Report on Personal Development for Academic Skills and PDP Assessment 2

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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