BSc (Hons) Business Management: Personal Development Report (BMP3001)

This report delves into the concepts of personal and professional development, emphasizing their significance in an individual's life. The report explores the value of short, medium, and long-term goals, providing personal examples to illustrate how these goals can be achieved. It discusses the importa...Read More

ACADEMIC SKILLS AND
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................................4
Defining the concept of Personal and Professional development……………………………………………………...4
Describing the value of short term goals and examples of three personal aims....................................6
Describing the value of medium term goals and examples of three personal aims...............................7
Describing the value of long term goals and examples of three personal aims......................................8
Describing the value of personal development plan.............................................................................9
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….10
APPENDIX - 1………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..11

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills provide a person opportunities for advancement of potential and abilities
which helps in achieving aims. The current assignment will be based on personal and
professional development concept. . It will define value of short, medium and long term goals
with various examples to assess their importance. Furthermore, lastly the study will justify
importance of personal development plan and examples using determined aims.
MAIN BODY
Defining the concept of Personal and Professional development
Personal development –This term refers to the activities that help to develop or improve
a person’s abilities, skills and their potential It is a lifelong process, which states that all these
areas of development may take place in every stage of life for an individual(Aoki, and Rawat,
2020). It helps an individual to assess their aims and set personal objectives to realize and
maximize potential. The concept of personal growth, raised from various set of basic aims
considered by a person which includes fulfilling psychological needs, safety needs, emotional
needs and self-esteem.
It helps in building a clear vision where an individual want to be in life. The lifelong goals of a
person may vary depending on needs and desires(Daneshfard, K. and Rad, 2020). Personal
development helps a person in planning of achieving the personal set goals. It is important
regarding improvements in abilities and potential of an individual which will help him to achieve
his aim. It helps an individual to learn and adapt to various new skills which may help him to
increase his potential.
Professional development – This concept refers to the growth of an individual's
professional skills, abilities and potential which may help him to succeed in his career. These
activities include education, training and certification. The skills required by an employee is
never constant, it may change according to the necessities of a job, an individual needs to adapt
those additional skills in order to perform.

It helps a person to develop the ability of assisting people over their concerns by following a
systematic process. It is helpful to further enhance a person’s competitiveness and knowledge
abilities in form of training or certification. This may led an employee to engage in raising
queries or forming a group with people sharing common goal to enhance learning. It helps an
individual in his professional life which resembles his self-evaluating and learning process
through reviewing his performance.
Describing the value of short term goals and examples of three personal aims
A short term goal consists a set aim by an individual for a relatively shorter period of
time(Kroll, and Dussias, 2017). This states soon accomplishment of that targeted goal. A person
may have various types of short term aims, which related to personal and professional benefits.
These set of achievement generally ranges from days to months or a year. It inspires to think
what one may do right away. It is important to manage time and may lead to big
accomplishments in life and career of a human. Achieving these goals may lead to accomplish a
long term goal. Short term goals are easily achievable.
They are set in order to their accessibility by an individual. It is the most important factor
which decides the nature of a goal which a person may target by using skill and potential. These
are also motivational in nature as it promotes the achievability in a short period of time. This
achievement helped me to get further motivated in order to plan a long term aim. Boosting the
confidence will help in development of my abilities.
For example – The goal of learning fluent English was set by myself regarding its
achievability, the completion of this process increased my motivation to learn further languages.
Short term goals are also specific in nature and it helps a person to specify the objectives
regarding set aims. It results in clearing the vision of an individual by promoting a sense of
achievement with completion of each desired outcome. For example – A specific goal was set by
me to increase my typing speed over a time. It resulted in clearing my objective of accessing fast
typing speed in order to improve my working skills. Constantly increasing speed at various point
of time gave me a sense of accomplishment and helped me further to finally achieve my specific
targeted aim.
3 examples

 I want to improve my motivational skills.
 I want to improve my determination skills
 I want to score good marks in test
Describing the value of medium term goals and examples of three personal aims
These form of aims refers to those set of outcomes, which takes a longer time than a short
term goal(Demir, 2017). It could be a goal that can be achieved in more than 6 months or a year.
It may also be the segment version of a long term goal. It is achieved only after a sequence of
short term goals is been achieved which further leads to building of a life long aim. It is
important in evaluating the process to accomplish a big desired outcome by an individual.
Medium term goals are important to determine the progress in terms of achieving a specific long
term goal. For example – My long term goal is to buy a luxurious car. In order to buy a car, I
need to allocate funds at several point of time. I had divided the amount of purchasing that car
into several sections which is my medium term goal. Achieving those divided funds in desired
period of time will help me to buy that car. Therefore, accomplishing my moderate term aims led
to deriving the process of obtaining lifelong outcome.
These forms of goals are formed by a group of short objectives, which are divided in
order to achieve. For example - One of my midterm goal was to crack an aspirant exams which
were held in every one year gap. In order to achieve that aim, I made several short term aim of
completing syllabus of each subject in a specific period of time. With accomplishing each
subject, the motivation to fight main examination increased. Thus, implying the theory of
forming various small outcomes to obtain a moderate goal.
Several midterm goals helps in forming of a common big mid span aim. Personally, I like
to set a specific big moderate term goal to focus on it. During studies my two major aims were
graduating from college and to work in a large reputed firm. By molding both these desires into
one that of studying hard to get a job in a big firm, I got a specific mid span goal to focus on. It
helped me in forming all the alternatives required to achieve my targeted outcome.
3 examples of personal aims
 I want to improve my examining skills
 I want to improve my merging skills

