Developing Academic And Professional Skills

This presentation discusses the challenges of studying business management and the importance of effective academic and professional skills development. It also includes a personal SWOT analysis and a detailed example of actions to develop weak skills. The subject is business management and the course code and college/university are not mentioned.

Developing Academic And Professional Skills

Content
• Challenges of studying business management and thriving in
professional practice (with appropriate examples)
• The importance of effective academic skills development
• The importance of effective professional skills development
• Identification of one skill that is particularly important – personal
SWOT analysis
• Detailed example of the actions that would be taken to develop skills
identified as weakness in SWOT analysis

Challenges of studying business management and
thriving in professional practice (with appropriate
examples)
There are various kinds of challenges of studying business management that are thriving in professional practice (Van Rooij,
Jansen and van de Grift, 2018).
Time management is one of the main challenges of studying business management is time management. In when we are
studying business management a student need to participate in various kinds of activities, seminars along with their studies.
This makes management of time one of the main and big challenge of studying business management. This challenge is
thriving in professional practice because time management is one of the most important skill which is required to be an
important skill to be present within employees.
Many times, while studying business management of studies and participation within extra or additional activities requires a
student to be multi- tasking which is another one of the main challenge which is faced by students while studying business
management. But this, multitasking skill requirement is thriving in professional practice and is one of the main skills
demanded by most of the organizations today.

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Pressure to perform is another one of the main challenges which is faced by most of the students studying
business management is pressure of constant upgraded performance (Wade and et. al., 2018).
Most of the students studying business management face this challenge as they are expected to perform in an
excellent manner both academically as well as in extra-curricular activities.
But pressure to perform is one of the most desirable skill which is required to be present within employees in
professional practice so that regardless of the pressure, overall performance of employees is not impacted. In
fact, even under high perform pressure employees are expected to perform in excellent manner so that desired
goals and objectives can be achieved.

The importance of effective academic skills development
There are many different kinds of academic skills that are required to be present within students or are required to be
developed by the students in order to achieve success.
It is extremely important to develop different types of effective academic skills by students. First of all, it encourages
students to become more efficient learners (Bosman and Fernhaber, 2021).
These academic skills directly help in preparing students for professional corporate jobs. Such as time management is one of
the main types of academic skill which is required to be developed as it directly helps students in learning ways in which
they need to manage their work, prioritise their task so that work can be completed on time and in effective manner.
Communication is another important academic skill which is extremely important to be developed. For achieving success in
professional life, it becomes extremely important for students to develop effective written and oral communication skills.
Professionally written communication skill is important for submitting reports etc. whereas oral skills are important
presenting one’s own ideas, giving presentations etc.

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In other manner academic skill development is important because it helps in development of academic
integrity and morale among students (Snowdon and et. al., 2020).
It helps in teaching students’ seriousness of plagiarism, citing other work properly, seriousness of using others
works one’s own.
It further helps in development of confidence among students, provides them within a brief overview of ways
in which they need to enhance their knowledge and achieve success in their academic life.
It further helps in development of research skills among students that helps them in learning ways in which
new information is researched.

The importance of effective professional skills development
It is extremely important to develop effective professional skills to be developed in proper and effective mane
rans it directly helps an individual in achieving success in their professional life as well achieve desired career-
oriented goals in an appropriate manner (Skoura-Kirk, Brown and Mikelyte, 2021).
Effective professional skill development directly help an individual in increasing confidence within themselves,
handle all the work, pressure and stress of work in an effective manner. Not only this professional skills
development can further help in increasing productivity of employees that can help them in achieving main
organizational goals and objectives as well as helps in moving forward successfully in career pathway

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There are various kinds of professional skills required to be developed and each of them have their own importance.
Problem solving skills are important for individuals so that they can work effectively within teams, resolve any kind of
problem in an appropriate and effective manner (Skoura-Kirk, Brown and Mikelyte, 2021).
Effective development of this skill can directly help a person in dealing appropriately in difficult and impossible situation
and work everything well despite of any kind of difficulties. Organization and planning skills are further important to be
developed by an individual as it directly helps them in maximizing their productivity, complete desired task or activities in
an appropriate manner.
Not only this, it further helps employees or individuals in planning their workplace, other activities as well as helps them in
becoming good team players. Management skills are another one of the most important type of professional skills that are
important to be developed because when an individual moves to a leadership position or to a managerial position it becomes
important for them to manage people, work in such a manner that desired goals can be achieved in an appropriate and
effective manner.

