MN4055QA: Crafting a Personal Development Plan for Success

This assignment presents a comprehensive personal development plan, starting with a personal analysis that identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It then outlines SMART goals focused on improving research skills, problem-solving abilities, and data analysis capabilities. Personal objectives are detailed, emphasizing self-confidence, personal management, interpersonal skills, and addressing weaknesses. The plan also includes reflective learning logs documenting the skills acquired each week, such as academic writing, critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving. This document provides a structured approach to personal and academic development, aiming for future career success. Desklib provides access to a wide range of similar assignments and study resources for students.

MN4055QA
Personal and Academic Development
Assignment 2: Personal Development Plan
Student name
Student ID no.
Lecturer
Word Count

Contents page
Personal Development Plan
Part 1 – Personal Analysis …………………………………………….……….…… p1
Part 2 – SMART Goals …………………………………………………………...…... p
Part 3 – Personal Objectives …………………………………………….……….…. p
Part 4 - Evidence of Reflection
Learning Log A (insert week number) ……………………………………………….. p
Learning Log B (insert week number) ……………………………………………….. p
Learning Log C (insert week number) ………………………………………………...p
Bibliography ……………………………………………………………………………. p

Personal Development Plan
Part 1 – Personal Analysis
Section will extend as you continue writing
The personal analysis section of personal development plan helps an individual in pursuing
their career goals by identifying and distributing their skills into strength, weakness,
opportunities and threats.
Strengths Weaknesses
 Communication skills
 Digital skills
 Teamwork skills
 Research skills
 Data analysis
 Problem-solving skills
Opportunities Threats
 Listening
 Presentation skills
 Critical thinking
 Concentration
Strength: My strengthen skills involve communication, digital and teamwork which make
me unique and apart from others. This skills will definitely going to help me achieving my
career goals. Communication Skills: This is a skill with the help of which I am able to interact
with other such as my tutor, classmates and other in an effective manner (Howlett
and et.al., 2021). This also helps me in building the trust of my assignment teams
when we all need to prepare the project together. Digital skills: This is one of my strengthen skills which is more important than any
other skills because it gives me a competitive edge. This skill will help me in
providing new strategies and approaches to working on any assignment.
 Teamwork skills: The teamwork is a skills which helps me in managing and
collaborating with my teams at the time of group project preparation. This will also
helps me at my workplace in working together with the colleagues and also
facilitating idea generation and creativity (Howlett and et.al., 2021).
Weaknesses: Despite of having various strengthen skills, I also faces challenge and
difficulty at my college because of my weakest skills which I need to develop in my self.
This are as follow: Research skills: I face difficulty in researching the new and unique sources and
information for the purpose of completing my project. I need to develop this skills
to improve my academic writing skill and also to enhance by assignment accuracy
and relevancy. Data Analysis: Analysing the data using the statistical and financial tool is quite
difficult and challenge to me because of the lack of interest. But in order to achieve

good grade in college and to achieve my career in marketing I have to develop this
skill (Dansereau, Hande and Kelly, 2019).
 Problem-solving skills: This is also one of my weakest skills and the impact of
which I am unable to solve the critical situation and their problems. I have to
improve this skill in order to increase my ability and manage my group project
team.
Opportunities: This is a skills which is act as an opportunity for myself and which also
need to be adapt by myself. This involve: Listening: This is a skills with the help of which I am able to listen others problem
and issues. And further able to solve it in order to keep other motivated. Active
Listening also helps me in enhancing my knowledge.
 Presentation skills: The presentation of content with the use of PPT apps and their
smart tools is important to learn and grasp for student. That's why this skill is an
opportunity for my self and I have to adapt it. This skill also help in adapting the
opportunity of determine my career path and finding a job after my course
completion (Hughes, Kinder and Cooper, 2019).
Threats: This part of SOWT analysis helps me in identifying the skills which are threat to
my academic and career growth. This are as follow: Critical thinking: Thinking critically about any situation and information is not my
cup of tea. This might hurts me at the time of semester and annual examination and
increases the chances of hurting my academic grades.
 Concentration: Concentration over a specific task is quiet difficult for me and the
impact of which I always faces delay in my work. This is one of threat skill which
will definitely affect my career. And I have to improve it by moving outside my
comfort zone (Hashemi, Samani and Shahbazi, 2017).

Part 2 – SMART Goals
Goal Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time bound
Example
Finish my
essay by the
end of the
week.
Complete
the
conclusion
of the essay,
check my
work for
errors and
correct them.
Yes. One
paragraph to
write and
1000 words
to proofread
(approx. 3
hours’ work)
Conclusion
is planned. 4
days
remaining
until the
deadline.
Checking
essay will
take an hour
Completing
the essay
will help me
to achieve a
grade for the
course.
Essay
deadline is
Friday at
5pm.
To improve
my research
skills by the
end of
September
2021.
Want to
improve my
research
skills so that
I can easily
research and
find out
necessary
information.
It will be
measured
through
understandin
g how
accurately I
am able to
extract
reliable and
valuable
information
through
conducting
research
(Akhavan,
Shahabipour,
and Hosnavi,
2018).
I have plan
to achieve
or developed
research
skills by 2-3
months.
Through
developing
research
skills I
would able
to gathered
much and
more
information
that can be
useful for
my study
and future
career.
The
deadline of
improving
the research
skills is 15
September.
To work on
towards my
problem
solving skills
for bright
future ahead.
I want to
take steps to
enhance my
existing
problem
solving skills
so that I can
solve
particular
problem or
issue in
limited time
frame.
The
development
of problem
solving skills
can be
measured
through
identifying
whether I am
able to solve
problem or
not. Along
with it the
total time that
I have taken
to resolve the
issue for
The goals of
improving
the problem
solving skills
is achievable
when I am
able to find
good
solution of
existing
problem.
The
problem
solving skills
is useful for
academic as
well as
professional
career as I
am able to
find
alternative
method to
resolve the
same with
limited time
and more
benefits
As per my
view, I will
able to
develop
problem
solving skills
by 6 October
2021.

