University Assignment: Academic Skills and PDP for Professional Growth

This assignment, focusing on the course BMP3001, delves into the core concepts of personal and professional development. It explores the significance of short, medium, and long-term goals within a Personal Development Plan (PDP). The assignment outlines the value of a PDP and how it aids in assessing skills, setting goals, and achieving higher potential. Task one defines personal and professional development and the importance of goal setting. Task two focuses on the importance of referencing, author, purpose, reliability and relevance, and task three provides the sources used in the assignment. The assignment also includes a detailed table outlining specific goals, required resources, and timelines. The student's work demonstrates an understanding of career development, academic skills, and the practical application of a PDP for career advancement.

BMP3001 Academic Skills and
PDP

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Task One..........................................................................................................................................3
1. Concept of personal and professional development................................................................3
2. Value of short term goals.........................................................................................................3
3. Value of medium term goals....................................................................................................3
4. Value of long term goals..........................................................................................................3
5. Value of Personal Development Plan (PDP)...........................................................................3
Task Two.........................................................................................................................................6
Task Three.......................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

Task One
1. Concept of personal and professional development
The personal development refers to the lifelong process and considered as away in which
the individual assess their skills and abilities and set goals in their life in order to realize and
attain higher potential (Hopkins and Reid, 2018). In contrast to it professional development
basically involves the development of the person in a role more specifically to the job and the
way one can further improve it. It accounts for enhancing the necessary skills for professional
growth and development of the individual.
2. Value of short term goals
The short term goals acts as milestone in respect to the reaching the long term goals in
life. It helps in determining how far one has gone in pertaining to reaching the final destination
(Visser, Post and Buis, 2017). Based on my current requirement I need to work on improving
planning and decision-making skills, attain in-depth knowledge on leading business external
activities and writing skills which is very useful in my career development and gaining better job
opportunities.
3. Value of medium term goals
The medium tern goals is the one which takes more time than short term but less than
long term. It is the goal which can be completed within 1 to 5 years of time (Broders, 2020). My
medium term goal is to gain commercial awareness, widening my knowledge on leadership skills
and leading a team.
4. Value of long term goals
It is the goals which are required to be accomplished in future and needs lot of time and
planning (Ali Ali, 2017). My long term goals is to build confidence as a leader, building core
business skills and enhancing team working and managerial skills.
5. Value of Personal Development Plan (PDP)
Goals What I have to
do?
Resources
required
Measuring
success
Time required
Short term
Goals (<=1 year)
Improving Gain an Using training Consulting with 6 months

planning and
decision-making
skills
experience in the
business analysis
processes and
making use of it
in the working
environment
(Tuerk, 2018).
opportunities and
revisions.
the mentor or
looking at the
course report.
Attain in-depth
knowledge on
leading business
external activities
Completing the
relevant course,
getting training or
indulging in a
programme.
Advice from the
faculty, training
centre.
Course
assessment, self
and formal
appraisal.
6 months
Writing skills Doing regular
practice in written
different things
for improving
descriptive and
critical writing.
Reading and
writing
newspaper
articles and taking
suggestion from
faculties.
Taking feedback
for mentor,
colleagues.
9 months
Medium Term
Goals (2-5 years)
Commercial
awareness
Undertaking
practical
knowledge
Newspaper,
articles, journals
for reading
purpose.
Completing an
internship
pertaining to real
business talk.
2 years
Widening my
knowledge on
leadership skills
Learning more by
making
observations of
the experienced
personnel and
gaining their
Advice from the
senior colleagues
Mentoring and
performance
appraisal during
the development
programmes.
3 years

