MN4055QA Personal & Academic Development: A Reflective PDP Report

This document presents a personal development plan (PDP) focused on enhancing professional and personal skills for a business management student. It includes a personal analysis identifying strengths and weaknesses, followed by SMART goals designed to improve time management and business sustainability knowledge. The plan outlines personal objectives such as building self-confidence, attractiveness, and interpersonal skills. Reflective learning logs provide evidence of progress and adaptations made during the development process. The ultimate aim is to achieve career advancement and personal growth through targeted skill development and continuous self-assessment. Desklib provides access to this document along with a wealth of other solved assignments and study resources to support students in their academic and professional journeys.

Personal Development
Plan

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
Personal Development Plan.............................................................................................................2
PART 1............................................................................................................................................2
Personal Analysis...................................................................................................................2
PART 2............................................................................................................................................2
Setting Goals..........................................................................................................................2
PART 3............................................................................................................................................2
Personal Objectives................................................................................................................2
PART 4............................................................................................................................................2
Evidence of reflective learning...............................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Personal development planning is the essential concept in terms of professional and personal
skill development considering the goal setting and practices considering the overall achievement.
It includes several steps for the effective identification, value creation and awareness by which
an individual can make suitable personal development plan which is being concerned to their
career objectives (Cheng and et. al., 2018). For this, the job role of business management
undertakes several tasks and duties because of which individual need to possess all the important
professional skills. The report leads to cover details about the personal development plan which
is develop with the help of reflective identification of personal and professional skills.
Personal Development Plan
It is useful in terms of designing and achieving the personal and professional goals that helps in
developing and considering the significant personal and professional skills. It leads to put
emphasis on the development of suitable skills and also reach to the professional goals
(Elhussain and Khoja, 2020). For instance, to become a business manager, individuals need to
work on the management skills and also develop the suitable experience by which they can
achieve their own goals and objectives. PDP is classified into three steps like goal identification,
analysis of learning area and validation of PDP design. It also includes reviewing for the skills
development and overall achievement by six months, every year and so on.
PART 1
Personal Analysis
I am very dedicated towards building my professional career to become a successful person in
future. I am pursuing my studies in the field of Business management and currently working part
time as an assistant business manager. To accomplish a perfect balance between professional and
personal life it is important to develop some management skills like time management, wellbeing
and communication skills. My communication skills are good but I lack time management skill. I
am also good in managing positive well-being. My internal strength has always encouraged me
to manage different tasks that's why I became an assistant business manager where I have to
assign roles and responsibilities to the people. The required skills for an assistant business
manager are effective communication and team management. My projects, training and

management experiences during my business management studies have helped me in developing
my skills and passion for management. My qualities of well-being and communication skills
have helped me in running my current work as an assistant business manager smoothly. These
qualities are my strength which I have achieved from my previous course. These qualities of
mine have helped me in managing my career effectively. Because of my good communication
skills, I am effectively leading my team and my well-being skills have helped me in managing a
positive and effective environment at my work place. In my previous academic year, I had
various opportunities and threats which have helped me in developing my skills but also made
me aware about my weaknesses (Aburn, Hoare and Gott, 2018). Opportunities such as industrial
exposer, group project, group leading and presentation tasks have helped me in developing and
analysing my skills and weaknesses. For personal and professional development all these factors
were a great opportunity. During my academic year projects, I evaluated that my communication
and team management skills were good but I need improvement in time management skills along
with well-being as my performance was not good at that time. I was taking a lot of time in doing
a task although the results were good. Therefore, there is a need to improve time management
skills along with well-being.
PART 2
Setting Goals
It is the most essential tool of PDP that helps in the analysis and develop of goals as it is useful
in incorporating the suitable criteria to make effective goal develop that can possess the higher
chances of the achievement.
Specific: The PDP should be clear, narrow and specific. This step undertakes the proper
involvement of effective identification and development of goals considering the relevant
objective and rationales (Shawa, 2020).
Measurable: The goals and objectives should be developed considering the enhancement factor
and also need to be measurable so, that it is easy to identify the overall progress.
Attainable: It is important to develop suitable goals and objectives with proper identification and
analysis of action plan as it have to be clear that there is something enough actions that are useful
for the achievement of goals.

Relevant: The PDP goals should be relevant and undertake possibility of accomplishment. Thus,
it is essential to analyse the appropriate goals.
Time bound: It is the last step for the identification of goal and their overall development where
individuals need to set the particular time for the accomplishment as it is useful in staying
motivated and encouraged.
Therefore, it is clear that for the enhancement of professional life, I need to work on the
development of my own weaknesses as it is possible with the help of SMART goals that helps in
effective management of PDP design criteria. For this, some of the important SMART goals that
I have develop for my professional development of career.
Goals Specific measurable Attainable Relevant Time-Bound
Goal 1 I want to
develop
effective and
efficient time
management
skills.
I need to
undertake
suitable time
management
skills and get
training for
the
management
practices in
just 3
months.
I want to
enhance my
time
management
skills for
effectively
applying my
training
experience in
my working
practices
(Cabrera,
Roy and
Chisolm,
2018).
To develop
my skills, I
need to read
time
management
articles and
blogs that
help me in
understanding
the
significance
of time
management
and its
effectiveness
for the
different job
role.
I will get
success in
time
management
skills in 3
months with
the help of
suitable
training and
practical
application.
Goal 2 I need to
develop my
knowledge
I need to
learn most of
the business
I have to
enhance the
sustainability
I will use my
developing
knowledge of
I want to
become best
business

