Analysis of Personal and Professional Goals and Development Report

This report delves into the concepts of personal and professional development, emphasizing their significance in academic and career success. It explores the importance of academic skills and the creation of a personal development plan to achieve goals. The report analyzes short, medium, and long-term goals, providing personal examples for each, and discusses the value of these goals in fostering motivation, progress, and a sense of direction. The main body of the report covers the concepts of personal and professional development, highlighting their role in managing learning and growth. It also includes personal examples for short, medium and long term goals. The report concludes with a discussion about personal development plans, emphasizing their role in self-improvement, career advancement, and achieving a balanced life. The report highlights the importance of setting goals and creating an action plan to achieve them, and includes references to relevant literature.

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Table of Contents
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
1. Personal and professional development...................................................................................1
2. Short term goals along with 3 personal examples...................................................................2
3. Medium term goals as well as 3 personal examples................................................................2
4. Long term goals and 3 personal examples...............................................................................3
5. Personal Development Plan.....................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
APPENDICES.................................................................................................................................7
Examples of personal development plan.....................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Academic skill refers to habits addition to talents which are significant for a student for
pursuiting report writing, learning, presentations and learning. Likewise, personal development
plan is delineated to a written account for reflecting about self and improvement areas that
doubles up detailed action plan with the hope of fulfilling academic, career and personal related
goals. Devising academic skills and plan for personal development is essential for all people as it
assist in following a path for reach successful heights (Kahl and Sundram, 2015). The purpose of
the report is to analyse and develop knowledge about personal goals.
The report highlights concept of personal along with professional development. It also
analyse values associated with short, medium and long term goals with identification of personal
examples. At last, it includes discussion about personal development plan and construction of an
example on the basis of identified personal goals.
MAIN BODY
1. Personal and professional development
Concept of personal and professional development is all about managing learning addition
to growth throughout studies and career. It is a process in which an individual and business
concern engages to learn for dealing with challenges and realising desired goals. It develops and
improves certain kinds of skill and knowledge among people and company in best effective
aspects. It allows to become proactive so to bring goals to life along with gives sense of direction
together with self-awareness (Smale and Fowlie, 2015). Personal development enables in
improvising of individual performance so to reach full potential at all career stages. Similarly,
professional development is involving a workforce to become certified in any field or occupation
that is complimentary to exiting position. It assists in differentiating self, gives competitive edge
within crowded employees and standing out to forthcoming employers. Through this, needs of a
person and group members are advanced through examining existing potentials and preparing
along with impelling maintenance of action plan.
In personal and professional life, growth of a person depends on acquisition of diverse
knowledge and set of multiple skills. It is crucial to continue learning addition to development
for remain up to date and working ethically, safely and efficiently (Shimizu, Lee and Uleman,
2017). There are various opportunities such as encouraging self-awareness, using available
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resources and encouraging goals to develop personally and professionally. In modern world, the
concept is not restricted to climbing greasy pole and developing self to earn more money, rather
it is related to avoiding stagnation in career addition to future proofing profession.
2. Short term goals along with 3 personal examples
Short term goal can be defined to something which a person has desires to attain in near
future or soon. These are milestone in journey of an individual to reach other goals of life. Short
term goals are valued as they gauge about how far a person have come as well as how long they
are required to travel for reaching end destination in life. Setting short term goal benefits in
boosting motivation as working for small achievements encourages to continue with goals along
with allow to craft momentum for keeping moving forward (van der Scheer, Glas and Visscher,
2017). Without short term goals, a person gets distracted and even spends huge duration not
making any progress. Personal examples of short-term goals are underneath:
 Organising a schedule: To achieve good grades in courses, short-term goal is to organise
a schedule so that a student can focus on learning and carrying out extra curriculum
practices.
 Improving productivity: Currently, productivity is something which I am struggling
with to switch working. One of the short-term goals is to boost productivity through
being persistent addition to dedicated learner.
 Developing personal relationships: In the life of a student, relationship with others have
huge impact. A short term goal is to develop personal relationships with contacts with
classmates, tutors and many more.
