Personal Development Report - BMP3001 Academic Skills & PDP

This report provides a detailed analysis of personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of setting and achieving short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. It defines personal and professional development, highlighting how personal skills enhance social reputation while professional skills drive career growth. The report includes personal examples for each goal category, such as reading newspapers daily for short-term gains, completing graduation for medium-term objectives, and aspiring to a management role for long-term achievements. Furthermore, it underscores the value of a Personal Development Plan (PDP) as a tool for monitoring progress and aligning actions with goals, exemplified through a constructed PDP focusing on improving reading habits, strengthening portfolios, and advancing career prospects. The conclusion reiterates the significance of balancing personal and professional skills for holistic development and sustained success.

Report on personal
development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main body........................................................................................................................................1
Concept of personal and professional development....................................................................1
Describe and discuss the value of short-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples......................................................................................................................................2
Describe and discuss the value of medium-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples......................................................................................................................................2
Describe and discuss the value of long-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples
.....................................................................................................................................................3
Describe and discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example
using your identified goals..........................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
Reference.........................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is one of the most essential task for any
individual to make their career (Uleanya and et. al., 2020). Personal skills are those skills which
are essential to develop the reputation and personality of an individual in front of society and
surroundings. Whereas professional skills are those skills which helps an individual to perform
better in their career and helps them to grow well professionally. Communication skills,
coordination skills and few more are personal skills. IT skills, presentation skills and few more
are professional skills which is essential to perform the job. It is essential to update knowledge of
present trend in learning this skills because all these skills will help in various ways like having
conversation with clients and many more. There are various ways to develop personal and
professional skills like coaching, communicate more with others, participate in TED shows and
many more. It is essential for every individual to set goals for improving their personal and
professional skills and check on regular basis that whether they are working according to their
set goals or not. In case of huge gap between planned goals and actual actions to achieve those
goals, it is compulsory for an individual to take corrective actions as soon as possible. Personal
development plan are made to measure how the set goals will be achieved in future (Camesa and
et. al, 2020). The following file will cover personal and professional skill development concept,
short term, medium term and long term goals as an individual. This file also covers PDP plan of
some weak skills.
Main body
Concept of personal and professional development
Gaining new skills and experiences which helps in professional life is called professional
development. Personal development is the part of professional development. Hence, an
individual who is required to develop their professional development must focus to develop their
personal development also. Professional development is not only to learn those skills which help
an individual to earn money but it also aims to develop a good reputation in society for the
individual (Gómez Palacio, Álvarez Espinal and Gómez Vargas, 2018). It also help in self
satisfying with the career opted by person for lifelong. With the help of good professional
development an individual will get promotions and rewards from his company and with the help
of personal development an individual will gain good relations with their teammates. Learning
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more skills and develop personal and professional development helps in creating more value.
There are various ways to develop personal and professional skills and they are mentioned
below-
 Be intentional and plan the development- It is essential to make plans for development
of those skills which are weak. Hence, it is a good habit to make plans and set time limit
to learn those skills. It is helpful for providing a good direction to achieve set goals of
life.
 Look for and take the right opportunities- It is essential to grab all offered
opportunities of learning personal and professional skills. Learning more skills are not
hazardous but having knowledge of limited skills might is hazardous for performing the
job role because there are various kind of job roles and responsibilities which consider to
have few skills to get completed.
 Communicate more with others- It is effective to have conversation with more people
and especially with those people who has more experience and knowledge as compared
to our knowledge so that it will help to learn more (Sethi, Shah and Supe, 2021).
Describe and discuss the value of short-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples
Short term goals are those goals which are done within one year. This are the goals which
is essential to achieve near in future. Few examples of short term goals are given below-
 Read newspaper and watch business news channels on daily basis- It is essential to
read newspapers and watching business channels on daily basis because it will help to
develop current knowledge that recently what is going in ground the world and how it
will impact upon human life.
 Leave one bad habit every month- Every individual is having some good habit as well
as bad habit. Hence, it is essential to leave a bad habit every month and tries to not adopt
it again in future. This will help to become a better person in life.
 Develop vocabulary as soon as possible- It is essential to have good pronunciation and
vocabulary for developing good communication skill (Tannehill and et. al., 2021).
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Describe and discuss the value of medium-term goals, identifying at least three personal
examples
Medium term goals are those goals which is going tom achieve within 2-3 years in
upcoming time. This will help in achieving life goals. Few of medium term goals are mentioned
below-
 Complete the graduation- It is one of the common goal of an student to complete the
graduation on time so that they will make career plans for their future that what kind of
job and in which company they are looking their career.
 To apply for a high reputed company- Most commonly most of the students aims to
find a good and secured job for their career just after finishing their career on time.
