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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Contents
1. Introduction p
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional
development p
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
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1. Introduction
Development is a long life process that may include the growth and success
too. It can either be personal or the professional development. Likewise,
determination of goals and objectives will enable an individual to direct it all
efforts and moves towards their attainment. This report will discuss about the
concept of personal and professional development. Likewise, it also discuss,
about the short, medium and long term goals that are further supported with the
individual example. Lastly, the concept of personal development plan is also
included in this report.
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional
development
Personal development:
It refers to the development of personal skills of an individual. Here the
qualities and the skills related with the personal life of an individual is being focusses
and developed. It is a long process in which people will analyse their skills and
qualities and on the basis of that they try to achieve and move towards the goal of
their life. It is like the journey of an individual wherein an individual will move towards
the direction of self enhancement and development (Tattum and Tattum, 2017). As
per this concept various qualities and skills got developed. It also facilitates building
human capital, raise quality of life and more likely convert the dreams into reality. It is
a long life process. Thus, it would not be wrong to said that the personality
development is solely concerned with the enhancement of personality of an
individual by making it attractive and complied with required skills and knowledge.
Professional development:
Professional development refers to the development of the professional qualities
and the skills. It is to be noted that the development of these qualities and skills are
solely related with the professional line of an individual. Here all the training and
required skills are focussed to be developed that will lead to the development of
career and success in professional life. It is also a long process that is needed to be
evolved and changes as per the requirement. This can be understood with an
example that as in the profession of an accountant there is a requirement of
accounting skills, while in case of a change in the profession and job say cashier
then it will need cash handling skills. Thus, professional development and the
development of its related skills got evolved and needed to be changes with the
changes in profession. However, it is to be consider that professional development is
related with learning to earn or maintenance of professional credentials (van Oeffelt
and et.al., 2017). Professional development will lead to raise the chance of grabbing
of success along with performing best in professional career stream. Thus, it can be
said that professional development in short is related to the development of an
individually as professionally making them professionally efficient and skilled so that
they can grab success in their career and professional life.
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3. Description and discussion of the value of short term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Goals:
Goals or objectives are the aim that assist an individual to move towards a
specific direction so that those goals will be accomplished. In simple words these are
the end results which is being achieved by directing the activities and efforts towards
them (Janczyk and Kunde, 2020). It can also be right to said that goals are those
aims that may encourage an individual to direct its all efforts towards a particular
direction so that they can grabbed their desired and prospective goals.
Short term goals:
Short term goals are those goals which are achieved in short duration. These
goals are generally set in such a manner that they can be accomplished and
grabbed by an individual in short duration. In other words, these goal refers to those
aim which an individual is planning to do it in the near future. This near future can be
today, a week or a month (Lee and et.al., 2017). This means it includes all those
goals that an individual needed and planned to be achieved soon. In simple terms it
is a concept under which goals are short term and achievable in short period of time.
This can be understood with examples:
 An individual short term goal may include an establishment of balance
between work and personal life. This is a short term goal because it can be
achieved by an individual within a day or a week too because it all require
adequate time management.
 Another short term goal may be improving communication skill and network.
This is also counted as short term goal because it can also be achieved within
few weeks and a month by having participation in debates or speech
competition or by attending online tutorial.
 Likewise, time management is also counted as a short term goal of an
individual because this skill can be developed easily within a short period of a
week. in order to develop this skill an individual can all need to do is the
adoption of the practice of scheduling the task and dividing adequate timing.
These all examples are counted as short term goals because these can be
grabbed and achieved in a short span of time along with making the individual
efficient and direct it towards their personal as well as professional development too.
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium
term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Medium term goal:
It refers to those goals that are not fall in the category of short term or the long
term goal. This means that the medium term goals refer to an includes all those
goals that is needed to be accomplish in a medium range of time. These goals act as
a bridge that reduce the gap between short and long term goal. These goals are
generally targeted to be achieved within a period of 3 to 5 years. However, the
period may vary as per the nature of the goal (Coplan, 2019). This means that the
medium term goal can be complex as well easy to be achieved.
Examples of medium term goals:
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