BMS406: Personal & Professional Development Plan - Semester 2

This report presents a personal and professional development plan (PPD) focused on self-reflection and continuous improvement. It applies models like SWOT analysis and Gibb’s Reflective Cycle to analyze personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The plan establishes aims and objectives for enhancing skills, such as communication and leadership, and outlines activities for personal and professional growth, including work-life balance and time management. The report reflects on the development of transferable skills gained through a business management program, addressing issues and problems encountered during the development process. This PPD plan is designed to objectively identify new goals and outline changes based on self-evaluation, with the aim of achieving academic, personal, and career-based objectives.

PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Personal and professional development.......................................................................................3
Applying models for goal setting and reflection to analyse personal and professional..............3
developments...............................................................................................................................3
Establishing aims and objectives to help in identifying the need for improvements..................5
Activities needed for personal and professional developments...................................................6
Personal and professional development plan...............................................................................7
Issues and problems explored and their impact on planned continuous personal and
professional................................................................................................................................13
development...............................................................................................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is important for the overall goals of an individual for
to get successful in the life. Personal development is all about improving the quality of life or
progressing in the carrier is professional development in life (Chigwedere, 2021). It also includes
developing their own skills and abilities for achieving the goals in life and improving the
efficiency in work for more future advancement. This report is all about applying various models
for setting goals and reflecting or analysing self personal and professional development. Further
evaluation of problem solving and decision-making techniques for improving the skills or
abilities that are needed for the development. Identification of the aims and objectives for the
improvisation of the areas that need improvements and Reflection on the development of
transferable skills through the business management programme.
MAIN BODY
Personal and professional development
Personal development is the developing the overall physical, mental, social, emotional
characteristics or the areas which need improvements. Where as professional development is all
about gaining knowledge through trainings in the jobs or workplace in order to develop the new
skills and to be competitive for achieving its dream position (Benzaghta, 2021). Effective
personal and professional development involves getting experts in the field of carrier for
acquiring new knowledge and skills for more advancement. I assesses for Myself various skills
or qualities that need improvements can be investigate by using various models to know the
strength in which My performance is good and areas in which My performances need
improvements. I used models for knowing my weak areas so that I can achieve My dream jobs or
improve my quality of life.
Applying models for goal setting and reflection to analyse personal and professional
Developments

SWOT analysis
This analysis I used for improving all My weaknesses and threats that creating problems in
my personal and professional life for example if My communication is not good it will directly
affects both My personal and professional life due to not able to share My ideas to others. This
analysis helps me to realise all my opportunities which I can opt for and the threats to which I
have to be very careful.
 Strength: From this analysis I get to know My biggest strength is learning and
understanding things quickly or thinking creatively in problems for solving them
efficiently. This helps Me in academics or jobs for understanding the work accurately for
efficiency in works. Making the best use of your strength helps to get more prosperity in
the personal and professional life.
 Weakness: One of my biggest weakness is My communication or leadership skills
because they both are interrelated. Due to weak communication has directly affects on
My leadership skills because I am not able to transfer My thoughts to others and guide
them without proper understanding. This analysis helps in improving the weaknesses
before it creates a big problem in an individual personal and professional life (Adeani,
2020).
 Opportunity: The biggest opportunity I am having is achieving the dream position in My
workplace with all my efforts which automatically improve My quality of life with high
salary and recognitions. Early grabbing the opportunities and making use of it to the best
with all the skills in which I am good leads to more growth in the future (Mata, 2021).
 Threat: Threats are present everywhere which hiders the performances ofan individuals
due to competitions or rivals etc. The people with more advance knowledge and skilled
or experienced in work is a threat for Me due to efficiency in their work properly
checking their performances and activities or finding ways for improving My
performances will decrease the impact of threats.
Gibb’s Reflective Cycle
This is one of the most important model for identifying the experiences or feelings and
your behaviours in the past times (Zenger, 2019). This model helps me for reflecting the learning

experiences by improving the performances for higher education to improve My future. This
model has 6 stages which are:
 Description: In this step I have to decide the situation in which what happened on that
situation or and who was there with me at the time of the situation for example I failed to
express my feelings to the audience in the speech in My school and My friend was
present with Me at that movement.
 Feelings: I decided what did I think at the time of the process and after the situation what
I was feelings so that I can improve the situation when it arise in the future again. In My
academic task I was not able to lead My team due to weak communication skill and I was
feeling nervous about it to interact in front of others.
 Evaluation: Then I evaluated all My activities or situations I found out I need to work
more for overcoming the situation of fear When I was performing My task I found out
that My problem solving skills were good because My team members were supporting
Me and giving me good feedbacks for My critical thinking skills.
 Analysis: After I analysed all skills or ability in which I am good and the skills in which I
am not I founded all My weaknesses to improve for my personal and professional
developments for future higher educational performances.
 Conclusion: Last thing I get to know that what are the activities and areas which need
improvisations and what methods are required for the development of the skills which are
weak I concluded that I need to improve my communication skills, or improve My
confidence and various other skills for my professional development
Both this model helps me to understand the areas which I need to improve by analysing My
past performances and creating My SWOT analysis for knowing all My strength and weaknesses
for the development of My personality at the fullest. This helps me to improve my overall
personality to get a great future and professionalism in My own life.
Establishing aims and objectives to help in identifying the need for improvements

