Academic Skills and PDP: A Comprehensive Report on Personal Growth

This report provides a comprehensive overview of academic skills and personal development planning (PDP), emphasizing the importance of setting short, medium, and long-term goals for personal and professional growth. It discusses the value of a personal development plan in enhancing an individual's capabilities and potential, facilitating employability, and achieving life aspirations. The report includes personal examples to illustrate the application of these concepts, highlighting the significance of continuous professional development (CPD) and the development of essential soft and hard skills for success in the corporate market. It also explores how personal and professional development helps individuals manage their learning, expand opportunities, and maintain ethical and legal standards in their work. The report concludes by underscoring the role of PDP in visualizing a roadmap for maximizing growth and development within a specific field. Desklib offers more resources like this to aid students in their academic pursuits.

ACADEMIC SKILLS
AND PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Personal and professional development......................................................................................1
Discuss and explain value of short term goals while using three examples...............................2
Depict and cover value of medium term goals with three illustration........................................3
Explain and discuss value of long term goals using three different examples............................4
Describe and discuss value of personal development plan and construct example using
identified goals............................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
APPENDICES.................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills defines as a talent and habits that is highly beneficial for pursuing
learning, report writing, research, presentation etc. This term mainly involves the
communication, social planning, studying, test-taking and many more. Personal and professional
development is mainly reflects as an idea and concept that helps in managing own understanding
and learning throughout work career of work. Personal and professional development is crucial
for each and every individual because it helps in carry out and regulate activities that develops
skills with knowledge (Carter, 2021). Therefore, this report is based on professional development
of a person that also enhance career by presenting more opportunities in their personal and
professional career. Although, this particular report present and elaborate several terms such as
idea of personal and professional development, importance of medium term goals, short term
goals, and long term goals with the personal examples so that the particular topic and concept is
easily understand that helps in building career opportunities.
MAIN BODY
Personal and professional development
Personal development plan is mainly represented as a set of activities that helps in
developing capabilities and potential of individual that highly generate human capital. This helps
in facilitating employability so that the quality of individual person is to be improved because of
personal and professional development helps an individual to achieve the life of aspirations and
dreams. Therefore, personal development is taken place over the course of individual life span. It
also upgrade the productivity of individual person so that they achieve their targets prominently
and work safely (Page, Nimon-Peters and Urquhart, 2021). This term is represented as a
continuous professional development that is highly known as CPD. It is very crucial to develops
a personal plans within a life because it helps to maintain effectiveness and develops ourselves
for becoming a good human being. In this professional development plan is based on the
employment as in this they need various soft and hard skills to sustain in corporate market. The
skills are related to analysis, communication, decision making that is useful to develops our
career effectively and efficiently. This is crucial to complete the work in professional manner so
that successful results are come into path.
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Personal and professional development offers benefits to individual for managing their
own learning and knowledge so that high growth opportunities are come into path to develops
the overall career. Therefore, it is necessary for each and every individual to develops learning
and skills so that an individual is presenting ourselves as up to date and done their assignments in
ethical and legal manner. In terms of professional and personal development individual enjoys
essential benefits that expand opportunities and growth due to this they enjoy the prominent role
to make valuable in the eyes of employers (Spector-Cohen and et. al., 2019). Personal and
professional development is act and behave in such a manner that helps in managing individual
personal and professional attributes. Some essential points for developing personal and
professional development are as follows:
 Focusing and identifying the suitable opportunity- It is very crucial for individual
person to carry out proper training session because learning is not enough to select the
correct opportunity for career development. This term need to carry out proper research
so that accurate and prominent possibility for enhancing experience and skills is to be
attained that helps in capture opportunities for high living standards.
 Plan and set clear goals that are essential to complete the targets on time- It is very
essential for individual person to set the goals clearly because it helps in managing the
goals properly so that targets are effectively done on time.
