Report on Personal Development

This report discusses the concept of personal and professional development, the value of short term, medium term, and long term goals, and the importance of a personal development plan. It explores the definition of personal and professional development, the importance of setting goals, and the benefits of having a personal development plan. The report also provides examples of short term, medium term, and long term goals and their significance in personal growth and career progression.

BSc (Hons) Business Management with
Foundation
BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 2
Report on Personal Development
Contents
1. Introduction p
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional
development p
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3. Description and discussion of the value of short term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples p
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples p
5. Description and discussion of the value of long term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples p
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal
Development Plan p
7. Conclusion p
Reference List p
1. Introduction
The study talks about personality development comprising of both personal as
well as professional development of an individual. Personal development consists of
all the aspects in life a person wants to improve upon regarding the behavior,
qualities, social skills and ultimately with the aim one wants to fulfill in own life. The
study speaks of short term, medium term as well as long term goals to fulfill
comprising of different time periods to achieve in life. The study also speaks of the
personal development plan's importance and the qualities an individual would like to
work upon.
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2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional
development
Personal development starts with analyzing self personality as to what are the
person's traits, strengths and weaknesses. It relates to how the person feels and
reacts in a group, how comfortable he is in expressing his views and the impression
he leaves on other individuals. The next stage is seeking a manner to hone the
behavioral characteristics and skills to empower oneself and set personal goals to
achieve. The goals depend from an individual perspective in life. He/She may like to
gain confidence while speaking in a group, increase social stature, be a spiritualistic
person or simply get high employability (Chen and Huang, 2017). With reference to
Maslow's hierarchy theory of needs and development, it can be seen that an
individual would first like to get his basic needs fulfilled, then move on to safety
needs which comprise of health security, job security etc. The next need arises of
social esteem in which a person wants recognition from his social circle of relatives
and friends. The next stage a person wants to achieve is self-empowerment in which
person assesses his own self worth and starts knowing things at which he is good
and wants to excel in the same. The next stage comprises of person searching for
creativity in life which gives him happiness. Last stage is of self actualization which
means person able to gauge the purpose of life.
Professional development starts with analysation of skill sets and academia of
a person. The kind of job or business one would like to settle down in and the set of
skills required to achieve the same will constitute the process of professional
development. A person seeking professional development may also be working in an
organization where he would be seeking promotion. Every person would like to do
well in his /her career and thus has to work on the requirements of the concerned
post one wants to get to. It may require the individual to hone his soft skills, improve
upon the art of public speaking, developing leadership skills, improving upon the
technical skills etc. Professional development has self motives as well as to gain
social status and recognition along with a sense of financial security (Howard, 2019).
3. Description and discussion of the value of short term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Short term goals refers to goals which one wishes to achieve and accomplish
In near future which can in terms when individuals account to meet the same in a
day, month, week or nearly in a year. This are the little steps which are being taken
by the individual in reaching towards the set long term goal. These are the goals
which are soon achieved by the individual. These goals helps the individual to think
what can be done in right way which helps individual to manage its time accordingly.
It can be said as goals that are short term in nature but by achieving the same will
lead to big accomplishment in one own career development(Williams, 2016),
These are goal which are more feasible and realistic for an individual to
achieve for which the mind also remains active and helps in deriving the motivation.
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More an individual opt to set the short term goals more it helps in deriving motivation
to achieve and move to next steps. It can also be stated as short term goals does not
account to taking high rate of risk which does not account to motivate enough of the
people where its major drawback accounts to not taking it seriously which affect
directly with development of professional as well as personal life (Carey,2020). These
are the goals as it helps in defining clear path of success for individual which helps in
focusing on one thing at certain point of time. This helps in increasing productivity
and motivating individual to to have a track towards achievement and thrive for long
term goals. These are the goal which are achieved easily and does not account to
generating large incentive. These are important goals as it helps in setting
milestones for long term goals accomplishment. It helps in providing solution to
various problems which is break in series of steps which leads to deriving individual
with focus, commitment and dedication on what needs to be done
My short term goals in life are to spend my communication level, be early and
punctual to my workplace, and account to not spend unusual time on mobile phone.
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium
term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Medium term goals are the goals which helps in bridging the gap between
long terms goals and day to day activities of individual. It is being based on the
SMART goals of individuals which states that medium terms goals should be specific
to what it needs to achieve, measurable to the extend of what is being required,
achievable by individual, realistic in nature and which needs to be achieved within a
specific time zone which is in between years 1-5 where in certain cases this can not
be specific as it accounts to interval between long term goals and medium term
goals which creates state of confusion and unclear focus which leads to changes in
various goals(Torres,2019).
these are the goals which are being related with values of individual which
explains the reasons and understanding certain things about the individual why it is
being required and important to accomplish the same. It helps in defining how an
individual needs to work and what needs to be worked and improved upon which
depends on competency and skills to achieve the same. This are being termed as
immediate goals as it helps in giving boost to individuals which helps in building skills
and confidence that helps in achieving bigger dreams. The essence and importance
of these types of goals is it help in taking control where decision and choices are
being derived from individual own towards how to accomplish the same. These
refers to the action plan to achieve long term goals which are being defined by the
individuals (Mittal,2018).
