Developing Academic and Professional Skills: Importance, Challenges, and Personal SWOT Analysis

This presentation discusses the importance of developing academic and professional skills, the challenges of studying business management, and how to conduct a personal SWOT analysis to identify areas for improvement. It includes detailed examples of action plans to develop weak skills. The subject is academic and professional skills development, and the course code, name, and college/university are not mentioned.

Developing academic and
professional skills

Table of content
 Introduction
 Main body
 Challenges of studying business management and thriving in professional practice
 Importance of effective academic skills development
 Importance of effective professional skills development
 Identification of one skill that is particularly important- personal SWOT analysis
 Detailed examples of the actions that would be taken to develop skills identifies as
weaknesses in SWOT analysis
 Conclusion
 References
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Introduction
Academic skills are those habits, abilities and strategies
which can provide assistance to an individual or a learner
in getting success at their academic level. Such kinds of
skills encourage as well as empower the students in
becoming more effective and efficient learners.
Professional skills are defined as the career abilities and
competencies which are used within the workplace and are
beneficial for performing any job role (Fedorova and
Tsyguleva, 2020).

Challenges of studying business management
and thriving in professional practice
 The study of business management will facilitate
in teaching an individual or a student regarding what
makes a business more successful in an increasingly
saturated global environment. The aspect of business
management also provide assistance to a student with the
knowledge as well as skills for the purpose of working
within an organisation (Galskova, Komochkina and
Selezneva, 2020). Business management is concerned with
the management of human, technological as well as
financial resources in a workplace
 Complexity:
 Practical aspects:

The importance of effective academic skills
development
 Academic skills provide assistance in providing the opportunities to an individual within its
academic life (Samkin and Keevy, 2019). This becomes crucial for a person as it allows the
learner in focussing on the processes of developing skills along with identifying the
solutions for challenges that occur in academic life of a person. There are some of the
importance of developing academic skills which are discussed as under:
 Goodwill and reputation
 Academic discipline:
 Personality development:

The importance of effective professional
skills development
 Professional skills are those skills that provide assistance to an individual
in developing it career and further growth (Sokhanvar, Salehi and Sokhanvar,
2021). In order to develop such kinds of skills, a person is needed to concentrate
on the achievement of the targets as well as goals. This becomes necessary for an
individual to develop professional skills as it helps in providing a wide number of
career opportunities effectively. The importance of developing professional skills is
given as below:
 Career development:
 Growth and expansion:
 Enhances value:

Identification of one skill that is particularly
important- personal SWOT analysis
Strengths Weaknesses
• Strong team working skills
• Effective communication skills
• Poor Time management skills
• Ineffective decision making skills
Opportunities Threats
• Great opportunity to develop leadership skills
(Triezenberg and et.al., 2020)
• Another opportunity for improving
organisational skills
• Less technical skills may be a threat
• Another threat is of ineffective critical and
analytical thinking skills

Detailed examples of the actions that would be taken to
develop skills identifies as weaknesses in SWOT analysis
Skills Action plan Resources Time Frame
Time management skills In order to improve such skill, I
will avoid multitasking,
determine my priorities, avoid
distractions, reduce anxiety
which will help me in
managing my activities in a
particular time period
Calendar, stopwatch,
alarms, timetable, etc
Within 4 weeks

Conclusion
 From above explanation of the report, it has been concluded that the development of these
skills provide support to a person in making sure that the knowledge as well as the skills remain
updated and relevant. Within this presentation, SWOT analysis helps in analysing strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats of an individual. A career action plan facilitates in improving
and developing those areas in which a person is lacking behind. This will help the individual in
chasing competitive advantage over competitors within academic as well as professional life.

References
 Fedorova, M. A. and Tsyguleva, M. V., 2020, March. Developing Master’s Students Professional
Communicative Skills While Teaching Foreign Languages. In Proceedings of the Conference
“Integrating Engineering Education and Humanities for Global Intercultural Perspectives” (pp. 188-
198). Springer, Cham.
 Galskova, N., Komochkina, E. and Selezneva, T., 2020, March. Mastering Academic Communicative
Skills of Master’s Students in Non-linguistic Universities: Integrative Approach. In Proceedings of the
Conference “Integrating Engineering Education and Humanities for Global Intercultural
Perspectives” (pp. 313-322). Springer, Cham.
 Neiles, K. Y., Mertz, P. S. and Fair, J. eds., 2020. Integrating Professional Skills Into Undergraduate
Chemistry Curricula. American Chemical Society.
 Samkin, G. and Keevy, M., 2019. Using a stakeholder developed case study to develop soft
skills. Meditari Accountancy Research.

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