Business Student's Personal Development and Planning Report Analysis

This report presents a personal development plan (PDP) created by a business student to assess their current skills and plan for future professional growth. The introduction emphasizes the importance of PDPs for self-exploration, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and enhancing unique characteristics. The report focuses on key study and employment skills, including communication, conflict resolution, time management, and self-control. A skills audit is conducted, identifying strengths in time management and weaknesses in conflict resolution and communication. The PDP outlines learning objectives, development opportunities, and target dates for improvement in areas such as communication, conflict solving, time management, health and safety, self-control, and teamwork. The report also includes a detailed plan with objectives, resources, and monitoring methods. This report is a valuable resource for students seeking to improve their personal and professional skills. The report is written on reflection basis in order to analysis major strength and weakness as a business student. This report cover the areas for development and avenues for improvement. It covers the personal development and planning of business student.

PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT &
PLANNING REPORT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Key study and employment skills ............................................................................................1
This is my PDP ...........................................................................................................................4
Curiculam vitae...........................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Personal Development Plans are also considered as individual development plans that are
very crucial for present as well as professional planning. Continuous personal development can
be best achieved only with the help of plan of action that includes all the details of aspirations
across several areas. With the help of personal development plans the learns are able to conduct
self explorations and simple disclosure. Learns are able to identify several stages of their
personality along with the personality. Learners are able to enhance their unique characteristics
and share their experiences with others. The main importance of the personal development and
planning is that it helps individual to accept one's personal strength and limitations and recognize
the importance of self knowledge as crucial tool for team building and character formations. This
report mainly emphasis about employment skills . This report is written on reflection basis in
order to analysis major strength and weakness as a business student. This report cover the areas
for development and avenues for improvement. It covers the personal development and planning
of business student.
Key study and employment skills
As a business student I need to effectively enhance my study skills as well as professional
skills to become competent to others. Being a business student I need to develop my soft skills
that will enhance my ability to interact and communicate positively with my subordinates or
team members. Moreover, to sustain well in any organisation for long time duration I need to
emphasis as well on my hard skills that mainly involves with the specific job oriented skills,
technical skills and academic skills etc. This hard skills are mainly measured by performance,
tests or quizzes (Bauer, 2010).Soft skills allows individual to work and share their thoughts with
others while hard skills allows individual to attain their specific targets by focussing on
accomplishment. Both soft and hard skills are required by the business student in order to work
effectively in the organisation along the retention. To identify personal strength and weakness it
is important to develop proper personal development plan to improve those areas that are
important and expected by employer to work effectively in the organisations.
Personal Development Plan
Personal Development Plan is a continuous method that can allow me to identify my own
strength and weakness so that according to demand and requirement of organisation. With the
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help of personal development plan I will be able to determine well about various areas in which I
need to take training for developing my KSA that is knowledge, skills and attitude. Personal
development plan allows me to identify my strength and weakness to perform my duties and
responsibilities well at the organisations(Hamza, 2010)I have designed a personal development
plan in order to determine my own strength and weakness. This personal development plan also
covers the process through which skills and abilities of mine can be well developed. I can attain
at high position while working in organisation by achieving opportunities through this business
plan.
Learning objectives along development opportunities
Serial
no.
Learning
objective
Current
proficien
cy
Targeted
proficien
cy
Development opportunities Time
scale
1 Strong
communication
4 5 As a business student I need to work
and enhance my communication
skills. I have to deal with various
employees and stakeholders while
working in the organisation. In order
to manage well with my subordinates
I have to improve my
communications skills. In this regard
I sometimes fails to influence others
that is having different culture. For
this, I need to work under the
supervisor in order to improve my
communication.
2 to 3
months
2 Conflict solving 2 5 In very organisation different culture,
beliefs and thought employees works
due to there is more chances of
conflicts among the employees
regarding working style or different
3 to6
months
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thoughts. In this regard, It becomes
difficult for me to handle the conflicts
and my behaviour becomes unethical
sometimes. In order to overcome
from this situation, I need to study
some case study regarding conflicts
handling. Moreover, I need to attend
some session that will help me to
solve conflicts among the workers
and employee in the organisations.
3 Time
management
4 5 Time management is most crucial
essential skills that helps an
individual in conducting various
specific tasks in given time frame. In
regard to this, I am quite good in
managing time for each and every
task. I am quite effective in getting
right work of employees within
period of time interval. For this
process, I use to provide good
guidance to employees related to
roles and responsibilities so that they
can attain and complete their work on
time without any errors.
1 to 3
months
4 Health and
Safety
3 5 Health and safety is crucial to provide
protection against risk and hazards
that is caused while handling
machinery. For myself I need to work
on health and safety standards to
avoid occupational hazards and
1-2
months
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maintain healthy, safe and hygienic
condition in the industry
5 Self-control 2 5 Self control is required to handle the
complex situation in the organisation.
For myself I need to emphasis more
on my self control to handle well the
complex situation.
