of individual person. Essential steps are being taken
to improve the qualities and ability to adopt change (Markham, Gentile and Graham).

Task Two
Author, purpose, reliability and relevance affect the use of source as it helps in
understanding the topic and can better write content. Relevant information is gathered and if
proper author is being taken then it helps in collecting better thought and easily understand
thongs. Purpose of using source is to get proper and relevant information. Sources provide
reliable and relevant information related to topic and only useful material is taken (Mahlanze and
Sibiya).
CRAAP TEST
The test provides different questions to ask when deciding that source which is collected
is reliable or not, check that whether it is relevant and credible enough to use that information in
making project. CRAAP refers to currency, relevance, authority, accuracy and purpose. As in
this project information is collected after reading many topic s of different authors and then write
the best content out of it. CRAAP test is applied so that proper information can be collected and
purpose of gathering information can be described. This helps in identifying that sources can be
trusted or not.
Task Three
Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
Albrecht, J.N.,
Moscardo, G. and
Dwyer, T.,
Get information on
personal development
Yes, the information
was useful as I came
to know about
personal development.
Yes it was relevant as
it help me in defining
what is personal
development and its
importance.
Hildebrand, J. role of professional
development
Yes, as I know about
what is the role of
professional
development.
It was relevant as I get
knowledge about
professional
development.

Serin, H understand
professional
development
It helps me in
understanding the
professional
development.
The author describes
about professional
development, its
benefits and important
at workplace.
Jansen, M., Lund,
D.W., Baume, K.,
Lillyman, S., Rooney,
K. and Nielsen, D.S.
information about
personal development
plan
Yes it was reliable as I
get help in making
personal development
plan.
Authors describe what
is personal
development plan and
how it is made.
Christie, H., Cree,
V.E., Mullins, E. and
Tett, L
short term goals Yes, in this short term
goals are described by
author.
Author give relevant
information on short
term goals and how
skills can be improve.
Markham, M.J.,
Gentile, D. and
Graham, D.L
information related to
medium term goals
I write about medium
term goals after
reading the article by
author.
This information is
reliable because I
make my goals after
reading article.
Mahlanze, H.T. and
Sibiya, M.N.
long term goals The author describes
long term goals which
was helpful for me.
Source which I use
was relevant and my
purpose of getting
information about long
term goals is fulfilled.
Ahmed, F., development of skills This helps me in
learning about why it
is important to develop
skills.
It provides me details
about development of
skills and some skills
that are essential at
workplace.