Developing Academic and Professional Skills for Business Management Students

This presentation discusses the challenges faced by business management students and the importance of academic and professional skills in their career growth. It includes a SWOT analysis and an action plan to overcome weaknesses. The importance of digital skills, confidence level, and time management skills are highlighted. The presentation also includes references to books and journals.

Developing Academic
and Professional skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Challenges of Studying business management.......................................................................3
Importance of effective Academic skills................................................................................4
Importance of effective Professional skills............................................................................5
SWOT Analyses.....................................................................................................................6
Action Plan.............................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES:.............................................................................................................................10
Books and Journals...............................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Academic and Professional skills play important role in career building of students.
Academic skills are those strategies and abilities that helps students to learn and achieve
academic goals. Professional skills refer to the competencies and abilities used in work place that
can be beneficial for any job profile. These skills are the combination of hard and soft skills like
technical, computer and management skills are included in hard skills while competencies,
abilities are soft skills which helps in growth of professional students. This presentation describes
the challenges faced by professional students while studying business management. Further it
explains the importance of academic and professional skills in terms to develop business ethics.
Afterwards, SWOT Analysis has been conducted to find out weaknesses, threats and helps in
finding out strengths of business students and future opportunities as well. At the end of this
presentation reflects necessary action plan to overcome the weaknesses and improvement in their
skill through proper actions.
MAIN BODY
Challenges of Studying business management
Business management as a career option for students is good way to start for their career
in private sector. While studying business management many students face different types of
challenges. Some of these issues are -
New surroundings – As a student of business management, they have to come from
different cities with different cultural backgrounds and making new friends can be the major
challenge for students. Accommodation and adopting the new environment can be the limitation
to business students.
Social networking – Many students while pursuing professional course find it more
difficult in socialising with other batch mates. Students are from different cultures and
background came forward for their further studies. As business management students they should
have strong network and can socialize with any one that can be beneficial for their future
business growth.
Team work – This can be a challenge for many students while pursuing business
management. As a professional course it includes many presentations and team work projects and

students find it difficult to adjust with other team members. Some students have dominating
nature and cannot work under other student.
Financial stability – Problems related to the expenses during their studies is major
challenge face by many students of business management. Stability in finance works in
correspondence with academic, as students with less financial issues are tend to have better
growth as students and those who have financial issues are more likely of have average
performance in academics.
Balance of work profile – As a student of business management course, many students
face problems in managing their daily work schedule with their academics. Students have to
manage their daily routine like food habits, sleeping habits for better time management and
beneficial in their studies by providing sufficient time.
Importance of effective Academic skills
Academic skills are important because it helps in increasing productivity and learning of
students among management school. These skills include critical thinking, information gathering,
academic integrity, time management, self-discipline, researching skills and online working.
Effective academics skills are important part of students which helps in growth and achieve
career objectives. Some points which shows importance of effective academic skills are
 Time management and critical thinking are important factor which helps in enhancing the
performance of students. These terms also help them in learning business management in
more efficient manner.
 Academic skills help students of business management with better understanding and
response to lectures. It includes the academics skills like remembering information,
taking notes, assignments, test performance, problem solving skills and interaction with
others. It helps in convey knowledge from educators in specific field of study like
management.
 Academic skills are important they provide better communication skills and it includes
factors like information gathering, critical thinking and note taking. All these points
reflect the effective use of academic skill. It provides best way of learning without
wasting a minute on irrelevant activities through critical analysis, specialised factors.

Through these factors students can achieve specialisation in particular area of their
interest.
 Academic skills also help in improving confidence level of students through team work,
group projects. As they got opportunities to prove themselves through various projects. It
also helps them in performing good in exams.
 Academic skills provide read and writing knowledge to students through good learning
habits, these can be important to helps business students to achieve desired goals.
 It also helps in improving problem solving skills of students, through project works,
debate and group discussions. It includes the idea of dialogue, language and gesture used
in corporate world.
 These skills provide good comprehensive knowledge to students which lead them towards
the clear vision and encourages more productivity in management students through
multiple projects in details.
Importance of effective Professional skills
Professional skills also play important role for students to succeed in their work profile.
Professional skills can be important to students for their better work performance in future job
profile, no matter what sector they choose to serve. Some importance of these skills are
Confidence level– Increasing the level of expertise in business students can leads them
towards self-motivation and helps in build confidence. Professional skills provide workshops and
trainings for students to gain skills that can be beneficial for business management students as it
helps in developing skills that can be beneficial for future career of students.
Career opportunities – Professional skill development of business students make easier
to get better job opportunities in future. Through intellectual challenges, learning new skills,
work life balance among students can provide better job time in today's competitive world.
Retention of employees – Professional skills help in developing the sense of loyalty
among professionals and make them work for long duration of time. Providing business students
proper guidance, ensures to complete assigned work efficiently and in effective manner.
Appreciation and recognition can help in maintain retention rate.
Efficiency level – Effective professional skill allows management students to be more
efficient in their working profile. It reflects the advantages like completing assign task and