3. Medium term goals as well as 3 personal examples
Medium term goals are defined to goals which takes bit longer duration in attainment. all
people have some mid term goals but mostly fail to keep track of them. These are very
motivating and an individual work hard to achieve them. Mid term goals are more valued
because they offer best to worlds as to make enough progress and establish wider many of them
within course of lifetime (Beckingham, 2018). These can be reviewed together with required to
be amended within determined time. It benefits in setting new mid term goals with changes in
priorities and values to focus on attainment. Mentioned below are personal examples of medium-
term goals:
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 Graduating from university with good grades: It is one of medium-term goals to
complete graduation from university by achieving good grades. Moreover, goal to achieve
good grades enhances work metrics in form of efficiency and quality of studies that is
straightforward goal to get better in studies.
 Learning a new language: Language is most critical element of human connection.
Humans are the ones who have mastered cognitive language communication. It is one of
medium-term goal to learn a new language so to share feelings, ideas and thoughts with
others.
 Improving presentation skills: Effective presentation skills assist in keeping any type of
presentation interesting, encourage audience to listen and help presenter to communicate
information with confidence. Improving presentation skill is an example of midterm goal
as this assist in presenting tasks, presenting academics content, building classroom life,
engage in distinct learning process, display knowledge and skill.
4. Long term goals and 3 personal examples
Long term goals are termed to goals which are required to be attained in future. It requires
huge time, patience, efforts and proper planning. In the life of a student, long term goals provide
happiness as well as success (Janthon, Songkram and Koraneekij, 2015). Values of such goals
are that it is essential for self-improvement and provides something for striving addition to
remain focused on where a person want to be. Moreover, they shape direction of lives addition to
careers. Long term goals guide to make right decisions, find more depth in relationships together
with provide greater purposes. In other words, they are delayed gratification result of days,
weeks, months and years of emphasis. Various personal examples of long-term goals are as
follows:
 Working in a multinational organisation: It is one of personal example of long-term
goal to work at multinational company at high position. A student have long term gaol to
get positioned in well popular company at certain job.
 Becoming emotionally intelligent: An emotional intelligent person has potential for
recognising, understanding addition to manage emotions of self and others. They achieve
success in managing difficult situations and express themselves clearly. For a student, it
is long term goal to become emotionally intelligent so to perceive, utilise and manage
emotions at workplace and home.
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 Building project management skills: Skills of project management are traits addition to
competencies of an individual needs for effectively coordinating tasks or activities in a
project starting from initiation to end (Denicolo, Long and Bradley-Cole, 2016). Building
project management skills and experience is an example of long-term goal as it having
the skill helps in balancing priorities, tracking progress, oversee resources and manage
time in diverse activities.
5. Personal Development Plan
Concept of personal development plan gives an individual a self-development purpose via
qualification and new skill (Kennedy, Rea and Rea, 2019). It is a record of skills a person has
and skill sets required to develop. It involves creation of action plan as per awareness, reflection
and goal setting with content of career, relationship, self- improvement or education. It saves
time, create supporting culture, improve visibility, improve work life balance, makes a person
successful and promotes positive growth.
Personal development plan is highly valued as it enables to have information about vision of
future and know destination in life to make it easier for crafting a plan about ways to achieve
personal goals. it is snapshot about where a person stands while conducting assessment which
lets them reflecting about next steps. Major purpose of personal development plan is to guide
people to reach determined goals and improve existing performances. It provides a framework to
determine areas of strengths addition to weaknesses so to come with direction that capitalise as
well as optimise current capabilities (Najib, Mahat and Baharudin, 2020). It serves wider
purposes such as improve living prospects, learning new skill, opening doors for career
opportunities and using time better. It encourages students for developing new abilities which
foster improvement of employability chances. Undertaking the plan aids to create self-directed
independent personnel that are more focused for attaining higher level of excellence. It improves
individual attributes, work, confidence along with plan to attain aspirations. At the time of
creating personal development plan, it is essential to figure out aspects to measure success.
In context to academic performance, personal development plan assists in better
understanding about ways to learn and improve performances. It also guides to gain clearer
emphasis to learning, reflecting on thinking and enjoy more while learning new contexts. In
relevance to personal life, personal development plan develops a forward-looking approach,
greater awareness about needs and mechanisms to meet them, better understanding about self
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and appropriate choices for meeting aspirations (Rowlett and Waldock, 2017). Within
professional life, it generates clearer ideas for kind of life and occupation an individual want,
better problem solving and develop positive attitudes concerned with successful living in
professional field.