I created many aims and objectives for the areas which need improvements like doing the
things step wise or developing an schedule for exercises I need to do for more improvements
which are:
 Picking the goals in which I need the most improvements like leadership goals or
communication goals because without communication I cannot achieve any thing in my
personal and professional life because I cannot share My thoughts and ideas properly. With
this the without communications the leadership skills are also lacking behind due to team
members were not listening to Me in My past performances.
 Making sure that My Goals are achievable by properly checking time to time My
performances and comparing it with My past performances. Getting feedbacks from my
team members , family or others for more improvements.
 Writing My goals or performances regularly so that I can check my accuracy of
improvements by using various graphs and charts for helpful investigations (Caena, 2019).
 Prioritizing one goal at a time because doing the things all together will makes Me feel
confused and tired and leads to inefficiency in work. Improving one skill at a time with
giving appropriate time helps Me to improve My quality of work and fixed schedule of time.
 Applying all My learned knowledge and experiences in real life so that I can get to know all
the theoretical and empirical interrelations. Real life feedbacks are helpful then the
imaginary one for improving the personal and professional developments.
 Creating new goals and knowledge for improving the existing one to remain competitive in
the present world due to new skilled and experienced peoples with great knowledge of
working in higher education or workplaces (Gerasymova, 2019).
Activities needed for personal and professional developments
 Work- life balance: I started balancing My work by giving equal time to the personal and
professional life so that I can improve My performances or skills for both of my field. For
every successful operation there is a need called balancing because if an individual cannot
balance his/ her life the changes for to get success or efficiency in work is less (Kennedy,
2019).

 Time management: I managed My time with the use of calculative methods, graphs or
charts because if I have to develop both of My skills I have to give appropriate time to each
activities and need to calculate all my unnecessary time spent on worthless things (Wang,
2019).
 Changing lifestyle habits: Changing the way of living like waking up early in the morning,
eating on time, going to work on time, giving more time to studies rather than chilling
activities etc is helps in a lot ways for increasing the effectiveness in life (Di Renzo, 2020).
 Removing unnecessary activities: After observing each activities I have observed drastic
change in My life after removing off all My unnecessary activities like taking with peoples
who have no knowledge, sleeping more then it requires, controlling using phones or gadgets
when there is no need etc and adding new useful activities which develops the new habits or
skills for future advancements.
 Self- regulations: Self regulation is the best of checking your overall activities of work or
your behaviour towards the things and find ways for solving those things etc (Rubens,
2018). I started doing self regulations so that I can check My accuracy of work or developed
skills.
Personal and professional development plan
Areas of development Reason for the
development
Activities required
to achieve the
objectives
Resources required
to achieve the
objectives
Timeline
Communication skill The main reason of
achieving this
objective is to
become fluent in the
speaking skills so
that everyone can
understand the points
or thought
(Sasmitatias, 2018). I
wanted to say. This
helps Me a lot in
I started reading
books and articles of
famous entrepreneur
for improving My
communication
skills. I started
listening to the
people’s problems
and thoughts
actively. I asked from
My family, friends,
I used books for
reading and social
media for
communicating with
more people for
improvisation of My
skills. Taking online
courses from experts
that are helping me
in My professional
life. Observing other
4 to 6 months

developing My
professional life due
to managing the team
without any
difficulties or can
manage the team
efficiently. Without
communication one
cannot understand
the situation or
problem easily and
affects both personal
and professional life.
teammates for the
feedbacks so that I
get to know my
improvements.
Practicing speeches
and communicating
with people as much
as I can. Participating
in discussion too for
giving My thoughts
and ideas and
listening others
thoughts too.
gestures or postures
while
communicating for
making My
communication
more strong.
Practical applying all
the acquired
knowledge and
learning from
mistakes to be
effective in future.
Leadership skill This is the most
important things
which have to be
perfect and need
improvement in My
professional life for
more carrier
advancement
(Varela, 2018). I am
not effective in my
leadership skills due
to lack of confidence
and controlling
power with this I
cannot lead My team
efficiently due to
team members are
not obeying My
orders or I have less
influencing power on
them. To be effective
leader in My future
for My higher
education or jobs I
I used various styles
or methods for
improving the
activities in which I
started doing
research on the
activities or things in
which My leadership
skill is lacking. I
improved My
concentration for
focusing on My
objectives and started
reading various
published books of
leadership style to be
applied in the real
life. I communicated
with My teams My
opinions and using
their opinions in
decision making so
that I can build good
trust between them.
I used various rules
or theories used by
past famous leaders
and measure all the
models or theories
and picking up the
best one. Then I
used feedbacks of
team members for
checking the
accuracy of works.
Educating Myself
more with various
courses of
management and
leadership for more
knowledge that help
Me in My carrier
4 to 5 months

