Academic Skills BMP3001: A Report on Personal Development & PDP

This report delves into the concept of personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of academic skills in achieving one's potential. It discusses the value of setting short, medium, and long-term goals, providing personal examples for each category. The report highlights how short-term goals enhance motivation and provide a clear path, while medium-term goals bridge the gap between short and long-term aspirations. Long-term goals are portrayed as crucial for self-enhancement and career direction. Furthermore, the report underscores the significance of a Personal Development Plan (PDP) in improving self-awareness, driving satisfaction, building relationships, and enhancing effectiveness. The conclusion reiterates the need for academic skills and a well-defined PDP for personal and professional success, emphasizing the role of communication and continuous improvement.

Business Management with Foundation
BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 2
Report on Personal Development
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Contents
1. Introduction 3
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional development
3
3. Description and discussion of the value of short term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples 4
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples 4
5. Description and discussion of the value of long term goals identifying
at least 3 personal examples 5
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development
Plan 5
7. Conclusion 6
Reference List 7

1. Introduction
Academic skills plays a very important role as a way to deliver the information and
the collection of process that gives benefits to the study area such as regulating,
communicating, social, planning and technical skills(Bleidorn and Schwaba, 2017). This
is a technique which is used for general approaches to enhancing the skills for a specific
course of study, And encourage the student to become a quick learner.These skills refers
to the subject area that are available to all the students in that country and helpful in build
up the confidence to participate any activity. They usually the critical thinking of the
students and plays a vital role in their future success.This essay considers the notion of
self-improvement and development of person professionally,value of different types of
objectives alongwith three latest examplesand the description to importance of plan to
develop personality.
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional
development
According to Dale Carnegie- “ Personal development is a long run process for
enhancing the people skills and qualities and mentionb their goals in life in order to maximize
their potential”. This concept involves formal nad informal activity for redefining others in
their roles such as counsellor , teacher, administrator and mentor(Brunn, Weidlich and
Bastiaens, 2018). Some examples of personal development are improvement in body
language, Stop procastinating and be a good listener.
Features:
◦ Focus- It is very important for developing the personality. Every person want to
achieve something in their live so for this they need to concentrate on it and not to
be distracted from their task.
◦ Try to innovate things- Success is based on smart working and innovation. Be
optimist and find something for the experience success also collaborate the work
which help to bringing up the self confidence.
According to R. Mitchell- “ Professional development refers to the act to to learn and
developing the professional characteristic such as informal learning opportunities, formal
coursework etc,.” .It has been define as collaborative and ideally incorporative at the
evaluation stage(Daellenbach, 2018). Skills based training and job assignment is the suitable
example of professional development.
Features:
◦ Reflecting Practice- It is very important tool for the development in
professionalism. It generally analyse the practice of instruction on the basis of
creating new knowledge. Such activities includes the use of jornals and case of
authors for discussion and reflection.
◦ Build up a knowledge- It define to the collection of new knowledge and innvative
information that build a conceptual building. It migt involves setting goals,
participating in workshops and framing a study team where all have different
opinions and ideas.
◦ Gaining and sharing experience- It refers to the continuity of practice, learning
and training. This characteristic involves team work, planning, and network
participation.

3. Description and discussion of the value of short term goals
identifying at least 3 personal example
It determine objective that means something which an individual's want to achieve very soon
and the time duration might be 12 months or less. Basically it manages the time of an
individual. For instance: These targets raises the productivity of the company in next 1 month
and the objective is to build short term desire for further success. So, they are more likely to
achieve the goal in a limited time.
Importance:
 Motivation Enhancement: These types of aims build the motivation of the
individual and helps in allow to get the results more quickly(Geukes, van Zalk and
Back, 2017). Basically small achievement can encourage you to keep going with
their objective.
 Provides a clear path: A task list can complete only with the actions that you take to
reach the ambition. If a person have clear vision in terms of its task by which they
focus on its efforts so it will help them to eliminate wasting time and energy on their
activities. Because a clear direction help to attaining the goal very quickly.
 Reduce procastination: This is a very important tool in business and life too.
Basically it can hold you back for accomplishing the task. These types of aim stop
procastinating and the reason is that the goals are more achievable. It help to
encourage towards work and to known them their own capability.
For example:
 Increasing work output
 Enhancing communication ability
 Reach the destination in given limit.
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
It refers to those types of objectives that can accomplish only after a sequence of short
term intent. The exact time duration that is considered a medium term goals are next 14 days,
a month or perhaps six month.
Importance
 Creates a link between short and long term intent: It is a mid haul aim that
create interconnection among the other two objectives related to employee. Short ones
acts as a base and longer one provides inspiration which help in cultivation of
medium term objectives(Lansdell, Marx and Mohammadali-Haji, 2020). The
examples learnt or the propensities adjusted in the brief time frame that wants
upholds in satisfying medium term thoughts.
 Inspiration for persistent objectives: This can help mid goals to give assurance of
representatives to follow the path of predetermined objectives. When the results of
these aim are noticeable in presentation, they feel motivated and keep themselves
advancing towards it.

