BMP3001 Semester 1: Report on Personal Development and Goals

This report, submitted by a student, delves into the critical aspects of personal and professional development, academic skills, and the strategic use of a Personal Development Plan (PDP). The report begins by defining personal and professional development, emphasizing their significance in achieving life goals. It then meticulously explores the value of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, providing personal examples for each to illustrate their practical application. The student outlines specific goals for each timeframe, such as improving communication and time management for short-term objectives, pursuing certifications and job searching for medium-term targets, and securing funding and career advancement for long-term aspirations. Furthermore, the report underscores the importance of a PDP as a framework for self-reflection, skill assessment, and goal setting, culminating in the inclusion of a detailed PDP example in the appendix. The report concludes by reinforcing the necessity of academic skills and a well-structured PDP for fostering continuous learning and achieving both personal and professional success.

Academic skills and
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Personal and professional development.................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
Value of short-term goals.......................................................................................................2
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................2
Value of medium term goals..................................................................................................2
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................3
Value of Long term goals.......................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
References:.......................................................................................................................................5
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................5
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................6
Personal Development Plan....................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills is referred as the ability of a student has in terms of talents and habits that can
help an individual to pursue academic activities effectively suggest learning, report writing,
research and presentations during the academic course (Mason and et. al., 2017). Academic skills
really important asset as it encourages a student to become scholar in studies and to become
valuable outside the classroom. Students with good academic skills outshine themselves in front
of others in classroom and in the professional career. For students it is very important to timely
analyse their academic skills to develop and enhance them for personal development. Personal
development plan is a framework that helps an individual to reflect their identity skills and plan
actions to within timeframe to attain them.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Personal and professional development
Personal development is a process of individual learning thereby engaging an individual to
learn skills that can fulfil the challenges and the goals of the life. Personal development is
basically growth of the skills and capabilities of an individual (Kosovich, Flake and Hulleman,
2017). The aim of personal development for an individual is to enhance and develop the skills
that can deliver the outstanding performance in the personal life and professional life. Time
management good communication skills presentation skills are some of the key methods for the
personal and professional development. Professional development is the improvement of skills
and knowledge during the job by training and development sessions and through peer viewing.
The continuous development of personal and professional skills help an individual to attain
desired goals of the life and it also to build an exceptional personality that can provide an
individual and opportunity to outshine. Any shortcomings in the personal skills can be turned
into opportunities by developing a personal development plan that identify those weaknesses and
set them as goals to overcome them within a time (Pugh and Broome, 2020). Hence personal and
professional development is a way by which individual can nourish their existing skills qualities
capabilities knowledge and develop new ones in order to deliver outstanding performance which
is crucial for the better future and career growth.
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TASK 2
Value of short-term goals
Short term goals step by step process achieving the short and small girls in the near future in
order to attain long term goals. Short term goals are a vision of accomplishing the immediate
plants in the near future in order to climb the ladders of success to move towards long term goals
(Schunk and DiBenedetto, 2020). Short term goals are really important to be achieved in order to
adopt largest changes in the life. I personally develop short term goals to enhance my personal
skills that can reflect in the professional career in the long term future. Help me in achieving
better performance in my professional career and also make me more productive and creative in
my workplace there by providing me with overall job satisfaction in order to accomplish short
term goals it is very important to successfully set goals and then be responsible and committed to
achieve them. For me short term goals are highly important to boost my personal and
professional life and to increase the productivity in my working style. The short term goals also
help me to game success and support for my long term goals. to attain short term goal it takes
maximum year. Short terms goals are highly valuable to me as accomplishing them in a timely
manner boosts my motivation and provide me clear direction and also increases my productivity
and performance thereby promoting my career success (Muenks, Yang and Wigfield, 2018). Few
short term goals that I want to achieve in near future are:
 Communicate more with my co-workers that is improving my interpersonal
communication skills.
 Arrive office on time or before time improve my time management skills.
 Organise my working area that is to develop organisation skills.
TASK 3
Value of medium term goals
The medium term goals are achieved in much longer time than the short term goals and requires
more skills and capabilities in order to achieve the goals so that individual can build together to
form long term goals. Medium term goals help an individual to evaluate and analyse the progress
whether an individual is heading towards long-term goals or requires more efforts your skills in
order to accomplish the long-term goals (Moyer and Bohl, 2019). Basically they are milestones
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to reach long term goals. Set medium term goals to analyse my performance towards attaining
long term goals so that if there is any shortcoming in achieving my long term goals that can be
made together in between the process there by achieving the medium term goals. The biggest
value I feel about medium term goals that they offer a moderate amount of time to understand
and they believe learn the skills and capabilities but following the significant process which
means the process is long enough too deeply understand the elements and short enough to
complete the task within the time frame in order to achieve that goal. I am committed towards
my goals as this will take me closer to my long term goals and also provide me with extra skills.
To achieve medium term goals it takes maximum 2 to 2.5 years. Medium term goals help a
person to stay motivated and be passionate to work hard and maintained the consistency in the
progress towards the long term goals. Medium term goals help me to be excited and motivated to
reach and goals that is towards long-term destination this is an overwhelming experience and
also make me more focused towards my goals. Help me to find the direction for my new life and
to analyse my other capabilities over a period of time which is important for the life as changes
are essential in order to develop and grow there for midterm goals are the milestones that help an
individual to move forward and work hard in order to make the dreams a reality (Kirn and
Benson, 2018). Few midterm goals that I want to achieve in the upcoming years are:
 To obtain new certification that is to develop new core competency.
 Search for suitable full time job in multinational organisation.