have to improve this
skill with various
methods.
Using various
innovative styles of
leadership in
practical life for
measuring which one
is most appropriate
for efficient
performances.
Analytical skill This is the skill
which requires in My
higher education or
in My personal life
too like solving
complex problems,
making difficult
decision or personal
as well as
professional life
( Zhu, 2018). If I
wanted to be on a
good position in My
professional life I
have to learn How to
solve the complex
problems and data in
works by making My
Brain too strong so
that I can think
critically in every
situation. This skill
involve various
others skills too like
collaborative skill,
communication, data
analysis, problem
solving etc.
Taking online
courses is My first
step in improving this
skill and Playing
various brain games
or reading books
which has logical
thoughts for solving a
particular problem. I
downloaded various
apps for solving
various difficult data
and exercising
regularly all this
activities. I started
learning everyday
something new for
increasing the
cognitive abilities or
brain power to
remember more
things. Also using
various creative
activities or problem
solving activities for
future growth.
This skill required
more use of brain or
stable thoughts or
feelings in doing the
work so I started
playing the games
which requires more
focused mind and
concentration like
crossword puzzles,
Sudoku, abacus etc.
It helps Me to
increasing My
thinking and
concentration power.
I solved various
mathematical
expression for
increasing My data
analytical skills and
solving many real
life problems etc.
8 to 10 months
Managerial skill This skill is I created a sheet or I arranged all My 3 to 5 months

important for Me
because of My weak
communication and
leadership skill that
is creating problems
in leading and
motivating the
peoples in an
efficient way (Baker,
2020). This skill is
important for higher
education or carrier
where I need to
perform the team
work or work as a
manager or leader
this skill helps me to
perform my task with
ease and without any
difficulties.
Development of this
skill will improve my
overall personal and
professional life.
chart in which I
wrote each skills
which are needed for
performing the task
and found out the
things which are
creating problems in
developing this skill
like lack of
confidence,
cooperation,
coordinating skill etc.
I started
communicating with
others more and
listening to their
problems carefully so
that I can build a
good trust with them.
I take My complete
management training
for knowing the pros
and cons of
management.
time accordingly so
that I can give
maximum of my
Time for
development of this
skill. I took various
online course of
management for
better efficiency in
future. I started
managing MY works
and coordinating My
work in real life to
know how it
working. Reading
many article and
books of
management to learn
all the rules and
principles of
management. I
applied various
management
theories in real life
for checking the
accuracy of working
and selecting the
best one which
giving more positive
feedbacks.
Teamwork skill This the new skill or
objective I added in
My personal and
professional
development because
I found it essential
that working in team
I communicated
more with My team
members so that I
can know their
perspectives and
work with them with
full confidence. I
Creating a reward
and recognition
system so that team
will feel motivated
and works towards
the goals. I
motivated the team
2 to 3 months

will lead to more
efficiency in work
(Aslan, 2021). This
skill I want to learn
so that whenever I
worked in a team I
can make complete
harmony in the team
with individual
working towards the
same goals with full
efforts. This skill is
important for getting
accepted by a group
without this skill no
one will appreciate
your working and
you.
appreciated others for
there good work and
performances so that
they feel motivated
and happy and also
listening to their
problems or helping
them out in some
work if they are
facing any problem
to make the task
more efficient.
Started working with
team and sharing
enthusiasm and
clearing each and
everyone roles
clearly for no
confusions and doubt
(Misra, 2018).
members to work
hard and feel
motivated by
communicating with
them. Creating
competitions and
situations in which
team work is
required to make the
team work in groups.
Using various team
working models for
applying it in the
real life.
Issues and problems explored and their impact on planned continuous personal and professional
development
I faced a lot of problems in planning this development plan because in each areas i did
not get successful all the time in just one attempt due negative feedbacks by the peoples. It takes
a lot courage and patient levels for improving the skill for future advancements and it becomes
difficult to change the whole life style work together for all the weak skills. The main issues are
lack of resources available to Me and lack of training facilities for more advanced knowledge
due less budget. Further, the issues are I am unable to give proper time to each activities all
together and I am not able to give time for My personal life due this activities. The team
members are not supporting My work as required by me and does not collaborating with me due
to lack of interest by them