Report on Personal Development for Academic Skills and PDP Assessment 2

This report explains the concept of personal and professional development that is used to understand how individual are focused towards goals achievement. Further it represent value of long, short and medium term goals as it is useful to clarify the time of accomplishing the set goals so that delays are reduced and individual personality would be improved.

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
Personal and professional development define as an activity of engage an individual
person in the process of learning so that targets and challenges are accomplished on time.
This is highly useful for an individual to shape the career by improving skills so that they will
maintain strong position in business industry for more time. Academic skill express talent and
habits that are beneficial for academic pursuit such as research, report writing, learning,
presentations etc. This mainly considered the proper planning, studying, communication, test
taking attributes, technical skills etc. all are effective as they are founders of academic skills
(Capel and Cliffe, 2020). This reflect as an array of skills that is a process of organizing and
taking new information, dealing with assessments or retaining information. It linked with
core skills that depends on complex skills, reflective practice so that individual personality is
developed and objectives are attained proficiently. This report explains the concept of
personal and professional development that is used to understand how individual are focused
towards goals achievement. Further it represent value of long, short and medium term goals
as it is useful to clarify the time of accomplishing the set goals so that delays are reduced and
individual personality would be improved.
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional
development
Personal and professional development define the process in which an individual or
organization are engage in the several activities of learning to meet the desire challenges
goals on time so that personality could be developed. As professional development is mainly
based on developing our self personality so that particular role is to be performed in an
effective manner and it also improve the whole working life of an individual person. In case
of personal development, people are mainly emphasis on developing their skills such as
employment skills. Increasing consciousness, building wealth and many more. Personal and
professional development is very effective for developing potential and growth of people so
that more human capital would be generated. It mainly discover employee empowerment so
that quality of person is to be maximized that is used to attain the aspiration of personal life
and dreams. It mainly develop employee empowerment due to which quality of individual
person is to be enhanced (Reynolds, 2019). It also helps to clear the goals by learning new
things and activities by involving in academic skills. Personal and professional skill help to
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develop new ideas and thoughts in the mind due to which they could sustain for long time
period in the business field. It is mainly based on gaining new skills and experience so that
individual person perform the current role properly and effectively and maintain life balance.
It is mainly based on expanding skills by preparing yourself to become successful in
professional industry (Rule, 2021). Therefore personal and professional development are very
supportive to manage the big budget and organize the human capital to appropriately
complete the large projects. For an individual person it is necessary to manage the personal
and professional growth for enhance the living standard and retain long term survival at
marketplace. It involves several points to manage development in both the frameworks that
are personal and professional terms which are presented below:
 Setting vision-full goal based on achieving targets- This is mainly demonstrated
that a person is emphasis on set the clear goals to maintain their growth. In this an
individual person is able to select the type of training they need to stretch their own
career opportunities in a positive manner. This offer the path to grow and maximize
living standard.
 Always have high intentions that is used to plan the development- It is another
essential point that is used to develop personal and professional career. In this people
emphasis on learning new knowledge and skills so that proper plan is to be done in an
appropriate manner.
 Looking for correct and suitable opportunities- It is another framework under
personal and professional development that is used to capture the opportunities by
analyzing properly and accurately (Morales-Martinez and et. al., 2021). This helps an
individual to get authentic results which are prominent to maintain high success.
 Discuss career plans with the managers- It is necessary framework under personal
and professional development that is used to link the work plan with the manager
ideas so that overall objectives are to attained related to career development. It also
develop the chances of high growth (Acosta and Avalos, 2018).
 Measure performance by setting goals- It is a best aspect in terms of personal and
professional development. However to organize and maintain the success it is crucial
to make and take plans by review the overall productivity so that disappointments are
to be reduced.
3. Description and discussion of the value of short term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples
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Short term goals are mainly those goals on which an individual focused to
accomplished on short period of time. Hence these goals are mainly achieved in near future
that means in a weak, month or a year (McGill, Heikkila and Lazarowicz, 2020). However,
these goals are completed mainly in a period of 12 months by using proper planning and time
management. As they are generally regarded as incremental moves to reach medium term
goals which are accessible and realistic. These types of goals are very useful to complete the
medium and long term success because they express career path to attain the targets
professionally and personally. Focus on fulfill short term goals used to encourage individual
to get closure in order to attain the medium and short terms goals. These type of goals are
very effective to eliminate the nature of frustration, procrastination and irritation so that
individual accomplish all types of goals in appropriate manner. As they are represented as a
ladder that helps to easily attain the large targets properly and effectively. Therefore to reach
new heights of success short term goals are very crucial to capture new opportunities and also
used to attain high recognition in personal and professional field. There are several short
terms goals which are presented below:
 Enhance academic performance
 Develop habit of wake up early in the morning
 Maintain regular journal to keep up to date about regular finance.