 Strengthening portfolio with new projects and skills- Having personal experience in
some essential projects for personal and professional development in colleges will help to
develop portfolio of an individual in more better way which is more attractive. It will also
help to learn many skills (Suarta and Suwintana, 2021).
Describe and discuss the value of long-term goals, identifying at least three personal examples
Long term goals are those goals which take almost 3-10 years to achieve. Long term
goals are essential to make because they are considered to achieve self esteem needs and self
actualization needs of an individual. Some examples of long term goals are explained below-
 To become the manager of company- It is good if an individual thinks of personal and
professional development. After having a good job in a reputed company everyone aims
to develop have more power as soon as possible and this can be done after performing
well in the company. Hence, this goal is compulsory to achieve for individual who is
employees as an junior employee within an company.
 To buy my own house- It is another long term goal to have own house within 4-5 years
and it can be achieved by saving good amount of money.
 To have a world tour with family- Another adventurous goal will be having world tour
with family which will take few years to get achieved. Once a individual achieve at that
position which is planned by them earlier then that person must think to achieve this goal
of world tour for self refreshment and enjoying life at its peak (Putri and Prodjosantoso,
2020).
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Describe and discuss the value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example using
your identified goals
Personal development plan are made to analyse whether an individual is actually
following the actions or goals as per their planning earlier (Mahdi, Nassar and Almuslamani,
2020). It also helps to identify identify time and actions which are essential to achieve set goals
of life. PDP plan also tell that how an individual can measure that he achieve their set goals.
Goals Time required What can be done to achieve the
goal
How to measure
success
Read newspaper
and watch
business news
channels on daily
basis ( short term
goal).
This goal is
requiring 6-9
months to get
achieved.
To achieve this goal, it is essential
to read English newspaper and
business channels on time. Here, I
will set morning alarm for reading
newspaper for a fix time and set
alarm at evening for watching
business news on TV to upgrade
my knowledge. I must focus and
makes sure that I will never miss a
single day to achieve this goal.
When it will become
my habit to read
newspaper and
business news
channels on regular
basis without any
reminder like alarm
then I will get to
know that I have
achieved this goal.
Strengthening
portfolio with
new projects and
skills (medium
term goal).
This goal will
take
approximately
1.5 years to get
achieved.
For achieving this goal it is
essential to participate in each and
every activity and seminars at
colleges and schools which cover
our interest area. For example if
we are from science background
then we have to attend all projects
and webinars on science projects
and also take participation to
prepare those projects which will
be represented by schools and
colleges for higher level. Taking
When I get calls and
messages from
various companies
for interview for
particular job roles
which is applied by
me, then I will
consider that I have
achieved the goal to
make my portfolio
more powerful and
attractive. Secondly,
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additional courses online or offline
is also a good step to achieve this
goal. It is compulsory to gain
certificate for each project.
if I performed well in
interviews and crack
all interviews in one
or two rounds then I
will measure that I
have learned enough
skills to achieve
success.
To become the
manager of
company (long
term goal).
This goal will
take 5-6 years to
get achieved.
This goal can be achieved by
performing well in the organisation
and obeying the orders of senior
authority carefully. Here, it is
essential to have good relations
with employees at workplace and
focus on the task which is assigned
to us. It is essential to complete the
task on time and report to senior
authority in case of any issue in
completing the given task. Helping
teammates and coordinating well
and understanding what they
require the most is essential part to
achieve this goal. Most essential
action to achieve this goal is to
work in a good reputed company
which ensures promotions on good
performances.
When I get
appreciation from my
senior authority and
get rewards for my
good performance
then I can consider
that I am near to
achieve this goal.
When senior
authority recommend
my name for
manager post then I
can recognise that I
have achieved
success to complete
this goal.
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Conclusion
From the above information it is clearly concluded that personal and professional skills
and essential within an individual's life to develop their career. Personal skills are those skills
which helps an individual to have good relations with others and which help them to become
more attractive then others in surrounding. Few examples of personal skills are communication
skill, coordination skill, time management skill and many others. On the other hand professional
skills are those skills which are essential to develop life career and helps to achieve good growth
in the career. IT skills, managing manpower skills and many more are examples of professional
skills. It is essential to perform both personal as well as professional skills at workplace. It is also
concluded that setting goals and aims to develop few good habit or to develop some essential
personal and professional skills is a good way to develop career and personality. There are three
types of goals, first is short term goal which take less than one year to get achieved, medium
term goal which will take 2-3 years to get achieved and at the end long term goals which will
take 3 or more years to get achieved. All three segmented goals are essential for an individual.
Personal and professional development are made to set smaller targets like time period required
and actions required to achieve set goals. In simple words PDP is helpful to show the direction to
an individual to achieve their set targets.
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