Report on Personal and Professional Development in Business

This report delves into the concepts of personal and professional development, emphasizing their significance in business management. It outlines the value of setting short, medium, and long-term goals, providing examples for each. The report also discusses the importance of a personal development plan (PDP) and includes an example. Furthermore, it examines how author, purpose, reliability, and relevance influence the use of a source. The report evaluates eight sources, concluding with a summary of the key findings and references to support the analysis. The report highlights how these elements contribute to an individual's growth and career advancement within the business field.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Definition of concept of personal and professional development...............................................1
Description and discussion of value of short term goals with examples....................................2
Description and discussion of value of medium term goals with examples...............................2
Description and discussion of value of long term goals with examples.....................................2
Description and discussion of value of personal development plan and construction with
example.......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
Description and discussion of how Author, purpose, reliability and relevance affect use of a
source..........................................................................................................................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................3
Evaluation of eight sources which have used in report plan.......................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Personal improvement basically includes activities which develop individual's ability,
build human capital, improve quality of life, facilitate employability and realization of goals and
objectives. it is a long process. It generally refers to a way for individual to assess their skills and
abilities ans consider its goals in life and set objectives to realise and increase their
capability(McGill, Heikkila and Lazarowicz, 2020). While professional development is defined
as a learning process to carried to earn and keep professional credentials like taking conferences,
academic degrees to formal coursework and informal learning opportunities that carried in
practice. It basically refers to guiders developing and enhancing their skills to fulfil individual's
needs. This report is based on academic skills and PDP of business management individual. This
reports determines on academic skills of business administration individual, it also included the
conceptualization of professional and personal improvement that helps to grow in future.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
personal and professional development.
It is generally includes of activities which creates and development person's abilities as
well as realization goals and dreams. Motive and objective of individual and professional is to
give them assist in managing their own acquisition as well as growth in its career. Personal and
professional development is essential in expanding their talents and skills beyond their present
role (Moir, 2021) . Some of methods of managing person's personal and professional
development in terms of business management that are as follows: Determine and using accurate opportunities: As training is not a concept about learning.
It is needed to identify for right and better opportunities to implement their skills,
knowledge and information.
 Planning and setting clear goals which is needed to be accomplished: As once
individual has decided its own goals and objectives it will become easy to manage their
personal and professional development.
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discussion of value of short term tactics
Short term objectives are defined as a goals in which person wants to cover as early as
possible. Short term goals helps in making big changes(Beeson, 2020). Short terms objectives is
something that individual wants to do in up coming future. Some of personal example of short
term goals in terms of business management are as follows:
 Decreasing business overheads in business.
 Improving and enhancing business productivity.
 Enhancing customer's service.
 Developing a new product(Cottrell, 2019) .
 Learning about market trends of business.
Description and discussion of value of medium term tactics
Medium term goals is defined as objectives that takes some large time to achieve. These
objectives and goals could be achieved in coming weeks and months. As medium term goals
offers best skills as well as development of persons(Watkins and Smith, 2018). Some of personal
examples of medium terms goals in terms of business management are as follows:
 Raising turnover of businesses.
 Analysing and taking care of individual's saving as well as money for dealing with any
uncertainties.
 Beginning as a career as well as developing professional development which is defined
to instructors developing and enhancing their skills for better fulfil requirements of
individuals.
 Evaluating timescale and managing risks for building and gaining revenues(Makiya,
2018).
Description and discussion of value of long term tactics
Long term goals are objectives in which person wants to achieve them in upcoming
future. These goals and objectives requires planning as well as time to accomplish them
efficiently (Sallati, de Andrade Bertazzi, and Schützer, 2019). Long term are basically covered
in in years. Some of examples of long term goals in terms of business management are as
follows:
 Increase in long term incomes.
 Reducing production expenses of business.
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 Increasing brand awareness about business.
 Promoting products and services of business.