betterment of
all.
(Burbekova,
2021).
To enhance
my data
analysis and
interpretatio
n skills for
getting
higher
growth and
success in
professional
and personal
career.
I want to
take steps to
enhance my
data analysis
and
interpretatio
n skills so
that I can
easily
analysis and
interpretate
crucial
information
which is
useful for
all.
The data
analysis and
interpretate
skills will be
measured in
terms of the
way I
analysis and
overall time
taken to
complete the
same.
In order to
achieve the
data analysis
and
interpretatio
n skills I will
put efforts to
learn the
way data or
large amount
of
information
are analysed
and
interpreted
so that
useful
information
can be
extracted.
This data
analysis and
interpretatio
n skills is
relevant or
helpful to
me in
completing
my
dissertation
or study
related to
particular
topic so that
I can extract
or gathered
sufficient
information.
Data
analysis and
interpretatio
n skills will
be developed
by 20
November
2021
through
analysis and
interpreting
different
information
in effective
manner.
Stage 3 – Personal Objectives
Section will extend as you continue writing
1. To work on my personal skills likewise self-confidence and discipline and
assertiveness so that I can develop my existing skills and capabilities in order to
complete the task in effective manner. Self- confidence and discipline will help me
in gaining higher growth in professional career as I will be confident enough to
complete particular task in effective manner. Along with it, I will put all the efforts
in more discipline manner that will helpful in getting best outcome ( Bratianu and
Vatamanescu, 2017). Moreover, I have plan to work over my assertiveness skills so
that I can have ability to speak for myself in more respectful and honest way. Thus,
it will help me in putting my point of view forward towards the senior manager so
that they can take right decision.
2. Secondly, my objective is to develop Personal management skills so that I can
easily manage my work, study and life simultaneously without much stress or
negative impact on my physical health and well- being. Through personal
management skills, I would able to manage and have control over my emotions and
can easily complete task and live better lifestyle (Kaźmierczak, 2017).
3. Thirdly, I have objective to Improve my interpersonal skills so that I can build and
retained strong relationship with range of people or work in team for achievement
of common goals. For it I would like to work on my existing communication,

emotional intelligence skills as communication will helps me in effective sharing
the information to other. At the same time, the emotional intelligence skills will
also help me to have control over my emotions and sentiment so that I can work in
team for achievement of common goals.
4. At last I have objective to work on overall all my weakness that is poor problem
solving ability, data analysis and research skills for getting benefits in personal
and professional career. Likewise, in order to overcome my weakness, I will find
alternative method that could be used to solve problem or effectively analysis the
data. Furthermore, to achieve the objective of enhancing my research skills I will
find method and sources through which I can research and get more useful and
fruitful information (Plato, 2018). Thereby, by taking steps to remove weakness, I
would able to gain more advantages as compared to others and make best use of
available job opportunities.
So, all these are major objectives that I wants to achieve so that I can get higher growth
and success in future circumstances and get good employment opportunity in any of the
reputable organisation.

Part 4 – Evidence of Reflection
Learning Log A (WEEK 1)
In the week 1 of Log A, i have learnt the most important skills which help me in achieving
my both academic and career goals. The skills that is learnt from the module are academic
writing and critical thinking. With the help of learning the academic writing skills I am
able to create unique and high-quality content which was not possible by me earlier. I am
also able to critically think and analyse a situation with the help of which I am further help
myself and my other group project members in completing the project and tasks in a best
manner possible (Medland, 2018). By developing these skills on myself I am able to make
a strong and persuasive arguments based on the logics and facts. This will further help me
in achieving the high grades at the time of examination. The week 1 also help me in
learning the basic of presentation by using the smart tools on power point presentation
apps. The critical thinking also helps me defining and analysing problems and also finding
holes and gaps while avoiding the unwanted assumptions on the projects.
Learning Log B (WEEK 2)
In the week 2 of Log B, I have learnt communication and problem-solving skills along
with the way for improving my concentration power. This helps me further improving my
day to day interaction with my tutors and other students. I am now able to ask any question
and give any answer in the crowd without any fear. The problem-solving skills help me in
identifying the different situations and their various outcomes. This is learnt by me by
looking other students actions and understanding how they solve their problems
(Kozikoglu and Onur, 2019). I am also able to understand that concentrating on a specific
task while preparing the big and lengthy assignments helps in enhancing the accuracy and
quality of the whole project. The concentration power further helps me in improving my

self-confidence which must be present in all student to achieve their academic goals and
determine my career path. Because of this module, I am able to peace my mind and able to
focus on various situations at a given point of time which will definitely help me in
achieving my career path in future.
Learning Log C (WEEK 3)
In the Log C of week 3, I have learned numerous crucial things related to team working
and decision making skills that has helped me in knowing the way I can work in team for
achievement of specific goals. This week has helped me in learning the method or
strategies that could be used by individual to work with diverse range of people for better
outcome. Thus, through team working skills I get to know the way I needs to coordinate
with others by avoiding conflict and confusion and having control over my emotions.
Moreover, during this week we have also learn about the decision making skills or the way
decision are taken for benefits of all. It has helped me in understanding that person in order
to take right decision has to put lot of efforts and time (Mendoza, 2018). Therefore, overall
it can be stated that the week has helped in teaching and learning me different skills,
knowledge that are useful for me in present and future career.

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