1-2
months
6 Team work 3 5 Team work allow to reduce the stress
level on an individual and the tasks
accomplish more easily. For myself, I
prefer to work in team in order to
achieve organisational goals.
2- 3
months
7 Confidence 2 5 In order to work in the organisation
and take important decision
confidence is required. For myself, I
need to generate more confidence to
take decisions.
1-2
months
Strengths: As per above personal skill audit, it has evaluated that time managerial skill of
mine shows major strength through which I am able to take quick decisions related to business.
Weakness: According to analysis, it has also seen that I am too weak in solving conflicts
of employees and engage them in group task. Along with this, in making effective interaction
with employees of different culture also comes as barrier in influencing employees to follow
policies of business(Black and Plowright, 2010).
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This is my PDP
OBJECTIVES:
What do I
want/need to
learn?
What resources or
support will I
need?
(reading,
shadowing,
coaching,
project, formal
training, other)
What would be
the hurdles in
achieving my
goals
How the progress
will be
monitored?
(workshop
feedback, class
feedback, tutor
feedback, by
applying to work
etc)
Target dates for
review and
completion
Rules and
regulations
In order to work
smoothly in the
organisation I
have to follow all
the rules and
regulations that is
implemented by
the organisation.
By formal
training it will
become easy for
me acquire all the
rules and
regulation that is
implemented in
the organisation
Sometimes due to
high work load it
becomes
impossible to
follow every rules
and
regulations(Cook
e, 2012).
I have to
implement all the
rules and
regulation in
order to maintain
good working
environment in
the organisation
along with
discipline. This
can be achieved
collecting
feedback after the
conduction of
workshop on
rules and
regulations
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Multi tasking
skills
In order to
become multi
tasking at
Due to lack of
time management
I am not able to
My progress in
concerned with
the multi tasking
05/12/18
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workplace I need
to work on
different tasks
and
responsibilities
that is required by
the organisation. I
need to work on
different
assignment and
projects to handle
the different tasks
manage and work
on different tasks.
skills can
monitored well
with the help
tutor feedback.
With the
availability of
tutor feedback I
will be able to
emphasis on those
areas in which I
need
improvements.
Communication In order to work
effectively in the
organisation with
less conflicts I
have to work on
communication
skills . For this I
require to attend
proper training
programmes in
concerned with
communications
skills .
Due to introvert
nature I am
unable to interact
well with my
subordinates. This
nature creates
hindrance in
communication.
My
communication
skills can be
monitored well by
collective
feedbacks from
my mentors and
tutors.
09/12/18
Self-control Self control is
very important
while working in
the organisations.
In order to
In concern with
self control, my
emotional nature
creates hurdles in
achieving my
In order to
maintain my self
control at
workplace
feedbacks from
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maintain this I
need to attend
some sessions of
sensitivity
training. This
sensitivity
training will help
to control my
feeling that
includes
emotional feeling,
anger etc.
goals and
objectives in the
organisations.
my subordinates,
seniors and
mentors will help
me to analysis my
self control.
Adaptability Adaptability is
one of the most
important skill
that is required by
individual to
sustain and adopt
the working
environment of
the organisation.
In order to
develop the
adaptability it is
crucial for me
undergo training
and informative
workshop session
to enhance my
adapting skills.
Lack of
cooperating
environment and
training session I
am unable to
adapt the
changing
environment.
To enhance by
adaptability skills
I need to work in
the changing
environment. I
need to adopt new
technology,
methods and
technique to work
effectively in the
organisations.
15/12/18
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Through Personal development planning I am able to become better learner. Personal
development plan allows me to learn more about myself, my strength and weakness and how I
can manage it for self benefit. I am able to hone my skills, knowledge along with skills for
professional and personal growth. With the help of personal development plan I am able to
evaluate my progress in concern with my knowledge, skill and development. I have become
more self reliant and have become more aware about my own potential. Through personal
develop planning I have gained a clear focus on my learning and it helps me to keep myself
motived. By reflective thinking skills it becomes easy for me to strengthen my academic
performance as well.
An updated CV for the business student is mentioned below:
Curiculam vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Name: XYZ
Address : 16th Street, United Kingdom
Phone No. - 234561809
Profile summary: MBA with marketing with 4 year of experience of hospitality industry. I
want to work with an organisation where I can have career development opportunities and
which will help me to increase my knowledge and skills.
Specialisation:
 Good at salary negotiation Giving satisfaction to the customers by handling needs and desires
Educational qualification: -
 Bachelor in Business Administration. Masters in Business Administration.
Declaration:
I hereby declare that the above knowledge and details about me is true according to the
certificates issued by the university.
Date : December 03th ,2018
Place : United Kingdom
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CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above mentioned report that personal development plan along
with the personal skill audit allows an individual to better understand the learning along with the
improvement. It is also concluded that continuous personal development can be best achieved
only with the help of plan of action that includes all the details of aspirations across several
areas. With the help of personal development plans the learns are able to conduct self
explorations and simple disclosure.
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