BSc (Hons) Business Management: Personal Development Report BMP3001

This report, submitted for the BSc (Hons) Business Management with Foundation course, focuses on personal and professional development. It begins by defining these concepts and then explores the value of setting short, medium, and long-term goals, providing personal examples for each. The report emphasizes the importance of academic skills in achieving career success. A significant portion is dedicated to discussing the value of a Personal Development Plan (PDP), which is included in the appendix. The report highlights how a PDP helps individuals identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement, ultimately aiding in achieving career goals. It also addresses the significance of skills like communication, decision-making, and time management in personal and professional growth. The report concludes by summarizing the key takeaways and emphasizing the importance of continuous self-assessment and development.

BSc (Hons) Business Management with Foundation
BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 2
Report on Personal Development
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
1. Definition of the concept of personal and professional development................................3
2. Description and discussion of the value of short term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples.................................................................................................................................4
3. Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals identifying at least 3
personal examples..................................................................................................................4
4. Description and discussion of the value of long term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples.................................................................................................................................5
5. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development Plan.........................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................7
APPENDIX 1.................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are the skills that are collection of learning strategies, study habits as
well as time management that help individuals to study and learn in an effective way. With the
help of good academic skills students is able to take effective decisions and become successful in
career (Steves, 2019). In this report there is discussion related to personal and professional
development. It is vital for a person to formulate and set the goals. So in the report there is
discussion related to short term, medium term are long term goals that help the individual to
achieve goals and objectives. It is vital to formulate PDP so it is attached in the end. Along with
that value of Personal Development Plan is discussed in this report.
MAIN BODY
1. Definition of the concept of personal and professional development
It is vital for an individual to decide the about the career option. It is seen that with the
help of personal and professional development an individual can achieve its goals and objectives.
The aim behind personal and professional development is to manage the growth and learning
throughout the career of the student. It is vital to know about the skills that are required by the
student that will help in growth of the student. It is a plan that helps in development of an
individual and helps to accomplish the desired goals (Thurston, 2019). It helps the student to
grab opportunities that will contribute to bright future of the student. It helps to form goals that
help in development of the student and having good future ahead. It will be beneficial for the
student to know about the student and self evaluation of the person so that there is problem in the
future. A good personal and professional development plan helps the individual to work in a
direction and to achieve the goals and objectives.
It helps the individual to know about the career that the person wants to choose.
Then set objectives that will help in achievement of career goals in an effective manner. It will
help the student to attain all the goals on time. Each and every person should know about the
skills that they are lacking and they need to improve so that all the work in completed on time.
There are some areas that the individual needs to focus on and that help them in their personal as
well professional growth. Those are as follows emotional, social, physical, mental, and cerebral.
By focusing on all these areas an individual can attain its growth in both professional as well as
personal path.

2. Description and discussion of the value of short term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples
If a person known about its strengths and weakness. It is seen that it helps to achieve the
goals that the person wants to accomplish. It is vital in the life of a person to set the short term
goals. As they are small steps that help the individual to achieve what they really want to. It is
vital for an individual to know about these steps and goals that make their path clear. These steps
are helpful to achieve the long term goals. They are like path for achieving the long term success
of the individuals. As it is important to learn on daily basis and that helps in overall learning of
the individual (Manasan, 2020). As there are various challenges that come in path of an
individual so with the help of these short term goals these challenges can be overcome. There are
less chances of distraction in case of short term goals. It is easy to state that short term goals are
the goals that should be achieved in shorter time duration. So the benefit of these goals in
accomplished early. They are the basic development plans that are needed by the student at the
current point of time and are helpful to achieve the long term goals of the person. The examples
of short term goals are as follow:
 To complete the work as per deadlines
 Enhancing writing skills
 Being punctual
3. Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples
These are the goals that are set for generally longer duration of time then the short term
goals. They are also helpful is achieving the long term goals. They are somewhere related to the
short term goals that are set by the individual. It will help in creating a path to achieve the career
goals for the student (Baasner, 2020). They are also helpful and important in the life of a student.
The goals should be set in a realistic way and there is need of more efforts to achieve the success.
It is vital to achieve the goals in an effective and efficient manner. The examples of medium term
goals are as follows:
 To become multi-tasking person
 Take on e-learning courses that will help in personality development.
 Learn to communicate softly and in an attractive way.