Discuss and explain value of short term goals while using three examples
Short terms goals basically defines as a milestone in an individual successful journey and
also useful to reach the long term goals within the life. It is very curial for a person to develops a
short term goals because it helps in engaging in completing assignments and also effective to
provide path for how far a person come and how long that person sustain to reach the particular
destination. These types of goals are mainly developed for 12 months and not less than that.
Therefore short terms goals are generally help people to make desired changes that helps in
attaining long term goals effectively and efficiently. The main value of short term goals is to
build skills in individual to manage and handle the situation by making short term plan because
due to this long term targets are attained effectively and efficiently (McGill, Heikkila and
Lazarowicz, 2020). These goals develops the potential and effectiveness as early as possible
which are quite important to sustain in long term life goals. The main personal example of short
term goals are presented below:
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 Want to buy a television within a time of one year- To attain this goal an individual
need to focus on earn money by involving ion professional field.
 Focus on invest up to 20k for a year to enjoy a yearly return on it from these stock -
It is essential for gaining money and attain long term objectives related to personal and
professional development because from this a person can get the return on yearly basis.
 Focus on developing communication skill in less then a year- It is very essential to
develop a communication skill because this helps in sustaining in professional and
personal field. This skill is very useful to make connection with other people and
develops network so that overall further goals i.e. medium term goals and long term goals
are to be attained properly and efficiently.
Depict and cover value of medium term goals with three illustration
The value of these types of goals are mainly reflects as an objectives that takes some time
to reach the goals. Therefore medium term goals is to be accomplished within some weak or a
period of more than one year but less than five year (Sokhadze, 2019). The medium term goals
are high enough to make a crucial changes so that further long term development is to be
managed effectively and efficiently. These goals are large enough to design the significant
progress and results. Hence there are various types of learners who are desire to attain the goals
effectively and efficiently. Therefore the value of medium term goals highly help the individual
person to attain the goals that is mainly based on developing the high financial resources so that
overall goals are attained in easy manner and also set the sustainable and systematic career path.
This medium term goals offers momentous growth and progress to a person. This goals also offer
several types of benefits to make work properly so that productivity is to be maintained within
the period of five years. Therefore the medium term objectives is to be considered as those goals
that are set to manage and maintain the whole career and living standard. There are several
examples under medium term goals are presented below:
 Focused on saving for handling uncertain situation and emergencies.
 Focusing on set timeline to manage the risk for enhancing and building revenue to high
growth and development.
 Enrich the ability to present resume in effective manner to apply for a job and develops
individual living standards.
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 Focusing on developing the leadership quality by managing time and people so that
overall development in professional and personal field is to be seen (Shears, 2020)
(Booth and Clenton, 2020).
Explain and discuss value of long term goals using three different examples
Long term goals are very necessary to gain the successful outcome in the overall career.
This is very crucial because every individual prefer it for completing targets in future aspects.
This needs more time and more planning that is not attained within a small period of time like in
a month or a week. Therefore this type of goals needs 5 to 10 years in which positive and
favourable results are enjoyed by individual that also developed living standard of people. This is
mainly said to achievement by proper planing so that delayed are removed. The long term goals
are useful to build public image by living in high society (Buitrago, 2020). Therefore long term
objectives gives individual person an efficiency of working that build out personal and
professional career development. It involves various types of long term goals that are to be
focused by individual to improve future success are presented below:
 Open a new enterprise within a five years of time.
 Focus on accomplished the business course within 2 years of time-period.
 Buy a lavishness or expensive car after 15 years from my finance.
