Importance of 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. It includes a personal SWOT analysis and an action plan to overcome weaknesses. The presentation also emphasizes the significance of time management, effective communication, and leadership skills.

BMP4001 Professional&Academic Skills
Assessment 1 - Individual Presentation

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
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Table of content
 INTRODUCTION
 CHALLENGES IN STUDYING BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
 IMPORTANCE OF ACADEMIC SKILLS
 IMPORTANCE OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
 PERSONAL SWOT
 ACTION PLAN
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
A students life is a complete learning experience right
from the beginning in the schools and academicals
institutions to their jobs and respective professions.
An individual can learn anything from a lot of places.
The learnings that a students gets to learn from
schools such as reading, writing, listening, reasoning
and many more are known as academicals skills.

CHALLENGES IN STUDYING BUSINESS
MANAGEMENT
Business management is the study of data analysis and all the
strategies that are related to a business enterprise and its management.
Business management is one of the most complex and difficult
subjects for students. Many students and professional businessman
faces many challenges in pursuing business management, some of
which have been mentioned here below:
 Coordination
 Time management
 Tracking team productivity

IMPORTANCE OF ACADEMIC SKILLS
Academic skills are the first stepping stone towards
growth and success. A firm grab of all basic academic
skills helps each and every person in ways more larger
than they could imagine (Trinidad, Raz, and
Magsalin, 2021).. Although there are enormous
importance of academic skills for students, a few of
them are mentioned here below:
 Bringing out confidence
 Effective communication

IMPORTANCE OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Professional environment in itself is great opportunity to learn new
skills and grow as person. There are many professional skills which
are of utter importance to the person such as presentational skills,
adaptability, quick and crucial thinking and many more. Few of the
advantages of professional skills in the life of every individual are
mentioned here below:
 Team work
 Flexibility
 Leadership

PERSONAL SWOTPersonal SWOT AnalysisSTRENGTH
• Positive attitude
• Thorough thinker
WEAKNESS
• Lack sense of responsibility
• Poor time management
OPPORTUNITY
• Learn new skill
THREATS
• Rising academical competition
• Financial situation
• One skill that is particularly important, but I am weak at: poor time management

Action plan
Skill Resources Judgemental criteria Time period
Sense of
responsibility
For being a responsible person I
will ask from my parents and
mentor to assign me a task from
which I can become a
responsible person.
To judge whether I have
overcome my weaknesses or
not for this I will compare
my actual performance from
my past performance.
three to four months
Time
management
For being a valuable person and
to manage the time I will join
the personality development
classes or I will do the target
work.
If I am completing my work
on time and I am punctual.
From past performance
3 months.

Conclusion
It is concluded that in a student life academical skills
and professional skills both are essential. A student
learns many things from their academics such as
reading writing and many more along with this a
student learns to communicate efficiently and boost
the confidence. Whereas professional skills help to
develop the leadership quality and team work.

REFERENCES
 Rose, H., Curle, S., Aizawa, I. and Thompson, G., 2020. What drives success in
English medium taught courses? The interplay between language proficiency,
academic skills, and motivation. Studies in Higher Education, 45(11), pp.2149-2161.
 Rasheed, D.S., Brown, J.L., Doyle, S.L. and Jennings, P.A., 2020. The effect of
teacher–child race/ethnicity matching and classroom diversity on children's
socioemotional and academic skills. Child Development, 91(3), pp.e597-e618.