Academic Skills and Personal Development Plan Report: BMP3001

This report delves into the realm of academic skills and personal development planning (PDP), addressing key aspects of professional growth. It commences by defining personal and professional development, setting the stage for an exploration of goal-setting strategies. The report meticulously examines the value of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, providing real-world examples to illustrate their significance. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of a well-structured Personal Development Plan, offering a practical example that aligns with the student's identified objectives. The analysis encompasses various aspects of personal development, including skill enhancement in areas such as oral communication, problem-solving, digital literacy, adaptability, and leadership. The report also includes a detailed personal development plan outlining the student's aims, resources, and target dates for achieving specific goals. The report aims to equip students with the knowledge and tools necessary to effectively plan and execute their personal and professional development journey.

Academic skills and PDA

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Personal and professional development.......................................................................................1
short term goal value and its example.........................................................................................2
Discuss midterm goals with examples.........................................................................................3
Long term goals value with some examples................................................................................3
Value and construct personal development plan.........................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are the skills that are the behaviour that is learned by the students with the
collection of the habits of the study, learning the strategies and managing the time that helps to
learn and absorb the lessons in the academics (Academic Skills Overview, 2021). In this report
the professional and the personal development, long, short and the medium term goals are
discussed and the personal development plan is described.
MAIN BODY
Personal and professional development
Personal development is an activity that helps an individual to develop the capabilities,
abilities, skills and the potential for enhances the quality of the life. It is a process for the lifelong
the person’s development is done at every stage of the life. It helps to improve the self
awareness, knowledge and the confidence by improving the skills and renew the self esteem. It
allows an individual to proactive and helps to charge the actions. With the development in the
individual on the regular basis helps to contribute in the success and the satisfaction of the life.
Personal development can help to hold in the improvement in the self skills (Lancer, and
Eatough, 2020). Common personal development skills that help to every individual to success in
their career are having the good communication skills that help to convey the thoughts, ideas
easily and with the clarity. Interpersonal skill should be build so that it helps to build the
relationship and make an good impression on others with the social interactions, having an
problem solving skills so that even in the higher education and in the workplace helps to work
effectively without having issue by solving the problem easily. Individual also have adaptability
skills so that in the dynamic environment the changes can be adapted easily and have leadership
skills that guide the others and boost the morale and confidence of the individual.
Professional development is a set of the tool having a wide variety of the training in some
specialized subjects, formal education and the learning that is professional to improve the
professional skills, capabilities, knowledge and the effectiveness. Professional development is
necessary for the development in the profession career of the individual. Many fields require in
the profession for the continuous development learning and understanding to work effectively
and the development of the individual as well the organization. Different types of the education
and opportunities for the training that is appropriate and relevant for the professional work
termed as professional development. Professional development approaches includes he
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consultation, review the case studies, mentoring, coaching and the technical assistance. With the
development in the professional life of the individual helps to adapt the new technology apply
the new knowledge and skills in the workplace to work effectively and efficiently and increases
their work productivity (Tröster, 2019). It is all about building the skill and the knowledge base
in the specialized field. With the development in the professional skills individual helps the
organization by stay up to date in the current trends of the industry, work effectively, increases
their own worth by adding values to the organization.
short term goal value and its example.
Short term goals are the goals for the near future that an individual wants to be achieve in
the short period of time. Short term goals can be completed within a year. This is an short term
objectives that helps to achieve the long term goals. The goal of the individual divides into the
small parts to easily achieve and maintain without facing the barriers in between by achieving
the short term goals for accomplish the career goals. It helps to think about in a way to perform
the work in present way. It helps to manage the time by overcoming the barriers and difficulties
coming in between the achieving the goals.
The procrastination is minimise from the short term goals. Short term goals helps to focus
on the one thing at a time and give the clear path for the success. It helps to build the
productivity and achieving the long term goals easily and quickly. It is a foundation to achieve
something greater in the future. It creates value to the individual to work effectively and achieve
heights in their chosen career (Atherton, and et.al., 2021). It helps an individual to give a clear
focus to achieve for the particular span of the time. With the setting of the goals work can get
clear and measurable that gives an excitement and motivation to achieve the target and build self
confidence. The progress of the goals is to be measured by the compassion of the desired and the
achievable task.
