Report on Personal Development for Academic Skills and PDP Assessment 2

This report discusses personal and professional development for academic skills and PDP assessment 2. It covers the definition of personal and professional development, the value of short, medium, and long term goals, and the importance of a personal development plan. The report includes specific examples and an action plan for improving skills such as communication, time management, programming, leadership, research, and stress management.

BSc (Hons) Business Management with
Foundation
BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 2
Report on Personal Development
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Contents
1. Introduction 3
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional
development 3
3. Description and discussion of the value of short term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples 3
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples 4
5. Description and discussion of the value of long term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples 4
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal
Development Plan 5
7. Conclusion 8
Reference List 10
Appendices 11
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1. Introduction
The academic skill and professional module consist of verbal and written
communication skill like presentation, reflective writing and critical skill. The PDP
include SMART action plan through which individual will develop creative opportunity
of career development (Arbuthnot, 2017). The academic skill are develop in the form
of core skill which generate opportunity to highlight individual strength and
weakness. This will help in specialized knowledge that is essential for choosing
desired job option. It has been analyses, that plan of personal development will aid
individual in order to deal from several issues which act as hindrance in accomplish
overall goal objective of career. The professional skill will provide more concentration
and focus regarding professional career opportunity. The report highlight overall
concept of personal and professional development of individual. The report include
value of short, medium and long term goal along with specific example.
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional
development
The concept of personal and professional development is essential process
that is liable to transform personality of the personal and professional one. This will
enhance individual capability to face challenges which may arise in the career
development. This is the critical process through which employee will deliver
systematic method to accomplish its estimated learning objective. The relevant skill
in the professional career improve knowledge of particular filed that is based upon
interest of individual (Bellamy and et.al., 2017). This will facilitates in depth
knowledge of educational, professional and academic skill that determine reliability
and credibility. The skill like communication, problem solving, leadership, stress and
time management build strong position of employ-ability. Each company wants their
employees have appropriate skill of professionalism because their effective
performance will increase company profitability. Similarly, for employees also
improvised processional skill is beneficial as it deliver more opportunity towards their
career planning.
3. Description and discussion of the value of short term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
The short term goal gets accomplish during short period of time by the
individual, these are very important because it enhance the ability of individual to
become more focus and highly motivated to fulfill desired skills. The suitable
example of short term goal-
Programming skill- This type of skills are most trending one in competitive
market as these are highly required career development. This will gather some
useful information on basis of particular programming knowledge. This will increase
the opportunity of successful professional development. Programming skill also
update ability of individual towards critical thinking and problem solving during
learning.
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Communication skill-The point of view communication skill is most essential
one as it will depict to resolve many problem in completion of job activity. By learning
skills of communication provide road map for performing job in effective and efficient
manner.
Stress Management- One of the important skill is consider as stress
management, nowadays, each employee has to go through form lots of pressure
during its personal and professional life (Buchanan, 2020). The proper balance of
stress management towards personal and professional life is highly required in
competitive market. This will aid to handle stress while performing any job, task and
activity in effective manner.
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium
term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
The medium term goal are also significant for career development because
this will fill the gap among short and long term goal. Some example of medium term
goals are-
Completing a degree- For advancement of career, complete degree is most
essential because it will deliver more expertise knowledge in particular area. These
are highly required to gain knowledge and developing opportunity as professional
aspect. Most of the reputation jobs required higher education degree that is degree
is must to improve career options.
Improving professional skill- The network of professional skill is most
essential, as it will develop individual ability in order to perform well in job. This will
update knowledge in the particular respective area and increase knowledge towards
trends of industry (Coupe-O’Kane, 2018). These professional skill aid and enhance
opportunity to getting job as based on interest. These skill can be improve by being
more active on social account such as Linkedln. While communicating with peers,
individual can enhance its professional skill.
Researching skill-The skill of researching is most essential as it aid
individual to improve the knowledge of analyzing as well as depict knowledgeable
insight through which individual can study. This will allow individual to established
respective knowledge with inside of particular area.