Discussion of worth of personal improvement plan
S no. Learning motive Present
proficiency
Target
proficiency
Development
opportunities
Time scale
1 Leadership skills Being efficient
leaders
To have balance
in authoritative
factors.
By attending
and having open
leadership
development.
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2 Decision making Maintaining
and creating
decision
making skills.
To enhance
skills in
difficult
situations.
For developing
and enhancing
competency.
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TASK 2
how Author, purpose, reliability and relevance affect use of a source.
It has been evaluated that author, purpose, reliability and relevance which affects use of
source. As an individual collecting as well as gathering of information from various kinds of
sources for research to projects which include books, newspaper and journals (Cowley and
Hyams-Ssekasi, 2018) . It has been evaluated that each source provides help in analysing quality
of data. Purpose is to have data and to persuade them. Author defines who is writer and subject.
Relevance and reliability of sources to analyse bibliography, citations and information which is
gathered by using source on research papers.
TASK 3
Evaluation of eight sources
Beginnin
g
Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
2020 McGill, C.M., Purpose is to
determine
Data is highly
reliable
Carries its
importance
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Heikkila, M. and
Lazarowicz, T.,
quality
content
2021 Moir, J., purpose is to
have brief
knowledge
Data is highly
reliable
Importance of
personal and
professional
development
2020 Beeson, S., Purpose is to
learn skills
Data and
information
carries its
importance
Carries
importance of
development
2019 Cottrell, S., Purpose is to
make use of
opportunities
Data is highly
reliable
Carries
relevance of
medium term
goals
2018 Watkins, H. and
Smith, R.,
Purpose is to
identify
various
sources
Data carries
its importance
Shows high
effectiveness
2018 Cowley, P. and
Hyams-Ssekasi, D.,
Purpose is to
provide
quality
Information is
applicable
It displays
highly accurate
information
2018 Makiya, A.A., Purpose is
implement
various skills
inn
development
Information is
highly
applicable
It determines
values and cores
CONCLUSION
From above report it has been concluded that for achieving growth in an individual's life
and its career it is important to have personal as well as professional development which provide
help in learning and maintaining a sense of living and various tasks. This report carries a brief
explanation of personal and professional development that defines its relevance in individual's
life by identifying their short, medium and long term objectives. There is explanation of sources,
of author, purpose, relevance and reliability that affects their sources. There is a PDP plan that
states its development skills which are to be enhanced.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
McGill, C.M., Heikkila, M. and Lazarowicz, T., 2020. Professional development, performance
expectations and academic advisors’ perceptions of relational skills: a sequential
explanatory mixed methods study. New Horizons in Adult Education and Human
Resource Development .32 (4). pp.50-69.
Moir, J., 2021. The rhetoric of PDP in higher education: a gender-neutral discourse?. Academic
Journal of International Education Research .2 (1). pp.7-18.
Beeson, S., 2020, December. Extramural but not Extracurricular: Revealing Hidden Learning
through the Personal Development Portfolio (PDP) in Architectural Education. In EAAE
Annual Conference Proceedings (pp. 276-293).
Cottrell, S., 2019. The study skills handbook. Macmillan International Higher Education.
Watkins, H. and Smith, R., 2018. Thinking globally, working locally: Employability and
internationalization at home. Journal of Studies in International Education .22 (3).
pp.210-224.
Sallati, C., de Andrade Bertazzi, J. and Schützer, K., 2019. Professional skills in the Product
Development Process: the contribution of learning environments to professional skills
in the Industry 4.0 scenario. Procedia CIRP .84. pp.203-208.
Cowley, P. and Hyams-Ssekasi, D., 2018. Motivation, induction, and challenge: Examining the
initial phase of international students’ educational sojourn. Journal of International
Students .8 (1). pp.109-130.
Makiya, A.A., 2018. Professional development programs for improving in-service secondary
school teachers' pedagogical skills in Tanzania: a case of Ilemela district
council (Doctoral dissertation, The University of Dodoma).
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