BSc Business: BMP4001 Personal Development Portfolio Submission

This personal development portfolio, submitted as part of the BSc (Hons) Business Management BMP4001 Professional and Academic Skills Development module, includes a self-reflection on personal learning and development, focusing on transferable skills. It details the student's approach to personal learning, the skills developed through the module, and the skills they expect to develop in their academic, personal, and professional lives. A personal development learning log documents activities and learnings related to language skills, decision-making, and leadership. The portfolio also features an action plan for achieving specific learning and development goals, and a CV summarizing the student's qualifications and experience. The document concludes with a list of references used.

BSc (Hons) Business Management
BMP4001
Professional and Academic Skills Development
Personal Development
Portfolio
Submitted by:
Name:
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Contents
1.0 Self-reflection on personal learning and development, and the transferable skills...........2
1.1 Approach to personal learning and development...........................................................2
1.2 Transferable skills developed by attending this module.................................................2
1.3 Skills expecting to develop during my academic studies, personal life and the
workplace...............................................................................................................................3
2.0 Personal development learning log.....................................................................................4
3.0 Action plan...........................................................................................................................6
4.0 CV.........................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9
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1.0 Self-reflection on personal learning and
development, and the transferable skills
1.1 Approach to personal learning and development
Personal development refers to a process of creating a series of steps that
are undertaken to develop skills, knowledge and abilities of a person with specific
purposes, aims and goals to achieve in academics, profession or personal life.
Personal development is a very important part of the growth activities within a life
that helps to achieve certain skills, abilities and knowledge for achieving their goals
in optimum manners. It requires improvement and development of certain
transferable skills that are helpful in achieving the goals with better knowledge (Blair
and et. al., 2018). Some of the personal development activities may include
increasing the performance of an individual by utilizing and developing good
communication, problem solving, critical thinking, leadership, time management etc.
to achieve success in personal, professional and academic lives of an individual. The
following report will present various competencies and skills that are required by an
individual for achieving success in their academics and professional career.
Moreover, it will describe approaches to personal learning and development, various
transferable skills and those scales that are required for academic, personal and
professional success. It will also explain about the personal development process
that could be helped in improving the learning activities with the help of an
improvement log. In the end it will provide an action plan for gaining specific learning
and development for achieving the desired goals and objectives effectively and
efficiently. This learning and development plan will improve the skills, abilities and
knowledge of a student to achieve academic and professional success.
1.2 Transferable skills developed by attending this module
Self-learning or personal learning and development is helpful to improve the
learning and development process by gaining specific skills and knowledge by
identifying transferable skills. Transferable skills are those skills that are commonly
required to perform various activities effectively and efficiently and these are always
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carried on from one place to another by an individual (Brown, 2018). These skills
always exist within a person wherever they may go because these skills do not die
and are carried by the person along with them. I developed many transferable skills
by attending this module that is elaborated below.
 Communication skills: It refers to the ability of an individual to interact and
transfer data by exchanging information with others in a precise manner that
gives a particular meaning in a correct sense. During the module I determined
various processes that I must undertake to develop ideas into clear thoughts,
thoughts into words and then elaborating those words in a clear, precise,
efficient and effective manner that could be understood to others.
 Technical skills: These skills refer to those scales that are required for
dealing with the technological aspects in our lives (Jansen and et. al., 2021).
During my academic course work and while attending the module I learnt
about the use of internet technologies, like cloud computing, digital platform,
web data etc. and the use of computer systems like Microsoft, calculator etc.
that can be helpful for extracting and processing useful information.
 Conceptual skills: Conceptual skills can be defined as the know-how about
the concepts and theories in the practice that can be helpful to improve the
performance. It can be compared to the theoretical knowledge that I have
gained from the module work and various concepts, facts, models etc. that
can be helpful for getting better results. I developed knowledge about various
concepts, frameworks, models and theories that can be helpful in improving
the performance and creating best results for academic and professional
development.
1.3 Skills expecting to develop during my academic studies,
personal life and the workplace
It is very important to acquire certain skills, abilities and knowledge that can
be helpful in getting success in academic studies, professional life and personal
space (Mantzourani and et. al., 2022). I expect to develop many skills and abilities
during my academic studies, professional and personal lives that are elaborated
below.
 Professional skills: It can be explained as the knowledge, experience and
skills that are required to get success in a particular field of career or
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profession. The professional skills are very important for getting success in
the professional life and have better chances to get selected or preferred for a
given job role. The professional skills can be helpful to improve my
performance at the work and help me to achieve the desired level of
performance at the workplace to achieve organizational objectives and goals.
The professional skills are required to be developed for securing better
opportunities for growth and development in a chosen career.
