Academic Skills and PDP Report: Personal Development Goals (BMP3001)

This report, submitted for BMP3001 Academic Skills and PDP, delves into the multifaceted realm of personal and professional development. It begins by defining these concepts and proceeds to dissect the significance of short, medium, and long-term goals, providing three personal examples for each category. The report emphasizes the value of setting these goals as a means of achieving broader aspirations. A crucial segment of the report focuses on the importance of a Personal Development Plan (PDP), illustrating its role in charting a course for academic and professional advancement. The report culminates in a comprehensive analysis of the PDP's utility, which includes examples of its application to the student's identified goals. The structure includes an introduction, main body, conclusion, references, and an appendix containing the PDP. The report underscores the importance of self-assessment, goal setting, and strategic planning for long-term success.

BMP3001 Academic Skills
And PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................................3
Defining the concept of personal and professional development.............................................................3
Discussing value of short term aims and examples of three personal goals.............................................4
Describing importance of medium term goals and 3 examples related to it.............................................5
Discussing significance of long term aims and three examples...............................................................6
Explaining value of personal development plan......................................................................................7
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................8
APPENDIX-1.............................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills refer to set of those abilities that help an individual to achieve greater
success in their life. Each ability or skill they may use in the future to grow their professional
career, even better than the other candidates. The study will explain the concept of professional
& personal development. It will justify the importance of short, medium and long term goals,
with 3 personal examples in each category. Furthermore, the report will clarify the significance
of personal development plan, with constructing PDP by using identified examples.
MAIN BODY
Defining the concept of personal and professional development
Personal development-
It considered as ongoing activity that has been conducted by many people or learners to
assess their life aims and build own skills even better than earlier, which is quite important for
everyone (What is Personal Development, 2021). It is one of the best ways, which enable an
individual to better comprehend own self and unique potentials they already have in term of
skills and capabilities that they may utilize according to situational demand, whether it relate to
personal or professional. Personal development is one of those concepts that gives power to a
candidate to concentrate on increasing their self-awareness, considering at life aims, long
standing ambitions and personal challenges that may affect recently and in the future. The main
reason for conducting practices related to this concept that it helps to assess individual person
key strengths and weaknesses as well, which they take improve in life by using effective and
beneficial methods. Not only this, personal development planning may give lot more advantages
that assist to achieve desire needs and fulfil dreams, which is not that easy for anyone to reach as
it require hard work.
Professional development-
Just like above, professional development is also beneficial and essential for the person
who take initiative to grow their career as an employee, while performing within a company.
This concept it utilizes to refer to a wide variety of formal or informal education or specialized
coaching that may provide by experience holder who have greater knowledge about varied

activities and practices that are beneficial for growth of professional career (What Is Professional
Development and Why Is It Important, 2020). It is implemented as a continuous training and
career education programs, which made a person capable to enter into the world of
professionalism where their hard work, contribution and achievements may be beneficial for a
company and themselves as well. It is important to take part in professional development
planning, because it give the best advantages, which in return provide unexpected outcomes. The
best thing it gave to an individual is an opportunity to learn and apply new skills, as well as
knowledge that help in their job and in the future career. It is all about developing key skills and
understanding base of applicant field.
Discussing value of short term aims and examples of three personal goals
It is fact that short term goals are valuable for everyone as well as beneficial, in term of
providing chance to take one by one steps towards achieving longer one. It defines the clear path
to an individual that they may follow and reach at desire outcomes, which they seek to achieve
from so long. Short term goal make their mind clear about they attempt to gain specific thing that
may be precious for them (Hosseini, Ejtehadi and Hosseini, 2020). It is quite important for
everyone to set appropriate short term goals in their life, because it just require minimum efforts,
but in return provide unbelievable results. It helps to decrease adjournment and lay down a well
define way through which person may reach to better success in career. The best thing about this
kind of goal is that it assists individual to motivate themselves and become a productive person.
It makes their mind active and support to increase productivity. By setting short aim, most of the
learners or individual person achieved their long term goals as quicker as possible, which is not
an easy task to do into practical manner. It is one of the most powerful sources that drive the
attention of a learner towards in the future success and growth, which is quite essential for them
to achieve at any cost.
3 examples of my personal short term goals-
 I want to improve my time management skills
 I want to develop my communication skill
 I want to get high scores in my next semester
Most of the people in their life set long term goals, without taking initiative to set short,
which may lead to became a reason behind their failure. It is important to set short term goals, as

it let person know what they may start to achieve short success that help to reach at bigger one.
With these aims, a person may understand for they attempt from longer time and it assist to make
their dreams come true. Each short term goal provide better solution related to in the future
issues that a person may overcome by applying valuable techniques that exit in the world and has
been utilize my may people.
Describing importance of medium term goals and 3 examples related to it
These aims are as important as short, because of varied reasons. For example, it gives
opportunity to person in term of setting many mid aims over the course of their lifetime. It can be
said that by setting medium term goals individual may obtain unpredicted success in their life,
within short term duration. The best thing about mid goal is that it provides outcomes within two
to three months, which may define its value in human life. It actually gives enough duration to
make significant growth (The Importance of Mid-Term Goals, 2021). It keeps individual person
much productive and never give chance to demotivate themselves, which is really quite
necessary for them to concentrate on. With midterm goals, a learner is capable to make
recognizable progress on these within every few weeks or so, which may make them simpler to
track more than long term aims. These forms of goals are valuable, as it helps to make person
closer to their future aim that may take much time than now. It slowly moves individual towards
unexpected outcomes, which they never think to achieve so easily.
My personal mid-term goals-
 I want to develop team working skill
 I want to get higher education in well reputed university
 I want to save money to buy a new phone
These forms of medium term goals a person may achieve, when they set these in systematic
manner after analyzing own their needs, expectations, etc. It gives them power to think about
future and consider what they want to be and what need to achieve in term of their dreams. It can
be considered as simple way through which long run way may be identified. Medium term goals
may recognize as valuable and useful resource. Another benefit of these aims that it gives
opportunity to remold when a person wants, by thinking for further success and growth. It
provides maximum advantages from all the efforts and hard work. Without these, it is extremely
difficult for a person to grow in personal as well as professional life. Mid-term aim enable them

