BSc Business Management: Academic Skills & PDP Personal Development

This report provides an overview of personal and professional development planning, emphasizing the importance of setting short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. It defines the concept of personal and professional development and discusses the value of each type of goal with personal examples. The report also highlights the significance of a Personal Development Plan (PDP) as a roadmap for career growth and includes a constructed example. The student outlines aims and objectives for their professional development, incorporating academic skills and PDP, ultimately concluding that personal and professional development are essential for career advancement. Desklib offers a platform to access this and similar solved assignments for students.

Academic skills and
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Concept of personal and professional development....................................................................1
Value of short-term goals............................................................................................................2
Value of medium-term goals.......................................................................................................2
Value of long term goals.............................................................................................................3
Value of personal development plan...........................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................7
Personal development plan.........................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The concept of personal and professional development is described as a basic concept
which helps in managing and maintaining own acquisition as well as understanding of an
individual across the whole career. It is very much necessary that a person carry out all the tasks
and activities in order to enhance the abilities along with the knowledge by assuring that they
continue to carry out the work in an efficient way. The aspect of both personal and professional
development is also known as continuous professional development. This below report is based
on personal and professional development of a person which are being learned within whole
career. The report involves its concept, value of short term goals , medium term goals and long
term goals with personal examples with personal examples . It also includes the value of a
personal development plan followed by conclusion.
MAIN BODY
Concept of personal and professional development
In accordance with the aspect of personal development it refers to certain set of tasks and
activities which helps in enlarging the capabilities of a person as well as its prospective through
implementing human capital, employability along with enhancing the quality of life with respect
to all the dreams. It is very much significant for a person to develop themselves across whole
journey of life. There are certain goals and objectives of personal and professional development
which gives various kinds of advantages to a person in order to manage whole learning area and
along with this various growth opportunities also throughout the career. It becomes very much
crucial for a person to learn to upgrade the skills and abilities along with knowledge also and
assuring that they would carry out the work both in a legal and efficient manner. This concept is
necessary because it is beneficial in expanding all kinds of skills and certain talents that are
beyond the current professional role in accordance with setting up full preparation for providing
more than the things which are valuable to employees. There are certain forms which could be
helpful in managing and maintaining personal and professional development and it is further
being explained below: -
 Identification and taking up correct opportunities: - By just carrying out the aspect of
training is not essential because it is not fully about learning. It also needs to focus on the
respective research for correct and efficient form of opportunities for initiating certain
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skills, knowledge and also important information which can help in gathering efficient
level of chances for them.
 Setting and planning up clear objectives which are in relation with what is actually
needed to achieve: - The moment a person defines all goals and objectives in a clear
manner it becomes very easy to manage both personal as well as professional
development.
Value of short-term goals
In relation with short-term goals they are described as the objectives which a person
needs to achieve as soon as possible. It helps in implementing certain types of changes. In the
case of all short-term goals and objectives the individual needs to perform as per the coming
future. It is considered as a milestone in whole journey and the reason behind this is to reach at
the position of achieving long term goals. It helps the individual to measure how far they actually
are in order to manage and along with this by coming to travel through reaching out at a specific
end of a person. To reach at long term goals it is essential for them to accomplish their recent
short term purposes as quick as possible that would be able to build up a the level of potential
through maximum efficiency. There are certain examples associated with this and it is being
explained below: -
 Improving the work life balance
 organizing whole workstation
 Earning a new certificate
 To get familiar with new technology
Value of medium-term goals
Medium-term goals and objectives are described as those aims which takes some sort of
long time to accomplish them. It can be achieved in some months or even weeks. It provides best
level skills and abilities for upgrading the development of an individual. It is large enough to
design important progression and also the results which are associated with this. There are
several learners which desires to plan out certain objectives within the specific period of time.
The value of such medium-term goals helps in reaching out to long term objectives in an easy
way so that long term progress can be done in whole career. Besides this, these types of goals
also provides efficient level of development and advancement. It offers certain benefits for
designing the aims and making them work within the set period of time like three to four years.
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All kinds of medium-term goals are considered as those aims which can be properly planned and
set out by diverse level of objectives at particular period of time in the career. There are several
examples associated with this and it is being explained below: -
 To take care of learner's individuals savings along with the money for handing several
level of uncertainties as well as in the case of emergency.
 Starting the career and enhancing the business for creating diverse identity which are in
association with whole society and also by having the aspect of development.
 To think and give the deadline along with maintaining all kinds of risks in order to
increase and build up the revenue and achieve development.