for the
personal
well-being as
I need to
understand
that how I
contribute
within the
organisation
regarding the
development
and how I
can take help
from others
to manage
the business
approaches.
sustainability
as I need to
attend related
programmes
within one
year.
approaches
that helps in
learning and
leasing skills.
business
sustainability
approaches
considering
my project as
I need to
enhance and
learn its
significance
(Siau and et.
al., 2020).
manager
considering
the
significance
of sustainable
business
management
approaches in
just 1 year.
Goal 3 I want to earn
the post of
best business
manager
within the
reputed
company.
I need to
achieve the
post within
just one year
I need to
attend some
professional
skills and
overall
development
programmes
that can help
me to prepare
for career
development
(Ozkan,
McNair and
Bairaktarova,
I have search
for the
particular
business
manager job
role with the
help of job
portals in
several
organisations.
I will achieve
success
considering
the job role in
2 years.

2019).
PART 3
Personal Objectives
Personal development plan undertakes the proper identification of both professional and personal
area of improvement. In terms of that, it is essential to develop personal objectives regarding the
proper development.
Personal skills: Individual need to possess some essential skills that play an important role in
both professional and personal life. I have analysed that I need to work on some of my personal
skill development. Some of the skills are discussed as:
 Self-confidence: I want to work for the development of my self-confidence by
considering the suitable efforts for pushing myself to take effective responsibility and
make the proper use of supportive skills to perform things more confident (Caesar and et.
al., 2020). I want to achieve this within 3 months.
 Attractiveness: Considering both personal and professional life attractiveness is the
effective quality that helps to get success in life. For this, I want to work on this skill to
become more attractive and confident for my things. This can be achieving by taking
professional development classes by working and considering the physical appearance
and presentation skills.
Personal management skills: As a professional worker or student, I need to work on my
management skills such as time management and flexibility by which I can balance my
professional and personal skills considering the multiple task.
 Time management: I have to take suitable training and also organise practical application
of the guidelines of training to enhance the time management skills.
 Flexibility: I need to work on my flexibility with the help of which I can make proper
balance among my professional and personal life responsibility that can enhance through
effective application of planning and other skills (Gupta, Shree and Mishra, 2019).
Interpersonal skills: To get smooth professional and personal life, I need to work for the further

development of interpersonal skills like professional relationship, problem solving, leadership
and so on. In order to enhance this factor, I have to focus on management and leadership skills.
PART 4
Evidence of reflective learning
Log A (week 1)
In first week, once I commenced to get education for the time control and expert improvement. I
want to get introduce with different group contributors with inside the education software after
which I were given the short rationalization of time control thinking about its importance. After
that, I went to the expert improvement elegance wherein I get to recognise approximately the
behaviour of group contributors and then instructor provide us the short rationalization of expert
behaviour and beauty thinking about the examples (Gläser-Zikuda and et. al., 2018). For
instance, instructor want to give an explanation for the frame language, motion of arms together
with voice in the course of providing something. Teacher defined the applicable manner of frame
look on the time of electricity factor presentation. Moreover, on the remaining day of the weak, I
implemented those elements in my workplace paintings PPT presentation that become helpful.
Log B (week 2)
In week two, I participate with inside the sustainability programmes wherein I get to recognise
approximately the numerous strategies of sustainability and well-being. For this, I want to
recognize the importance of group working, like how the blended efforts of public, employer and
clients allows with inside the sustainability programmes of environment. I additionally want to
recognize the importance of round economic system in phrases of I need to make innovative
steps. Along with this, my educational overall performance is crucial to be powerful in time
control as I need to attend all of the packages which can be being performed via way of means of
college associated with the have a look at of control. Firstly, for the time control education I
study the importance of planning, aim improvement, elimination of beside the point project and
so on. I additionally observe this understanding in my expert and educational project control via
way of means of which I get achievement in time control for my workplace paintings and
educational projects.

Log C (week 3)
At the beginning of PDP, I need to get training for the interview by which I am effective to give
interview considering the professional behaviour as it is helping me to get suitable job role and
interview profiles. I need to develop multiple skills that can further enhance the selective time
period for the achievement of goals. Presently, I am evaluating the progress by identifying my
academic and job role success. I also got the opportunity of getting senior manager within the
reputed company.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it has been identified that to get success in the personal and
professional life, self-analysis is important. Individuals have to continuously work on their
personal and professional skills development by considering the effective application to develop
the experience to get more knowledge towards the right step.

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