BSc (Hons) Business Management: Personal Development Report

This report, submitted as part of a BSc (Hons) Business Management program, delves into the concept of personal and professional development. It defines personal development plans (PDPs) as self-assessment tools for skill enhancement, outlining the value of short, medium, and long-term goals. The report provides personal examples for each goal type, illustrating their significance in achieving individual objectives. It emphasizes the importance of a PDP in organizing and managing an individual's future growth, including the development of skills and knowledge. The report also touches upon professional development, highlighting the importance of continuous improvement in educators' skills. Ultimately, the report underscores the crucial role of PDPs in fostering personal skills and achieving predefined goals effectively.

BSc (Hons) Business Management with
Foundation
BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 2
Report on Personal Development
Submitted by:
Name:
ID:
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Contents
Table of Contents
1. Introduction...............................................................................................................3
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional development.......................3
3. Description and discussion of the value of short term goals identifying at least 3
personal examples .......................................................................................................4
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals identifying at least 3
personal examples........................................................................................................4
5. Description and discussion of the value of long term goals identifying at least 3
personal examples........................................................................................................5
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development Plan..............6
7.Conclusion.................................................................................................................7
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1. Introduction
Personal development plan is the self assessment plan which is used by the
individual, it consists some set of activities which are carried for the development of
the individual. To increase the skills and abilities of the individual personal
development plan is build. This is the plan which help a person to build up the
effective and detailed development plan (Kathol and et.al., 2018). Developing
individual personality traits with the help of engaging the activities which increase the
skills and knowledge. In the following report consist the concept of professional and
personal development plan. Further it include the short term, medium term and long
term plan and a detailed personal development plan is implement in the respect to
enhance my skills and development.
2. Definition of the concept of personal and professional
development.
Personal and professional development is frequently also termed as
continuous professional development that creates individual ability therefore
determine their knowledge and ensures them to participate in plans of action and
enjoy life events. It includes the conventional and unconventional activities for
creating others in character as per their roles. It may also involves the ability
development and temperament. It is a process defined by various substantial
conditions. In the method of practising personal development it involves personal
development techniques and leadership system, instruments and technology. As per
the enquiry, personal development framework targeted to goals or benchmarks that
indicates the points at the end. Their targets to measures and assessed the plan of
action, that evolves the level of phase with a developing outcome. The feedback
program helps to give arrangement on modification. It is a macroeconomic concern
in which there is alternative set of thoughts of idea, creativity factor includes for
various concern relationship formats of operating. Personal development also allows
to participate in workshop and activity sessions create mentally and intensify
differentiated skills and it involves techniques and synthetic ability. Professional
development includes the educator development and betterment of their skills to
satisfy the need of individual. Formulation to professional development involves the
review of their analysis, references, mentoring, assistance and coaching. In this
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process coordination and estimation take place to alter educators to ensures the
positive report of outcome. These personal and professional development plan are
helpful for organising and managing the success of an individual in the future growth.
3. Description and discussion of the value of short term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Short term goals are the ones who are set for the achieving the targets in the near
future. The meaning of near future is within few days, few week, and even two or
three months. Short term goals minimise the delay. This type of goals are lay down a
clear and individual path which define the success. The short term plan will help the
person to stay motivated and keep them productive. There are some procedure and
steps which are set by an individual who wants to complete their desired goals
(Lestari and etal., 2020). These type of goals also essential for the business
activities to complete the assigned special targets in the specified time period. These
type of goals are helpful for the company and for employee as well, because these
type of goals are clear, precise, specified as well. To know the value of the short
term goals, it is important to set them in such a manner that the employee can
complete the goals on daily or weekly basis. To know the growth, it is easy to
maintain the journals for growth of an individual and make strategies to overcome
the issues in the organisation. These type of objective are in between three to six
weeks. Furthermore, these short term goals are helpful in achieving the medium-
term and long-terms goals. These objectives can be achieve through usual time
tracking and by trying to retain the focus on the specified objective.My short term
goals are-
 Improving my communication skills and enhance my abilities within 4 weeks.
