Academic Skills and PDP (BMP3001) Report: Personal Development Plan

This report provides a detailed exploration of personal and professional development. It begins by defining personal and professional development and then delves into the significance of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, providing examples for each. The report emphasizes the importance of continuous skill development and offers insights into creating a personal development plan. The content includes discussions on communication, technical skills, teamwork, and leadership, highlighting how these elements contribute to achieving career objectives. The report also provides a sample personal development plan outlining strategies for improving time management, technical knowledge, and communication skills. The report is a guide for students to enhance their academic and professional skills.

Academic skills and PDP

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Main body..................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development...............................................................3
Short-term goals.....................................................................................................................3
Medium-term goals................................................................................................................4
Long-term goals.....................................................................................................................5
Personal development plan.....................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References .................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
Personal development is to defined as process of accessing to indvidual skill or
capabilities on order to achieve goals in a specific manner. It refers to taking advantage of
awareness, goal-setting, values as well as reflection to plan personal development in
professional career (Kyttälä and et. al., 2019). It will help an individual in self-improvement
and also provide them with a number of various techniques to do so. There are various
objectives which are to be examined to different goals which are required to be fulfilled by
an individual in order to achieve their objectives. There are various short-term, medium-terms
as well as long-term goals which are used by an individual in order to achieve all their
objectives. It is crucial for a person to work on their skills continuously with aim to enhance
them. The following report describes personal and professional development for individuals
taking into context they are short-term, medium-term as well as long-term goals. A personal
development plan to develop career of an person is also described.
Main body
Examine the concept of personal & professional development
Personal and professional development plan is a process in which individuals,
organisations and teams are successfully engaged in order to learn and develop various skills
which can help them in achievement of their goals. It is used by peope with purpose of
ensuring that their objectives are accessed in proper manner. (Neiles, and et. al., 2019). They
require engaging themselves into personal and professional development which will
continuously help them in achieving their goals and objectives. There are a number of
different ways through which achieve all their goals and objectives. It is needed by them to
make sure that they are using several mediums to learn different skills and also achieving
personal as well as professional development. Individuals can successfully analyse all the
skills which they require and develop habits which will help them to attain all those skills.
Short-term goals
Short-term goals are set by an individual to make sure that they are successfully
achieving goals for a longer period of time. It requires only 1-3 months by an individual to
achieve all these goals. These are basic qualities that an individual requires in order to
achieve their goals and objectives. These short term goals are necessary for individuals for

their academic as well as professional career. A communication skill is one of such skill that
can be required by individual in order to make sure that they are achieving all their personal
and professional goals. Written as well as oral communication is required and important for
individuals. The visuals are also required to work upon their gestures, vocals, postures and
language in order to make sure that their communication skills developed well (Kourakli and
et. al., 2017). Written skill is another skill which is required in order to make sure that a
person is successfully using the entire written format in order to develop professionally. It is
required for them to take help from professionals so that they can successfully develop the
short-term skill which will help them in future aspects. Along with this presentation skill is
also one of the major scale which is required for personal and professional development.
Presentation skill will successfully help individuals to make sure that they are well equipped
with a number of different techniques in order to present their ideas in front of others. It also
helps them to create a good image in front of others while they are carrying on with personal
and professional development plans. Communication skill is also required in presentation and
it will successfully help individual to make their impact over others. It is required by them to
take personal as well as professional guidance in order to achieve these skills. A number of
different graphical representation of data can also be used in order to make sure that
presentation of an individual is effective enough. All the short-term goals are important for an
individual to assure that they are developing personal and professional career for the future
benefits.
Medium-term goals
Medium-term goals are all those in which require around 6 to 8 months in order
developing within an individual. It is necessary for individual to focus upon these goals as
these maybe basic pillars for long-term goals of an individual. There are a various type of
medium-term goals which are successfully helping individual to develop in the professional
career. Technical skills related to different career is one of the major medium-term goals
which are required by individuals. It is necessary that an person is focusing upon various
sessions of learning which may include guidance from professionals that will help them to
develop technical skills according to their profession (Kikas and Mägi, 2017). It is often seen
that these techniques will help individual to make sure that they are successfully developing
various skills. Along with this there are a number of other medium-term goals such as
teamwork. It is necessary that an individual is well equipped and have knowledge about
different cultures so that they can work with different people within our team. It is necessary