Identification of one skill that is particularly
important – personal SWOT analysis
Personal SWOT AnalysisSTRENGTHS
There are various kinds of skills that are one of my main strengths,
such as:
Written communication skills are one of my main strengths that helps
me in communicating my work in an effective manner.
Research skills are one of my main strengths that helps me in searching
and collecting new and desirable information
Time management skills are another one of the main strengths as I
have that skill of managing and prioritizing work in an effective manner
WEAKNESSES
Some of my main weakness that are required to be focused upon
are as follows:
Oral communication skills are one of my main weakness or weak
skill which is required to be improved as professionally it is
important to communicate, share one’s own ideas with others in an
effective manner.
Presentation skills are another one of my main weaknesses which is
required to be improved as it is one of the most important and
desirable skill required professionally
OPPORTUNITY
Bringing improvement within oral communication skills as well as in
presentation skills development can directly help in moving forward
successfully in one’s own career pathway
THREATS
Lack of effective communication and presentation skills is a threat
and not developing these skills can make it extremely difficult for
individual to achieve success.
One skill that is particularly important, but I am weak at:
Out of all the skills oral communication skill is particularly important to be developed but I am weak at this particular skill and is required to
be improved as well as developed

Detailed example of the actions that would be
taken to develop skills identified as weakness
in SWOT analysis
• Two skills that I am weak at are oral skills and presentation skills. Both of these skills were identified with the
help of SWOT analysis. Both of these skills are required to be developed and for this, following actions will be
taken
• Oral skills: I will focus upon asking for guidance from metros and ask their feedback and reviews for bringing
improvement within oral communication skills. I will further focus upon bringing improvement within my
body language while having a conversation with others so that my message or idea is communicated
correctly orally. It will further focus upon participating within some important active listening activities as
these activities can help me in bringing improvement within my oral communication skills and will further
help me in identifying ways in which further improvement can be brought within my skills of oral skills.

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• Presentation skills: in order to bring improvement within my presentation skills, I will be focusing upon
presenting presentation in front of mirror so that I can confidently identify and pin point improvement that are
required to be brought. I will further ask for guidance from mentors and lecturers so that further improvement
within my presentation skills can be brought. I will ask questions while giving presentation so that my
presentation doesn’t seem to be one sided

Summary
• From the above presentation it has been summarized that there are various kinds of academic skills as well as
professional skills that are important to be developed in order to achieve success and overcome challenges of
studying business management.
• Development of business and academic skills can directly help achieving desired academic and professional
goals and objectives. In order to achieve success it is further important to identify skills that one is weak at
with the help of SWOT analysis so that those skills can be focused upon and improved for achieving success.
• SWOT analysis not only helps in identifying one’s own weakness but it also helps in identifying strengths,
opportunities and threats as well so that proper actions can be defined and focused upon for bringing
improvement within one’s own skills and weak areas

References
• Bosman, L. and Fernhaber, S., 2021. Design Essential# 2: Professional Skill Development. In Teaching the
Entrepreneurial Mindset Across the University (pp. 55-63). Springer, Cham.
• Skoura-Kirk, E., Brown, S. and Mikelyte, R., 2021. Playing its part: An evaluation of professional skill development
through service user-led role-plays for social work students. Social Work Education, 40(8), pp.977-993.
• Snowdon, D.A., and et. al., 2020. Physiotherapists prefer clinical supervision to focus on professional skill
development: a qualitative study. Physiotherapy Canada, 72(3), pp.249-257.
• Van Rooij, E.C., Jansen, E.P. and van de Grift, W.J., 2018. First-year university students’ academic success: the
importance of academic adjustment. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 33(4), pp.749-767.
• Wade, M., and et. al., 2018. The role of maternal responsiveness and linguistic input in pre-academic skill
development: A longitudinal analysis of pathways. Cognitive Development, 45, pp.125-140.

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