Academic and Personal Development

Academic and Personal
Development

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Importance of effective development of academic skills............................................................4
SWOT analysis............................................................................................................................5
Personal development plan .........................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Academic development is related to learning and gaining in depth knowledge of subjects
by an individual. It provides them with objectives and skills in classroom which assists them to
achieve professional success in their life later. It is considered with operating in collaboration
with departments and faculties to enhance learning of students (Bowen-Chang and Hosein,
2018). Personal development is considered as crucial part of a personnels progress and growth. It
allows them to explore aspects of self improvement by making plans for development. It is long
process through which people can assess their qualities and skills in relation to their goals and
aims in life.
This report highlights the academic skills needed for higher education in business
management studies. It covers effective team working skills and reflect on key personal
attributes required for academic and future success.
MAIN BODY
To become an effective student in business management in higher education, I developed
number of skills. These skills are related to the challenges I faced during learning about business
management. The first challenge was to connect with new people from diverse background. I
face issue of communicating and sharing my thoughts as well as opinions with them. It became
major issue to search for like minded people in diverse population (Braxton and Francis, 2018).
As I understand that selecting reliable peers is essential both for my personal and academic
development, I strive to acquire skill of communication.
Communication skills- I seek to make my communication better with my peers to
understand their point of view and knowledge on business management. I talked to people with
different backgrounds and tries to reduce my hesitation. For this, I actively listen to what people
say and tried to make my opinions as clear as possible so that they can understand me as well. I
worked on my body language and made sure that I appear accessible to my colleagues. To solve
my queries with teachers, I made notes of what I was unable to understand and asked them
briefly so that my communication with them can improve (Leupold, Lopina and Erickson, 2020).
I took a moment before I speak and think extensively about what I was going to say or ask. I
maintained a positive and open mind throughout the module so that I can mingle with other
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students effectively. My communication skills becomes more better with assistance from
academic skills which leads to enhanced sharing of messages and thoughts.
Next challenge I faced was not being able to schedule all the subjects concerned with
business management in specific time limit. I face the issue of not completing my group
presentations and assignments on time due to poor management of work with time. It gets
difficult for me to balance my academic work with my personal life which leads to affecting my
academic career. It reduces my punctuality and quality of work which leads to missing deadlines
of assignments. I was easily distracted and used to procrastinate my work, thus I intend to
acquire time management skills.
Time management skills- After I missed several deadlines of my assignments, I assessed
that being good at managing my time can help me achieve my goals and produce high quality
work. To study business studies in higher studies, it is important that one understands to delivers
expected results on time (Burgess, van Diggele and Mellis, 2018). Thus, I worked on my time
management skills by setting SMART goals. For that I made a list of goals that I wants to attain
which includes assignments deadlines, proper study time, research about various aspects of
business management and many more. I set my weekly priorities and made sure that I am using
my time efficiently. I avoid multitasking so that I can give my all attention to one task at hand. I
made sure to follow the time table I made so that I do not procrastinate and improve my
productivity. I eliminate the distractions which hinders my progress of becoming efficient
student of business management.
Next challenge I face is not able to acquire, gather, visualise and assess the information in
detail. In addition to that, I found it hard to see at a problem from other people point of view.
This also creates the issues of not being able to solve complex problems and make effective
decisions. It gets difficult for me to analyse which information is more important for me and
which is just wasting my time and resources. To solve this challenge, I acquire to adopt
analytical skills.
Analytical skills- Each day in the group, all the members of the team collected some
information related to subject of business management. Thus, I make a plan to write down all the
information at one place and with help of other team members decides which was essential to
expand our knowledge of business management (Casanova, Zarza and Orejudo, 2018). I strive to
make decisions by listening to every individual of the group and taking help of our teachers. I
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