Business Plan: Personal and Professional Development Report

This report presents a comprehensive business plan, focusing on personal and professional development. It defines these concepts, emphasizes the value of short, medium, and long-term goals with personal examples, and explores how authors, purpose, reliability, and relevance impact source usage. The report includes an evaluation of eight sources used, assessing their author, purpose, reliability, and relevance. Additionally, a detailed personal development plan (PDP) is provided, outlining priority skills such as communication, teamwork, and leadership, along with current ability, target ability, development criteria, time frame, and opportunities for improvement. This structured approach aims to guide individuals in achieving their professional and personal objectives through strategic planning and skill enhancement.

Business Plan and
Evaluation of Sources

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
A business plan is a blueprint developed and constructed in the beginning for making
systematic steps and work with appropriate process for attaining the ultimate goals (Bintani,
2020). The presented report covers aspects like discussion on personal and professional
development, understanding value of short, medium and long term goals. Moving along the
effectiveness of sourcing is examined in context with Authors, Purpose, reliability and relevance.
Also, a personal and professional development plan is constructed as well.
TASK 1
Define the concept of personal and professional development.
Personal and professional development is an ongoing process through which
organisations and individuals meet with the difficulties and engage in processes and activities to
make changes and learn better for meeting with desired goals and reducing the challenges being
faced. The personal and professional development enable the individual as well as the
organisation to move further and leads their direction towards success (Brundiers and Wiek,
2017).
Describe and discuss the value of short term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples.
The value of short term goals in context of personal and professional development is
significant enough for making immediate changes required and working towards the desired aim
to be fulfilled in short run (Lejeune, Beausaert and Raemdonck, 2018). Three major short term
goals for personal and professional development are:
 Improving work-life balance
 Improving communication skills
 Improving critical thinking skills
Describe and discuss the value of medium term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples.
The value offered by development of medium term goals for personal and professional
development to an individual and to organisation is purposed for successful achievement of on
going aims and objectives of the individual or the business in the most effective and efficient
manner (Rimmer, 2018). These skills enable in keeping learning continuous and regular

according to the changing dynamics and developing environmental factors. Some medium term
goals for skill development are as presented underneath (Gotea and Bódi, 2017):
 Improving team working skills
 Learning Conflict management
 Increasing self motivation and enthusiasm to work
Describe and discuss the value of long term goals identifying at least 3 personal examples.
The long term skills development and management in context of personal and professional
development is reflected to increasing value for future goals by inducing skills sets, capabilities
and performance strength of business or an individual (Katz and et. al., 2020). The long term
goals are developed with futuristic approach and some of the personal examples are as follows:
 Developing leadership skills
 Developing management skills
 Problem solving skills
TASK 2
Describe and discuss how ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ affect the use of a
source.
The sources used for referring the work and judgements made by using others work and
ideas needs to be relevant and reliable as well as requires to be from expert professional in order
to give evident responses for the purpose it is being used (Yielder and Moir, 2016). In simpler
words, the references and sources used are necessary to be from a reliable author, matching with
the purpose of the conclusions and judgements made and needs to be relevant to the users
expectations. The main purpose to so is to first stay safe form committing plagiarism and for
making the information evident, factual and trustworthy (Grit, 2019).
TASK 3
Write an evaluation of eight sources used in the report plan.
SOURCES AUTHOR PURPOSE RELIABILITY RELEVANCE
1 Katz, N. H.,
Lawyer, J. W.,
Sweedler, M.,
Tokar, P. and
In a new and
significantly
expanded third
It is book written
by an expert and
published.
Learning and
Skill
Development

Sossa, K.J., 2020 edition, Communi
cation & Conflict
Resolution Skills
renders practical
applications for
heighten
communication
and personal or
professional
leadership
powerfulness.
2 Yielder, J. and
Moir, F., 2016
The introduction
of a new domain
of learning for
Personal and
Professional
Skills.
The article is
copyrighted.
Personal and
Professional
Skills by Portfolio
3 Brundiers, K. and
Wiek, A., 2017
success depends
heavily on
professional skills
in effective and
compassionate
communication,
collaborative
cooperation, or
impactful
stakeholder
appointment,
among others
The article is
written by experts
with varied
experiences in
professional skill
development.
Beyond
Interpersonal
Competence
4 Gotea, M. and Development of The article is Development of

Bódi, D.C., 2017 Professional
Skills
written by
professionals with
relevant skills.
Professional
Skills
5 Lejeune, C.,
Beausaert, S. and
Raemdonck, I.,
2018
The work is
forcing the
purpose of
changing
companies
approaches to
learn and
develop.
The article is
reliable as it is
copyrights by the
intellectual
organisation.
Personal
development plan
and practice
6 Grit, R., 2019 The purpose
which is reflected
in the book is the
need for people
learn and develop
further for
moving further in
career.
It is book which
proves its
reliability.
Managing
competencies
7 Rimmer, A., 2018 Working on your
personal
development plan
can seem like a
daunting task and
the article is
developed to raise
awareness for the
same.
The article is
written in
reflection by three
experts.
Preparation of
personal
development plan
8 Bintani, K., 2020 The purpose of
the article is to
The article is
written by
Personal
Development

make students
understand the
need and
importance of
PDP while
upgrading in
learning stages in
school.
corresponding
author.
Plan as a
Guidance and
Counseling
Strategy in
Higher Education.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bintani, K., 2020, August. Personal Development Plan as a Guidance and Counseling Strategy in
Higher Education. In 2nd International Seminar on Guidance and Counseling 2019
(ISGC 2019) (pp. 18-22). Atlantis Press.
Brundiers, K. and Wiek, A., 2017. Beyond interpersonal competence: Teaching and learning
professional skills in sustainability. Education Sciences, 7(1), p.39.
Gotea, M. and Bódi, D. C., 2017. Development of Professional Skills in Social Work through
Programs of Educational and Support Supervision Case Study-Hospice" House of
Hope" Brasov. Revista de Asistenta Sociala, (2), p.41.
Grit, R., 2019. Managing your competencies: personal development plan. Routledge.
Katz, N. H. and et. al., 2020. Communication and conflict resolution skills. Kendall Hunt
Publishing.
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.
Rimmer, A., 2018. How do I prepare a personal development plan?. Bmj, 363, p.k4725.
Yielder, J. and Moir, F., 2016. Assessing the development of medical students’ personal and
professional skills by portfolio. Journal of medical education and curricular
development, 3, pp.JMECD-S30110.

APPENDIX 1 – PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN (PDP)
Personal Development Plan
PRIORITY SKILLS CURRENR
T
ABILITY
TARGET
ABILITY
DEVELOP
MNET
OPPORTU
NITIE
CRITERIA
TO JUDGE
TIME
FRAME
Priority 1 Communica
tion skills
Average High To go
through
varied
communicat
ion practices
and
workshops
and learn
the specific
aspects of
the skill.
Take
feedbacks
form friend,
colleagues
and family
members.
3 to 6
months
Priority 2 Team
working
skills
Average High By engaging
more in
team
working
tasks and
work with
more people
for attaining
a common
target.
To ask for
feedbacks
form
subordinates
and other
team
members.
6 to 8
months
Priority 3 Leadership
skills
Low High To make use
of
Taking
feedbacks
Approximat
ely in one

knowledge
of experts
and
professional
like seniors
for seeking
understandi
ng and
knowledge
of the skills
and using
journals to
take in
theoretical
knowledge.
and being
criticised
form seniors
and
managers in
workplace.
year