Personal and Professional Development (PPD) Plan Report - BMS406

This report presents a Personal and Professional Development (PPD) Plan created for a Foundation Degree in Business and Management (BMS406) student. The plan encompasses self-reflection, analysis of strengths and weaknesses, and the establishment of academic, personal, and career-based go...Read More

PPD

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................1
Apply model of goal setting and reflection to analyse personal and professional development.
.....................................................................................................................................................1
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................4
Evaluate problem solving and decision making techniques to aspect of their personal and
professional development............................................................................................................4
Task 4...............................................................................................................................................8
Reflect on development of transferable skills through better business management program. 8
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is address about life long process in which people used to access
about their skills and qualities in which their aims get to order towards maximum their potential.
It build human capital which effectively facilitates towards employability and enhance quality of
life where realisation for dreams and aspiration. For personal development it may take place over
the course about an individual that enhance to entire life span. In other aspect of Professional
development is refers towards training, certification and education on that workers need to
succeed about on his or her education about work attainment towards succeed in effective
manner (Akrivou, Scalzo and Orón., 2020). The role of professional development is highlight on
the basis of individual pursuing essential aspect of jobs where it is been essential part of better
education that attained effective learning aspects. Thus, in this following report, there is explain
about goal setting and reflection to analyse personal and professional development. Problem
solving about decision making techniques increase professional development.
MAIN BODY
Task 2
Apply model of goal setting and reflection to analyse personal and professional development.
As the personal and professional development plan is generally known about employee
development plan or an individual development plan that mainly used in document career goals.
It is setting out strategy where instruct about how to meet or accomplish particular objective. In
which I have create my strength and weakness highlight that allows high rate of opportunities
along with challenges appears on my career growth plan (Allen and et. al., 2019). As I have
prepare about my personal as well as professional plan activities which define different roles and
responsibilities towards uplifted credentials such as:
• First, I need to specify about professional activities and roles in that present roles and
responsibilities elaborates.
• Assess skills and knowledge which suits within my career or professional plan.
• Setting up goals where it access about more professional benefits.
• Enhance create or action plan.

• Preparing about documentation development.
There is proper process for professional ceremony that enhance about vision clarity and more
roles and responsibilities defines about to handling work or objective.
Goal Setting : It involves about development about an action plan where designed to motivate
and guide a person group towards a goal. Goal setting which guided through goal setting where it
demonstrate about SMART criteria. As goal setting is most important is a major components
personal development and management literature (Bennett-Levy, 2019). But the Goal Setting
theory sets about refers where effective to setting goal on constant performance. As the
individual who sets specific on difficult goal performed were better than general way as well as
easy gaols attainable. As I have clear out my process of approaching proper goal theory in which
I want to pursue my career in marketing in proper manner. Some of practises which helps to
make my career in professional development:
• Clarity: This is a clear and measurable goal which is more achievable than one that is
poorly defined. In other words this helps to make specific. The most effective goal have
specific timeline for completion. For this my career is marketing stream in which I have
clarify about how to pursue my further development plan.
• Challenges: As per this practise where decent level of difficulty to creates high
motivation which strive towards goal attainment. In marketing I have to face different
level of barriers that make reduce my efficiency level.
• Commitment: It is deliberate effort that attain goal where the share about goal some one
else in order to increase better accountability to meet their gaol in effective manner.
• Feedback: This is set up the better information in which mistakes and chances of
improvement get increased (Carpenter and et. al., 2019). For example: If I pursue
marketing, my performance need to evaluate by experts on which they will provide
genuine remarks that helps for my development.
• Task complexity: It is goal specific where the complex which make sure that having
enough time to undertakes learning curve which involved in completing in task. In other
words, there is goal really tough about making within succeeding in effective.
SMART Goal:

• Specific: This goal which must clear where highly specific end point. But the goal is
vague it would not be consider SMART goal.
• Measurable: it is needed to be accurately for tracking progress on that performa
where the goal is meet.
• Attainable: This is setting of goal about it too ambitious which is enhance struggle for
accomplish it. It is motivation about how in future.
• Relevant: The goal which is pick about selecting field or must provided benefits in
direct manner.
• Time bound: It is setting a time framework for goal that helps quantify it further
which helps keep focuses on mapping.
Evaluation
As per above SMART goal there is presence of effective goal that creates better
relationship between goals and success. I have made my path way to pursue marketing goal
which is needed to specify about how to approach specific goal in effective manner.
SWOT Analysis :
This is useful framework for analysing strength, weakness, opportunities and threats. This
helps to analyse internal and external situation on well minimise uncertainty that creates better
advantages chances towards success. In following there is assessment of Swot Analysation of
personal and professional development.
STRENGTH WEAKNESS
• I have good academic skills and
qualification in my management
studies.
• I have better communication skills,
hard worker and having ability to learn
new valuable aspect of things which is
important for career development.
• To working in stress or attaining any
kind of work pressure can not provide
my comfort zone.
• I am weak in my anger management or
not feel comfortable to work on high
stress level.
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
• As I have good communication I can
apply in multiple alternatives or option
• There is high competition in market as
well as professional context where high