Some examples of the short term goals to be achieved by me in a span of some particular
time period are to
 Improve my oral communication within 3 months,
 Want to adapt the problem skills in the 6 months
 And want to learn the digital technology in a year.
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Discuss midterm goals with examples.
These are the goals that are to be achieved in between the short and the long term of the
goal. These goals are achieved within the two to five years of span of time. As the long terms
goals need a lot of time to achieve and the short term goals are the steady progress to achieve the
long term goals midterm goals are help an individual to be motivated and work towards the
goals. Midterm goals are to be monitored on the regular basis so that the work productivity is
increased and reduces the errors and overcome from the barriers. By achieving the short term
goals it increases the turnover by setting the another goal at a large premises to achieve within a
5 years (Guddemi, 2020). The goals are interlinked with each other to achieve the long term
goals. Medium term goals are achieved after the completion of the short term goal in fact it
helps to complete the short term goals. A midterm goal creates the enough time for the progress
and creates the value and the priorities that are similar. The failures in the goals can be managed
easily with the midterm goals and the productivity of the individual can be improved.
As the goals are to be set for achieving the best outcomes in the future and achieving the
targeted career for that setting the midterm goals are also necessary and for me midterm goals is
to-
 Completed by post graduation in the two years
 Enrich my resume by participating in the academic events and with doing internships
within a three years
 And build my adaptability skills in the dynamic environment in a span of 2 years.
Long term goals value with some examples
Long term goals are the goals to achieve to be successful in the career and be achieved in
the future. This is not to be achieved in a month or in a year it takes several years to be
accomplished. Lone term goals are so important for the career. The career is achieved by setting
the long term goal. It helps to think about the future education, jobs for the career. To set the
effective career needs time and the planning and this planning include the long term goals. It
requires the proper execution, management of time and daily planning to reach the goals. It
requires various steps for the completion of the others with the smaller goals are along with the
way. Long term goals of an individual can be in a various ways includes career goals, financial
goals and personal goals (Pham, and Mullin, 2021). Long term goals create the value to the life
by helping in creating the everyday effective decisions by finding more depth in the individual
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by using the potential and the abilities to perform the work and achieving the career effectively.
It helps to understand the vision in an individual life. It helps to create confidence and bring the
individual identity by achieving the long term goals. It helps to create the positive societal impact
of the individual and helps to motivate them.
Long term goals are set by everyone so that they can work in a way to build their career in
the best effective manner. Some long term goals of mine are to
 Be the HR head of the organisation in10 years
 Become the leader in the specialised field in the 9 years
 And bought my own house within 10 years.
Value and construct personal development plan
Personal development plan is a written account of the improvement and the reflection of
the individual. It is detailed plan that helps to achieve the personal, career and the academic goals
(Zage, Zage, and White, 2017.). It creates value to the individual to analyse its own strength
and weakness and way to improve in the particular areas.
Skills to be developed Developmental plan Resources Target date
Oral communication As my oral
communication is not
good I can’t speak
fluently with the
clarity and hesitate to
speak in front of the
people want to
improve my oral
communication to
deliver effectively in
the presentation,
group decisions and
helps me in the
workplace.
Wang, H.C., 2019.
The influence of
creative task
engagement on
English L2 learners'
negotiation of
meaning in oral
communication
tasks. System. 80.
pp.83-94.
August, 2021
Problem solving skills I get hesitate when a
problem came, I want
Nygren, H., and et.al.,
2019. Lifelong
learning: Formal, non‐
November, 2021
(Tattum, and Tattum,
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to build my skills in a
way that I can solve
my problems easily
and it can’t affect my
work performance
even in the in
university and in the
workplace.
formal and informal
learning in the context
of the use of problem‐
solving skills in
technology‐rich
environments. British
Journal of
Educational
Technology. 50(4).
pp.1759-1770.
2017).
