BSc Business Management BMP3001 Academic Skills PDP Report

This report, submitted for the BSc (Hons) Business Management program, focuses on the principles of Personal Development Planning (PDP). It begins by defining the concept of PDP and discussing the value of short, medium, and long-term goals, providing personal examples for each. The report then emphasizes the benefits of PDP, including how it helps clarify goals, inspire skill improvement, and evaluate performance. A PDP example is constructed, outlining goals, objectives, resources, and target dates. The report further examines how author, purpose, reliability, and relevance influence source usage. Finally, it includes an evaluation of eight sources used, assessing their author, purpose, reliability, and relevance within the context of PDP and academic skills. The assignment adheres to the structure outlined in the brief, including definitions, discussions, and source analysis.

BSc (Hons) Business Management with
Foundation
BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 1
Written Report Plan and Evaluation of
Sources
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Task One:
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Concept of personal and professional development
A PDP help individual to set career goals and objectives and also provide framework
to attain it. Besides that, it is useful in improving required skills, knowledge and
experience in individual for job role or profession. With that it is easy to continuous
improvement in that. The main concept of PDP is to develop future skills. also, what
work out what you want to achieve and how to achieve it.
Discuss value of short term goals and give 3 examples
These are goals which are stepping stones in attaining long term goals. Here, long
goals are broken down into short ones so that it can be easily attained. The time
period of these goals are usually, 1-3 months. They are having a great value is PDP.
It is because it helps individual to move ahead in life and career easily by attaining
these goals. 3 examples are :
Working as per schedule
Buying a new mobile
Maintain discipline
Discuss value of medium term goals and give 3 examples
The medium goals are those which are developed on basis of long term goals. It is
because they are related to both short and long term goals. Moreover, it increases
individual morale and confidence to achieve long term goals. The time frame of goals
are 6 months to 1 year. It makes easy to person to accomplish long goals by
progressing ahead. Thus the examples are
Learn Spanish
Improve leadership skills
Improve decision making skills
Discuss value of long term goals and give 3 examples
They are the most important goals. it is because these are last goals which a person
wants to accomplish. it allows to work more hard to achieve this. moreover, time
frame of goals are 2-4 years. These goals encourage person to pursue their dreams.
When medium and short are attained then person focus on these goals. therefore, 3
examples of goals are :
Buy a 2BHK flat
Become a leader
Become a manager
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Discuss value of PDP and develop PDP
PDP is highly useful in many things. It allows person to progress in his or
her career, move into further education, actions to learn new skills and
knowledge, etc. in addition PDP is also useful to overcome weakness of
individual in terms of profession. Besides the value are explained as:
 It gives a clarity about goals, skills, knowledge, etc. that is to be
gained.
 It inspires person to improve skills by aligning them with career
goals.
 PDP also shows what action is to be taken to pursue long and
short goals.
 It also helps in evaluating performance with help of self evaluation.
Goals Objectives Resources Target date
Improving the
communication skills
To learn both verbal and
non verbal communication
method so that effective
and open communication
can be done.
To get the proper
training regarding he
development of
vocabulary with the help
of internet sources and
helps of the tutors.
3 weeks
Decision making To take effective decisions
both in personal and
professional aspect.
By reading case studies,
watching movies, etc.
2 months
Time management
skills
To improve this skill to
balance professional and
personal life.
By developing schedule 1 month
Task Two:
How ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ affect the use of a
source
There are certain elements of source which need to be considered as it ca highly
affect on its use. Thus, they are described as
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Author- A good source will have complete name of author in that. Also, it will include
details about what author qualification was.
Purpose- this helps to find out that why that source was done. It means what is
reason behind that and whether it is relevant or not.
Reliability: It helps in checking whether that source is reliable and information within
it can be trusted or not. It enables to understand whether information within the
source can be verified from another source or not.
Relevance: It can be checked by analysing target readers of that source and to
understand whether that source is appropriate or not.
Task Three:
Evaluation of 8 sources
Sources Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
1 Gould, It shows how
PDP is
developed
It is taken from
book
It shows
format and
way of PDP.
2 MacCosham,
and Gravelle, Gives model
for long and
short term
goals.
It is taken from
Google
scholar
How short and
long term
goals are
formed.
3 Maguire, and
Blaylock, Helps how
PDP is
prepared.
It is taken from
article.
How PDP is
developed.
4 Quirke, Helps how
PDP is
prepared.
It is taken from
article.
How PDP is
developed
5 Roth, How career
action plan is
developed.
It is taken from
book .
How action
plan is
developed
6 Rubens, and
Leah, How
professional
career plan in
MBA is
developed
It is taken from
Google
scholar
How
professional
career plan is
formed.
7 Voronina, ,
Kungurova, and
Slizkova,
How
leadership
skills are
developed.
It is taken from
article.
What are ways
by which
leadership
skills can be
gained.
8 Williams, and
Cui,
How course
development
plan is
It is taken from
book.
How in
education
course plan is
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developed developed
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References:
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