that an individual is avoiding all the conflicts and using negotiation skills so that they can
work and develop good opportunities while working within the team. It is necessary for
individuals to be optimistic. Developing positive thinking and optimistic thinking is also a
medium-term goals. It requires time for rent individual to make sure that they are developing
these skills. Individual is required to take help from professionals and also make sure that
they are always focused upon their goals. Focusing upon goal and thinking positively will
help them to be optimistic. When one is optimistic about their goals and career they can
easily avoid anxiety. Avoidance of anxiety is a great way in order to make sure that
optimistic thinking can be developed by individual. When an individual is sure that their
goals are attainable they can successfully achieve it within the given time period. Positive
attitude is a great way which will also help in long-term. Leadership skill is a long-term skill
which can only be achieved when an individual is successfully optimistic about their goals
and objectives. All these medium-term goals are needed by individuals in order to make sure
that they can successfully achieve all goals and objectives which they have set for their future
career.
Long-term goals
Long-term goals refer to a number of different goals that require huge time to attend.
It is often seen that these bowls require around one year to 3 years for an individual to attain
successfully. It is necessary that an individual is continuously working upon various
objectives in order to attain long-term goals. One can easily attain these goals if they are
devoted towards their career and profession. It is necessary that an individual is listing down
all the long-term goals and continuously working upon it. Leadership is one of the long-term
goal which requires huge amount of time to be attained by an individual. There are a several
types of different short-term and medium-term goals which are successfully helping an
individual to attain their long term goals. In order to attain long-term goals such as leadership
skills presentation skills, communication skills, listening skills are various skills which are
required by a leader. It is necessary that they are continuously working on the short-term
skills in order to attain their long-term goals. Decision making is one another necessary skill
required by an individual while they are working in a professional field. It is necessary that
an individual is capable of taking your own decisions and they can successfully manage
working within an organisation (Ciesielski and et. al., 2019). Management skill is one another
important skill required by individuals for growth of their career. It is a long-term skill which
requires time to develop. In order to be a good manager it is necessary for individuals to have

presentation skills, team management, time management skills and so on we need to make
sure that they are working upon all the skills successfully in order to achieve their long-term
objectives.
Personal development plan
Personal development plan refers to a plan which are created by individuals in order
to attain all their goals and objectives. The plan consist of various activities which are to be
conducted by an individual in order to achieve the required skills. It depicts a continuous
process through which an employee or an individual can attain the personal goals as well as
professional goals. Below provided is a plan for personal development that will help an
individual to attain all their skills:
Skills Strategies Evaluation Time required
Time management Time managament is
needed by me as it
helps in managing
work accrding to
time interval
andmanage work
properly. Moreover,
it tool help in making
aware of priority
tasks so that
strategies are
implemented
accordingly.
Furthermore, tasks as
well as work is bieng
divided relying on
time schedule.
The evaluation of
time managament
can be done by
making comparison
between plan of time
with actual
perfromance. This is
crucial to be aware
about these evlaution
so that decision
making ios further
carried out
effectively.
Improving time
managament need
time & in this time
interval for this skill
is between 6 months.
Technical knowledge In this competitive
era, it is essential for
me to have technical
knowledge as it helps
me in solving
To make evaluation,
technical
knopwledge can be
tested through giving
online exams,
To achieve this skill,
time period for this is
around 7 months. It
took to understands
& gather technical

problems
efffectively.
Technical knolwedge
is important & can be
imoproved by
accessing to online
seminars, webinars
etc. In this, i will
give 3 out of five
score to my technical
knowledge.
competitions etc.
Through developing
technical knolwedge
it will be easy to
achieve copetitve
advantage in
professional career.
Also, by accessing
to these knolwedge
also results in
generation of new
ideas widely.
(Lejeune, Beausaert,
and Raemdonck,
2018).
knowledge because
of complexities &
analysis.
Communication It is another skill
which is needed to be
improved by me
because
communication is
required at all ascpet
in life. To achieve
this skill, strategy is
to give presentation
in classes, lectures.
Also, communication
can be improved by
accessing to culture
programmes, social
activities etc. In this,
i will give 2 score out
of 5.
To do evaluation in
this, comunicating
with straenge people,
taking feedback from
friends, mentors can
be used. Evlauting
this skill assist in
enhancing
communication skills
at larger scale.
Time scale to access
to this skill is
inbetween 8 months.
It depends on
oindvidual how
effectively they can
improve their
knolwedge or skill.

Thus, it is essential
for me to develop
this skill on basis of
which it is easy for
me to gain
employability &
opportunities.
Conclusion
With the help of the above report it can be concluded that it is necessary for an
individual to work on their personal as well as professional development. They can take help
of a plan in order to do so. It successfully helps individuals to identify various skills on which
they need to work upon. They are dividing the skills into short-term, medium-term and long-
term goals through the help of which they can easily attain their career objectives. It is
necessary that individuals are motivated and encouraged continuously to work upon their
goals and injectors. Personal development plan will help them to follow up various activities
which are required in order to develop different personal and professional skills.

References
Books and Journals
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PIA, H.U., 2020. A case for a Personal Development Plan.