 Try to make the balance in my professional and personal life.
 I try to design the aims which are helpful for enhancing my critical skills.
4. Description and discussion of the value of medium term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
A medium-term goals are the best as it is long enough to make the significant
process whereas its short enough that they can able to change the person
completely by the time to achieve the goals. This type of goals complete the need for
short term goals as sometimes short term goals not able to get the sufficient time to
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accomplish them. This type of goals make the bridge for the gaps of daily activities
and long term goals (McGuinness and Ludwig, 2017). Another importance of the mid
term goals are that anyone can set these goals over the course of the time. The
value of medium term goal is so important as they made after completing studies,
secured a job and when an individual try to make the professional life. For the
company prospective the medium-term goals are more than a year but less than five
years. Once the objective is set use all the strategies which are naturally left up to
the person towards the desired goals. These type of goals are not so long or not so
even shorts. In the medium-term goals, it is suggested by the many theorist to use
the thousand-day rule (Petrie and et.al., 2021). The thousand-day rule help many
organisation to reduce the barriers of failure of individual or the company.
Furthermore, the medium-term goals are to maintain the growth and achievement of
the objective which are useful for individual and professional level. Mid term goals
are using by the individuals to work in the changing environment and various factors
which are affect the growth of the individual or business both. Medium-term goals-
 Acquiring the skills which are helpful in fast decision-making.
 Having the approach to solve the problems.
 Build up the skills which are useful for team building.
 Increase the motivation and improve my potentials to work in the new and
dynamic environment.
5. Description and discussion of the value of long term
goals identifying at least 3 personal examples
Long term goal tends to those objective/ aim which take long time in order to
get complete. The minimum times time required for that is 2 years. For which
number of milestones are opt in order to attain the process of achieving of long term
goal (Randall, Edelman and Galliers, 2017). This is basically used by those individual
who are planing to get success at higher level and mostly used by those individual
who are working in an organization with the aim of determining the desire for building
aim. For this it is vital to prepare a plan or time table for achieving goals. Significance
of long term goal can be understood with an example such as for an individual who
are working in a large organisation need to understand goal or objective of company
for achieving success. In addition to this, it is also vital that individual is financial
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capable or not in order to achieve that goal as these goal work for long times. So for
this it is important to have financial support along with backup at beginning of long
term goal (Rajagukguk and Latief, 2020) . For the accomplishment of long term goal
there is also requirement to take necessary steps such training & education with
relevance to personal development plan. Such types of training are vital & useful for
the accomplishment of task or goal. Some of the examples of long term goal with
respect to an individual are as follow:
To pursue high education: To become a successful man it is vital to get
knowledge and experiences according to the interest. As it makes my to become self
independent and take decision about right and wrong. As well as this the initial step
of accomplishment of my another long term goal. When I go appropriate skills and
knowledge then only I will able to jump to next step of long term goal. This goal I
wish to complete within 3 years.
To become an entrepreneur: After getting experience and knowledge about
how to run an organization what are the skills needed to start a new business, I wish
to become an entrepreneur as it permits to get an opportunity to gain livelihood
during real passion of becoming a successful businessman. By this I will have so
many opportunists to enjoy the life. I known it is little bit risk but is it offers me
happiness if I am the boss of your own. As well as make be different from other
people who are standing with me. I wish to complete this long term goal within 3-4
years.
To buy our own house for my family: When I become an entrepreneur, my
nest long term goal would be to buy a new house for my family. This I wish to
complete within next 5 years. For this I have to learn how to do savings while fulfilling
my all medium & small goal.
6. Description and discussion of the value of a Personal
Development Plan.
