BMP3001 Academic Skills: A Report on Personal & Prof Development

This report provides an overview of personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. It defines the concept of personal and professional development and discusses the value of setting goals with personal examples. The report also highlights the significance of a Personal Development Plan (PDP) as a tool for self-assessment, skill development, and achieving personal and professional aspirations. It concludes that integrating personal and professional learning, along with strategic goal setting and a well-crafted PDP, is essential for individual success and prosperity. Desklib offers similar resources for students.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
Define the concept of personal and professional development................................................................3
Describe and discuss the value of short-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples...........4
Describe and discuss the value of medium-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples......5
Describe and discuss the value of long-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples............6
Describe and discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example using your
identified goals........................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................7
Appendix.....................................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Personal learning and professional development can be described as a growth process
through which an individual an individual can strive to become a highly skilled, trained and
knowledgeable within his or her field of interest. Personal and professional learning can be
termed as a continuous approach that needs to be exercised by the individuals in order to elevate
their skill development process and achieve desired outcomes efficient and prominent manner
(Kiessling, et.al, 2021) . In order to lead a competent career path and increase the individual
growth and stability, it is vital for each and every person to engage themselves within the
personal and professional development in order to transform themselves as per their desires and
willingness in an appropriate mannerism.
The report projects a detailed understanding and overview in respect to the meaning and
concept of personal and professional development. It reflects upon the importance as well as the
value of formulating and implementing short-term, medium-term and long-term goals so as to
achieve the personal and professional objective in an optimum approach. Moreover, the
significance of personal development plan and its assistance in helping individuals to achieve
and attain their overall aims and aspirations is also facilitated within the concerned report.
Define the concept of personal and professional development
Personal and professional development can considered as an approach through which
individuals can acquire proficient insights about their potential skills, knowledge, degree of
adaptability, flexibility, weaknesses, threats, strengths and opportunities et cetera. It allows
people to identify their potential goals in life and facilitate plans and procedures through which
they can optimise and fulfil upon their goals in a maximised manner ( Partridge, 2021), Personal
learning and development focuses upon assisting individuals to do better within their everyday
lives by means of accelerating their skills that can prove to be helpful for the same within the
personal life.
Professional development plays concern over the necessity to possess employability skills
and elevate the overall professional skills and competencies of an individual through which they
can excel in their careers and lead their professional journey in a more productive and efficient
way. Professional and personal development also sharpens the vision of an individual and makes

him or her more confident and motivated in the routine life. The respective concept provides an
integral platform to the individuals that can help to maximise their career graph and personal
development in a manner that they are able to optimise upon several effective opportunities
within the environment so as to achieve higher proficiency and leverage through the same. It can
be said that there are variety of tools and techniques facilitated by personal and professional
development such as coaching, personal training, professional help, developmental programmes,
mentoring etc. through which individuals can elevate their current standard of performances and
lead towards the realisation of higher performance and productivity within their day to day
activities. It brings in positivity and value based approach within an individual mindset and
attitude which in turn encourage the same to showcase higher dedication and concentration to
one’s private life and career field.
Describe and discuss the value of short-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples
The significance of short-term goals can be derived by the fact that they assist the individual
in order to achieve their long-term aspiration consistent and appropriate manner. It has been
examined that without the incorporation of short-term goal it is very difficult or near to
impossible for the individuals to aim forward for the achievement of their long-term goals. Short
term goals can considered as the small milestones, accomplishment of which assists the
individuals to take a step forward towards the realisation of their future and an object is in
personal as well as professional life (King, 2021). It is extremely valuable for individuals to
invest into the formulation of short-term goals in order to keep them aligned to their future vision
and help the same to achieve small targets further optimise upon the greater opportunities in
enhanced manner.
 Interaction plays a significant part in development of individual personality as well as
confident while meeting new individuals in everyday life or within the professional
career. My short-term goal is to elevate my interaction capabilities in order to facilitate
advance and good conversations with new people and increase my communication skills
to a higher extent which can provide me with an added advantage as well.
 Teamwork and coordination are the elements that are extremely important while working
within an organisation. Every employee is expected to work flexibly within teams and
engage with their co-workers effective manner. My short-term goal is to become more
flexible easily collaborate with new people and coordinate with them in an advanced

manner. Teamwork can potentially help me within my future career and can also provide
me with an enhanced edge while conducting operations in a business firm.
 I also look forward to incorporate a systematic time schedule within my daily routine in
order to increase my productivity within a day and become more focused towards my life
goals and overall objectives. I feel that formulation of time schedule can help me with
managing my daily routine life in a suitable manner and become more assertive and
energetic during the day.
Describe and discuss the value of medium-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples
Medium-term goals are formulated in order to establish stability and balance within an
individual’s life and career. The major objective of medium-term goal is to help the individuals
to stay relevant and lead advance progress towards the capitalisation of their long-term
aspirations. Medium-term goal are extremely beneficial for the accomplishment of both short-
term as well as long-term goals. The reason for the same can be stated as they assist in the
achievement of short-term goals by providing the right direction to the same as well as helps to
concentrate upon taking the right measures in order to accomplish the long-term targets in a
proficient manner (Van Goidsenhoven and Masschelein, 2021). It can be said that the medium-
term goals are relatively attainable and achievable due to their existing relevance and
consistency.
 My medium-term goal is to establish a social network. According to my perspective,
social network are highly optimal in allowing individuals to determine the opinions,
perspectives and thoughts of other individuals which in turn can be termed as a essential
element within the social environment. The maintenance of prominent and prolific social
network and assist me In my personal space as well as professional life.
 I also feel that it is very important for students to focus upon becoming financially
independent. It can help me with managing my expenses in a satisfactory manner.
Financial independency will allow me to bear my personal expenses and meet up to the
daily requirements without seeking any further help in a considerate manner.
 In addition to that, I would also like to invest my time into formulation of journals and
notes that can help me to express myself in a good manner. One of my medium-term

