Report on Personal Development: Academic Skills and PDP - BMP3001

This report provides an overview of personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of setting short, medium, and long-term goals to achieve career objectives and improve academic skills. It discusses the value of each type of goal, providing personal examples such as developing communication skills, public speaking skills, and time management for short-term goals; obtaining a digital marketing certification, enhancing leadership skills, and learning a foreign language for medium-term goals; and pursuing a diploma in marketing, securing a career in a well-recognized firm, and achieving financial stability for long-term goals. The report also highlights the significance of a Personal Development Plan (PDP) as a strategic framework for self-growth and skill development, enabling individuals to align their skills with their interests and strengthen their career prospects. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering various study tools and solved assignments for students.

BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 2
Report on Personal Development
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Table of Contents
Introduction...............................................................................................................................2
Definition of the concept of personal and professional development.............................2
Description and discussion of the value of short term goals identifying at least 3
personal examples..................................................................................................................3
Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals identifying at least 3
personal examples..................................................................................................................4
Description and discussion of the value of long term goals identifying at least 3
personal examples..................................................................................................................6
Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development Plan....................7
7.0 Conclusion.........................................................................................................................7
References...............................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
In this Competitive world, every individual should need to pay more attention
on their career and also improve their academic skills which can help full to to
maintain their pro- activeness on their goals & regular task (Kourakli and et,. al.,
2017).For achieve good outcome, it is mandatory for the individuals to
concentrate on their skills & set short, medium & long term goals in order to
accomplish the entire task which can helpful to make career bright. The prime
purpose of this project is to determine the significance of of all types of goals
whether it is short, medium and long and set appropriate goals in order to
personal and professional development of the individuals. Personal development
plan is also discussed in this report in order to manage the current skills and
improve those skills which individual wants to you have to achieve particular goal.
Definition of the concept of personal and professional development
The concept of personal & professional development is play a prominent part
in the growth of the individuals so that they can effectively prepare a plan for their
self growth. Through strategic plan is work like a continuous procedure which can
make effective changes in the working & personal life of the individuals. In order to
gain more success , it is necessary for the people is to prepare an appropriate plan &
then set specific skills & knowledge which are require to obtain that particular goals
& then prepare strategic plan so that individual can effectively target those skills &
competencies which they really want to develop (Burchinal and et,. al., 2020). With
the help of this plan, individual can improve their desiring skills & get future
opportunities & build their career in their interested areas. For personnel & also
professional development, people need to maintain their work life balance so that
they can effectively establish a proper balance between their personal & professional
life & evolve the development in both areas.
Description and discussion of the value of short term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples
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It is necessary to set goals to achieve anything whatever people want in their life.
Basically, goals are three type short, medium & long term goals & most of the people
consider all these kind of goals to make their life more successful (Khan and et,. al.,
2017).
The importance of short term goals is more because it can aid to precede one
step further of the career or to obtain any desire. Short term goals are work like a
milestone & helpful to fill the gap between realities to willingness. Short term goals
provide best results because it is very short period of time and people effectively
complete this goal without any pressure or difficulty. Students can effectively set this
goal so that they can learn academic skills & utilize this to maintain their
performance and do well in the examination. This kind of goals add more value in
people's life because it is less time consuming and the determination level is more to
achieve anything what they want. Short term goal hell full to take a small step
towards the medium and long term goal so that people can effectively fulfill long term
goals with the help of short term goals. Short term goals provide long terms success
in the life & also enhance the personal & professional development process. To
achieve short term goals, people can take at least some days or months to provide
them appropriate outcomes. The description about these goals are given below -
3 Examples of short term goals -
 Communication skills - This is considered as the most prominent academic
skills which students want to develop in order to maintain their performance
and effectiveness in college. Excellent communication skills are beneficial for
each and every people because it can useful to establish good
communication among people and share their ideas, thoughts and information
to the people (Takahashi, Hirabayashi and Nakamura, 2020). Appropriate
communication skills is also mandatory in career development because it can
help full to maintain good relationship in an organization so that people can
effectively co-ordinate with their managers, superiors,. subordinate and
coworkers. To follow proper communication process is compulsory so that all
the students can do collective team work and pass adequate and reliable
information with each other in order to to complete a specific project and
assignment.
