Report on Personal Development

BSc (Hons) Business Management with
Foundation
BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 2
Report on Personal Development
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................2
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................2
The concept of personal and professional development..............................................................2
Value of short-term goals identifying 3 personal short term goals.............................................3
Value of Medium-term goals identifying 3 personal Medium-term goals..................................3
Value of long-term goals along with 3 personal long-term goals...............................................3
Personal development plan..........................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
Discuss how ‘Author, Reliability Purpose & Relevance’ affect the usage of a source...............6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
Analysis of eight sources used in the report plan........................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
Books and Journal......................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
A professional development plan is generally designed for the development of employees
that is also known as individual development plan and employee development plan (Berdondini
and Elton, 2020). This plan is used for identifying the objective of career. It will help to set
strategy to attain those objective and goes of the career which are identified by the individual.
Professional development plan is a lengthy process and take so much of time and planning to
identify the skills which are required in personal development. This report contains the main
concept of personal development and professional development plans which are used by
individual and organizations. It also contains the value of three types of goals that are short term
long term and medium term with three examples. Further it contains the personal development
plan along with effect of author reliability purpose and relevance in the usage of a source. This
report contains brief description about the uses of sources and its evaluation in the report plan.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
The concept of personal and professional development
Professional development plan is a plan which is used to identify the goals and objectives of the
career and make a strategy to attend them. An individual by using this professional development
plan get more opportunities to make their future bright. Professional development plan is set by
an organization to provide various skills which are required in an individual that are their
employees to accomplish the goals of their professional life. This professional development
programs help an individual India personal development. Personal development requires various
skills such as interpersonal skills communication skills problem solving abilities self-confidence
ethics integrity and many more (Casis-Woidyla, 2020). There are generally five major areas
which needs to be focused in order to develop an individual personality which are physical
mental social and emotional. If an individual works on all the five major areas then it will help
them to attain various skills which are required for their professional development.

Value of short-term goals identifying 3 personal short term goals
Short term goals are those goals which are formulated for a short period of time save for 3 to 5
months. These goals help an individual to diversify their long term goals in smaller goals to get
more focus on them. It helps an individual to stay motivated and support them to increase their
productivity. Each short term goal helps an individual to stronger and provide more confident in
them to face various challenges of life and workplace (Kimmel, 2020). Short term goals help an
individual to try more challenging activities in their life and assess the next step for their
successful career. Examples which are identify as a short term goals are given below:
 Development of Non verbal communication skills
 Augmenting Expression in communication part
 Development of interpersonal and soft skills
Value of Medium-term goals identifying 3 personal Medium-term goals
Medium term goals are the goals of an individual which needs to be completed obtained by an
individual medium time period say 5 months to 1 year. When two or more short term goals join
together it will make a new medium term goal of an individual. Please short and medium term
goals helps an individual two step ahead towards their long term goals which are set to achieve
success in their life. Medium term goals helps an individual to make suitable and essential
progress because there long enough to motivate them and skills required this medium time to be
achieved by an individual. A survey helps to know that most of the persons have medium-term
goals but they do not give attention to these goals as short term goals and long term goals are
generally considered by an individual. Examples which shows the medium term goals of an
individual mentioned below
 To take online courses as much as possible to increase knowledge
 Improving skills of multitasking
 Create an active attitude towards various things
Value of long-term goals along with 3 personal long-term goals
Long term goals place an essential role in the life of an individual for their personal
development. This long term goals help an individual to set a target for them to achieve a
required success or position in their career (King and Therrien, 2020). They are also important as