goals is to write a journal so as to incorporate all the activities that I did along the day as
well as the goals that I achieved within a particular day.
Describe and discuss the value of long-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples.
The significance of long-term goal is to allow individuals to formulate short and mid-term
goals that can facilitate the same to choose the path, work in progress and achieve the ultimate
long-term objectives of their lives. These goals play a very crucial role in one’s life as they can
be termed as the aspirations and future outlook that one dream for themselves. In order to
achieve the long-term objectives, individual needs to be consistently focused upon the same.
Also, long-term goals are not achieved overnight, thus persistent effort needs to be catered by an
individual in order to achieve their long-term goals in a prominent manner. It can be said that
long-term goals are very time consuming and tedious (Volman, 2021). It is necessary for
individuals to formulate goals that are attractive to the same in a manner that they are willing to
contribute their major time and effort for the realisation of the same.
 My long-term goal is to establish a profitable business enterprise based upon disruptive
innovation. I am an extremely creative person and who is always looking for
opportunities that could be capitalised in order to formulate ideas, plan and processes
through which I can get inspired to launch a business. Hence, starting my own business
outlet will be one of my long-term goals in the future run.
 I would also like to concentrate upon saving my finances so as to build financial stability
within my life. I want to invest into profitable ventures through which I can maximise my
earning, support my family as well as fulfil their dreams and desires to the best of my
capability.
 I consider myself as a nature and adventure lover. My long-term goal would be to
participate into adventurous sports within the laps of nature such as skydiving, bungee
jumping etc. I believe that nature is a very integral part of human life and every citizen
must contribute their bit towards the enhancement of the same. I also want to start an
environmental initiative through a foundation or an NGO wherein individuals can
contribute and the funding can be raised in order to support and maintain healthy and
sustainable natural surroundings.

Describe and discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example using
your identified goals
Personal development plan can be described as a tool through which students and other
individuals can self assess and evaluate their skills and learning (Chastikova, Zherlitsyn and
Volya, 2021). It can be defined as an action plan that allows individuals to align their focus upon
acquisition of skills, learning and knowledge that can elevate the possibility of their overall
individual growth as well as development. The purpose of personal development plan is to
facilitate clarity to the individual in regard with the goals and objectives that they would like to
accomplish in their respective lives. It increases the motivation as well as empowers the
individual to work hard towards the achievement of their desirable goals and future plans.
PDP also building resilience power within the individual that keep them dedicated
towards their work in an enhanced manner (Aguinis and Gabriel, 2021). Personal development
plan also assist people in order to lead the process of self actualization and elevate their self-
esteem to a higher degree of extent. It can be stated that the role of personal development plan is
to help the individuals to formulate a competent blueprint that can guide and direct them and
realize their life goals and desires with sheer prominence.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that personal and professional development plays a vital part in facilitating
success and prosperity to an individual. In order to live up to the requirements of the career
prospectus as well as accomplish the personal desires and dreams, it is necessary for each and
every individual to integrate personal and professional learning within their everyday routine
life. Also, short goals, medium goals and long-term goals are very important for building a path
that could be followed and relied upon so as to achieve the individual goals in an optimum way.
The personal development plan is also very viable and helpful in assisting individuals to work
upon themselves and their skills and capabilities.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Kiessling, et.al, 2021. Communicative competencies anchored longitudinally–the curriculum
“personal and professional development” in the model study programme in undergraduate
medical education at the University of Witten/Herdecke. GMS journal for medical
education, 38(3).
Partridge, E., 2021. Getting On in the Creative Arts Therapies: A Hands-On Guide to Personal
and Professional Development. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
King, T., 2021. Microlearning for Personal and Professional Development. In Microlearning in
the Digital Age (pp. 155-167). Routledge.
Van Goidsenhoven, L. and Masschelein, A., 2021. “Writing by Prescription”: Creative Writing
as Therapy and Personal Development. In Writing Manuals for the Masses (pp. 265-287).
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Volman, M., 2021. The effects of using students' funds of knowledge on educational outcomes in
the social and personal domain. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 28, p.100472.
Chastikova, V.A., Zherlitsyn, S.A. and Volya, Y.I., 2021, February. Development of a personal
identification technique for automation systems. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science
and Engineering (Vol. 1047, No. 1, p. 012138). IOP Publishing.
Aguinis, H. and Gabriel, K.P., 2021. If You are Serious About Impact, Create a Personal Impact
Development Plan. Business & Society, p.00076503211014482.

Appendix
Personal Development Plan
Objective Plan of Action Resources Time Duration
Listening Skills I will align my focus
upon diction and
speech so as to
interpret the speaker
in and proficient
manner.
I will focus upon the
rhythm of the
sentence and improve
my concentration
ability in order to
understand the
message in enhanced
manner.
Seminars and
Workshops, Listening
programs, Online
learning.
3 months
Decision Making I will participate in
critical surroundings
in order to examine
my assessment
capabilities. I would
rely upon tools and
mechanisms of
decision making in
order to formulate
prominent decisions
Assessment tools and
techniques. Decision
making Matrix,
critical evaluation,
Data and Analytics
6 months

in the given scenario.