4. Description and discussion of the value of long term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples
Long term goals are the goals that the person wants to accomplish in life. These are the
goals that are helpful to achieve the career goals. They are for longer duration of time and will
help an individual and it is vital to know about the long term goals and work in an effective and
efficient manner to achieve these goals. The previously achieved short term and medium term
goals will helpful for the individual to achieve the success. It is vital to know about the career
and then form the goals and objectives (Belkum and et.al., 2019). The long term goals that a
person sets play a vital role in the life of that person. A person should be care full as well as
attentive while deciding upon the goals. As it is the career path that they want to achieve. They
are more valuable than all the other goals that are part of a person’s life. As the future activities
are dependent on the goals that are set as long term goals. The examples of long term goals are
as follows:
 To learn effective management skills
 To do a course of management and get a good job
 To enhance by knowledge and skills
5. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development Plan
A personal development plan is a framework that helps an individual to know about the
areas that are strong as well as that are weak. It vial for a person to know about the limitations as
well as strong points. As it helps to achieve the career goals in an effective as well as efficient
manner. It is like an action plan in which the skills are mentioned that helps in growth of an
individual. It helps to know about the skills that need development as well as the way through
which the person can achieve the goals and objectives (Zhang, Zhou and Wu, 2019). A person
can strongly develop a personal development plan that is helpful is achieving the goals and
objectives related to career in an effective way. It clarifies the vision of a person and then the
individual can work in the same direction to achieve all the goals as well as objectives. It is like a
vision for a person. It is vital for all the people to formulate a strong action plan that has skills
that need development along with that it also has the actions that help in development of the
individual. By knowing about the personal strengths and weakness a person is able to work in an
effective manner.

For PDP refer Appendix
CONCLUSION
From the above file it can be summarized that it is important for an individual to learn about
the skills that play a vital role in their life. It is important to know about the strengths as well as
weakness that need to be worked upon so as to become a good and successful person. In this
report there is discussion related to personal and professional development. Along with that there
is formation of short term, medium term as well as long term goals that will an individual to
achieve goals and objective related to future on time. In the end on the report there is personal
development plan of an individual that helps to enhance the skills that are required by a person.
Along with that actions are also written that help to achieve those goals.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Steves, B., 2019. HR Excellence in Research Award: Internal review report (2017-2019).
Thurston, C., 2019. Continuous professional development (CPD) and revalidation. Transition to
Registered Practice: From Student to Qualified Nurse, p.147.
Manasan, R.G., 2020. Government budget and the Sustainable Development Goals: the
Philippine experience. United Nations, ESCAP.
Baasner, S., 2020. Implementation of Measurable and Sustainable Actions to Improve
Employee’s Engagement and Business Performance: Global Medical Clinical & Regulatory van
Belkumand et.al., 2019. Developmental roadmap for antimicrobial susceptibility testing
systems. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 17(1), pp.51-62.
Zhang, C., Bi, J., Zhou, Y. and Wu, J., 2019. HyperVDP: High-performance virtualization of the
programmable data plane. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 37(3), pp.556-
569.
Davari, M. and Bertino, E., 2018, June. Reactive access control systems. In Proceedings of the
23nd ACM on Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (pp. 205-207).
Brones, F., Zancul, E. and Carvalho, M.M., 2020. Insider action research towards companywide
sustainable product innovation: ecodesign transition framework. International Journal of
Managing Projects in Business.
APPENDIX 1

Learning
target
Present
proficiency
Target
Proficiency
Importance How to develop
Communicatio
n
skills
5 10 It is vital to note that to
become a good
manager there is
requirement of good
and effective
communication skills.
As communication
skills are must interact
with people that are
working in the
organisation (Brones,
Zancul and Carvalho,
2020). It is vital to note
that the communication
skills are required at
each level of work.
In order to enhance my
communication skills I
will read book, novel.
Along with that I will read
about role plays and learn
how to interact with
people. I will taker regular
feedback from my teachers
as that will also help to
know about my mistakes
and learn to communicate
in an effective manner.
Decision
making Skills
6 10 It is seen that decision
making skills are
required by an
individual so as to take
effective decision. It is
vital for an individual
to have good and
effective decision
making skills. It is seen
that an employee faces
various challenges that
can solved with the
help of good decision
I will start meditation as it
helps to keep our mind
active and take effective
decision. It is important to
note that by practicing also
I can improve my decision
making skills.

making skills.
Time
management
skills
7 10 I am not that bad at
managing time. I am a
punctual person but
sometimes I face
problem in managing
time. It is seen that
completing the time as
per the deadlines is
important. It is vital for
a person to complete
the assigned task in
time.
To enhance my time
management skills, now I
will form a schedule and
will use that to complete
the work that is assigned to
me within the deadlines.
Writing skills 5 10 It is vital to note that
there is requirement of
good writing skills that
helps to complete the
work that is assigned. It
is seen that there is
need of writing e mails
and various tools to
communicate in a
formal way. It is
important to take care
of good writing skills.
To enhance my writing
skills I will take online
classes and try to learn to
write in an effective
manner as it is important at
the time of job.
Problem
solving skills
4 10 It is seen that while
working in an
organization there are
various conflicts that
take place (Davari and
Bertino, 2018). It is
It is seen that to enhance c
communication skills there
is requirement of taking
guidance from teacher as
the mentor can help to
learn to solve gthe

being analysed that a
person should be able
to solve these problems
so as to achieve good
impression.
problems that take place.