to stay motivated, competitive and hard working. It never let them feel loser or failure, which is
the most important thing about it.
Discussing significance of long term aims and three examples
A long term goal is important as short and medium, because it give individual person
strength or power to strive for where they want to be and allow to keep concentrate on these
things. It may assist to shape their life and career as well, in progress manner, which is quite
difficult to do so. By setting long term goals a person may grow their career towards unexpected
level, where they may achieve whatever they want, in term of new job, a house, care or anything.
It drives mind towards constantly thinking about future after achieving short and mid-term aims.
It helps to remind how all of their attempts that a person has put into reaching their short goals
may finally pay off (The Importance of Setting Long-Term and Short-Term Goals, 2019). By
setting and having long term goal an individual may obtain varied benefits for example it they
may make decisions more comfortably, and achieve something greater than last few years or
months. Furthermore, it may make their life more exciting and happier than ever, for which
everyone seeks to made in this world. It contributes to drive focus on person towards thinking
about education they will want and about what profession which they may choose in the future
after considering and analyzing its demand in the business world.
My person long term goals-
 I want to develop my interpersonal skills
 I want to work as executive marketing manager
 I need to establish my own business
Long term goal setting may help to trigger new skill, behavior and also guide to concentrate
on where a person is now and where they want to in the future. It is the best tool that help
guiding to make right and helpful judgment. It gives greater aim or purpose for doing something
new and unique. Along with these advantages, long term goals also provide better understanding
about vision, and mission objectives, for which a person may efforts a lot and find out the most
effective techniques. With these aims, a person never feels less productive, it makes them active
and creative as well as allow to be one who take initiative to become a creator or successor.

Explaining value of personal development plan
Personal development plan is important to develop for an individual person or developer
that seek to develop or improve certain skills, knowledge and capabilities for gaining current and
in future benefits related to academic and professional career (Bintani, 2020). It provides benefits
in term of enabling them to have a personal mission and vision, which give a clear idea as to
where & what person may be in the next few years. It is beneficial and essential for everyone
who want to grow. It works as an effective and valuable tool that assist individual in their
professional career and personal development as well. The main motive of personal development
plan is to make person capable to achieve short, medium and long term goals. It encompasses
they activities which define areas related to development and improvement, key assets that a
person may use to reach at desire outcomes and time frame.
CONCLUSION
By summing up above discussion, it has been summarized by taking initiative to use
appropriate approaches, methods and techniques under personal development plan, individual
has achieved their set aims. They have obtained desire outcomes in effective manner.

REFERENCES
Book and Journals
Bintani, K., 2020, August. Personal Development Plan as a Guidance and Counseling Strategy in
Higher Education. In 2nd International Seminar on Guidance and Counseling 2019
(ISGC 2019) (pp. 18-22). Atlantis Press.
Holmes, A., 2020. A two-way street; enhancing professional services staff engagement through
effective career planning, development, and appraisal. Perspectives: Policy and Practice
in Higher Education. 24(1). pp.35-38.
Hosseini, H.M., Ejtehadi, A. and Hosseini, M.M., 2020. Flipping Microlearning-Based EFL
Classroom to Enhance Learners' Self-Regulation. Language Teaching Research
Quarterly. 20. pp.43-59.
Online
The Importance of Mid-Term Goals. 2021. [Online]. Available Through:
https://retireby40.org/importance-mid-term-goals/
The Importance of Setting Long-Term and Short-Term Goals. 2019. [Online]. Available
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What is Personal Development. 2021. [Online]. Available Through: <
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What Is Professional Development and Why Is It Important. 2020. [Online]. Available Through:
https://www.webce.com/news/2020/07/16/professional-development

APPENDIX-1
Skills to be
Developed
Development Plan Resources Target Date
Time management I want to develop this
skill, because it help me
to achieve my short and
long term goals by
completing my work on
time and give time to
focus on in the future
growth.
In term of resource, I
will create a plan and
reconsider my daily
work. Furthermore, I
will also take
suggestion from
experience persons.
20 month
Team working Along with above, I also
want to enhance this skill
as well. It enables me to
perform in a team of
people who are taking
initiative to achieve
common aim and work
for the same. I will use
this ability in my
academic and employee
career.
As a key resource, I
will take part in
training workshop,
where experience
trainers provide
coaching related to
areas which a person
may develop or want
to improve.
1 month
Interpersonal skill It is actually quite
important for me to
develop my interpersonal
skills because it help me
to open and sustain my
own business with skilled
workers.
I will take specific
course for it or use
internet.
8 month