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 Public speaking skills - This is also important academic skill which can help
full to improve the public interaction of the people so that they can become a
social person. The value of the short term skill is more because it is is crucial
as for the current situation. People need to be social so that they can make
friends effectively and maintain good relation with their family, friends and
colleagues so that people can effectively participate in the development of the
society and also understand what is going on in the real world. For the
students, this is also play a significant role & evolves their personality. This is
skill is beneficial which lead long term success rate in the society and it is also
helpful for the students in order to make friends easily & maintain good
engagement with people so that they can share their issues & get appropriate
solutions from the others (Kuo and Huang, 2018).
 Time management - To complete the task on time is also a skill most of the
people don't have & they usually not even to accomplish day to day activities
in an effective manner. This is also contain as the most appropriate academic
skills which need to be develop by the individuals so that they can do all their
academic activities & compete their course & syllabus on time. Through time
management skill, people can work properly on their regular operations & also
finish their own work on a specific deadline. Time is a value of money so it is
necessary for the people to develop this skills in order to improve the level of
personal & professional development so that they can achieve all the goals &
task on a given time period & improve their living.
Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples
After the successful completion of the short term goals, people can more actively
participate to set a medium term goals. Medium term goals maintain a good
relationship between the short term & long term goals so that people can effectively
set & also accomplish long term goals. This type of goals required more time& efforts
in order to complete specific goal as compared to the short term goals. With the help
of medium term goals, people can improve their confidence and also determination
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power to complete this goal on time & also think about to set long term goals (Schlee
and Karns, 2017). It is the fact that if any person can achieve short term goals then
they can get confidence to achieve medium term goals & then eventually they can
become more capable to looking forward for the long term goals. The examples of
medium goals as follows -
Examples of middle term goals -
 Digital Marketing certification - This is contained as the example of the
medium term goals & every people can sir their goal on the basis of their
requirement. To have the digital marketing knowledge is also compulsory
because the modern generation is totally depend upon the technology's and
digitalization. The career in digital marketing is more fried so most of the
students are looking forward to take certificate in digital marketing so that they
can effectively improve digital marketing skills and knowledge and make their
career bright. Students can do certification of the digital marketing via online
offline both methods. People can take online classes, attend online
conference and seminars, follow pages & post related digital marketing can
help full to improve this skill (Chaffey and Ellis-Chadwick, 2019).
 Leadership Skills - This skill is beneficial to improve the personality of the
individuals and also provide a confidence to take appropriate decisions to
their team members. This academic skill is adopted by the most of the
students so that they can provide their effective participation in the collective
assignments and projects & support their group members and also maintain
proper coordination among all the students.
 Learn foreign language - This is also a good example of medium term goals
because the scope of foreign language is more and students can learn foreign
language to make their career stronger. As per the current scenario, it is
necessary for the students to stay competitive so in order to gain more
success students can learn foreign language.
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Description and discussion of the value of long term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples
To set the long term goal is the big task of the people because it need
more time, more determination, efforts & motivation to accomplish this goals
successfully. Most of the people afraid to set long term goals because they think
that life is unpredictable so there is no need to think about this goals but now
scenario is totally changed, people are showing their active participation towards
this goal because they can gain long term success rate (Covarrubias and et,. al.,
2019). These goals required more than 5 years to complete so people set these
goals very carefully. Long term goals need more concern of the people & it is
necessary for the people to divide all the task in small task so that they can
effectively complete these goals. For successful completion of this goals, friends,
family, teachers, mentors support & motivation is mandatory.
Examples of long term goals -
 Diploma in marketing specialization - This is essential long term goals
which mainly considered by the people who want to shape their career in
marketing field. Students can take diploma in digital marketing so that they
can get their desire job in future because the scope of digital marketing is
improving rapidly (Bukharina, 2018).
 Get career in well recognized firm - This goal mainly set by the most of the
individuals because everyone want to became successful & doing job in
multinational companies. People need to show their best efforts so that they
can effectively achieve this goal on a specific time period. With the help of
family, friends, teachers support, individual can attain this goal (Aldosemani,
2019).
