Report on Personal Development for BSc (Hons) Business Management with Foundation - BMP3001

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 includes examples and is relevant to the course code BMP3001 for BSc (Hons) Business Management with Foundation.

BSc (Hons) Business Management with
Foundation
BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 2
Report on Personal Development
Submitted by:
Name:
ID:
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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 development is related to the self-improvement which helps to increase
the self-awareness, self-esteem, and develop my skills. Along with it consist that
activities which helps to develop the person's capabilities and potential to build the
human capital (Avlaev,2020). If I want to improve my personal skills, so I want to set
my goal and try to achieve them. This goal supports me to enhance my quality of life
and inspire me to achieve my future dreams. In this report it defines the personal and
professional development concept and discuss my small, medium, long terms goal
because it is beneficial for me for my individual growth and progression. If I want to
build my self-impotent into my daily routine, so want to focus on this thing such as
mental, social, spiritual, emotional, physical and identify those areas where I like to
improve. These areas support me to achieve my personal development related goals
which will be further developed in this report with the help of a personal development
plan supplemented by my short, medium and long term goals.
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional
development
They both are concepts which help the individual people to improve and assess
their skills or qualities, regards aim in my life and set my goals in proper manner to
recognize and maximize my potential. Both personal and professional development
supports me to proactive up bringing goals in my life, and provide me to sense of
self-awareness and direction.
Personal development- It is the development process reacted to the self-
improvement which belong this activity that helps to develop the capabilities,
potential and enhance the quality of life to achieve my personal target. Personal
developing allows me to set my future goals to get a better job and learn new skills
which support me to identify a new opportunity.
Professional development- It includes those type of learning opportunities which
help me improve my professional skills such as academic, degrees, conferences and
non- formal learning opportunities (Dahmarde, Khodabakhshi, and Rad,2018). The
main purpose of professional development is to give my opportunity to learn and
apply the new skills and knowledge which helps me in my job and further my career.
The most important things are common in personal and professional development
which include the certifications programs, learning communication better, skills
training and embracing technology. This thing helps me to build my confident and
credibility for my growth.
3. Description and discussion of the value of short-term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Short term goals are related to tasks which I would like to perform with urgency
on the basis of a short timeline. Resent future means this month, this week, it is
something that I want to execute soon. Short-term goals can help me to break down
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the longer and general goals. It supports me to accomplish my recent goals and take
action to achieve them. Along with it, these goals will assist me to improve my skills
and knowledge which is better for my career and improve my focus and minimize the
confusion and overcome to achieve my short-term goals (Wen, Lee and Zhou,
2021). It gives the path to success and allows me to focus on one thing at a time. My
short term goals relate to my personal and profession development and three
examples of such gives, real given below.
 Networking skills - My first short-term goal includes me improving my
networking skills because it helps me in future to get better job which Is
beneficial for me. I will try to communicate with new people as it helps me in
doing my communication better and improve my skills too. So I am doing two-
three months networking course which will support me to enhance these skills
and build more knowledge. Along with it, these skills will support me to
develop my personal skills and provide proper direction and better focus to
complete my tasks properly on time. However, they also provide more career
opportunities. Networking with people with considerable influence will also
help me gain better guidance and advice in both personal and professional
aspects.
 Conflict management - I will try to improve my management skills, because I
know that good management skills can potentially assist me to build my
career in many ways. I am working as an assassinate manger in JD sports for
more than ten years. It also supports me to handle my workplace conflicts and
team presentations (French, and Eskridge, 2021). I will try to improve my
administration skills in short term basis by studying modules of administration
which will make me more aware regarding current business environment,
specifically concerning the role of neutralizing conflict in the workplace.
 Writing skills - I will also take small initiatives this week to work on my writing
skills, because it will help me to improve my learning and research skills. I
decided to start writing story or essay in my free time, and I will use new
words to improve my writing skills. These skills will help me in my future to get
more opportunities which is good for me as important writing skills are very
crucial nowadays as a form of business communication and are quite prized
by many recruiters. I also started reading books as it will support me to write
more specific content of higher quality and I will also look towards
participating in essay writing competitions.
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium-
term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Medium- term goals help me encourage myself to doing something unique and
innovative so that it builds my creativity and motivated me. It is the necessary step to
dependable towards the long- term goals, it acts as a large plain stone that support
me achieve my goals. The medium- term goals are formed for the duration of six
months to one year, it is the objective which take longer time to achieve than the
short-term objectives (Hickman and Silva, 2018). Mostly medium-term plans are
related for the academic term such as completing degree or course of one year. It
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involves the more detailed planning for the teaching temporal order of a learning
statements across the smaller learning and teaching periods within the year. My
Medium-term goals relate to my personal and profession development and three
examples of such gives, real given below.
 IT abilities – Through many forms of analysis which have been conducted in
this report, I found myself weak in some specific field which are very important
to be proficient in nowadays and one of them was Information Technology. My
first medium term goal will be formulated around becoming more skilled in the
usage of IT technologies and smart systems to be a tech savvy employee in
the future which will open new job market opportunities for me.
 Problem solving abilities - I set my next medium- term goal in regards to
developing my problem solving goals at my work, because it helps me to
dealing with costumers and co-workers in a holistic manner. These skills will
help me to achieve the organizational goals effectively and efficiently.
