University Report: Personal and Professional Development in BMP3001

This report explores the concepts of personal and professional development, analyzing the importance of goal setting and planning. It defines personal and professional development, highlighting their roles in achieving career goals and improving skills. The report discusses the value of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, providing personal examples for each. It emphasizes the significance of a personal development plan (PDP) as a tool for self-assessment, goal setting, and tracking progress. The report includes a detailed discussion on the construction and application of a PDP, demonstrating how it can be used to outline aims and objectives for professional development, including university career goals. The report also covers the methods of developing skills, resources, and target dates for achieving the goals. The report aims to provide a structured approach to personal development, enabling individuals to assess their skills, set realistic goals, and create a roadmap for achieving their professional aspirations.

BMP3001 Academic Skills
and PDP

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Concept of the personal and the professional development........................................................1
Value of the short term goals with some personal examples.......................................................2
Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples......................................................................................................................................3
Description and discussion of the value of long term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples......................................................................................................................................3
Describe and discussion on the personal development plan........................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are the concept of behaviors of the study habits, management of the time
and the strategies for the learning tools helps to learn effectively. Personal development plan is a
planning process of creating the action plan that is based o the goal settings, value etc for the
personal development to effectively achieve the career goals (Definition of 'academic', 2021). In
this report discussed about the personal and the professional development, short, medium and the
long term goals and the personal development plan.
MAIN BODY
Concept of the personal and the professional development.
Personal development is a process for the lifelong. It is an activity that consists for the
development of the person’s skills, abilities and qualities to achieve the aims and the goals and
helps to build the potential. Personal development helps to be proactive and changes according to
the actions. It helps to contribute for the success and the satisfaction in the life. Personal
development can be improved by improving the self improvement in the skills. It helps to give
the clarity of to the personal vision, existing skills can be sharpens, helps to identify the hidden
talent in individual, helps to motivate and satisfaction in individuals ability, helps to build client
and the employee confidence (Carbonie, Guo, and Cahalane, 2018). To manage the personal
development personal vision is set, panning is done for the personal development, different ways
are set to develop the existing skills and learn new skills, then keep the record of the personal
development so that the it helps to identify the areas to be improve and last process is to review
and revising the personal development plan so that the goals and the vision are to be achieved.
Personal development helps to improve the overall development of the individual by develops
the talents, facilitate the employability, improves the quality of the life.
Professional development is an ability to improve the knowledge, skills, capabilities and
the qualities from the training, formal education, advanced learning that is professional to help
the teachers, administrators and other administrative. It is an effective tool that helps to identify
the situation. Professional development includes various approaches for the development like
consultation, coaching, communities of the practice, reflective supervision, mentoring, lesson
study and technical assistance. For the educators the professional development has a wide range
of the topic to develop and formats according to solely funded by the employee individually. The
duration of the programs of the professional development can range between minimum to an
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hour of the day to period of the one year or may me more. This is depend on the content to be
delivered and the certification that is to be awarded (Duboust, and Knight, 2018). This program
can be delivered online or face to face. Professional development helps to develop the skills that
are technological, analytical and the quantitative that helps to measure the student performance
and helps to modified the strategies for the programs of the academic and the techniques of the
teaching. Professional development helps to gain the gap between the academic and the
professional knowledge that skills required for the successful employees.
Value of the short term goals with some personal examples.
Short term goals are set to achieve the goals of the near future. The near future means can
be achieve today, in a week, month or within a year. This goal is something that can be
accomplish soon. Short terms goals are to be small but can be help to complete the long term
goals by achieving in small goals (Shibankova, and et.al., 2019). It helps to set the focus and
identify the next steps to be taken and check the progress in the right directions.