 Become Financially stable - This goal is more significant for the individuals
& it is necessary to become financially stable so that they can become
independent & take decision by their own. This goal is more beneficial
because it can provide freedom & successful.
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Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development
Plan
The importance of personal development plan is more because it is work
like a analytical framework that create specific outline which demonstrate a right
direction toward self growth so that people who want to gain specific knowledge
& skills can follow this plan properly. Through this PDP plan, people can learn
desire skills as per their interest so that they can appropriately make their career
strong. This PDP plan is also considered as the strategically plan which can help
in overall development of the people. Individual can apply this plan so that
appropriate skills can be developed by the individuals on a specific period of time
for long term purpose.
7.0 Conclusion
According to this project, it can be concluded that academic skills are essential
which determine the long term development of the individual so that they can build
their career as per their area of interest. The prime purpose of this project is
identifying the concept of personal & professional development so that people can
effectively analyze and maintain all the considerations to enhance their development
process. This project also discuss about various types of goals like short , medium,
long & provided specific example of these goals which individual want to achieve in
future on a specific period of time. Apart from this, personal development plan also
so a prominent part of this project which can helpful in overall development of the
individual & also helpful to target those skills which people want to learn for the
development of their personal and professional life.
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Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan
Skills to be Developed Development Plan Resources Target Date
Time Management
Skills
I have analysed that I am not completing my task
and projects on time which is affect my
performance so that I am not getting satisfactory
results so I have decided to develop time
management skills so that I can effectively
complete my assignments and project on time
and also regulate my day-to-day activities as for
the specific time period.
To improve the time management skills, I need to
follow a disciplined & systematic lifestyle & also
prepare small task & set a specific deadline
which can push me to complete my target on
time so that I can effectively learn time
management skills.
Rimmer, A., 2019. How do I improve my time
management skills?. BMJ, 366.
Afsaneh, H.R., Gunnel, J., Suzanne, W. and Kajsa,
L.H., 2019. Time management skills in relation to
general self-efficacy and parental sense of
competence in individuals with and without cognitive
disabilities. Cogent Psychology, 6(1), p.1655981.
Soffer, T., Kahan, T. and Livne, E., 2017. E-
assessment of online academic courses via
students' activities and perceptions. Studies in
Educational Evaluation, 54, pp.83-93.
By September,
2021
Digital Marketing
certification
To make my career more successful I have
generalize that the scope of digital marketing is
increasing continuously and I am also interested
in marketing field so that I decided to take
certification course of digital marketing. I
consider that digital marketing certificate is a
medium term goal so that I can properly learn
Kaur, G., 2017. The importance of digital marketing
in the tourism industry. International Journal of
Research-Granthaalayah, 5(6), pp.72-77.
Zahay, D., Altounian, D., Pollitte, W. and James, J.,
2019. Effective resource deployment in digital
marketing education. Marketing Education
By April , 2022
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about digital marketing and create deep
understanding of all the techniques in an
appropriate manner within a given time period.
To take digital marketing certification, I also
some famous authors books which are
recommended by my teachers and also join
institution so that I can interact with my faculty
members and learn everything about digital
marketing. Apart from this I am also following
specific pages and blog so that I can learn new
features and take takes about digital marketing
and keep update myself for each and every facts
about the digital marketing.
Review, 29(3), pp.182-192.
Financial stable To become financially independent is the main
concern of mine so that I can take my own
decisions by myself and also live my life on my
own way. I want to shape my career as a
marketing manager because this is my interest
area. After few years I want to see myself to be a
financial independent & join good organization so
that I can effectively provide my innovative ideas
and use my specific skills and give benefits to the
organization.
Ismail, Z., 2018. Strengthening the financial
independence of independent media organisations.
Luthuli, M., 2018. Five steps to financial
independence in 2018. Personal
Finance, 2018(445), pp.1-3.
Al-Khathlan, M.B.Z.B., 2020. A Proposal to Achieve
Financial Independence in Prince Sattam Bin
Abdula
ziz University in Accordance with the New System
of Universities and Vision 2030. International
Journal of Higher Education, 9(3), pp.15-27.
By July, 2023
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