 Improvising ability of resume before applying to any kind of job for gathering different
job opportunities.
Value of long term goals
In terms of long term goals they hope to fulfil them within the coming period of time. All
kinds of long term goals are needed in achieving them within the short span of time. It is mainly
defined as a achievement which will take some sort of planning, efforts and time to achieve all
kinds of goals and objectives. Long term goals are considered as deferred gratification outcomes
of diverse months and years to mainly focus on. It is considered to be completely different which
would be providing certain advantages in order to perform the aims and build up the reputation
by living up in a good community. It also gives certain types of guidelines that is helpful in
making correct decisions. It also provides benefits in gathering of different abilities along with
associated knowledge that would give the aim to carry the desired objective. All types of long
term goals provides high level of efficiency along with building up personal and professional
career development. There are several examples which are being explained below: -
 Identification and determination of initiating different career opportunities by making
certain improvements in skills
 Describing and planning the long term goals of increasing knowledge and also enlarging
the skills.
 Improvising efficient level of interpersonal and communication skills which could be
helpful in doing interaction with other people.
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 Bring the leader of better skills and talents with personal development in order to get best
level of job opportunities.
Value of personal development plan
Personal development plan is described as a procedure that deals in implementing certain
action plans which are on the basis of contemplation, setting up objectives, belief and keeping
out the planning for having personal development with regards to the relation along with the
level of self-enhancement. In terms of the personal development plan it mainly provides
requirements for workers and their respective CVs. It is also defined as a continuous
development plan which involves a statement of all strengths along with the level of education
and training. It also includes the document regrading the person's career. From the view point of
individual the personal development plan on the basis of short-term, medium and long term goals
is carried out by developing the learning objective of decision making skills which can be
continued through the evolution for ability that can help a person to achieve the working
knowledge by making the usage of diverse decision making tools and techniques and along with
those abilities that need to be enhanced by the person in order to perform certain learning
objectives, along with those talents that need to be enlarged and performing certain leadership
skills that are very much necessary by regularly focusing on all types of open leadership course
of study that would help the person in future to upgrade their knowledge and along with this
developing certain analytical skills. An individual can develop develop through participating in
several training workshops which are based on critical thinking along with the aspect of strategic
management. In order to develop all kinds of short, medium and long term goals it is necessary
for a person to enhance communication skills which is beneficial in carrying out certain ideas
and along with this to convey important messages to other people without having any kind of
reluctance. By implementing personal development plan in the individual's journey it can help in
gaining knowledge for developing skills so that better job opportunities can be received. Besides
this by having such development plan it can help the person to also initiate certain career
development skills so that they can focus on their improvement in order to live a quality and
standard lifestyle. The personal development plan mainly offers a roadmap to provide several
growth opportunities by determining all the skills differences and fill up certain gaps.
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CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that it is necessary for each individual to
have both personal and professional development so that they can receive better career
opportunities and in the best way possible. It is primary to carry out such development which can
help the people in managing and maintaining their pace of learning for performing all kinds of
activities and tasks. In accordance with this report it defines the concept of personal and
professional development which helps the people in focusing on their career goals in more
efficient way. It also involves the value of all short, medium and long term goals with certain
examples. On the basis of all such plans which are being planned it is necessary to perform out
various tasks through which the phase of personal development plan is designed in context with
achieving all the aims in a better way. Besides this the report describes about different goals that
need to be planned by the person and build up career learnings and along with this also making
certain improvements within the understanding of work.
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APPENDIX
Personal development plan
S. No Learning
objectives
Present
competence
Target
proficiency
Development
opportunities
Time period
1 Analytical
skills
I am having
good level of
analytical
skills
To enhance
the level of
proficiency for
visualizing as
well as solving
all the
fundamental
issues with
respect to
certain
challenges.
For this I will
take the
participation
in analytical
skills on the
basis of
critical level
of thinking
and also the
phase of
strategic
management
3 months
2 Leadership
skills
I was at
average stage
in the phase of
leadership
skills that need
to be
developed.
To efficiently
balance certain
authoritative
elements of
leadership in
order to make
all the
employees
follow certain
guidelines
with the help
of
participative
style of
I will take part
in the open
leadership
enhancement
courses like in
the form of
tailored
leadership
4 months
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leadership
3 Decision
making skills
I scored
average in
these skills
To be
authentic even
in the most
difficult
situations
For this I will
now use six
thinking hats
technique as it
would help me
in analysing
several factors
which are in
relation with
all such
conditions
3 months
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