Problem solving skills are more beneficial for the personal development goal
because they have many benefits such as increasing the strengths of brain
and build empathy. I will also try to play mind games which helps me sharpen
my mind and support me to take better decision in tough situations. I will
Invest my time effectively and efficiently and start taking some courses on
problem solving and critical thinking. Furthermore, problem solving skills will
help me in getting good jobs in the future (Mampane, 2019).
 Leadership abilities - My third medium goal includes me working to develop
my leadership skills to one-day lead people effectively in an organized setting
and in order to become a good leader, I need to work on myself and improve
many key traits. Some traits that are required of good leaders in modern
business includes good communication, good motivational qualities, good in
decision making and so on. While reading is one method, I can perform and
be beneficial from performing research work. I will sign up some creative
courses that will help me to build my innovative skills and take advantage of
online learning such as massive open online courses. Most of the courses
offered through these learning platforms offer a certificate that you can add to
your resume along with offering practical learning which will be helpful to me
in my goal of becoming a competent leader.
5. Description and discussion of the value of long-term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Long – term goals are related to something that I want to do in my future on a
long term basis. Being productive in one’s career is a time taking process, so I need
to set a long term goals it is important for my successful career. Its take time but it
helps me achieve something that I want to accomplish in the future. Long –term
goals need a proper planning, significant time and efforts to achieve them (Raschka
and Mirjalili, 2019). This is not something I can do this week or year; long- terms
goals are usually at least many years. My Long-term goals relate to my personal and
profession development and some examples of such goals are given below.
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 My first long term goal will be related to developing administrative skills, which
help me to develop technical skills and to being a strong communicator in the
workplace along with helping me to attract the customers and be a productive
asset for any company in the future. These skills will help me to complete
tasks which are related to managing a business and the possession of these
skills in individuals allows them to run business operations in a smooth
manner. So, I need to work on my communication, and teamwork skills,
because they will support me to get more opportunities in future. This is my
first long term that I want to achieve and I will immediately start to work on it
as most of my short and medium term goals directly contribute to these skills.
 My last long- term goal is related to organizational abilities such as multi
asking, analytical thinking and knowing about proper work delegation as these
skills help make one effective at their job across many fields as most of these
skills are transferable. This long term plan will involve me working on many
personal attributes such as my capacity of being empathetic towards people,
learning about work distribution and teamwork which are important
organizational work components.
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal
Development Plan
If I want to achieve the success and happiness in my personal and professional
life, so I should be continuously developing my knowledge, skills and experiences.
Personal development plan is beneficial for my individual and also for my business
and society. Because if I making the abilities and skills, so it impacts positive in my
life. According to the NHS, learning skills helps to build the mental wellbeing and
encourage and motivate themselves (Sarkodie and Adams,2018). The personal
development is an action plan that I can use to find my goals that what changes I
need to improve or add in my life to develop mu personal and professional goals. It
helps me to find my weaknesses and strengths so that I can work on it. Along with
Personal development plan helps me to provide a clear goal, improves the
employable and performance. If I make a personal development plan so it helps to
build my self-confident and motivated about myself. If I want to make an effective
personal development plan, so I can apply SWOT analysis as a starting point to help
me to create my PDP. This four area framework helps me to identify that what could
help me to develop my personal and professional growth to achieve my future
related targets and goals.
7.0 Conclusion
The above report went into detail regarding the many complex process
regarding the topic of personal development. If the any person wants to achieve their
target efficiently and effectively and wants to improve their skills and knowledge.
They want to set a goal, it is not compulsory that it set long- term goals, they can set
short- term goals to develop their mind and personally develop my creativity. In this
report it discusses that how it will set the short-term, medium-term and longer-term
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goal to develop the personal and professional goals. Along with it gives the Personal
three examples related to the future goals, which is beneficial for the care.
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Reference List:
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Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan
Skills to be
Developed
Development Plan Resources Target Date
Time
management
In order to develop the time management, I
will ensure that I check the guidelines
issued to me along with the deadlines
needed to conduct this work
I will look to enroll myself in tasks which are
complex and need to be done in a set time
and then measure my progress till I improve
Rowe, S.F., 2020. Project
management for small
projects. Berrett-Koehler
Publishers.
By September 2022
Communication
skills
In order to develop my communication
skills, I will make sure that I enroll myself fin
every public speaking seminar and classes
and ensure my participation in all events
which involves public speaking
I will also join classes which help build
competencies which are required for proper
communication.
Coffelt, T.A., Grauman, D. and
Smith, F.L., 2019. Employers’
perspectives on workplace
communication skills: The
meaning of communication
skills. Business and
Professional Communication
Quarterly, 82(4), pp.418-439.
By August, 2022
Teamwork skills In order to develop my teamwork skills, will
ensure that I undertake maximum
participation in team events which will help
in understanding team dynamics
I will also study models such as Tuckman’s
and Belbin to have a robust understanding
of behaviors in a team
Foster, M., Gilbert, M.,
Hanson, D., Whitcomb, K. and
Graham, C., 2019. Use of
simulation to develop
teamwork skills in prelicensure
nursing students: an
integrative review. Nurse
educator, 44(5), pp.E7-E11.
By October, 2022
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