Report on Personal Development for BSc Business Management with Foundation

This report discusses the concept of personal and professional development, short, medium, and long-term goals, and the importance of a personal development plan for BSc Business Management with Foundation students. It includes examples of goals and a SMART plan.

BSc (Hons) Business Management with
Foundation
BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 2
Report on Personal Development
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Table of Contents
Introduction...................................................................................................................3
Definition of the concept of personal and professional development .....................3
Description and discussion of the value of short term goals identifying at least 3
personal examples ..................................................................................................6
Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals identifying at least 3
personal examples ..................................................................................................7
Description and discussion of the value of long term goals identifying at least 3
personal examples...................................................................................................7
Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development Plan ......8
Conclusion...................................................................................................................9
Reference List: ...........................................................................................................10
Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan...................................................................11
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Introduction
Academic skills refers to a talent and habits that is useful for pursuing
learning, research, presentation, report writing and many more. This term mainly
includes several aspects such as studying, communication, test taking, social
planning etc. Personal and professional development mainly present a thought which
is useful to manage and understand the work and career related opportunities. It is
highly necessary on individual basis that helps in carry out and regulate activities
that helps in developing skills with understanding and knowledge (McGill, Heikkila
and Lazarowicz, 2020). However, it is based on professional development of individual
person that improve career so that more opportunities are enjoyed by person in their
personal and professional life. Therefore this report elaborate various terms such as
explanation of personal and professional development. This report also elucidates
value of short term, long term and medium term goals that helps individual to
enhance their career along with developing living standard of people within society.
At last it elaborates personal development plan so that skills are effectively
improved.
Definition of the concept of personal and professional development
Personal and professional development defines as a process wherein an
individual and organization are engage within the process of gaining knowledge
through learning to meet the targets effectively and efficiently. This term helps
individual in shaping their career along with improving skills and knowledge.
Professional development is a type of ongoing process that helps a person in deal
with the situation that comes in career path. Learning new and improved skills allow
person to enjoy different roles within an organization so that they got an opportunity
that he/she wishes. Personal development support in developing social and mental
skills so that potential in work is also get improved that provide sustainable results in
positive manner (Spector-Cohen and et. al., 2019). Therefore personal and professional
development helps in maintaining effective and efficient in particular job role. This
development is important for personal life of an individual because by this they learn
new skills and knowledge that they use in their job role to advance career. This also
build and develop confidence in a person so that they achieve objectives,
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communicate ideas and thoughts effectively so that overall credibility is to be grow.
Self growth is crucial and it is mainly developed by focusing on personal and
professional development. There are several requirements of personal and
professional development that are presented below:
 First requirements is improve your self awareness- According to this need
self awareness simply means being aware about yourself. It is very essential
to understand individual needs and aspects because according to this a
person focus on proceeding the self growth plans. Therefore nobody
effectively understand yourself that means if an individual does not
understand own strength and weaknesses than they cannot proceed to
develop self growth plans that creates disappoint in the life of individual.
 Second requirement is know and build your own identification- It is very
significant requirements that was sustain in every individual. Therefore, every
person is different from one another they also show their desire when they
understand what they want and for this they first understand their own identity.
 Third requirements focuses on developing and discovering the talents-
It is the last requirements that focuses on discovering and developing the
talents within a person. To enhance personal and professional development it
is essential to discover own talent so that high opportunities are to be enjoyed
by gaining opportunities in interested job role within reputed organization
(Lejeune, Beausaert and Raemdonck, 2021).
Knowledge
It defines as a fact or awareness that is gained by using experience and
education. In simple terms it means it demonstrate a practical or theoretical
understanding of a particular subject. It is a term that exist in human mind and it
should be contrasted with information and data that generate in non human form
such as documents and systems. There are various type of knowledge such as
tactic knowledge in which a person learn only with regular refining of skills and
experience. It means it cannot be generate by reading books as it develops by
regular practical learning. Experimental knowledge learned through experience in
which flat data is less problematic.
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Skills
It refers to learned abilities that is used to perform actions so that determined
output is to be gained with proper execution. Therefore skills is generally divide into
two aspects that is domain-general and domain- specific skills. It defines as an ability
of use one knowledge properly and appropriately that helps in work in coordination
and power of doing something that offers competitive advantage in personal and
professional life (Gamble and et. al., 2020). There are several kinds of skills such
creative skills, interpersonal skills, customer service skills, communication skills etc.
that are effective to attain assigned task effectively and efficiently.