5. Description and discussion of the value of long term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Long term goal is most essential with perspective professional area and self
development. These kind of goal will be fulfill in future so proper planning and timing
is required to achieve this goal. Long term goal are more challenging one and
individual need proper guidance of expertise so that they can exploit entire skill
ability to shaping career option opportunity (Dobinson, 2018). These goal are more
typical one because if individual will fail to achieve goal of long term then their entire
planning of personal and professional development will not achieve on time. This
process will reflect as more accountable efforts which shaping future career to
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update individual skill. Long term goal develop the skill in particular area of education
and profession. Example of long term goal are-
Time Management skill- Time management is crucial for both self
development and educational career (Mohlamme, 2019). In job, several task has to
be perform by the individual so its is essential to complete all the task objective in
given time period. This will aid individual ability to utilize best time in more effective
manner in order to complete the work assignment within given deadline. This will
enhance professional skill and expertise knowledge to complete the work on time.
Leadership skill-The leadership skill enhance the opportunity to manage to
work in more effective way. It will improve ability to manage work of entire team so
that it will deliver more benefits towards both company and individual itself. Through
leadership skill individual will easily manage all job assignment and handle the
employees to motivate them for increasing employees productive performance.
Management skill- Business management is more effective skill that allow
person to handle overall business process and practices. It will raise the effective
level that improve aspect of professional development.
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal
Development Plan
The value of personal development plan, help to update and improve several
skill that need to be accomplish in given desirable time. It will determine more
accountable results that depict several step which acquire by the individual to
improve skill. This will aid in improving or examining skill in more efficiency and
effective way (Ryan, 2020). The proper planning of valuable personal development
assist to develop more authentication which serve the purpose of professional career
opportunity. The proper planning of personal development plan help individual in
order to determine its strength and weakens regarding its skill and knowledge. For
effective plan of personal and professional development require proper action plan
along with time frame through which established career and self development goal
will be easily achieve on time. By proper follow up of action plan, individual will
generate more potential opportunity regarding its career advancement. This will
increase more scope of accuracy in finding perfect desirable job which is based on
skill, knowledge and interest. The Smart action plan of improving professional skill
and knowledge is mention bellow-
Skills Actions Time frame
Communication skills Communication skill is
necessary to be improved
for more potential
opportunity of self
development and career.
This skill can be improve
by individual by garbing
knowledge from online
lectures as well as
attending seminars. It can
can also enhance by doing
Two to Four months.
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more self practicing. By
performing these action
plans individual can also
execute feedback of
improvised communication
skill. Feedback can be
done from friends, peer
and senior staff. If
individual gets positive
feedback then it is good for
individual career and if
negative feedback is
conducted then individual
has to try gain and plan for
back up action to update
communication skill.
Time management skill The skill of time
management provide
positive outcome in
journey of career
development. Time
management skill get
improve with help of
scheduling proper work
structure in job assignment
(Webb, 2018). This will
improve individual ability to
manage all task on time. It
can also be done by
prioritization of activity
while performing particular
task. These skill are most
important because it will
enhance the level of
accuracy in completing
task. The feedback can be
conducted to check ability
of time management skill
from managers of
company and professor as
well. In case of negative
feedback individual need
to improve again its time
management skill
because it will improve
performance of employee
in working area.
Five to six months.
Programming skill These skill are most
demanding one in
Seven to nine months.
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professional area. It can be
improve by more
participation in the
workshop like hackathons
where individual get
chance to develop
effective skill of
programming. This skill
can be improve by doing
more practice on
programming language
network. Individual can
also also improve this skill
reading books and journal
related with programming
code books. Here the
feedback can be
conducted senior staff who
has more expertise
knowledge regarding
programming knowledge.
Leadership skill The skill of leadership is
most essential in the
professional area. It
provide proper direction
and motivation to
employees to accomplish
goal of company. The
leadership skill can be
improve by supervision of
senior management staff
because they have
knowledge and experience
to execute leadership style
and approach. The
individual can update their
knowledge by learning
leadership style and
approach. Feedback of this
skill will be improve by
proper guidance to senior
management.
