BMP3001: Report on Personal and Professional Development Planning

This report presents a comprehensive analysis of personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of setting short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. The report details the author's approach to enhance skills and knowledge, and provides a structured plan for career advancement. Task 1 focuses on defining personal and professional development, and the setting of specific goals with timelines. Task 2 analyzes the author, purpose, reliability, and relevance of sources. Task 3 provides a detailed table of sources including books and journals used for research. The conclusion summarizes the key takeaways and reinforces the significance of continuous development for a successful career. Furthermore, the report includes appendices with a skills development plan, including the skills needed, how to develop the skills, the time duration, and the resources required.

BMP3001 Academic Skills and
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Task1................................................................................................................................................3
1. Personal and professional development..................................................................................3
2. Short term goals.......................................................................................................................3
3. Medium term goals..................................................................................................................4
4. Long term goal.........................................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1
APPENDICES.................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
In this report, personal and professional development skills are shown that help to
enhance skills and knowledge through preparing short term, medium term and long term plans.
Therefore, ways in sources are affected through authors, purpose, relatability and relevance.
Lastly, it shows the personal development plan for the same.
MAIN BODY.
Task1
1. Personal and professional development.
Personal development is the life long process and asses the skills and quality consider
aims in personal life and set goals in order to maximize their potential. It enhances the
confidence and help to face the challenges in confidences. These skills help to face society and
community with respect gain through their personal qualities.
Professional development include developing yourself in a manner to understand the job
and to improve the quality of work. It enhances the necessary skills that to work in an effective
manner to preform certain task during the job role. These skills help person in face the
professional world and to communicate with other in confidence that shows the quality, skills
and knowledge of person towards certain thinks.
2. Short term goals.
The short terms goals help person to stay focus on one thing at a time and motivated for
competition of task. These goals are those goals which need to be accomplished within short
period of time. To develop this skills time period within 4-6 months that need to be developed
and learned effectively to perform to achieve the certain tasks.
For example:
1. To learn advance excel within 6 months after graduation complete.
2. To develop the skill of effective communication skills with group and higher level person
within 1 month
3. To develop Presentation skills for presenting presentation in office of my work within 2
months.

3.Medium term goals.
Medium terms goals offers the between long term and short term goal and can be
completed with sufficient time period. Medium term goals are between the time period of 1 years
to 5 years that are performed to gain the long term goal of person in life.
For example:
1. Looking for suitable jobs to enhance my career.
2. Gaining work experience of 2-3 from the job.
3. Increase skills and knowledge through study or from job.
4.Long term goal.
The long term goals take significant plaining, time and efforts of person to accomplish
the final goal of life. These goals are career oriented and necessary for self-improvement. These
goals take time to achieve and keep focus on developing skills, knowledge and experience help
to person to achieve the ultimate goal.
For example:
1. To become a successful business person in life.
2. To get a degree from top business collage like Harvard university.
3. To open an NGO.
TASK 2
Author If the author is not appropriate a related to the topic or aim can impact in achieve
the objectives. The author should be known and having a good credential of there research and
work. Purpose includes the fact and opinion of author toward the research, biasses of author
toward the topic can affect the sources. Reliability can impact through the time period of sources
taken for the research. If the author source is used for before 10 year which was not reliable for
the current situation and time or different type of information is included. However, relevance
shows the authenticity of sources that is being used, content involve primarily opinion of a
balanced to for the resources.
TASK 3

Sources Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
Book Bintani To know about
personal
development
The source was
published in
2020 and
include all recent
data.
The author is
authentic and
can be used.
Book Von Heupt It mentions
professional
development
that need to be
known.
As it shows
reliable sources
on selected topic
the training and
development.
This content
matches the
topic include all
the resource
which need to be
known.
Journal Ndubuka, Rey-
Marmonier
To know about
te short term
goals of students
The authors
show the
sustainable
development for
students to
manage
education
As, UK case
study involve the
for managing
studying and
develop new
short term skills.
Book Lee and et.al To known about
short term goals
that can be
change.
This book shows
the change and
stable in short
term goals for
students to gain
profile.
It shows the
related points
that are required.
Book Roseand et.al To know about
medium terms
goal of a student.
This show
medium terms
goals like
language
proficiency
academic skills
These are
medium term
goals that are
used for higher
eduction.

and motivation,
Book Verner-
Filionan
d et.al.
It shows long
term goal that
are passionate
for career.
This Book
shows the long
term goals of
students that are
passionate and
pursuit long term
goal.
The author
stated the
required points
that need to
followed by
students for
there long term
goal.
Journals Deschamps and
Mattijs
Sustainable goal
setting in larger
scale.
The Journal
shows about the
larger scale for
students in life
that can be set
through long
term goals.
It helps student
to know about
the bigger
picture of long
term goals.
Journal Stone Opportunity
through online
learning to set
the target goal.
The journal state
about the online
learning which
assist student to
set the ultimate
goal in life.
It shows the
relevant and
related points for
making long
term goal.
CONCLUSION
From the above report is concluded that personal and professional development for a
person very important and short, medium and long term goals are set to gain the skills and
knowledge to enhance the career path for living better life in society. It also assists person to
bring confident and effective communication skills are gained.

REFERENCES
Books 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.
Deschamps, C. and Mattijs, J., 2017. Sustainable goal setting: a large-scale case in management
practice. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management.
Lee, Y.K., and et.al., 2017. A short-term longitudinal study of stability and change in
achievement goal profiles. Learning and Individual Differences. 55. pp.49-60.
Ndubuka, N.N. and Rey-Marmonier, E., 2019. Capability approach for realising the Sustainable
Development Goals through Responsible Management Education: The case of UK
business school academics. The International Journal of Management Education. 17(3).
p.100319.
Rose, H. and McKinley, J., 2018. Japan’s English-medium instructiarge-scale case in managon
initiatives and the globalization of higher education. Higher Education. 75(1). pp.111-
129.
Rose, H., and et.al., 2020. What drives success in English medium taught courses? The interplay
between language proficiency, academic skills, and motivation. Studies in Higher
Education. 45(11). pp.2149-2161.
Stone, C., 2017. Opportunity through online learning: Improving student access, participation
and success in higher education. Perth: The National Centre for student equity in higher
education (NCSEHE), Curtin University.
Verner-Filion, J., and et.al., 2020. Passion and grit in the pursuit of long-term personal goals in
college students. Learning and Individual Differences. 83. p.101939.
Von Heupt, N., 2017. Creating a continuing professional development plan. Training &
Development. 44(6). pp.16-17.
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APPENDICES
Skills needed to
develop
How to develop required
skills
Time duration Resources
To learn advance excel To develop my skill in advance
excel, online training program,
internships and workshops are
need to be attained and use for
better hands on experiences and
6 Months Online training
courses,
Internships,
mentor to solve
mu problems.
1

in depth knowledge.
To get a job for
experience
To find a job according to skills
and to get experience from a job
for minimum 2-3 years to gain
new experiences, knowledge
and skills.
2-3 years A suitable job to
enhance the
skills and build
future career.
To become a successful
Businessman
This required many work
experiences, confidence, skills
and knowledge to management
the business things which can
develop through working
experience in successful start-
ups.
More than 5 years Working
experience,
confidence, idea
for start-up and
also fundings.
2