BSc (Hons) Business Management PDP Report 2019/2020

This report is a comprehensive Personal Development Plan (PDP) assignment submitted by a student pursuing a BSc (Hons) in Business Management. It delves into the core concepts of personal and professional development, defining them and highlighting their significance. The report meticulously explores the value of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, providing personal examples for each to illustrate practical application. Furthermore, it discusses the importance of a well-structured Personal Development Plan, outlining its benefits in fostering self-awareness, skill enhancement, and career progression. The report also includes an appendix with a detailed personal development plan, outlining skills to be developed, development plans, resources, and target dates, offering a practical guide to the reader. The student emphasizes the importance of communication, body language and sensitivity as key skills for professional growth and provides a well-structured framework for self-improvement and career advancement. The report concludes with a strong affirmation of the PDP's effectiveness in guiding personal and professional growth, and a look at the future career aspirations.

BSc (Hons) Business Management with
Foundation
Cohort 3
BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Report on Personal Development
2019/2020
Easter 2020/Semester 1
Submitted by:
Name:
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Contents
1. Introduction 2
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional
development 2
3. Description and discussion of the value of short-term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples 3
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium-term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples 3
5. Description and discussion of the value of long-term goals
identifying at least 3 personal examples 4
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal
Development Plan 5
7. Conclusion 6
Reference List 6
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1. Introduction
The PDP involves initiatives that promote self-identity, cultivate skills and ability,
create intellectual resources and workforce capability, increase quality of life and
lead to the achievement of goals and ambitions. It does not only involve self-
development, but also formally and informally development practices. In the final
review, the mechanisms, services, resources, strategies, and appraisal structures
that promote human growth at the level of individual entities are referred to as
professional advancement in the form of organisations (Davis 2004). A professional
improvement plan is a thoroughness-based programme, incorporating clinical
methods such as the Attitude Scale, which is intended to offer an insight into critical
areas of development and take into account how certain needs can be supported
among an assessor and an organisations employee. PDPs in organizations are
typically established and consider the plan between both the employees and
employers (Davis 2004).
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional
development
The mechanism by which the institution and the person take part in the process of
learning to fulfil the needs and expectations is personal and professional growth. It is
related to the individual and community growth needs (Davis 2004). In this role we
have defined and measured important employee and organizational leadership
capabilities such as time management, committees, seminars, and conflict
management that can be achieved by reviewing existing skills and planning and
encouraging the preservation of staff growth plans. It can be gained by the review of
existing competences and the creation and execution of strategies of professional
development (Smith 2011).
Professional capabilities include advising and coaching workers in order to assist
them in their own needs for learning and growth. Any of the examples cover
technical skills, organizational skills, management ability, self-development and the
mentor 's ongoing activities, directing workers by successful presentation. Mentoring
is an important learning and growth teaching tool. It is extremely popular and
promotes professional development (Smith 2011).
The assistance, direction and advice were conveyed to staff in the long term. In
order to promote growth of an experienced junior or novice employee, a skilled
associate uses her superior expertise and comprehension of job or workplace (Smith
2011). It's also an apprenticeship that helps a novice person, as with contemporary
offsite apprenticeship, to learn the "tools of the trade" from a seasoned co-worker.
The mentoring capabilities are the following:
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 It is a process of activity that is essential.
 It illustrates how a person can mold and grow his or her professional life.
 With the aid of individual advisors, psychological issues may be handled more
efficiently.
 These mentoring programs have professional and corporate purposes.
3. Description and discussion of the value of short-term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples (up to 3
months)
To reach a short-term goal, we need to do things early. Short-term goals will help
them progress considerably. You must do something short-term for the next two
years. Now the week may mean a nearer time, this month and even this year. We
want to achieve a short-term goal in the immediate future. Something that you take a
long time to do is a long-term task (Smith 2011). Personal Short-Term Goals
instances:
 Key personal priorities – Continue to execute the initiative and raise the funds
for the realization of my ideas.
 Learning is enough to achieve the above – to develop and assess my abilities
continuously.
 Need to do the above – include the involvement of classes and full
evaluations by senior managers in certain fields.
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium-
term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
(up to 6 months)
In a few months a short-term target could be met, but in a few months or a few years
a long-term target can be reached. A further aim of moving to bigger facilities in five
years is to raise the profit margin. This is known as a medium-term target. Even the
motto of medium-term goals would include the revamped construction, internal
operational reform, and cost decreases by economic scale (Masters and R. 2010).
Personal Medium-Term Goals instances:
 Objectives to accomplish departmental and operational goals – To
develop and improve my awareness of the subject using PDP itself,
and to bring information to daily success.
 Information I need to remember – Assess self-performance
continuously, and discover new ways to better what I need to do.