Behavior
This term refers to an action that is measurable and observable. There are
various types of behavior that present in human nature when they perform some
activities. These type of behavior are overt, cover, rational, irrational etc.
From above information an individual person focus on developing a personal
development planning cycle that are shown below:
 Self analysis- It is crucial to analyses yourself. In this an individual
understand their own skill and knowledge for improving their career effectively
and efficiently. For this swot analysis is very effective tool because under this
a person appropriately understand own strength and weakness so that
performing task and setting goals would be easy for a person.
 Development planning- In this stage individual emphasis on planning
activities that highly support professional development. To plan development
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individual focus on own opportunities so that best alternative is select and
according to it individual prepares plan.
 Prioritizing opportunities- In this individual firstly analyze the professional
development opportunities with the most potential benefit so that it become
easy to grab opportunities effectively and efficiently.
 Participating in activities- In this step person focus on making professional
development activities so that they can take participate and improve it for
future success (Pitan and Muller, 2020).
 Recording and reflecting- It is very essential to keep information up to date
related to activities and what you have learn earlier.
Illustration 1: Professional development planning, 2021
Description and discussion of the value of short term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples
Short term goals are those goals which belongs to a milestones within
an individual person journey as it is also effective to reach medium term goals so
that long term goals are easily attained on specified period of time. It is highly
significant for an individual person to make a short term goals because and due to
this a person engaged in completing targets for setting a suitable path to attain long
term goals. This type of goal help in reaching the interested destination where an
individual person wants to go to face higher success (Tymms and Peters, 2020). These
goals are developed for highly for 12 months or less than that. Hence, it helps people
develops the desired zshort term goals so that in future they effectively focused on
attaining medium and long term goals that are essential for survival.
Short term goals Time Where achievable
Communication skill July to august 2021 Involving in watching TV,
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listening song, BBC etc.
ICT Skills July to September,
2021
Improved by going to
training institute.
Enhancing confidence August to September,
2021
Participate in group
discussion, involve with
seniors at the time of taking
decisions.
Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples
These are those goals that present an objective for completing long term
goals. These goals helps in fulfilling the gap between former and later term goals.
Therefore these types of goals helps in improving strong personality as well as
career within market so that targets are attained effectively and efficiently. These
type of goals are not attained within a weak or a month as it takes time to complete
this. These are high enough to do changes related to achieve long term goals so that
success is to be enjoyed properly. These are high enough to reflects significant
progress and outcomes (Carter, 2021). Therefore students are highly focused towards
attaining these goals in effective and efficient manner.
Medium term goals Time Where achievable
Save money for buying
new car
July 2021 to September
2022
Save from salary, pocket
money.
Fitness goal August 2021 to June
2022
By taking guidance from
fitness trainer.
Ability to build resume September 2021 to
august 2022.
Watching videos, tutor help
etc.
Description and discussion of the value of long term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples
Long term goals are those which are attain within a long period of time such
as in 5 to 10 years. Therefore it is necessary to reach deserving results within an
overall career (Chidler and Plummer,2019). These goals re very important to gain
success as per future aspects. By achieving these goals an individual stand with
pride in society and being an ideal for other people in society. Hence, it offers
favorable results in terms of increasing standard of living.
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Long term goals Time Where achievable
Completion of degree 3 years Take admission in business
management school
Get a deserving job role in
reputed company in UK
4 years By work hard getting high
level position within reputed
organization in UK
Buy an own house 5 Years By saving money and earn
more money.
Description and discussion of the value of a Personal
Development Plan
Personal development plan refers to a process of developing an action plan
which is highly based on awareness, reflection, goal setting, values etc. in terms of
developing career, relationship, education as well as improving self. It is a type of
statement of individual lifestyle priorities, career positioning and making alternative
plans for further success (Sampaio, Bastos and Marinho, 2021).
SMART
 Specific- I want to attain goals on time that are short, long and medium term
goals and for this I focused on improving my skills and setting targets so that
goals are reached on time.
 Measurable- To measure the achievement of goal I will regular analyze each
and every step by taking help of seniors so that effectiveness would be
maintained.
 Achievable- By regularly examine the goals they are easily achieved and for
this internet savvy skills is highly required to find answers of issues that were
faced within the goals achievement (Koemel, Shafieizadeh and Farr, 2021).
 Relevant- It is essential to set the timeline for attaining goals so that
authenticity is to be maintained.
 Time bound- To attain short term goals around 1 year is needed and for
medium term goal 2 years is sufficient and for long term goals 5 years.