Personal development plan can be defined as a process that is needed for the
accomplishment of goal either, small, medium or large by making improvement with
the help of strategies, skills & knowledge. An individual apply this to oneself through
number of activities for the personal growth. This is considered as the initial step of
accomplishment of any kind of goal. It help an individual in number of areas like
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improve personal skills, experience & knowledge. With the assistance of such type of
plan, a person will able to mange and take their own decision for becoming a
successful person. It provides direction and path to people for securing goal &
managing time (Plan, 2018). In relevance to this there are primarily seven main
category for personal development plan, which relies on skill development. It
comprises, personal skill- required to develop the level of individual, Personal
growth- implies improvement in yourself, for which it is vital to step out from their
comfort zone and need to work under some circumstances. Next class is personal
power, tends to contacts known by an individual. Further, Personal improvement- for
developing excellent habit of work with positive mental attitude. Fifth category is
personal empowerment- refers to creation of positive reputation and making positive
mind for itself. Last one is personal analysis & objective- defines goals that are
required to work in developing short, medium & long term objective (Shin and Biocca,
2017) .
7.Conclusion
From above discussed report it has been analysed that PDP become a crucial
part of an individual life for improving personal skills & development. So that all
predefined goal will be achieved in effective and small time frame. There valuation is
assessed with the help of some personal examples that makes smart personal
development to increase skills & knowledge. PDP is important to save time and
mange it for achieving goal. Personal development plan is always designed objective
in appropriate manner for successful execution.
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8. Reference List
Books & journals
Kathol, R.G., and et.al., 2018. Care Plan Development, Barrier Reversal, Patient-Centered
ICM Performance, Graduation, and Outcome Analysis. In The Integrated Case
Management Manual (pp. 191-206). Springer, Cham.
Lestari, S., and etal., 2020. E-Gov Master Plan (Case Study: XYZ City). International
Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 24(2).
McGuinness, D. and Ludwig, C., 2017. Developing a neighbourhood plan: stories
from'community-led'planning pathfinders’. Localism and neighbourhood planning:
Power to the people. pp.95-111.
Petrie, J.R. And et.al., 2021. A post COVID‐19 ‘Marshall Plan’for type 2 diabetes. Diabetic
Medicine, 38(1). p.e14439.
Plan, F.F.Y., 2018. Geographic index. Education, 56. p.9.
Rajagukguk, S.A. and Latief, Y., 2020. Development of Safety Plan Based on Work
Breakdown Structure to Determine Safety Costs for Building Construction Projects.
Case Study: Lower Structure Building. Journal of Computational and Theoretical
Nanoscience, 17(2). pp.934-945.
Randall, C., Edelman, L. and Galliers, R., 2017. Ambidexterity lost? Compromising
innovation and the exploration/exploitation plan. The Journal of High Technology
Management Research, 28(1). pp.1-16.
Shin, D.H. and Biocca, F., 2017. Health experience model of personal informatics: The case
of a quantified self. Computers in Human Behavior, 69. pp.62-74.
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Appendix 1: Personal Development Plan
Skills to be
Developed
Development Plan Resources Target Date
Improve
communication
skill in order to
increase my
ability &
capability
The level of competency area is short term
plan. This is very important skill that are
important to have in an individual. As it
helps an individual to accept all challenging
task and give them strength to speak
confident.
With the help of my friends and
teachers as well as by reading
some books on regular basis I
will improve this.
I wish to complete this my
short term goal within 4
weeks.
Acquiring skills
that help me to
take effective
decision.
It is vital to take effective decision while
working in an organization in order to
achieve organizational goal within small
time.
With the help of this book
“Weygandt, J.J. et.al.,
2020. Managerial Accounting:
Tools for Business Decision-
Making. John Wiley & Sons.” I
will iprove my this skill.
I need to complete this in 8
months as it is my medium
term goal.
To become an
entrepreneur
This is my long term long when finished my
study,i would like to become an
entrepreneur. It permits to get an
opportunity for gaining livelihood during real
passion of becoming a successful
businessman. As well as makes me happy
By pursing higher level
education for learning skill
required to become an
entrepreneur.
I wish to complete this long
term goal in 4 years as my
education take 3 year to
complete for learning
needed skills.
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and differentiate from my other friends and
surrounded peoples.
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