 Make a road map for enduring targets: These types of objectives provides a path to
the longer ones. They set a direction that can followed to lead the superior goal of an
individual to be achieved.
For instance
◦ Employment security of the business
◦ Enalrging the skills
◦ Creating work knowledge
5. Description and discussion of the value of long term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples
It refers to those objectives who want to attaining in near future. They want a lot of
time, energy and dedication and it usually take 12 months or more than that. These types of
plans are more important for the career as it is the base of whole working life(Llorens,
Berbegal-Mirabent and Llinàs-Audet 2017). Pursue PHD or becoming yoour own boss i.e.,
an author are the best suitable examples of this. Because it want more time and as not so
much easy.
Importance
 Self -enhancement: These objectives are a for long time. Consequently they give
satisfactory chance to an individual to constantly improve itself. It helps in
constructing such a nature that becomes a part of its habit. It can enhance the
efficiency of employee to accomplishing its certain objects.
 Make the career directions: It defining long haul objectives that will make a person
to choose the bearing it needs to follow. It helps in eliminating that load of exercises
which gets the worker far from the objective. It likewise disposes of the multitude of
exercises which are either time squandering or not important to be performed.
 Development in professionalism: With time all becomes proficient in their work and
the equivalent is finished by the drawn out targets (Tamis-LeMonda And et.al.,
2019). These cravings when achieves with the short and medium term ones assists a
worker with becoming proficient as in these objectives representative more likely than
not acquired different abilities and methods.
 Financial extravagence: These types of aims provides financial security to the
people for a long period of time duration and aperson tried to focus on safeguard its
position in the business alongwith handling the bank balance. Both of these
dimensions will give them a monetary protection to its firm employee.
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal
Development Plan
It determins a strategy that improve self-awareness, and design a path for people growth that
can be used to filled up the personal or career based goals (Loveland, 2017). It usually
statement of one's career that found out the opportunities and risk and make an alternative
plan.
Values
 Make the vision clear- Setting of a target completes with an action plan to follow. It
will give a direction regarding where there is need to pay attention and put efforts on.
This will help in eliminating the activities which waste the time and energy in
achieving these objectives.

 Increase existing skills- It refers to sharpen oneself by focusing on developing ares
like grabbing the opportunities through formal courses anf high your past and learn
something new directly from your experience.This will helps to make up itself.
 Drives Satisfaction- This plan should be framed in suh a way that it not only gives
motivation but also help in attaining satisfaction while inherating qualities of personal
development. When opportunities fails to provide such satisfaction, person tends to
search other ways that can assist it in their growth. (Pereira, Vilas-Boas and Rebelo,
2019). Thus, it empowers the individual to take directions but not to get controlled.
 Builds relationship: It alludes to a blend of delicate abilities that can add to the way
of associating with others. An strong professional relationship can assist with
discovering some new information and apply it for future development. Some of
examples are relational abilities, listening abilities, compassion, teambuilding and so
forth In short it is a course of keeping up with associations.
 Improves effectiveness: It empowers individulas to produce better results and meet
their target with full efficiency(Rea‐Sandin and et.al., 2021). They must be designed
to improve the people.So that they get mutual benefits by achieving personal as well
as corporate objectives.
7.0 Conclusion
From the above essay it is conclude that academic skills is vital apparatus that should
be rehearsed. There are a few destinations that influence the employee capability i.e., short,
medium and long haul objective. Character advancement reaches out past scholarly
satisfaction and an arrangement that clarify something about the whole individual. The
adequacy of this arranging relies on the sort of hardware to utilize. Having a decent close to
home abilities in correspondence is fundamental for self-awareness and future turn of events.
There is need to pay interest on the considerations and accomplishments of person's
movement . Inspiring and empowering the staff members to achieve its personal objectives
and their capability to improve as a pioneer. Each individual make objectives for the group
that assist them to secure with future uncertainity and to invigorated new forthcoming
opportunities for business.

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Daellenbach, K., 2018. On carrot cake and marketing education: A perspective on balancing
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Geukes, K., van Zalk, M.H. and Back, M.D., 2017. Analyzing processes in personality
development. In Personality development across the lifespan (pp. 455-472).
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Lansdell, P., Marx, B. and Mohammadali-Haji, A., 2020. Professional skills development
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Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan
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Skills to be
Developed
Development Plan Resources Target
Date
Eliminate
procastination
I am very incompetent in this area when I standing in
front of huge crowd, I can't speak because I got nervous
and feel hesitate. But sometimes feel that I have to
improve myself. And make a plan for improvement that
enhancing my ability and potential within a good
manner.
I will not escape any kind opportunity to present myself
in coming months. I have to a participate in each and
every individual and group activities which will help
me in overcoming my fear and hesitation.
For instance:
 By participating in seminars and debates
 By hosting an office event.
Daellenbach, K., 2018. On carrot cake and
marketing education: A
perspective on balancing skills for
employability. Australasian
Marketing Journal (AMJ). 26(2).
pp.172-179.
Damian, R.I., Serrano, S. and Hill, P.L.,
2021. Hurricane exposure and
personality development. Journal
of personality. 89(1). pp.35-49.
01/12/20
Job security I personally feel that job security is must for every
person and i always worried regarding to my job
security.
So I decide that I will enhance my image in the
workplace. I will not exploit any kind of chance related
to job and will do continuous work and keep learning
just for the sake of making identity. This will help me to
build up myself and secure my position.
For example:
 By taking extra assignments and do it with full
potential.
 By leaving my personal problem outside
 By adopting any kind of environment and feel
flexible.
Pocnet, C., Popp, J. and Jopp, D., 2021.
The power of personality in
successful ageing: a
comprehensive review of larger
quantitative studies. European
journal of ageing. 18(2). pp.269-
285.
March 2022
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Self-
improvement
It is a long haul skills for developing ourselves internally
and externally. For improving myself I will participate in
all the training related to confidence buildings and will
start reading articles and journals which will enhance
my confidence and vocabulary.
 Join compassion program which will help me to
grow spritually.
Dobrowolski, R. and Salamon-
Krakowska, K., 2018.
Therapeutic significance of
aestheticisation of affect in
the sychosomatics of
personality
development. Physiotherapy
Quarterly. 26(3). p.28.
01/11/22
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