Report: Personal and Professional Development Plan and Source Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive overview of personal and professional development (PDP), encompassing the concepts of short-term and long-term goal setting. The report emphasizes the value of PDP in enhancing career development and achieving individual objectives. It details the process of creating action plans that integrate reflection and planning for personality development. The main body covers the concept of personal and professional development, the importance of setting short-term and long-term goals, and constructing a PDP example. Furthermore, the report explains the process of source evaluation, focusing on author, purpose, reliability, and relevance. The report analyzes various sources to determine their reliability and relevance. The report concludes by highlighting the significance of PDP and its impact on achieving both personal and professional success. An appendix includes a discussion on PDP and a practical skill development plan, including skill, present proficiency, target, action path, and time period.

REPORT PLAN AND
EVALUATION OF
SOURCES
1

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development....................................................................3
Discuss value of short term goals...............................................................................................3
Describe value of long term goals...............................................................................................3
Discuss the value of PDP and construct an example using identified goals...............................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Describe Author, purpose, reliability and relevance and use of source......................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4
Evaluation of sources..................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................7
Discuss PDP................................................................................................................................7
2

INTRODUCTION
Report plan refers to describe what is to be done, how is to be done to complete the
project on time and effective manner. Personal development planning refers to the activity that
creates an action plan which considers reflection, goal setting, planning for developing the
individual personality. It helps in reflecting the productive results that enhance the career
development, relationship, education so that higher gain can be seen by the company in future
perspective. This report involves role of personal and professional development that helps in
fulfilling short term and long term goals with proper planning related to personal development. It
also explains the reliability, purpose and author for evaluating the sources that helps in
developing plan(Wu, Xu and Zhang, 2018).
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Concept of personal and professional development
This term defines as a process through which the business enterprise and an individual
person engage within the activity of learning to fulfil then challenges and specific goals in a set
time frame(Peltier and et. al., 2020).
Discuss value of short term goals
The main value of the short term goals is to deduct the extra time that is included in
completing the task for gaining success. It is an activity that is processed to get the clear result in
short time. It helps in encouraging the employees to work effectively so that long term goals are
also attained on specified period of time. For instance- Practicing daily standards, ritual for
saving the future and attaining objectives, enhancing the growth of good habit that helps in
attaining future goals with short period of time. At last maintaining the daily basis projects.
Describe value of long term goals
It refers to that value which is used to develop the intention for attaining long term
objectives with clarity. In this appropriate result can attain on daily basis so that sustainability
can be achieved. For example- Become a experienced person in specific field and subject, end of
some particular course or degree(Baykara, 2018).
3

Discuss the value of PDP and construct an example using identified goals
Value of personal development plan has includes some benefits that can supports the
positivity in shifting the career in positive and prominent manner so that chances of getting
success can be attained. In this specific factors are includes that represents the strength and
weakness due to which working experience is to be increased and perfection can be shown in
working. For instance- Personal development plan is related to examine and analysing the stable
approach in the future time period in which long and short term goals can be attained in effective
and proficient manner(Tarchi, 2020).
TASK 2
Describe Author, purpose, reliability and relevance and use of source
The source can be effectively used by the Author to make the adequate judgement for
assisting the collection of the appropriate data and information related to particular topic. In this
a person can clearly understand the sources and investigate effectively to get the proficient
results in appropriate manner. The purpose of the source is placing an helpful affect on mindset
the individual person so that suitable information is to be collected that is reliable and addressed
in proficient way. This will develop the ability to attain the specific information so that mental
ability of an individual person is enhanced and maximise. In this capability of an individual
person is related to the information that can helpful in generating the more proficiency over the
regular period of occurrence(Swinburn and et. al., 2019).
TASK 3
Evaluation of sources
Sources Author(s) Purpose Reliability Relevance
4