Short term creates the value in achieving the goals and set the career by minimize
procrastination. It helps to understand the path of the success by focusing on the one thing at a
time. This focus helps to build the productivity motivating and achieving the lone term goals
effectively. It is the foundation of achieving something greater. It also have many importance
includes it helps to create the effective strategies, keep focus on the goals to achieved, monitor
the routine work so that if the wrong or the different activity is done against to achieve in the
long term is to evaluate, helps to build up the productivity so that effective and the efficient work
is to done, the time management is understand by completing the task I the specific period of the
time, improving the knowledge, experience and skills that are used in achieving the short term
goals and helps to improve in the corporate culture by improve the competence among the
colleagues, build the confidence in individual by achieving the goals and from them get
motivated to perform with same enthusiasm to achieve the long term goals and build the
effective career and it also helps to overcoming from the barriers that are came in achieving the
long success and in career by achieving the short term goals (Misra, 2018).
Short term goals are important to achieve with the target and for the effective career goals
some of the short terms goals set by me is to improve my written skills and English by joining
the professional course for the 2 months, complete my post graduation degree in the span of the 2
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years and learn the digital marketing course in a 6 month to learn the effective marketing
strategies for the online promotion and Search Engine optimization.
Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples
The mid-termgoals are achieved in three to five years and they are considered better than
the focusing on the long term goals as the long term goals are likely to demotivate at some point.
Mid-term goals need to be the part of the goal achieving process as they help to stay motivated
during the time the long term goals is achieved. This is because the long term goals require a lot
of time and effort to shoe the outcomes. The goals which are made for the start for the career to
the retirement are called the mid-term goals. The planning of the goals and achieving require a
lot of money. The examples of mid tem goals includes:
 Look for full time job that suits well
 Improvement in the work experience at job
 Enhancing the talents or skills
 Finding and applying for the job that matches the skills.
The individual need to make noticeable changes in mid-term goals each month. The
tracking of the mid-term goals become much easier this way. The mid-term goals should align
with the long term goals and achieving any mid-term goal is a big reason to celebrate as the mid-
term goals is a step close to the long term goal (Vansteenkiste and et.al, 2018).
Description and discussion of the value of long term goals identifying at least 3 personal
examples
The long term goals require a lot of time, effort and planning to achieve the goal. The process
take long time to be accomplished, it completes by years of focusing in the right thing. It
involves the process of graduating, finding a job that suits the individual and working on the job
to acquire perfection (Thew and Sutcliffe, 2018). The motivation, hopes, aspiration and wishes
keeps the moral high to achieve the goals. There are types of long term goals that are:
Career goals- Starting a business and becoming the leader in that field.
Financial goals- Buying a house
Personal goals- Improving the focus
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The long term goals can be achieved by setting measurable goals and breaking the goals into
small steps. The indicators also help in keeping the activities in track for achieving the goals. The
individuals can also get demotivated in the middle of the process as the outcome is talking too
long and the efforts need more aspiration and motivation to keep up. The individual need to
understand that small and steady steps with regular measuring and tracking will help in achieving
the goal. The individual need to learn constantly, be creative and have a mentor to direct when
the goals are not aligned with success (Kluza, 2019).
Describe and discussion on the personal development plan.
Skills to be developed Developmental plan resources Target Date
Writing skills and
English
My level of skills in
this area is low, my
writing skills and the
English is not good
and want to improve
to achieve the good
max in the
examination and
fluent English helps to
present well in the
future in the
professional life
(Pham, and Mullin,
2021).
Baisov, A.S., 2021.
The effectiveness of
the method talk for
writing in developing
writing skills of efl
students. Academic
research in
educational
sciences. 2(2).
By June, 2020
Completed Post
graduation
Completed my post
graduation, so that it
helps to build my
knowledge deeply in
each context of the
subjects and
specialisation in one
area of field so that in
Shatto, B., and et.al.,
2019. Experiences of
Master's Prepared
Clinical Nurse
Leaders at Three
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future the professional
life is to be easy and
effectively.
Nursing. 35(1). pp.51-
56.
Digital marketing
course
With the increase of
the digital world all
over in the world want
to build up my digital
knowledge with the
digital marketing and
the Search Engine
optimisation, the
social media
interaction, content
writing, Pay per click
and the different
marketing techniques
so that it helps to
know the new trend
and the technology to
use in learning the
things theoretically
and practically
(Brown, Sacco, and
Medlin, 2019).
Saura, J.R., Palos-
Sánchez, P. and Cerdá
Suárez, L.M., 2017.