of career platform which increase my
credential.
• Different courses is having scope of
advanced opportunities that recreates
rate of challenges in marketing career.
Task 3.
Evaluate problem solving and decision making techniques to aspect of their personal and
professional development.
Problem solving and Decision making are two different concept where act of depicting
problem which determine the cause of problem to identifying, prioritizing and selecting proper
solution that reduce uncertainty (Christie and et. al., 2018). In another concept where decision
making is process of choices on which scrutinising information which it assessing for alternative
deliberate resolution. It step by step through process on that decision by effective organising
through deliberate decisions by organising which relevant resources in defining alternatives. In
my personal and professional development there is many challenges and benefits allows to
defining alternative for making planning out about marketing career in effective manner. There is
planning for personal and professional development plan which is necessary to fulfil objectives
and goals satisfaction.
Setting Goal:
Weakness What do I
want to
learn
What do I
have to do
What support and
resources I need
How will I use
my success
What
measures
will I take
to improve
my
weakness
I don't like the
stress.
There are
various
counselling
As many
solutions are
presently
The resources
which is essential
to use are novels
By using of
resources and
suggestion
To constant
day I need
to use

classes and
managerial
activities
helps out to
reduce my
stress
ability.
As there
are various
videos and
experts
session in
which I
need to get
knowledge
for
improveme
nt my stress
ability.
counted
through
reduce stress
level such as
meditation
and involves
to pursue
those
activities
which
generates
positive
outcomes.
Some of
yoga and
certain
normal
workout
helps to
reach out to
reduce stress
level.
book, yoga met,
peaceful music all
these benefits
support to reduce
high proficiency of
stress level.
from experts to
control on
stress can helps
to improve
presence of my
mind in
efficient level.
In professional
development
control over
stress helps out
to reduce it this
can make me
engage into
work in
professional
business.
reading
positive
novels,
mediation
and analyse
about the
productive
work for
developmen
t in effective
manner.
Easy to make me
Angry
First aspect
that I
needed to
know about
situation
where the
situation to
get free
There is
need of
patience and
I need ri
improve my
listenting
skills for
enhance
Some of resources
is natural solution
such peaceful
environment,
meditation which
encourage for
reducing overall
uncertainty.
To control on
my anger is
necessary for
attaining better
work
environment.
Better
relationship
I need to
attend more
session of
anger
management
classes and
keep
engaging

from
situation in
systematic
manner.
better work
accomplish
outcomes
between other
or top authority
where it comes
upon to deal
with
sustainable
manner.
myself into
meditation
and yoga
classes.
These helps
to me for
building
more
personality
in effective
manner.
Through effective problem solving is means about coming up with valuable or productive
solution for specific problem that get to enhance answer in proper manner. As matter of fact,
good problem solving is generates more complexities in which first solution get into with come
up from best solution in effective manner (Evers and et. al., 2019). In personal and professional
development plan is initiates to raises high efficiency of work attainment. There are some
important steps which actively used in professional development plan as systematic manner such
as elaborated below:
• Define about problem: This is first step on which problem solving is enhance to
providing to defining problem where it sounds in correct form. This an effective
problem where everyone into account but different people are might to creates
significant ideas and alternative issues. For my professional and personal goal
perspective which is allows to identify issues in my plan as lack of resources and I have
my own weakness which I needed to improve such as control over into stress. On the
basis of depending problem where it relying on various problem information where it
available to assess what actual way negative problem is happening in effective manner.
• List of overall possible solutions: This is important to having better lists of problems
for getting scrutinise solution that attain for mapping positive solution. In this
considering overall potential problem options and sceneries. To commencing of