Personal therapy as a
mandatory requirement
for counselling
psychologists in
training: A qualitative
study of the impact of
therapy on trainees’
personal and
professional
development. Counselli
ng Psychology
Quarterly, 24(3),
pp.211-232.
Kumari, N., To identify
the
compulsory
necessity
about
training and
development
It is not
reliable as it is
related to
psychological
concept that is
not mandatory
for personal
and
professional
development
It is relevant as
based on
current year
Personal therapy as a
mandatory requirement
for counselling
psychologists in
training: A qualitative
study of the impact of
therapy on trainees’
personal and
professional
development. Counselli
ng Psychology
Quarterly,
Kumari, N Helpful to
identify the
essential
requirements
that is useful
for
counselling
and getting
training.
This is
relevant
because it is
related to
present year.
It is applicable
as in this
specific skills
and developed
by getting the
proper training
sessions.
Exploring teacher
identity from a holistic
perspective:
Reconstructing and
reconnecting personal
and professional
Bukor, E To
understand
important
perspective
of individual
personality.
Relevant as it
belongs to
previous year.
It is relevant as
provide holistic
preview about
individual and
professional
development.
5

selves. Teachers and
teaching.
Teacher professional
development in
changing conditions.
Dordrecht: Springer.
Beijaard, D.
and et, al
To measure
change in
professional
as per
teaching and
conditions.
It is reliable as
it is older than
10 years.
It is also be
relevant as
professionalism
is changes and
induced as per
conditions.
Advancing Chemistry
by Enhancing Learning
in the Laboratory
(ACELL): a model for
providing professional
and personal
development and
facilitating improved
student laboratory
learning
outcomes. Chemistry
Education Research and
Practice.
Buntine,
M.A. and et.
al
To gain
knowledge
about
different
ways that
facilitate
improvement
in outcome
generation.
It is reliable as
related to
recent
workings.
Relevant
because it
offers the
accuracy in
learning.
Semi-formal learning
communities for
professional
development in mobile
learning. Journal of
Computing in Higher
Education
Kukulska-
Hulme, A.
and Pettit, J.
To study
potential of
mobile
learning.
Tested
effectively as
it is of not
later than 10
years.
Relevance as
mobile learning
improvise
working
standards by
which personal
and
professional
development
6

increases.
Continuing professional
development and the
charity paradigm:
Interrelated individual,
collective and
organisational issues
about continuing
professional
development. Nurse
education today
Munro, K.M To identify
paradigm of
professional
development.
Reliable as it
is not before
than 10 year
Relevant as
consist of better
development
that is related to
measurement of
various issues
of
development.
Measuring professional
identity development
among counselor
trainees. Counselor
Education and
Supervision,
Prosek, E.A.
and Hurt,
K.M
To analyse
the impact of
counselling
of training in
development.
Reliable as
related to
previous year.
Relevant as
offer suitable
identification of
development.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that personal development is very essential to create a
value so that long term and short term objectives are to be attained on time with more
perfection and clarity. This report reflects the use of source in checking the reliability and
reflecting the Author, relevance so that confusion can be removed and this helps in
developing the individual personality. Further it includes the eight source so that author,
relevance, reliability and purpose can be determined effectively and efficiently.
APPENDIX
Discuss PDP
Personal development plan is a statement that reflects the individual efficiency to store,
collect and attain the appropriate knowledge and data so that productive and proficient
results can be seen in a satisfactory manner. this personal development plan can be shown
below:
7

Skill Present
Proficiency
Target
Proficiency
Action path Time period
Time
management
7 8 In this top manager can provide
the specific direction that is
helpful in effectively process
where clarity is reflected with
adequacy.
30 days
Verbal
Communicatio
n
6 9 This ability is enhances by
regularly conversation with
other as it also helps in
encouraging the ability to build
higher contacts.
35 days
Group
Working
3 6 The increment in this ability is
developing by making the work
in a team where task is equally
divided intro every single person
so that productive result can be
shown.
40 days
8

REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Baykara, S.Z., 2018. Hydrogen: a brief overview on its sources, production and environmental
impact. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 43(23). pp.10605-10614.
Peltier, C. and et. al., 2020. " State Standards and IEP Goals. A lot of TPT Products": What
Resources Early Childhood Educators Report Using to Plan Mathematics
Instruction. Learning Disabilities--A Contemporary Journal. 18(2).
Swinburn, B.A. and et. al., 2019. The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate
change: the Lancet Commission report. The Lancet, 393(10173), pp.791-846.
Tarchi, C., 2020. Prompting Readers to Plan Might Negatively Affect Their Comprehension of
Multiple Documents. Journal of College Reading and Learning, pp.1-22.
Wu, Y., Xu, C. and Zhang, T., 2018. Evaluation of renewable power sources using a fuzzy
MCDM based on cumulative prospect theory: A case in China. Energy. 147. pp.1227-
1239.
9