friendship and
trust.
Leading a team Gaining trust of
the senior
managers for
undertaking
responsibility for
leading a team.
Support from the
fellow colleagues
and the good
support from the
senior staff.
Timely taking
feedback from the
team and the
other senior
members.
5 years
Long term goals
(>5 years)
Build confidence
as a leader
Volunteer to lead
ad-hoc cross the
different
functional
projects for the
purpose of
building
credibility and
experience as a
leader.
Support of line
manager.
Feedback from
the team and the
project sponsor.
6 years
Building core
business skills
Completing the
mandatory
organization
training sessions.
Support from
senior manager
and the training
department
(Meissner and
Shmatko, 2019).
Securing bonus
benefits or other
things as a mode
of appreciation.
7 years
Enhancing team
working skills
and other
managerial skills
Becoming a
member of clubs
and reading about
the teamwork.
Undertaking the
short term course
for gaining
understanding
Getting
appreciation in
job role based on
skills and
5.5 years

and then
practising for a
long term for
attaining
efficiency.
knowledge and
ability
Task Two
Author- Author is an important part in giving references on working projects, references
provide appreciation to the author of that particular articles/book. It is also a liability of those
who are taking help from that to give due credit to author for taking help from their books/
articles (Walle, Reschke, and Knothe, 2017). Author in important in any reference it is words of
author that are been put in project so selection of author is important to improve productivity of
project.
Purpose- Every project is made with based on some study, why to select that topic? In
references, purpose becomes more crucial to provide more reliable and meaningful research
some times references lose its importance just because of out of context references not are been
provided.
Reliability- references is provided to justify reliability of the content with topic that has
been selected, due to this many times' reader of project go through to check authentication and
reliability references (Dubossarsky, and et.al., 2019). So it duty of to provider to put more
reliable references to topic that is selected.
Relevance- some times references that are provided is not related to topic of project and
need some other references to be given. So the references related to topic makes more impact
and reliability level to reader and also increases importance of research.
Task Three
Sources Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
Journal Walle, Reschke
and Knothe
States the usage
of the sources in
meeting the
From the last 5
years and thus,
can be relied
Important in
determining the
right source for

requirement. upon. reference.
Journal Dubossarsky,
Hengchen,
Tahmasebi and
Schlechtweg
For meeting with
the reliability
criteria of
referencing.
It is a recent
document
providing
reliable
information.
It is relevant in
determining the
usefulness of
sources.
Book Hopkins and
Reid
Information on
writing skills for
career
development.
It is reliable
source and thus
information is
assumed to be
accurate.
It is relevant to
the PDP plan.
Book Visser, Post and
Buis
It provides
relevance of
goals in career
development.
It belongs to the
University press,
thus, highly
reliable.
Relevant to the
development of
PDP plan.
Book Broders Gaining
information on
academic skills.
It is a recent
study leading to
relevance of the
topic.
Relevant in
determining the
academic skills.
Book Tuerk Students
thinking on
learning.
Recent
information and
properly cited.
Involves the key
factors for
development.
Journal Ali Ali Linking
employability
skills with
academic skills.
Authentic
source.
Helped in
developing PDP
plan.
Journal Meissner and
Shmatko
Integrating
professional and
academic
knowledge
Authentic source
can be relied
upon.
Relevant in
creation of PDP
plan

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Ali Ali, F., 2017. Gauging the association of employability skills and being employable among
students. International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies, 4(2), pp.39-
52.
Broders, S., 2020. Academic Skills: An Introduction for English and American Studies. utb
GmbH.
Dubossarsky, H., and et.al., 2019. Time-out: Temporal referencing for robust modeling of lexical
semantic change. arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.01688.
Hopkins, D. and Reid, T., 2018. The Academic Skills Handbook: Your Guide to Success in
Writing, Thinking and Communicating at University. Sage.
Meissner, D. and Shmatko, N., 2019. Integrating professional and academic knowledge: the link
between researchers skills and innovation culture. The Journal of Technology
Transfer, 44(4), pp.1273-1289.
Tuerk, R., 2018. The Effects of Supplemental Instruction on Student Attitudes and Academic
Skills. Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Visser, V. R., Post, G. and Buis, J. J., 2017. Academic skills: for interdisciplinary studies.
Amsterdam University Press.
Walle, E. A., Reschke, P. J., and Knothe, J.M., 2017. Social referencing: Defining and
delineating a basic process of emotion. Emotion Review, 9(3), pp.245-252.