Personal Development Plan: Concepts and Source Evaluation Report

This report delves into the concepts of personal and professional development, defining key terms and exploring the value of short, medium, and long-term goals. It provides personal examples for each goal type, illustrating how individuals can plan for their future. The report also discusses the significance of a personal development plan, outlining its structure and benefits. Furthermore, it examines how factors like author, purpose, reliability, and relevance impact the use of sources. The report evaluates eight sources based on these criteria, providing insights into their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, the report includes a detailed personal development plan based on the goals that have been identified within the report.

Report plan and
evaluation of sources

Table of Contents
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

TASK 1
Definition of personal along with professional development concepts
The concept of personal development is defined as the procedure to improve oneself with
help of activities related to enhancing working skills, building wealth as well as increasing
consciousness.
Professional development is defined to learning for earning or upholding credentials
related to academic degrees for attending conferences, informal learning opportunities together
with formal coursework.
Description as well as discussion of values related to short-term goals with identifying 3
personal examples
Short term are valued more as they are easily accomplished, lay down defined success
path, helps in focusing one thing at one time and keeps a person on track for achieving further
goals. The examples of short term goals are as identified:
 Learning something new in coming 1 week.
 Improve communication skills in 1 month.
 Overcoming tendency for procrastination in upcoming 2 months.
Description along with discussion on values for medium-term goals as well as identifying 3
personal examples
Medium term goals have huge values as they odds with progressions, organises different
curriculums aspects and assist in tracking performances time to time. Certain examples related to
mod term goals are identified underneath:
 Developing social networking skills in 5 months.
 Learning other languages and gaining mastery in them in 1 year.
 Passing all semester exams with good grades in the 2 years.
Description together with discussion on long-term goals value by identifying minimum 3
personal examples
Long term are highly valued as they lead to successful career of an individual and acts as
great influencer of self improvement. With these goals, people can frame general idea about the
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direction the wants to take to keep their life going. Personal examples related to long term goals
are identified below:
 Getting graduate from college with various specialisations within 3 years.
 Building leadership skills through working in leading company like Morrisons in 5 years.
 Travel in different countries for educational and leisure purposes in 5 years.
Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development Plan and construction of
an example using my goals
Personal development plan is described as tool which helps individuals in career as well as
personal developments. Personal development plan is more valued as it provide a framework
which assist in determining strengths and weakness along with guide towards capitalising current
capabilities and skills. The personal development plan as per the mentioned goals is as
constructed:
Goals or
objectives
Skills and
knowledge
Resources Activities or operations
Short term Communication
skills
Attending presentations
and participation in
debates.
Expressing thoughts with
others, making
communication priority,
building interactions with
other students.
Long term Management
knowledge
Understanding way of
workings of other
professionals, using
theoretical as well as
empirical literature,
reading human resource
books and capturing
knowledge via
information technology.
Evaluating performance,
completing work
assignments, acquisition of
knowledge related to
management practices.
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TASK 2
Description and discussion on the ways in which ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and
Relevance’ affect the use of a source
In a source, there are certain factors that affect its use. Author is the main factor as when
suitable source is not written provided by an expert author then it will lack its effectiveness and
this will result in hampering its usage. The other element is purpose as the when source will not
have relevant purpose then it will not be used properly and this can result in affecting its usage.
At same time, reliability of source also affects usage of source. It is because source must be
reliable enough for the content and must provide well reasoned theory along with discussion on
strong evidence. If the source lacks reliability then it has huge chances to affect its usage. Lastly,
relevance also hampers usage of source. If source is not credible, posses false information, not
associated with the topic then it will affect its usage.
TASK 3
An evaluation of eight sources
Sources Author Purpose Reliabilit
y
Relevance
Grit, R., 2019.
Managing your
competencies:
personal
development plan.
Routledge.
Roel Grit The main purpose
of using the source
is to gain
information about
the ways in which
competences can be
managed
effectively.
The
source has
high
reliability
with the
report.
There is huge
relevance of the
source with the
project as it
provide ways to
manage existing
competencies and
building new ones.
Ang, J. and Ang, J.,
2019. Sponsorship
and the
Development of
Jovina
Ang
The purpose of
using the source is
to analyse game
plan for future
It has
limited
reliability
with
The source lack
relevance with
report as it do not
provide any
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Women Leaders',
The Game Plan of
Successful Career
Sponsorship.
career. present
report.
information that is
required to prepare
the report.
Zambrano-
Varghese, C. M.,
2017. Life Plan
Development in
Young Adult
Women: An
Exploration Using
Grounded Theory.
Qualitative Report,
22(1).
Christina
Zambran
o-
Varghese
The purpose of the
source is to analyse
development of life
plan for Young
women.
There is
moderate
reliability
of the
source.
The source have
low relevance with
the project is it
only explains
about developing
life plan for adult
women.
Stewart, J., 2016.
Personal
development plan.
In Encyclopedia of
Human Resource
Management.
Edward Elgar
Publishing Limited.
Jim
stewart
Purpose behind
using the source is
to gain information
for making
personal
development plan.
There is
high
reliability
of the
source
with the
report.
The source has
high relevance
with report as
various aspects are
undertaken from it
while formulating
personal
development plan.
Orgoványi-Gajdos,
J., 2016. Teachers’
professional
development on
problem solving:
Theory and practice
for teachers and
teacher educators.
Springer.
Orgován
yi-
Gajdos,
Judit
The purpose of the
source is to provide
understanding
about problem
solving skills can
be developed in
professional career.
The
source has
limited
reliability
in context
to he
report.
The source has
limited relevance
with report as only
information related
to developing
problem solving
skills can be taken
from it.
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Jovanovic, M. N.,
2020. Objectives
and justifications.
In Evolutionary
Spatial Economics.
Edward Elgar
Publishing.
Miroslav
N.
Jovanovi
ć,
The purpose of the
source is to provide
information for
contemporary
economic issues.
The
source has
very less
reliability
with the
report.
The source has
low relevance with
the report as it
only describes
about objectives
and expectations.
Rimm, A., 2016.
Joy of Strategy: A
Business Plan for
Life. Routledge
Allison
Rimm
The purpose behind
the source is to
provide step by step
approach for
creating business
plan for individual
life.
It is less
reliable
with
present
report.
The source is not
related to project
as it only provide
ways to structure
business plan.
Braskamp, L.A.,
Trautvetter, L.C.
and Ward, K.,
2016. Putting
students first: How
colleges develop
students
purposefully. John
Wiley & Sons.
Larry A.
Braskam
p, Lois
Calian
Trautvett
er and
Kelly
Ward
The purpose of the
source is to develop
a student through
recognising along
with building
various aspects.
The
source is
highly
reliable.
The spurce has
relevance with the
report as it
explains about
ways in which a
student can be
developed.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Braskamp, L.A., Trautvetter, L.C. and Ward, K., 2016. Putting students first: How colleges
develop students purposefully. John Wiley & Sons.
Grit, R., 2019. Managing your competencies: personal development plan. Routledge.
Stewart, J., 2016. Personal development plan. In Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management.
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
Zambrano-Varghese, C. M., 2017. Life Plan Development in Young Adult Women: An
Exploration Using Grounded Theory. Qualitative Report, 22(1).
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