 Leadership skills and qualities: leadership can be explained as the ability of
an individual to influence the activities of other people for improving their
performance and engaging them voluntarily for achieving the desired
outcomes, goals, objectives or aims etc. I desire to develop leadership skills
for handling the opportunities to work with the groups by proper motivation,
teamwork, coaching, monitoring, evaluation etc. The leadership skills could be
helpful to improve my performance and the performance of others while
working in a group and maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of the
efforts of individuals (Thomas and Cradduck, 2019).
 Self-reflection: It is a process of examining and analyzing our performance
by evaluating the reasons for difference in desired or predicted outcomes and
the actual outcomes. I think that it could be helpful in developing my skills and
abilities by understanding my critical failures and deficiencies in my work.
Self-reflection is helpful for evaluating my overall performance and provides
ideas or insight for the places for improvement (Pugh and Broome, 2020).
Self-reflection could be helpful to enhance the overall performance by
identifying the problems and eliminating those problems in the performance of
an individual for achieving maximum efficiency and effectiveness of their
work.
2.0 Personal development learning log
Event
Details
Activities of
development
done
Expectations to
learn
Learnings
acquired
Application of
learning
Language/ To learn Learning different Gain little Ability to
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linguistic
skills
different
languages for
eliminating the
language
barriers and
interact
efficiently with
people from
different
cultures.
languages like
German, French,
Spanish and
other languages
in primary manner
for
communicating
and interacting
effectively.
knowledge of
French, Spanish
and German
languages
(Stenard, 2021).
interact with
people from
different
cultures and
regions so that
their needs can
be understood
for creating
better
performance.
Decision
making
Involving in the
decision making
process in the
higher level for
understanding
various methods
of making
correct
decisions for
betterment.
Learning of the
effective tools,
methods,
frameworks and
models for
improving the
decision making
process for
creating better
organizational
performance.
Various
methods like
group
discussion,
common
meeting and
employee
participation can
be utilized for
improving the
decision making
process.
Decision
making can be
helpful to
improve
employee
motivation,
better work
decisions,
increase
efficiency,
create a positive
work
environment
etc. if utilized
wisely.
Leadership Working with
the leaders and
managers within
the organization
to understand
their leadership
practices and
Expected to learn
about certain
leadership
qualities,
specialties,
requirements and
skills that a good
Learned about
specific
leadership skills
and various
leadership
models like
authoritative,
It is applicable
for improving
the performance
of people at the
workplace by
utilizing the
leadership
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abilities for a
high level of
performance at
the workplace.
leader possesses
(Thomas and
Cradduck, 2019).
participate,
liaises-faire,
transformational
etc. to improve
organizational
efficiency.
qualities for
improving their
productivity.
3.0 Action plan
Expectations
to Learn
Resources and
support
required
Tasks to be
done
Measurement
criteria
Target date for
review
Decision
making
Require the
support of team
members,
superiors and
leaders for
improving the
decision making
process.
Taking active
participation in
the group
discussion
making activities,
leader meetings,
superior
consultations and
employee
participation.
Tracking the
performance of
the decisions on a
regular basis and
identifying the
best suitable
decision making
activities.
2 month duration
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Time
management
Effective
scheduling and
planning for
utilizing the
available time
and reducing the
wasteful
activities.
Preparing new
schedules,
evaluating its
performance,
reviewing the
performance,
making changes
and finalizing the
schedules for
utilizing the time
effectively.
Completing the
task on time
before the
deadlines and still
having enough
time for
performing other
activities
(Mantzourani and
et. al., 2022)..
1 day, 1 week
and 1 month.
Working with
teams
Support of the
team members
and participation
in the team
management
activities with the
superiors,
leaders and
managers.
Actively
participating in
the team
management
activities on a
weekly basis for
interacting with
the people from
other
departments and
identifying team
efficiency.
Computing the
performance of
the teams across
the different
departments and
identifying the
best teams and
the reasons for
their best
performance.
Active plan for
weekly
evaluation,
monthly
evaluation and
quarterly
evaluation (Pugh
and Broome,
2020).
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4.0 CV
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RESUME
NAME
Location
Landmark
PIN
State/Country
E-Mail: [e-mail]
Phone:
OBJECTIVE
A intense skilled person with excellent academic results looking for a job with high
chances for enhancing excellence and career growth in future, and willing to
contribute in organizational growth full-fledged manner.
ACAEMIC DETAILS
o PGDM in ……
o Bachelor Degree …..
o Schooling …..
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ACHIEVEMENTS
o Task/Activity:
o Designation:
o Year:
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STRENGTHS
o Decision Making
o Communication
o Leadership
o
MORE INFORMATION
Want to join a position of responsibility with a professionally managed progressive
organization that provides conductive learning and development.

References
Books and Journals
Blair, C., and et. al., 2018. Effect of the tools of the mind kindergarten program on
children’s social and emotional development. Early Childhood Research
Quarterly, 43. pp.52-61.
Brown, L. S., 2018. Soft skill development in the higher education curriculum: A case
study. IUP Journal of Soft Skills, 12(4). pp.7-29.
Jansen, M. B., and et. al., 2021. International clinical placement–Experiences of
nursing students’ cultural, personal and professional development; a
qualitative study. Nurse Education in Practice, 51. p.102987.
Mantzourani, E., and et. al., 2022. Reflections of mentors and mentees on a national
mentoring programme for pharmacists: An examination into relationships,
personal and professional development. Research in Social and
Administrative Pharmacy, 18(3). pp.2495-2504.
Pugh, M. and Broome, N., 2020. Dialogical coaching: An experiential approach to
personal and professional development. Consulting Psychology Journal:
Practice and Research, 72(3). p.223.
Stenard, B. S., 2021. Academic Skill Variety Among Scientists and Engineers.
In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2021, No. 1, p. 14195).
Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.
Thomas, M. and Cradduck, L., 2019. Measuring skill development. In The Art of
Mooting. Edward Elgar Publishing.
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