 To learn multiple languages
TASK 4
Value of Long term goals
Long term goals are highly important for student to bring meaningful change in the lives and to
transform the dream into reality. Long term goals are considered as the final result of the hard
work attain by an individual growth and success in the life. Long term goals take large amount of
time basically large number of years to accomplish but accomplishment of long term goals
provides a fruitful experience individual. I personally believe that it is very important for the
personal and professional development to have long-term goals so that I can engage myself
continuous into the learning process and develop multiple skills capabilities and qualities in
between. Finally the long-term goals help me in developing enhancing and achieving the skills
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that will ensure the success in my professional and personal life. Therefore long term goals are
highly necessary for the self improvement and also it helps me to strive for something thereby
keeping me focused and motivated can also help me in shaping my direction of career and
personal life. Long term goals helps me in taking best decisions for my professional and personal
life throughout the course of career and also help me to plan my career with long term stability
and allow me to learn multiple skills that are transferable in my various career opportunities
thereby allowing me to set a time frame to achieve those goals (Rubens and et.al., 2018).
Therefore long-term goals are highly important and it beneficial for me as they help me to stay
on track. Order to create long-term goals I personally make a strategy that contains of course of
action MS leads to words the path of success and also measures my goals. Long term goals
eventually provide lifelong security of career and also help in attaining the dream into reality.
Few Long term goals that I want to achieve are:
 Secure my funding to buy my own house.
 Gain experience and reach to the senior level position in multinational organisation.
 To start my own enterprise can become famous entrepreneur.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above report that for a student it is very important to have core academic
skills. The academic skills help the student to develop their personal and professional
development. Hence, it is very important for the individual to develop their short term goals in
order to attain long term goals. Therefore the personal development plan is essential in order to
plan a course of action so that goals can be attained within a timeframe and performance can be
measured.
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References:
Books and Journals
Aguinis, H. and Gabriel, K.P., 2021. If You are Serious About Impact, Create a Personal Impact
Development Plan. Business & Society, p.00076503211014482.
Kirn, A. and Benson, L., 2018. Engineering students' perceptions of problem solving and their
future. Journal of engineering education. 107(1). pp.87-112.
Kosovich, J.J., Flake, J.K. and Hulleman, C.S., 2017. Short-term motivation trajectories: A
parallel process model of expectancy-value. Contemporary Educational Psychology. 49.
pp.130-139.
Mason, B.A and et. al., 2017. Conflict, closeness, and academic skills: A longitudinal
examination of the teacher–student relationship. School Psychology Review. 46(2). pp.177-
189.
Moyer, J.D. and Bohl, D.K., 2019. Alternative pathways to human development: Assessing
trade-offs and synergies in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Futures. 105.
pp.199-210.
Muenks, K., Yang, J.S. and Wigfield, A., 2018. Associations between grit, motivation, and
achievement in high school students. Motivation Science. 4(2). p.158.
Neverkovich, S.D and et. al., 2018. Students’ internet addiction: study and prevention. Eurasia
Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education. 14(4). pp.1483-1495.
Pugh, M. and Broome, N., 2020. Dialogical coaching: An experiential approach to personal and
professional development. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research. 72(3).
p.223.
Rubens, A and et.al., 2018. Self-awareness and leadership: Developing an individual strategic
professional development plan in an MBA leadership course. The International Journal of
Management Education. 16(1). pp.1-13.
Schunk, D.H. and DiBenedetto, M.K., 2020. Motivation and social cognitive
theory. Contemporary Educational Psychology. 60. p.101832.
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APPENDIX
Personal Development Plan
Goals Duration to
achieve goal
What actions
have been
planned to
achieve the goal
How to measure
performance
How to get to know
that the goal is
achieved
Organise my
working area
that is to
develop
organisational
skills.
(Short term
goals)
6 months In order to
develop and
improve my
organisational
skills thereby
organising my
work area I will
spare few
minutes of my
day to clean up
my workstation
and ensure that
all my files and
papers are
organised
systematically.
Regularly evaluate
how tidying clean
my workplace is as
this will directly
influence my work
quality and
productivity. I will
analyse that there is
no random files of
paper lying on my
desk (Neverkovich
and et. al., 2018).
When there will be
increase in my
productivity and
quality of work and
also when I will be
more focused
towards my work
and through my
overall job
satisfaction I will be
able to analyse that I
have accomplished
my goal.
To obtain
new
certification
that is to
develop new
core
competency.
(Medium term
goals)
2 year
To gain New
certificate to
learn new skills
and core
competency I will
enrol myself into
2 year diploma
course or
certificate course.
To measure my
performance I will
review my
performance card
of year examination
during my
certificate course
and I will also
compare my I
When I will receive
my two years
certificate course
degree I will attain
my medium term
goal.
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Before that I will
make a list of
skills I need to
learn to sort my
choice for
certificate course.
earlier skills with
new skills to
measure the
progress I have
gained through the
certificate course.
To start my
own
enterprise can
become
famous
entrepreneur.
(Long term
goals)
10 years To achieve my
long term goal of
starting an
enterprise how to
become famous
entrepreneur I
will develop my
entrepreneurship
skills and collect
financial and
other resources
required to start
an enterprise in
my interested
area (Aguinis and
Gabriel, 2021).
To measure
performance I will
regularly check my
list of collecting the
resources required
to start an
enterprise and also
calculate my
funding. I will also
so I analyse my
entrepreneurship
skill developed
during the years.
Then I will have
enough finance and
other resources
along with the
dedication and
passion to start a
new enterprise I will
attain my long term
goal by starting new
entrepreneurial
venture and then I
will become
successful
entrepreneur.
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