 I want to graduate from college in order to seek a job
Describing the value of long term goals and examples of three personal aims
A long term goal refers to a specific lifelong aim of an individual to accomplish, usually
these are moving goals(Datu, Yuen, and Chen, 2018). It is a set of short and medium term goals
which are divided in order to achieve a set long span aim. It could be a goal which may take a
time period of more than 5 years, 10 years or lifetime depending on the nature of a person. A
human may get discouraged while trying to accomplish it as these does not provides a quick
progress. It is important to determine the survival of an individual being. Several lifelong aims
are set in order to survive and work hard to accomplish it. For example – Lifetime savings is my
specific long term goal in order to survive after the age of retirement. While setting these aims
the most important factors in my mind were getting a reasonable job to earn, investing in fixed
deposits and insurance policies for my sustainability, which helped me to determine the direction
of my life and career and better understanding of roadblocks which I should avoid.
A long term goal is also achieved by dividing it into various groups of short and medium
term goals. For example – To become a manager in my company, I had to organize and divide
that long term aim into various short terms such as improving my efficiency to work hard,
completing projects on time. These will lead to forming of different mid term goals such as
getting promoted and appraisal. While working on both these cluster of aims will directly result
in my progress to achieve my long span outcome of becoming a top manager in the company.
3 examples of personal aims
 I want to improve my survival skills
 I want to buy a new house
 I want to have savings in my life
Describing the value of personal development plan
Personal development plan – A personal development plan is a process of creating a set of
actions or values based on achievement of goals and personal growth( Lejeune, Beausaert, and
Raemdonck, 2018). It includes all the steps and procurement of resources by an individual to
accomplish aims ranging from short term to long term. It also includes statement of one’s career ,
lifestyle and risks which may become obstacles in growth. It is important for implication of PDP

by an individual in order to ensure a future vision , In Setting goals , To Form a plan and to
Follow a process.
CONCLUSION
From the above assignment it has been concluded that both personal and professional
development forms an important aspect in a person’s life. The report also included that how a
human can manage different terms of goals ranging from short, medium to long with different
personal examples to accomplish those objectives. Furthermore, concept and importance of
personal development plan in life of people are explained and justified. Lastly, the parameters
are derived from all above stated personal examples in order to determine the need, plan,
resources and target date of those skills which seeks improvement.

REFERENCES
Book and Journals
Aoki, N. and Rawat, S., 2020. Performance-based pay: Investigating its international prevalence
in light of national contexts. The American Review of Public Administration. 50(8). pp.865-879.
Blom, R. and et.al., 2020. One HRM fits all? A meta-analysis of the effects of HRM practices in
the public, semipublic, and private sector. Review of Public Personnel Administration. 40(1).
pp.3-35.
Daneshfard, K. and Rad, S. S., 2020. Philosophical analysis of theory x and y. Journal of
Management and Accounting Studies. 8(2).
Datu, J A. D., Yuen, M. and Chen, G., 2018. Exploring determination for long-term goals in a
collectivist context: A qualitative study. Current Psychology. 37(1). pp.263-271.
Demir, A., 2017. Importance of data analysis on achieving the organizational goals during the
short term strategic plan: Case of service quality and students’ satisfaction level at Ishik
University. International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies. 3(3).pp.110-121.
Kroll, J. F. and Dussias, P. E., 2017. The benefits of multilingualism to the personal and
professional development of residents of the US. Foreign Language Annals. 50(2). pp.248-259.
Lejeune, C., Beausaert, S. and Raemdonck, I., 2018. The impact on employees’ job performance
of exercising self-directed learning within personal development plan practice. The International
Journal of Human Resource Management, pp.1-27.
Rose, H. and et. al., 2020. What drives success in English medium taught courses? The interplay
between language proficiency, academic skills, and motivation. Studies in Higher
Education. 45(11). pp.2149-2161.

APPENDIX - 1
Personal Development Plan
Skills to be
Developed
Development Plan Resources Target Date
Motivational
Skills
My level of competency in
this area is medium and I
feel I need some
improvements. I have also
built a specific plan in order
to increase and improve my
motivating factors
I will focus on completion
of each short term activities
such as small savings at
various points of time
which will motivate me to
further allocate funds.
The resources will be
a reasonable job with
sufficient salary to
earn and save
By June 2020

Determination My level of competency in
this area is also medium and
improvements are needed in
certain areas.
I will enhance my
determination by constantly
improving my focus over all
the short term goals in order
to manage them properly
The resources will be
setting a desirable
environment around
me in order to avoid
obstacles in focusing
on goals.
By July 2020
Examining skills I need to improve my
revising skills in order to
review progress of various
short span goals to achieve
a medium term goal
To prepare myself for
main test, I have to
compare each subject
and my performance
in them.
By December 2020
Merging Skills I need to improve my
merging skills related to
two medium term goals
relating to graduating from
college and seeking a
reputed job and set them as
a common big mid term
goal of getting selected in a
big company.
Proper study materials
and confidence while
presenting myself to
the interview panel
are the two resources
which I should merge
in order to achieve my
big mid term goal.
By June 2021
Survival skills I need to improve my
survival skills in harsh
situations in order to
achieve my long term goal
of buying a house.
The resources are my
hard work,
determination and
constant belief in
every condition to
accomplish my
By 2028

lifelong goal of
having a house.