West London University Business Management Personal Development Plan

This project is a Personal Development Plan (PDP) created by a student enrolled in a Business Management course at West London University. The plan begins with an introduction explaining the purpose of a PDP and its importance in identifying areas for improvement and achieving future goals. The main body includes a SWOT analysis of the student's skills and abilities, identifying strengths (communication skills, assessment skills, management skills), weaknesses (time management, critical thinking, innovative skills, certain academic subjects), opportunities (assertiveness skills, creative skills), and threats. The plan then outlines the student's goals, focusing on time management, presentation skills, and communication skills, emphasizing their role in future success. The PDP also establishes personal objectives for after graduation, including the development of creative and innovative skills, cooperation and coordination skills, and imagination skills. The conclusion reiterates the value of a PDP in personal skill development, self-assessment, goal setting, and achieving long-term objectives. The document is well-structured and includes references to relevant literature.

Portfolio Part B

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Analysis........................................................................................................................................1
Setting Goals................................................................................................................................2
Personal Objectives......................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERFENCES..............................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Personal Development Plan refers to a plan in which there is an identification of various
types of areas where improvements can be made effectively and efficiently (Jefferies, 2018).
Creation of such a plan is helpful for a person to make sure that the goals and objectives in the
future can be attained. This plan helps a lot in reflecting back on the personal experience and
ensuring that a person is able to attain the desired goals and objectives in the future without
facing problems and issues. In this plan, there will be a detailed focus on Analysis, Setting Goals.
Additionally, specific analysis on Personal Objectives will be made as a part of this project.
MAIN BODY
Scenario- I am a student who is studying in West London University in Business
Management Course. I want to make a Personal Development Plan because it will help me a lot
in ensuring my personal development in the future.
Analysis
For the assessment of the Personal Skills and Abilities it is necessary that a Personal
SWOT analysis can be carried out (Lejeune, Beausaert and Raemdonck, 2018). The analysis
specific to my abilities is as follows-
Personal SWOT analysis
Strengths Weaknesses
 I have sound communication skills
which help me in communicating in the
right manner with my teachers as well
as the classmates to make sure that
goals and objectives can be attained.
 I am able to analyse and interpret well
which helps me in making the right use
of my knowledge to attain the specific
goals and objectives.
 I am not good in Time Management
skills because I think that I am not able
to manage my time well and thus this is
affecting me a lot in the future.
 I am not able to develop my critical
thinking and problem-solving skills
because I am not able to identify the
way these abilities are required to be
developed.
Opportunities Threats
 I have an opportunity of ensuring that I  I am weak in certain academic subjects
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can develop my assertiveness skills to
make sure that people can pay attention
when I speak.
 I have an opportunity of enhancing my
creative skills so that I am able to
ensure that I can use my creative ideas
in a highly effective manner.
which affects me a lot as I think that I
have a lot of work to do in these
subjects.
 I am not able to develop my innovative
skills which affects me a lot as it affects
my personal development in the future.
Skills developed during the course-
 Management skills- As I am studying Business Management Course in the university I
think that I have developed sound management skills which are helpful for me in
ensuring that I manage my requirements properly.
 Assessment skills- By studying Business Management Course in the university I can
make sure that I can assess the different types of requirements related to my academic
course properly. This will help me a lot in the future.
Setting Goals
Goals is the process for future and desired results which company and people makes plan
in order to achieve it (Selepe, 2018). Goals helps people for achieving success through the
roadmap. It provides roadmap to students for completing their tasks at the time of graduation and
job. I am as the student of business management my goals helps me to completing my course
with the success, which helps me for getting better job. Goals can be various types it can help in
make better future. These are time management, presentation skills, communication skills etc. I
am setting goal for improving my skills which helps me for achieving success in the future. Time
management skills helps me for completing tasks effectively and efficiently which helps me for
future for managing various tasks. Presentation skills helps me for presenting my thoughts and
works in front my professors and seniors. Better communication skills are important in
organisation for presenting own ideas, creativity in front of my seniors which helps me for
achieving success. Communication skills are important for transferring information to one
department to another, one to other. As management student I am setting goals so that I can
improve my skills for achieving success in future. As goals helps for shape the future. As the
goals time management, s]presentation skills, communication skills helps me ensure that my
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goals are realistic, success is possible. These goals are realistic for me because it will helps me
for completing tasks if I want to doing good job my communication skills helps me for
completing tasks. I am the management student if I want to achieve success in the future I have
to set the goals which provides me roadmap for the future success. These goals are helps for
improvement in my skills which helps me for completing realistic tasks for completing them
effectively and efficiently
Personal Objectives
After completing my studies in the university I can make sure that I set out the following
personal objectives to be attained in the future-
 Development of creative and innovative skills- I will make sure that I develop my
creative and innovative skills so that I am able to make sure that I make use of different
types of methods and techniques which will help in achieving my long-term goals as well
as objectives (Utting, 2017).
 Cooperation and Coordination skills- I will make sure that I cooperate and coordinate
by ensuring that the use of different types of needs and requirements can be made
properly. Thus in this way I will make sure that I assess my skills and abilities properly in
the future.
 Imagination skills- I will ensure that by making the use of imagination skills I will be
able to think about the different actions which are required to be taken in the future. This
will help me a lot in taking of right decisions which can be helpful in development of
academic excellence and availing the future job opportunities in the future. Also use of
imagination skills can be helpful for ensuring that I am able to attain the required skills
and abilities to be applied in a proper way.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that Personal Development Plan is required
for ensuring that development of Personal Skills and Abilities can be done properly. A Personal
SWOT is useful for the purpose of performing an audit of own self. By setting different goals a
roadmap can be developed for the future. Also, by setting out Personal Objectives a person can
ensure that long-term goals and objectives can be attained.
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REFERFENCES
Books and Journals:
Jefferies, K., 2018. A Personal Leadership Development Plan for Black Undergraduate and
Graduate Nursing Students. Nursing Leadership (Toronto, Ont.). 31(4). pp.57-62.
Lejeune, C., Beausaert, S. and Raemdonck, I., 2018. The impact on employees’ job performance
of exercising self-directed learning within personal development plan practice. The
International Journal of Human Resource Management. pp.1-27.
Selepe, M., 2018. The integrated development plan as a strategy to empower informal traders:
The case of Thohoyandou. International Conference on Public Administration and
Development Alternatives.
Utting, H., 2017. A case for a personal development plan. Planning News. 43(2). p.26.
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