CONCLUSION
From the report, it is concluded that goal is an idea for future which an individual envisions,
plan as well as commit for achievement. Setting goals is crucial for a person as it helps in
determining wider outcomes for reaching success. Developing aspects of personal and
professional are essential as it guides in establishing effective action plan to improve skills for
better future. Short term goals of a student are organising a schedule, improving productivity and
developing personal relationships. Medium term goals are graduating from university with good
grades, learning a new language and improving presentation skills. Long term goals include
working in a multinational organisation, becoming emotionally intelligent and building project
management skills.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Beckingham, S., 2018. Baseline skills—scaffolding soft skills development within the
curriculum. In Higher Education Computer Science (pp. 221-242). Springer, Cham.
Denicolo, P., Long, T. and Bradley-Cole, K., 2016. Cases using different designs.
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Kahl, C. and Sundram, G. R., 2015. Are Students Pursuing Higher Education Aware of Personal
Development Planning and Its Importance? A Pilot Study at Taylor’s University.
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Kennedy, G., Rea, J. N. M. and Rea, I.M., 2019. Prompting medical students to self–assess their
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Najib, S. A. M., Mahat, H. and Baharudin, N. H., 2020. The Level of STEM Knowledge, Skills,
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Rowlett, P. and Waldock, J., 2017. Employability Development for HE mathematics and
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Shimizu, Y., Lee, H. and Uleman, J. S., 2017. Culture as automatic processes for making
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Smale, B. and Fowlie, J., 2015. How to Succeed at University: An Essential Guide to Academic
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APPENDICES
Examples of personal development plan
Goals to be
achieved
Development plan Resources Target
Date
Organising a
schedule
To achieve the goal, an
individual break their day
into blocks, start with
something big, think before
act, declutter regularly and
put huge efforts on meeting
deadline.
Sakthy, S.S. and Bose, S.,
2020. Dynamic Model Node
Scheduling Algorithm Along
with OBSP Technique to
Schedule the Node in the
Sensitive Cluster Region in the
WSN. Wireless Personal
Communications, 114(1),
pp.265-279.
Target date
to achieve
the goal is
July 01,
2021.
Improving
productivity
For achieving goal of
improving productivity, a
student is required to take
tiny steps, use time for most
important practices, organise
life and carve out durations
for non-urgent tasks.
Akbari, P., Nazari, K. and
Madikhani, R., 2020. Analysis
of the Impact of Information
Technology and
Organizational Culture on
Human Resource
Productivity. Resource
Management in Police Journal
of the Management
Dept, 1399(3), pp.117-148.
Target date
to improve
productivity
is July 20,
2021.
Learning a new
language
The goal will be achieved
through taking online class
for a specific language,
communicating with people
speaking other languages and
watching a movie with
subtitle in a language.
Rutledge, S.A. and Et. Al.,
2020. Steps to Schoolwide
Success: Systemic Practices for
Connecting Social-Emotional
and Academic Learning.
Harvard Education Press. 8
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Cambridge, MA 02138.
Becoming
emotionally
intelligent
To achieve the goal, an
individual will observe the
ways they react to others,
focus on work environment,
examine reactions towards
stressful circumstances and
examining the ways action
might affects others.
Goleman, D., 2019. The
emotionally intelligent leader.
Harvard Business Press.
Target date
to attain the
goal is
August 20,
2021.
Building project
management
skills
To build project management
skill, a person focus on
communication, find and use
effective project management
tools, understand and apply
the concept of minimum
viable product, getting al
things on paper, keeping clear
addition to accessible
schedules and setting realistic
expectations.
Estévez, J., García-Marín, A.
P. and Muñoz, J. L. A., 2018.
Self-perceived benefits of
cooperative and project-based
learning strategies in the
acquisition of project
management skills. The
International journal of
engineering education, 34(3),
pp.1038-1048.
September
30, 2021 is
target date
for the goal
attainment.
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