projects on time. Professional skill development in business students helps in making them more
creative, innovating and communication skills.
All these factors show the importance of professional skill development among business
students. These importance shows different criteria for improving skills among students which
helps in their career growth.
SWOT Analyses
Strength
 Time management skill – As a
management student, it helped in
balancing my daily work with my study
of business management.
 Career opportunities – Academic and
professionals skill development helped
me in growth of my professional career
in competitive market.
Weakness
 Digital skill – less awareness regarding
technological development of learning
methods are reason behind my
difficulties.
 Confidence – Lack of confidence is
major limitation that affects my group
projects and academic performance.
Confidence in me reflects my team
work, group projects as professional. It
brings down the level of my
motivation.
Opportunities
 leadership – This skill reflects the
abilities of leader. Leadership brings
the spirit of positivity among member
and can motivate team members that
can help me achieving productivity
goals of my team.
 Covid 19 – Being a management
student, Covid 19 brings the new
opportunities in education sector like
online sessions, it also makes students
Threats
 Academic pressure – This term reflects
the feeling of stress related to academic
s. This leads to low level of motivation
in me and it affects my work.
 Communication skills – Being a
management student, communication
barrier is major task for me to
overcome. Miscommunication can lead
a team into total misunderstanding and
can bring down the level of morale and

comfortable with technological
changes. It includes different methods
and strategies, that can be beneficial for
providing quality education for
business students.
it effects my studies also.
Action Plan
Action plan shows detailed plan referring to the actions needed for better improvement in
career objectives. Through SWOT analysis, weakness has been analysed and action plan contains
the detail instructions to overcome these weaknesses. Digital skills and level of confidence are
terms which requires improvement to enhance skills for more development opportunities.
Development plan for these weakness is formulated as -
Skills Importance Action Time taken
Digital skills Technological methods for
studying can help me in better
understand my abilities, it can
also help me in navigating
new challenges in
management field. It can also
enhance my level of
confidence to use new
technology for efficiently
studies.
To these skills taking
online courses can be
beneficial. It can be
improved through online
presence, educating
other about technological
changes. Frequently use
of technology and
practising skills over
time can be some
methods used to
overcome digital skills.
3-4 Months.
Confidence level Lack of confidence in me
results in bad academic
performance. Confidence is
important in every field of job
profile. It also affects the way
Confidence level can be
improved by avoiding
comparing us to other
students. Caring less
about other students. By
2-3 months

of my learning different
aspects and understanding of
problems.
making little changes to
routine life style can be
beneficial in improving
confidence level in me.

CONCLUSION
From the above presentation, it is concluded that academic skills and professional skills
play important role in career growth of students. It also describes the challenges face by students
while studying business management like working in team, socialising to students with different
cultural backgrounds, financial issues and new environment. It further shows the importance of
academic and professional skills of business management students like confidence level and time
management skill. Afterwards SWOT analysis shows points of weaknesses and threats, in end to
overcome these weaknesses action plan has been formulated that shows the method of
improvement in business management students.

REFERENCES:
Books and Journals
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D’Alessio, F.A., Avolio, B.E. and Charles, V., 2019. Studying the impact of critical thinking on
the academic performance of executive MBA students. Thinking Skills and
Creativity, 31. pp.275-283.
Delbert, T.M. and Jacobs, K., 2021. Best Practices in Leadership Curriculum Development: A
Case Study of a Curriculum Designed to Foster Authentic Leadership Skills in Graduate
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Plato, K., 2018. Personal and professional skills: something they do teach you at university.
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