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Medium term goals are those goals on which an individual person focuses after
completion of short term goals. As these are very effective to reach the objectives based on
long term goals that is essential to live in the business industry and maintain the culture
where a person live on their own condition (Booth and Clenton, 2020). These type of goals
are mainly accomplished in a period of 3-5 years on which a person work on set vision and
goals to serve the quality. However from student viewpoint it is reflected that they emphasis
on planing the goals to develop growth and completing the targets as per the time allotted to
complete it. In this every individual need to focus on managing medium term goals but many
of the people does not monitor or control the activities that may impact negatively on the
growth of personal and professional terms (Katene, 2018). In this type of goal an individual
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have sufficient time to bring changes to reduce the complexities so that they can easily
achieve long term goals. Several medium terms goals are demonstrated below:
 Take internship within a month
 Emphasis on developing new skills
 Focus on figure out career track that want to be attained.
5. Description and discussion of the value of long term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples
Long term survival represent as highest goals which an individual wants to attained in
their overall life by doing hard work. These goals motivates people towards developing living
standard such as getting dream job in reputed organization, fulfill all education in famous
institute, want to buy a new house, car etc. all these could be mainly accomplished by the
period of 5 years. At that time they look to run in a race and in between they achieve short
and medium goals so that they clear the path of reaching long term goals on set time frames
(Sokhadze, 2019). These goals reflects as a milestone which may based on professional
values. During the period of achieving long term goals an individual recognized how much
they are passionate about towards their career. As these goals need regular planning and
timescale to reach the targets on time. Hence it is very crucial to attain the career and
personal goals effectively and efficiently so that individual would sustain in the society with
pride. The main aim of long term goals is to make person a goal oriented person who set the
path clearly to complete their all targets effectively on set time frame. Therefore these goals
are presented in an examples that are presented below:
 To start own business
 Goal to learn new foreign language
 To take professional degree in reputed college
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal
Development Plan
Personal development refers to a plan that develops framework which is used to
create for spreading awareness based on week and strong skills that a single person holds. It
is a plan that is used to identified and developed skills which a person want to attain. Within
this planning, reflection, goal setting, values and achievements are main attributes of personal
development plan. It is a plan that is highly complex in nature and help individual to invest in
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most tough resources in order to develop ourselves personality. This is highly comprehensive
as it helps planner to wait for the belonging to be happen. The personal development plan is
used to make right decisions so that overall goals are to be attained in effective and efficient
manner that is used to build high confidence within a person (Mah and Doherty, 2021). It is a
kind of framework that is used to develop awareness of skills, recognizing and develops skills
by properly take participate in variety of activity according to needs of the objectives.
However, this help to enhance the person potential of working due to which they face high
growth in their life. It is also termed as PDP plan that maximize the learning and training
skills and support in attaining career goals and paths. Hence it visualize the road map to
effectively reach the targets and overcome the bridge that was present at the time of attaining
goals.
7.0 Conclusion
By the above discussion it is concluded that academic skills are very essential to
maximize the personal and professional career in a set time frame. These skills are very much
crucial to enhance individual growth and personality that is used to sustain in business
industry or in the community. Therefore this report is used to increase the knowledge based
on professional and personal terms along with it is effective to capture more new
opportunities so that individual personality will get improved in context of professional and
personal field. This report also used to demonstrate the various types of goals like short,
medium and long term goals where they depict the examples on personal manner. These
goals are very effective to attain the set targets on appropriate time manner. In the end this
report inculcates the value of personal development plan which is significant to examine the
methods related to goal achievements and set the career path.
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Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan
Skills to be
Developed
Development Plan Sources Target for completion
Communication
skill
For developing the communication skill I
have to emphasis on indulge in taking
participate in group discussion,
presentation, seminars etc.
Brown, C.E. and et. al., 2018.
Self-assessment scores improve
after simulation-based palliative
care communication skill
workshops. American Journal of
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Medicine®, 35(1), pp.45-51.
6 months
Writing skills To enhance the writing skill I have to
regularly practice to write articles on the
topics by searching information.
Healy, K. and Mulholland, J.,
2019. Writing skills for social
workers. Sage.
1 year
Start own
business
To operate the own business I have to
emphasis on collect investment and make
networks at marketplace. Therefore I
arrange funds by take the help of family
members and relatives.
Pauceanu, A.M. and et. al., 2018.
What determinants influence
students to start their own
business? Empirical evidence
from United Arab Emirates
universities. Sustainability, 11(1),
pp.1-23.
3 years
Complete higher
studies course
To complete the higher studies I have to
take admission in university in UK as it
helps to develop the visibility of the
professional career.
Giné, P.P. and et. al., 2020.
Delaying surgery by more than 10
weeks after long-course
neoadjuvant radiotherapy in
locally advanced rectal cancer
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4 years
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