Value of Personal and Professional Development in Business Management

Bsc. (Hons.)
Business Management
with Foundation
BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 1
Written Report Plan and
Evaluation of Sources
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Task One:
Concept of personal and professional development
Personal and professional development can be described as an activity in
which an individual involve with the purpose of improving their skills and knowledge
so as to achieve career goals. It assists an individual to build own strengths and
eliminate weaknesses by indulging in development programs.
Value of short term goals with 3 personal examples
Short term goals is defined as a bridge that reduces the gap or duration to achieve
long term goals. In other words, it can be termed as a goals which are required to
achieve within a period of 1 year.
Examples: -
 To schedule a 15-minute meeting every morning with the staff.
 To search a trainer or a coach to learn a tactics of any sports game.
 To make a 100 call between 9am to 6:30pm.
Value of medium term goals with 3 personal examples
Medium term goals can be termed as one which takes a bit longer. It bridges the gap
between daily activities and long term vision that an individual set for its own
development. Such goal must be achieved within the period of 1-3 years.
Examples: -
 To get a graduation degree from a reputed college.
 To buy a house.
 To conduct a quality survey to every customer within 30 days of their first
contact.
Value of long term goals with 3 personal examples
Long term goals is one which an individual to achieve something in future that
requires more time and proper planning. It is something which couldn’t achieve
within a week or a year as it needed a time period of 3 to 10 years.
Examples: -
 To become a leader or manager in reputed organisation
 To start and run own business more successfully.
 To get expertise in verbal communication.
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Value of Personal Development Plan with example
Personal development plan is a procedure of improving skills in which an
individual is currently lacking by framing actions and implementing corrective
measures. In this context, it can be said that personal development plan assist an
individual to strong their personality by improving their skills so that career goals can
be achieved within limited time period.
Example of Personal and professional development:
Skill Current
Proficiency
Target
Proficiency
Course of Action Time
period
Written
Communication
3 5 Writing 1000 words on
any topic regularly
30 days
Time
Management
3.5 5 Taking classes for
learning time
management and
seeking guidance from
the supervisor
45 days
Collaborative
Working
2 5 Working in the teams
and getting command
over team working
abilities
35 days
Task Two:
Effect of ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ on use of a
source
These elements make impact on the use of source as it defines whether such
source are more liable or relevant to the topic an individual searched for. The
effectiveness of decision making on the basis of source are very much depends on
these four aspects as outdated or unrealistic information are more useful for drawing
a valid conclusion.
Task Three:
Evaluation of eight sources used in report plan
Sources Author
(s)
Purpose Reliability Relevance
Painter, A.E., Moore, M.K.,
Lawrence, C.B., Despotes,
K.A. and Zwemer, E.K.,
2020. 71. GETTING
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This is there to
ascertain
contribution
that has been
made by early
academic skills
to life of
It is relied and
belongs to a
period of time
that should not
be more than 5
years.
.
Relevance of the
sources that it is
used for
justifying and
basis of the
discussion over
acadamic skills
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