Digital technology
skills
With the increase in
the digital world
where most of the
business and the
promotions and the
regular activities are
held on the digital
platform, want to
learn digital
marketing, SEO, pay
per click, social media
platforms promotions
to use the effective
digital skills and
increases my
productivity
(Anderson, Ford, and
Hamilton, 2017).
Hoberg, P., Krcmar,
H. and Welz, B.,
2017. Skills for digital
transformation. IDT
survey.
April, 2022
Post graduation To be a competitive in
the workplace and
increase the
productivity I want to
increase my
Bajwa, S.J.S., Kurdi,
M.S. and Mehdiratta,
L., 2021. Life after
post graduation in
anaesthesiology……
in search of greener
pastures!. Indian
April, 2023
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knowledge and
specialised in the HR
field and understand
the different theories
and practices.
Journal of
Anaesthesia. 65(1).
p.1.
Adaptability skills Having a dynamic
environment
everything changes
frequently I want to
develop my skills in a
way to adapt the
changes quickly and
effectively that my
work performance
can’t be affected in
the university as well
as in the workplace
(Day-Calder, 2017).
Sulam, K., Syakur, A.
and Musyarofah, L.,
2019. THE
IMPLEMENTATION
OF 21 ST CENTURY
SKILLS AS THE
NEW LEARNING
PARADIGM TO
THE RESULT OF
STUDENT’S
CAREER AND LIFE
SKILLS. Magister
Scientiae. 2(46).
pp.228-237.
September, 2022
Leadership skills As I want to become
the leader of the team
and want to leading
the people in the
organisation I have to
build by leadership
skills starting with the
university to
participate in the
events and start
volunteering by lead
the team and by
observing the teachers
Gisondi, M.A., and
et.al., 2017. Use of a
chief resident retreat
to develop key
leadership
skills. Medical
Science
Educator. 27(2).
pp.173-176.
December, 2030
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and the leaders in the
organisation.
Motivation skills As I want to be a HR
head in future I have
to develop my
motivating skills,
started with the self
motivation and work
effectively that helps
to achieve the
personal goals and in
future the HR
department get
motivated in a way
that the member’s
individual goals are
also achieved
(Tröster, 2019).
Rahbar Karbasdehi,
F., Abolghasemi, A.
and Rahbar
Karbasdehi, E., 2018.
The Effect of Social-
Emotional Skills
Training on
Motivational Beliefs
and Self-Regulated
Learning Strategies in
Students with Specific
Learning
Disorder. Biquarterly
Journal of Cognitive
Strategies in
Learning. 6(10).
pp.39-55.
October, 2029
CONCLUSION
From the report it concluded that for the effective and efficient life the career is the most
important and the career is set by analyse the short term, midterm and the long term goals. The
goals are achieved with the personal and the professional development of the individual. The
personal development is the individual development of the skills, capabilities and the abilities to
achieve the personal goals and the professional development is necessary for the development in
the professional field of the education or in the organisation.
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REFERENCES
Journals and Books
Atherton, O.E., and et.al., 2021. Stability and change in personality traits and major life goals
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Coombe, C., 2020. Developing a personal and professional strategic plan. In Professionalizing
Your English Language Teaching (pp. 115-127). Springer, Cham.
Guddemi, M., 2020. Re-Thinking School Readiness: Knowledge Goals vs. Intellectual Goals and
Short-Term vs. Long-Term Outcomes. Defending the Early Years.
Lancer, N. and Eatough, V., 2020. One‐to‐One Coaching as a Catalyst for Personal
Development: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Coaching
Undergraduates at a UK University. Coaching Researched: A Coaching Psychology
Reader. pp.231-252.
Pham, H. and Mullin, J., 2021. Classification of Student Developed Annual Goals.
Tattum, D. and Tattum, E., 2017. Social education and personal development. Routledge.
Tröster, M., 2019. How to teach financial literacy? A concept for professional development.
Zage, D., Zage, W. and White, N., 2017. Long Term Goals.
Online references
Academic Skills Overview, 2021. [Online]. Available through <
https://www.uis.edu/cas/thelearninghub/academicskills/>. [Accessed on 11 May, 2021].
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