Importance of PDP
The main importance of personal development planning is to examine current
skills such as time management skills, communication skills, leadership skills etc.
and also useful to evaluate the skills that are needed to sustain in future. Personal
development plan helps in make a proper path that delivers the effective
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presentation (Szenasi and Hey, 2020). This model also helps in examine the needs
from individual point of view so that long term sustainability within personal and
professional life is to be attained appropriately and proficiently without developing
any hindrances.
Conclusion
From the above report it is to be concluded that personal and professional
development is very prominent term for an individual person because it helps in
providing number of opportunities to people so that they enhance career
opportunities effectively and efficiently. By developing this report I effectively
understand the importance of personal and professional development in my life
because it enhance growth and development that is useful for gaining successful
results. This report also helps in elaborating short term goals that is useful to attain
medium term goals and after fulfilling these two goals I can effectively complete my
long term goals. To complete all these goals this report helps in acknowledging the
value of personal development plan so that long term survival in professional life
would be easy and effective that directly impact in favor of satisfying personal life.
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Reference List:
Books and Journal
Carter, J., 2021. Work Placements, Internships & Applied Social Research. SAGE.
Chidler, M. and Plummer, E., 2019. Learning beyond the classroom. In Surviving and
Thriving in the Secondary School (pp. 162-173). Routledge.
Gamble, S.C. and et. al., 2020. Students as co-authors of an academic development service:
A case study of the Study Skills service at the University of Bristol. New Review of
Academic Librarianship. 26(2-4),. pp.275-290.
Koemel, N.A., Shafieizadeh, K. and Farr, B.R., 2021. Career Readiness in the Dietetics
Curriculum. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 121(1), p.24.
Lejeune, C., Beausaert, S. and Raemdonck, I., 2021. The impact on employees’ job
performance of exercising self-directed learning within personal development plan
practice. The International Journal of Human Resource Management. 32(5).
pp.1086-1112.
McGill, C.M., Heikkila, M. and Lazarowicz, T., 2020. Professional development,
performance expectations and academic advisors’ perceptions of relational skills: a
sequential explanatory mixed methods study. New Horizons in Adult Education and
Human Resource Development. 32(4). pp.50-69.
Pitan, O.S. and Muller, C., 2020. Student perspectives on employability development in
higher education in South Africa. Education+ Training.
Sampaio, S.C., Bastos, T.A. and Marinho, M.L., 2021. Soft skills for newborn software
engineers in agile teams. International Journal of Agile Systems and
Management, 14(1), pp.27-52.
Spector-Cohen, E. and et. al., 2019. Towards English for academic purposes curriculum
reform: Linguistic, educational or political considerations?. In Innovation in
Language Learning and Teaching (pp. 153-176). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Szenasi, J. and Hey, C., 2020. The developing practitioner. In The Student Practitioner in
Early Childhood Studies (pp. 34-53). Routledge.
Tymms, M. and Peters, J., 2020. Losing oneself: tutorial innovations as potential drivers of
extrinsic motivation and poor wellbeing in university students. Pastoral Care in
Education, 38(1), pp.42-63.
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Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan
Skills to be
Developed
Development Plan Resources Target Date
Oral
communication
skill
To improve this short term goals I
effectively focused on participating in group
discussions, watching BBC etc.
Costigan, R.D. and Brink, K.E.,
2020. Developing listening and
oral expression skills: Pillars of
influential oral
communication. Journal of
Management Education.
44(2). pp.129-164.
01/08/21
Want to buy car By saving money from the money that I
have earned in terms of pocket money or
stipend.
O'Neill, E. and et. al., 2019.
Barriers to electric vehicle
uptake in Ireland: Perspectives
of car-dealers and policy-
makers. Case Studies on
Transport Policy, 7(1), pp.118-
127.
22/09/22
Completion of
management
degree
Take admission in reputed business school
in UK.
Alam, G.M.,and et. al., 2020.
Does an MBA degree advance
business management skill or
in fact create horizontal and
24/10/24
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vertical
mismatches?. Business
Process Management Journal.
Develop
confidence level
Attend personality development classes,
general speaking classes so that my overall
confidence is enhanced.
Pérez-Fuster, P., Sevilla, J.
and Herrera, G., 2019.
Enhancing daily living skills in
four adults with autism
spectrum disorder through an
embodied digital technology-
mediated
intervention. Research in
Autism Spectrum
Disorders, 58, pp.54-67.
01/08/21
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