Three to five months.
Research skill The skill of research is
most needed to develop
problem solving, critical
thinking ability of
individual. The skill of
research can be enhance
by gaining knowledge from
Four to Six months.
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journals. It can also
improve by working in
practical area of research.
Both type of research skill
is required in professional
career that is primary and
secondary. Primary is
based upon own and direct
skill but secondary is
depend upon some one
research.
Stress management The skill of stress
management is necessary
part of professional career.
This skill can be improve
by completing task or work
which is on top priority
then moves towards rest
work. This can be reduce
the stress of work in
professional working area.
The individual must
develop positive aspect in
working culture because it
will maintain proper
balance of personal and
professional life. This will
help in reducing stress of
individual work. The
appropriate feedback can
be conducted in working
environment by manager
and they can provide
proper assistance where
individual is lacking and
where there is scope for
improvement.
Two to Three months.
7.0 Conclusion
From the above report it has been concluded that academic and professional
skill will transform self development opportunity for building more effective
professional career. The planning of personal development is known as effective
system that construct proper planning to improve action plan of improving skill and
knowledge. The value of short goal act as base for fulfilling objective of long term
goal. By setting short, medium and long term goal objective this will help individual to
enhancing overall awareness to complete planned goal objective. This will serve
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actual purpose of self development and educational purpose to improve carer
options. Long term goal, provide appropriate base to improve learning ability of
individual. It will help to established long lasting career which is based on individual
interest.
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Reference List:
Arbuthnot, K., 2017. Key issues in incident command. In Incident Command (pp. 10-
31). Routledge.
Bellamy, G.T. And et.al., 2017. Conceptual foundations for principal leadership.
In Learner-Centered Leadership (pp. 73-107). Routledge.
Buchanan, R., Mills, T. and Mooney, E., 2020. Working across time and space:
developing a framework for teacher leadership throughout a teaching
career. Professional Development in Education, 46(4), pp.580-592.
Coupe-O’Kane, J., Porter, J. and Taylor, A., 2018. Meaningful Content and Contexts
for Learning Difficulties. In Taking Control (pp. 14-30). Routledge.
Dobinson, T. and Dunworth, K. eds., 2018. Literacy unbound: Multiliterate,
multilingual, multimodal (Vol. 30). Springer.
Mohlamme, L.J., 2019. Perceptions of Learnerships and Internships as Tools for
Skills Development of Youths in the Sedibeng District Municipality, Gauteng.
University of Johannesburg (South Africa).
Ryan, C. and Baker, B., 2020. The PBIS team handbook: Setting expectations and
building positive behavior. Free Spirit Publishing.
Webb, P.C. and Lyons, G., 2018. The nature of managerial activities in education.
In The management of educational institutions (pp. 85-108). Routledge.
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Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan
Skills to be
Developed
Development Plan Resources Target Date
Communication
My communication skill is very medium to
high level. I try yo improve by effective
action plan of attending lectures.
Arbuthnot, K., 2017. Key
issues in incident
command. In Incident
Command (pp. 10-31).
Routledge.
By June 2021
Stress
management
My stress management skill are
very strong but I am still working
to enhance more accuracy in my
performance.
Buchanan, R., Mills, T. and
Mooney, E., 2020.
Working across time
and space: developing
a framework for
teacher leadership
throughout a teaching
career. Professional
Development in
Education, 46(4),
pp.580-592.
By April 2021
Time
management
My skill of time management is
very effective but I want to
update to improve my
professional skill.
Dobinson, T. and Dunworth, K.
eds., 2018. Literacy
unbound: Multiliterate,
multilingual,
multimodal (Vol. 30).
Springer.
By July 2021
Leadership
skill
The leadership skill is medium
as I am trying to learn more style
and approach of leadership to
Webb, P.C. and Lyons, G.,
2018. The nature of
managerial activities in
education. In The
By august 2021
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motivate employees in working
condition.
management of
educational
institutions (pp. 85-
108). Routledge.
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