Understanding the
digital marketing
environment with
KPIs and web
analytics. Future
Internet. 9(4). p.76.
December, 2021
Improvement of work
experience
The improvement in
the ability of the work
through the skills in
me. Using my skills to
improve my working
standards through the
experience in the
Locock, L., and et.al.,
2020. Understanding
how front-line staff
use patient experience
data for service
improvement: an
exploratory case study
December, 2023
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specialised field. evaluation. Health
Services and Delivery
Research. 8(13).
Finding the job that
suits skills
Finding the job that
suits my capabilities,
ability to work, skills
and my qualification
so that all the work
that is to performed
helps to improve my
productivity and the
personal development
and helps to achieve
towards the long term
goals by experiencing
in the best suited
field.
Ra, S., and et.al.,
2019. The rise of
technology and
impact on
skills. International
Journal of Training
Research. 17(sup1).
pp.26-40.
April, 2023
Enhances the skills By working in the
best suited
organisation and
having experience in
this with the effective
and efficient manner
by implementing the
skills work can be
achieved and the
skills can be enhances
by implement on the
practical life of the
profession and gives
the best way to
Anderson, T., and
et.al., 2020. Modeling
therapist responses
with structured
practice enhances
facilitative
interpersonal
skills. Journal of
clinical psychology.
76(4). pp.659-675.
October, 2022
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compete the
colleagues.
Leadership skills By working
experience and
enhancing the
capabilities of doing
the work and the skills
are sharpen want to
became the leader in
the particular field
with the improvement
in the leadership skill
and motivate oneself
to perform well and
lead the team
effectively so that the
organisational goals
and my long terms
goals both are
achieved effectively
and the efficiently.
Chen, M.W. and
Rybak, C.,
2017. Group
leadership skills:
Interpersonal process
in group counseling
and therapy. SAGE
Publications.
April, 2030 (Ashurst,
2017)
Motivating The motivating skills
can be improved by
motivating oneself
first, the motivation
skills can be approve
with the working
experience in the
same firm and
working effectively to
achieve the targets
Tuurnas, S., 2021.
Skilling and
motivating staff for
co-production. In The
Palgrave Handbook
of Co-Production of
Public Services and
Outcomes (pp. 491-
506). Palgrave
Macmillan, Cham.
April, 2030
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easily and this helps
in the long run in
leading the tea and
motivate them that
teams member
personal goal and the
organisational goals
both are achieved.
Improve the focus The improvement in
the focus towards the
work of the
organisation so that
the goals are to
achieved easily
without any barriers,
the focus is to be
improved
(PLANNING, 2018).
O'Neill, K.S. and
Gravois, R., 2017.
Using a Focus on
Revision to Improve
Students' Writing
Skills. Journal of
Instructional
Pedagogies. 19.
April, 2022
CONCLUSION
From this report it inferred that the academic skills and the personal development is
necessary for the development of the individual all this is set by setting the short term, middle
term and the long term goals of the individual from this the personal development plan is set.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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PLANNING, C., 2018. Personal Development Plan.
Brown, M., Sacco, D.F. and Medlin, M.M., 2019. Women’s short-term mating goals elicit
avoidance of faces whose
Carbonie, A., Guo, Z. and Cahalane, M., 2018. Positive Personal Development through eSports.
In PACIS (p. 125).
Duboust, S. and Knight, P., 2018. Group Activities for Personal Development. Routledge.
Kluza, 2019.Elimination of sandbagging behaviour in budgeting process for short term and long
term goal setting.
Misra, P., 2018. MOOCs for teacher professional development: reflections and suggested
actions. Open Praxis. 10(1). pp.67-77.
Pham, H. and Mullin, J., 2021. Classification of Student Developed Annual Goals.
Shibankova, L.A., and et.al., 2019. Institutional mechanisms of university teacher professional
development. Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews. 7(4). pp.1061-1068.
Thew and Sutcliffe, 2018. Value-based requirements engineering: method and
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Vansteenkiste and et.al, 2018.Fostering personal meaning and self-relevance: A self-
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