BMP3001 Academic Skills: Personal & Professional Development Report

This report defines personal and professional development, discussing the value of short, medium, and long-term goals with personal examples. It includes a personal development plan and explains how author, purpose, reliability, and relevance affect source usage. An evaluation of eight sources used in the report plan is provided, detailing author, purpose, reliability, and relevance. The report emphasizes the importance of balancing personal and professional development for career advancement and self-improvement.

BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 1
Written Report Plan and Evaluation of
Sources
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Contents
Task One:
Definition of the concept of personal and professional development
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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 3
Description and discussion of the value of long term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples 4
Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development
Plan and construction of an example using my goals 4
Task Two:
Description and discussion of how ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability
and Relevance’ affect the use of a source 4
Task Three:
Ann evaluation of eight sources I have used in the report plan
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References 7
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Task One:
Definition of the concept of personal and professional development
Up gradation of skills and abilities in an individual so that they can do explosion of
opportunities of training and educational aspect at a work place, can be defined as the
professional development of individual and the development of those skills of individual
which help them in getting a job are personal development (Busch 2019). It is necessary to
have equal balance between them so that the individual can focus on their career
development.
Description and discussion of the value of short term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples
Such goals are generally made for a short duration of time period i.e. less than 1 years
(Miller 2019). These goals are very helpful for an individual as it helps in bringing the
changes in skills very instantly.
These goals have high value in the life of an individual as leads to the increase in
motivation level because it is easy to achieve short term goals and after achieving these goals,
individual feel very motivated.
Example
 Changing job
 Improving communication skills and
 Reducing the wastage of time during working hours
Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples
Medium term goals can be defined as the middle stage of short and long term goals as
these goals are made to achieve in the time period of more than 1 year and less than 3 years.
Such type of goals are important for an individual as it helps in analyzing the progress
of individual towards the long term goals (De Jesus Rodriguez 2020).
Examples
 Building Work Experience
 Knowing about managerial aspects
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 Improving productivity
Description and discussion of the value of long term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples
These goals may be explained as the goals which are made for the purpose of
achieving in the time duration of more than 3 years. These goals add a new value in the life of
individual.
These goals plays an important role in the self improvement as they help the
individual in keeping the focus on where the individual wants to reach (Diosdado 2021). It
also leads to the providing right direction to to the lives and career of people.
Examples
 Doing graduation from Business Management University
 Moving into management
 Adopting any change in career.
Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development
Plan and construction of an example using my goals
It can be defined as the process of preparing an action plan on the basis of goal
setting, values, awareness in order to doing self improvement (Munasinghe 2019). Basically
it is a statement prepared by an individual so that they can perform various functions and take
right step so that they can improve their personal skills which are related to their career.
Task Two:
Description and discussion of how ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability
and Relevance’ affect the use of a source
The author, purpose, reliability and relevance of various sources define the capability
and reliability of information which is provided in this report as it is necessary to have proper
and relevant information (Gerstein 2019). This analysis can be done through a table in an
effective manner, which is given below in third task.
Skills Current
Ability
Target Ability Action Plan Judgment Time Period
Communicati
on skills
Low High Listen all the
tasks and
Feedback
from seniors
3 months
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perform various
presentation
and
communicate
all the tasks of
higher authority
to lower
authority
and juniors
IT skills Average High By pursuing
diploma
Result of
diploma
1 year
Leadership
skills
Average High By studying
various books
of leadership
styles
Applying
them at work
place
successfully
6 months
Task Three:
An evaluation of eight sources I have used in the report plan
Sources Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
Book Busch, L.
and Lacy,
W.B.
To examine how
individuals,
organizations, and
disciplines
influence scientists'
This book is
reliable as it is
written by good
writer
This book include
some aspects of
the module.
Journal Shuai, C.,
Chen, X.,
Wu, Y.,
Zhang, Y.
and Tan, Y.
The aim is to
define the strategy
of three steps for
dis join economic
growth
This journal is
reliable as it
include easy
understandable
language
It include updated
strategies
Book Munasinghe,
M.
It aims on the
implementation in
sustainable
development goals
The author of this
book is Historical
Evolution of Ideas
Empirical
This book deal
with several
aspects of long
term goals
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Book Gerstein, J. The purpose of
taking this source
is to analyses how
to convert plan into
reality
The publisher of
this book is well
known
Sources of
evaluation
Journal Tricio Sota,
A.
The purpose of this
source is to know
about the training
as a resource for
the personal and
professional develo
pment of people
This journal
represent personal
and professional
development in a
explained manner.
It covers several
topics of
professional and
personal
development
Journal Diosdado, L.
and
Lac
om
be,
D.
The purpose of this
source is to
analyses the
attitudes toward
personal finance
It is published by
US Census Bureau
This is helpful in
identifying the
various sources of
academics
Book Miller, V. The purpose of this
source is to share
the personal concer
ns, criticisms, and
analysis of the
program planners
The authors of this
book are
professional
Related to the task
Journal De Jesus
Ro
dri
gue
z,
P.J.
The purpose of this
source is to
develop a plan
Introduce various
strategies related
to PDP
It leads to the
development of
plan for the
economic,
physical, and
social
revitalization
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References:
Books and Journal
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