These are the goals which can also be referred as intermediate goals as it
provides significant time to account for progress and unlike long term goals does not
large time to achieve which changes individual with complete mindset which
accounts to change in priorities and values which serves as the best means of goals
set by individual. Each time one accounts to achieve the mid term goal more it
moves to achieving long term goal.
My medium-term goal in life is make my career in sales, buy a car and repay
my educational loan
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5. Description and discussion of the value of long term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Long term goal can be defined as goals which are being hard to achieve and
which requires huge amount of time to accomplish the same which accounts to time
taken of more than 5 years. These are the goals which requires effective planning,
significant efforts to achieve and account for the same. This are the goals which can
not be achieved in a day, month or year. This are the dreams which helps in
providing direction to life of individuals. It requires to opt for daily planning which
guides the way in achieving the goals effectively (Datu, Yuen, Chen, 2018).
The achievement of this account with how better individual know themselves
which is being supported by there mission and vision statement to achieve and
accomplish the same. These are the goals which are being supported by short term
and medium term goals. These can be referred as the favorable outcome of year of
individual hard work and efforts. These are the goals which helps in effective
decision-making and account to known things which are worth doing or not. This
goal helps in developing sense of understanding what is being done by the individual
is valuable and helps in assessment of strength and weaknesses which if improved
will lead to the added advantage of making career progressions. These are the goals
which serves as the means of biggest motivator for self improvement and helps in
serving with the foundation and basis of achieving the objectives which are being
desired to be achieved in near future. This goals helps in providing with clear vision
of what needs and how to do do which helps in effective time management and
efficient utilization of resources (Woolley, Fishbach, 2017).
My long term goals are to become mentor in my field of sales, being at top
position in renowned company and to save money to run my retirement life easily.
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal
Development Plan
Personal development plan,as the name suggests, is the flowchart of an
individual thinking on his aspirations prior to making the plan and then laying down
the qualities and skills which one would like to inculcate or improve upon within a
specified time period to ultimately achieve personal growth and one's aims in life
(Chen and Huang, 2017).
A personal development plan's importance can be gauged by the fact that
whenever a person has to travel to a specific destination, one has to plan
beforehand, as to the time frame to reach there, means of travel to be taken,
registering for the mode of travel and things to be taken along. Similarly, if a person
wants to achieve a specific aim he has to plan the time period in which he wants to
bring in the change, the support which may be required to get there, the qualities,
skill sets and behavioral aspects to improve on to finally reach the goal. Personal
development plan thus helps you know your aim and the way to get there within your
specified time frame.
Personal development plan helps to know the following facts:
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a) It helps make your vision clear as an individual has many aims to fulfil. At this
juncture plan will help to prioritise his aims and make him realise the most important
goal.
b) It helps in identification of skills which will be required to cultivated upon. For e.g.
a person desirous of becoming a successful orator has to gain the art of public
speaking with calmness and confidence (Howard, 2019).
c) It helps you assess the standard of the aim you want to achieve and the standard
currently you are at. Thus it helps to know how much improvement is needed to get
to one's destination. For e.g. a person who is novice in reading a language will have
to work a lot to achieve his aim of conversing fluently in the same.
d) It helps build a step by step approach to achieve your current aim which is
achievable in this time period and then move on to the next. It will infuse confidence
in oneself after achievement of one aim and form a basis for motivation to achieve
the next. The qualities or skill sets require foundation for building and this approach
will come in handy.
7.0 Conclusion
To conclude, it can be said that personal and
professional development is an ongoing process which
requires time to build. Personal development goals can be
somewhat related to professional goals as well. The skill
sets to achieve personal goals will help in some or other
way in realizing professional goals as well. Building up of a
personal development plan requires time and an individual
has to perform an honest analysis of himself and his goals.
The improvement will commence from there on.
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Datu, J.A.D., Yuen, M. and Chen, G., 2018. Exploring determination for long-term
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Kharadze, N. and Gulua, E., 2018. Personal Development Peculiarities on Gender
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By april 2027Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan
GOALS Development Plan Resources Target Date
Short term goal
Be early and
punctual to the
workplace
My development plan for achieving this goal
is acquiring proper time management skill,
waking up early in the morning by sleeping
early and not accounting to waste of time ,
finishing up all morning activities and
leaving early for the office
Alarm clock, watch etc It is an ongoing process
Medium term
goals – To repay
my educational
loan
I need to work overtime and accounts to
taking extra work and I need to save money
and earn by working on part time jobs in
holidays and weekends
Family, friends, relatives,
colleagues and various others
By march 2025
Long term goal
– to be mentor
in my field
Action plan for this is learning all key
concept related to sales and applying them
in practical world which will account to gain
experience
On the job robust training,
learning by internet, websites
and other
By april 2027
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