 What I must do accomplish this is to take some lessons relevant to my
area of work to attempt to study from the seasoned leaders at work as
much as practicable to have a history of my studies.
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5. Description and discussion of the value of long-term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples (1 to 5
years)
All you want to achieve is a long-term objective. Long-term goals are key to a fruitful
career. One long-term target in the future you intend to pursue. For long-term goals,
time and planning are required. They're not something that you should do this week
or this year (Masters and R. 2010). Usually, at least a few years out are long-term
goals. Long-term aspirations are important for a career. It's a long career all your
working lives. Long-term expectations help you focus on the experience you need.
You should conceive of future careers with long-term ambitions. Time and
preparation are required for careers (Eggert 2013). These projects include your long-
term priorities. Personal Medium-Term Goals instances:
 Managerial and administrative goals – Enforcing my PDP and growing my
financial skills and my job expertise in order to meet the organization's
management level with an excellent remuneration plan within two to three
year and then open my own investment business to individual investors in the
community.
 What do I need to understand and contribute to do this-to maintain the
procedure in place and to track a continuous assessment of self-financing and
organizational skills, to keep working and to scale the organizational ladder as
fast as possible.
 To accomplish the above, learn from knowledgeable sources to enrol in
accessible courses. Maintain an outstanding standard of efficiency. Build a
network of highly powerful individuals both internally and externally. In my
company, create a supportive atmosphere. Performing frequent and timely
self-examinations.
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal
Development Plan
Definition & Significance
- It is a collection of attributes and traits that shape a pattern between an
individual and someone else. We are also so different, and when
collaborating with and directing people, we need to remember that (Eggert
2013).
- It offers a structure for defining people's strengths and limitations and
motivating people to capitalise on current competences and ability (Eggert
2013).
- Growth of one's life is a revolutionary process. It is not halted until it is
wanted and required (Eggert 2013).
Current Skills - My existing skills throughout my studies which have
improved:
- Time Management - The purpose of this capacity is to modify habits over time
to attain targets that I have set in my life, including several clients every day,
efficiency, and unique targets.
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- Leadership - Leadership qualities empower the entire team to accomplish the
business goal and goal. Establish an opportunity for an organisation to
operate and develop its technical skills.
- Decision-Making - Decisions can be taken in technical skills and personal life
at the required time and quickly.
7.0 Conclusion
Personal growth programs could be very useful ways to help people better reflect
and document their progress and achievements; they can also help prepare their
personal and career growth further. It may promote reflective thought and long-term
learning patterns that concentrate on their future growth (Eggert 2013).
I am very assured from personally-prepared PDP that I am on the correct course
and I am sure that, with assistance from various sources, I can transcend the
limitations I have in fields and will also strive to use my powerful strengths to
overcome my vulnerabilities. I do not hesitate to be on the correct path and I want
see myself as a good example for individuals who would like to be competitive in the
finance market, to hit management level and to launch their own business.
References:
Davis, F. (2004). Personal Development in A Nutshell. PageFree Publishing, Inc.
Smith, J. (2011). Personal Development Planning - What You Need to Know. Tebbo.
Masters, A. and R., H. (2010). Personal Development for Life and Work. Cengage Learning.
Eggert, M. (2013). Brilliant Personal Development. Pearson UK.
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Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan
Skills to be
Developed
Development Plan Resources Target Date
Communication Communication is one of the most critical
methods to be used very well as a manager
or a prime minister. It can be formal or
casual, connected to work or not, socially or
impersonally, creatively or factually.
Thoughts or signals can be communicated
orally or in writing or not, so it is still very
essential to make it transparent to both the
sender and the recipient which form or
mode it is communicated. Many situations
exist where aspects of each method in
conversation have been successfully
implemented, but at the same time the
condition has gone wrong merely because
of inappropriate contact, whether at work ,
at home or at the highest societal level like
public communication.
Eggert, M. (2013). Brilliant
Personal Development. Pearson
UK.
By June 2021
Body Language The self-minded language of the personality
is another significant, but highly
underestimated means of communication.
People must be able to correspond
correctly through their own language of the
Masters, A. and R., H. (2010).
Personal Development for Life
and Work. Cengage Learning.
By June 2021
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body about what they attempt about
express orally. In any location, be it at work,
in public meetings or in a social context, the
participation and appearance of body
language facilitates verbal communication.
When it comes to all speech, eye touch,
movements and behaviors, action, or
expressions, all is strongly counted and
achieves the desired effect.
Even Further
Importance of
Sensitivity
It is this talent that makes a person closer to
others and worthwhile. It is important to
recognize the need an aid response,
regardless of age and rank. One of the
greatest qualities to cultivate is a person
who can reach anyone and demonstrate
empathy to help others manage the
problem.
Eggert, M. (2013). Brilliant
Personal Development. Pearson
UK.
By June 2021
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