Brainstorming allows high rate of solutions which creates benefits to evaluating
feasible solution. Depending about type of problem which is useful and having short
term and long term solution for implement through getting positive outcomes.
• Evaluate options from situations: This is commence about pros and cons that is
important where list of solution get access for attaining competitive advantages. This is
one of advantages which optimise data from feedback matters (Gorbunova and
Sabirova, 2017). My own criteria of problem having various solutions but they are
limited period of range as far as it considered it needed to evaluate in effective manner
on business type of goals and objectives.
• Select an Option: After evaluating alternatives for solution there is must require of
option which needed to decide that solving problem. It is effectively about taking
interest to that involves about accounts. For instance, mapping of alternatives now its
depends upon my decision making for my situation which authentic problem solution
will generates effective outcomes. As I have facing my overload stress problem and
anger issues that needed to reduced from professional career. Unless it will be creates
high rate of uncertainty causes barriers into my professional path ways. Correct form of
decision making help to generates better solution to positive outcomes.
• Creating implementing plan: There are actually two more steps which involved for
wanted problem method to get enhance method of truly effective. The first creation
about an implementing plan. For enhancing correct form of decision making where
better communicating plan to creates solution for long term aspect (Kaya and et . al.,
2017). Form implementing plan to presumes solution into practise where problem
solving techniques many users testing feedback on better phase most viable. Thus,
getting analysing better benefits and explore more opportunities in professional life.
This creates high rate of solution through implementing plan as well as to getting
analyse productive solution for mapping more wide outcomes.

Task 4.
Reflect on development of transferable skills through better business management program.
Business Management program is set of branch of education which provides where
knowledge and training for pertaining, execution, supervision and analysis about business
enterprise. In this field of education and one learn about better consistency where establishment
about company about an organisation where many department and function level such as
production, financial administrative, human resources, sales and operation work or marketing
others. In professionalism to conducting business management about overall streams about
commerce, science and arts to pursue for graduate and post graduate (Korthagen., 2017). For
that, as I want to commence my career in marketing I needed to pursue my career in Marketing .
To this I needed to understand about business management and business related regulation for
that it would creates high effective solution to increase its academic skills. Skills enhance about
marketing is decision making, adaptability, communication to enhance better work.
There is some of skills which helps to build my professional development in effective manner
such as:
• Motivation and enthusiasm: This is next employer for investing where there is need of
working enthusiastic for contributing effective rate of skills which is enhance motivated
within career. If there is lack of motivation can enhance negative impact on current work
within effective manner (Kroll and Dussias., 2017). In perspective of my personal and
professional I need to focuses on motivation that creates positive outcomes and
enhancing to obtaining more business opportunities.
• Initiative: Through using of initiatives is job where highly valuable that enhance more
employer need to understand about the approach which they made to commence business
start small. As my professional work I want to creates strategy to develop skills that not
act on outside mannerism to attain authority.
• Organisation and planning: It prioritise attaining task and time management towards
key tactics of every job where evidence about enhance to implement plan. The planning
which I have to make as per work or execute my business related plan that creates high
rate of benefits effectively.

• Communication: The role of effective communication plays an important aspect as it
creates many records of times to decrease issues which clarifying increasing. Towards
future employees need to known about capable of explaining thoughts about company
initiatives that understand on view points (McComb and Eather, 2017). In perspective of
my professional aspect in which capable to communicate others. As my strength that I
have communication skills where it creates business management career in effective
manner.
• Team work: There is any employer needs to know which will about able to work within
their other staff to get job done. Many companies and jobs are entitled to allows team for
attaining jobs to accomplish task to attain positive outcomes (McEwan, Tod and Eubank.,
2019). As per my perspective I have better coordination skills as well as there is
requirement of leadership skills which helps to commence business outcomes in effective
manner.
• Leadership skills: leaders undertakes responsibilities and delegate task by implementing
managerial skills where most of roles involves in aspect of leadership, especially where
beyond the career. About the opportunity to manage project which identifies people skills
to making understand that they capable towards developing skills.
• Problem solving: Training can only undertakes about to solving issues which I will faces
in my business management program such as shortage of resources, employee
greivenaces, quality of raw material, insolvency of funds etc (Salter and Rhodes., 2018).
These factors can raises major issues in which effective problem solving allows better
solution to attain positive results.
Evaluation:
In above certain discussion on business management tools identified about to get enhance
better business management program as well as these strategies helps me out to form effective
business regulation (Sharov., Liapunova and Sharova,., 2019). As per my professional
perspective there is high rate of skills required in business management to scrutinize positive
outcomes in effective manner to generalise solution to reduce overall uncertainty .

CONCLUSION
In aforementioned report of Personal and Professional development where it summarised
on reflection tone about individual personality perspective about how he/she can attain their
major requirement to get developed into their career in effective manner. In individual aspect it
demonstrate about its strength and weakness which play major role in Personal and Professional
development plan to improve weakness. Apart from it, SMART goals and Goal setting theory
enhance more business development in completing objective that improves better project
outcomes in effective manner.

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