Describe and discuss value of personal development plan and construct example using identified
goals
Personal development plan is mainly defined as a process that helps in dealing with
various action plan includes reflection, awareness, setting objectives, values and keeping put
plan to develop career education, relationship with self enhancement etc. the personal
development plan generally carries out a requirements for employee and their CV. This plan is
considered as a continuous development plan that consist of statement of individual strength and
competencies so that their overall learning and training experience is to be build. This is regarded
as a statement of individual career as in relation to a person viewpoint personal development is to
be attained on the three basic hierarchy that represents short term, medium term and long term
goals . These types of goals helps in making plans and taking decisions effectively due to this
productivity of individual person is developed as in this person adopts the several decision
making techniques that enhances the skills and competency so that critical thinking is developed
that provides innovative ideas. To develops the short term, medium term and long term goals it is
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very crucial to understand the communication skill as it is useful to bring new ideas and
messages without any hesitation. Therefore for implementing the personal development plan
within an individual life it is very essential to focus on vision and goals so that targets related to
short term, medium term and long term goals are to be attained and more opportunities are
presented in the career path of a person (Gosling, 2021). Hence it is to be reflected that having a
personal development plan it very effective as it could generate the living standard and career
development skills so that individual will maintain their quality position in society. At last it is
to be presented that personal development plan is generally helps in visualizing the path and
roadmap in order to maximise the growth and development within a specific field by performing
the several activities to fill the gaps.
CONCLUSION
By the preceding report it is to be summarised that personal and professional
development is one of a significant term in enhancing the growth and opportunity. This report
present that every individual should focus on development for increasing the career opportunities
in proficient and effective manner. It is very crucial to emphasis on personal and professional
development because it helps in learning and maintaining the high sense of living that helps in
learning and keeping new ideas and goals. This helps in completing the tasks and activities in
specified period of time. This specific report helps in understanding the concept of personal and
professional development that is useful to a person for building career in effective manner.
Therefore it also assist in gaining knowledge regarding the value and discussion of short, long
and medium term goals using some specific examples so that overall goals are to be attained
effectively and efficiently. Hence, focusing on these goals helps in planning and performing the
activities for achieving targets proficiently and appropriately. In the end this project discuss the
goals and objectives related to personal development plan so that goals are easily identified and
activities are completing in understanding manner.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Booth, P. and Clenton, J., 2020. Vocabulary and the four skills–pedagogy and
practice. Vocabulary and the Four Skills: Pedagogy, Practice, and Implications for
Teaching Vocabulary, p.18.
Buitrago, J.A.L., 2020. The Influence of Metacognition in the Teaching and Learning Process of
English Listening (Doctoral dissertation, Greensboro College).
Carter, J., 2021. Work Placements, Internships & Applied Social Research. SAGE.
Gosling, J.M., 2021. The Acquisition of Skills and Expertise: Work-Based Learning.
In Applications of Work Integrated Learning Among Gen Z and Y Students (pp. 64-92).
IGI Global.
McGill, C.M., Heikkila, M. and Lazarowicz, T., 2020. Professional development, performance
expectations and academic advisors’ perceptions of relational skills: a sequential
explanatory mixed methods study. New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource
Development. 32(4). pp.50-69.
Page, N.C., Nimon-Peters, A.J. and Urquhart, A., 2021. Big Need Not Be Bad: A Case Study of
Experiential Leadership Development in Different-Sized Classes. Journal of Management
Education, 45(3). pp.360-386.
Shears, L.M., 2020. Looking Within: Social Networks and Organizational Social Capital in
Professional Development Programs for University Employees. Drexel University.
Sokhadze, T., 2019. The way starting from the Aldine Biofeedback and Self-Control books
toward the new neurofeedback avenue. Neurofeedback: The First Fifty Years, p.365.
Spector-Cohen, E. and et. al., 2019. Towards English for academic purposes curriculum reform:
Linguistic, educational or political considerations?. In Innovation in Language Learning
and Teaching (pp. 153-176). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
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APPENDICES
Personal development plan
Goals duration Strategy to
accomplish
Probability
Want to buy
television
1 year To buy a
television I will
focus on saving
money from the
money that I
have earned.
High
Improve
communication
skill.
1 year To improve the
communication
skill I will take
participate in
several group
discussion
activities,
presentation,
work under
expertise so that
communication
skill is
developed.
Medium
Start a
business
5 years For starting a
business I will
focus on getting
help from
relatives and
friends so that I
would raise
funds to operate
High
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business
effectively.
Completing
business course
2 years To complete the
business course I
take the help of
recognised
institution so that
new ideas are
generate that
helps in open a
business
effectively.
High
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