Developing Academic And Professional Skills

This presentation discusses the challenges of studying business management and thriving in professional practice. It emphasizes the importance of effective academic and professional skills development, and provides a personal SWOT analysis with a detailed example of actions to develop skills identified as weakness. The subject is BMP4001 Professional & Academic Skills.

BMP4001 Professional & Academic Skills
Assessment 1 - Individual Presentation

Developing Academic And Professional Skills
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Table of Contents
• Introduction
• 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 example of the actions that would be taken to develop skills
identified as weakness in SWOT analysis

Introduction
The current presentation is related with determining the
challenges of studying business management and thriving in
professional practice with appropriate examples. It will also going
to throw light on the significance of effective academic as well as
professional skills development and will also determine effective
team working skills.

Challenges of studying business management
and thriving in professional practice
There are different challenges of studying business management and
thriving in professional practice and these are
• Time management
• Working in teams
• Researching
• Dealing with numbers

Time management
Factors affecting time management
• Planning
• Procrastination
• Prioritization

Working in teams
Teamwork results in two types of outcomes
• Building strong association with cooperation among the students
• Conflicts, competition and failure

Researching
The researching process includes different steps
• Research question
• Hypothesis development
• Data collection
• Evaluating the data
• Conclusion finding

Dealing with numbers
Issues related to pronunciation – Following is the manner of
getting pronunciation in a correct manner

The importance of effective academic skills development
Academic skills
These are being referred as methods being applied to learning. Academic skills are very essential for tertiary
study and it includes different skills such as communication, writing, independent study skills, digital and
numeracy skills and so forth. Some of the importance of these skills include:
• Getting higher grades
• Gaining knowledge
• Approaching assignment in a better way
• Critical thinking
• Motivate students to become more effective learner

The importance of effective professional skills development
Professional development is being defined as continuous career and education training after individual
has attained a desired level of academic skills and experience. Effective professional skill
development offers different benefits and these are as follows:
• Helps in boosting confidence and credibility
• Augments earning potential
• Improved efficiency
• Expands knowledge base
• Open door for future career changes

Identification of one skill that is particularly
important Personal SWOT Analysis
Strengths
 I am very patient and stand out from
crowd
 Can work under pressure
 Effective Communication skills
 Creative and inspiring
 Calm
Weaknesses
 Time management skills
 Overthinking sometimes push me
back
 Leadership skills
 Problem solving skills
Opportunities
 Internship and apprenticeships for
business
 Managerial jobs
 Learning languages
 Using networking for gaining insight
 My career objectives
Threats
 Experienced people
 Competition in the job market
 Being introverted hinder the growth

One skill that is particularly important but I am weak at:
From the analysis of personal SWOT analysis, it has been determined that
there is one skill which is extremely important but I am quite weak at and it is
“Leadership skills”
Leadership skills
For becoming an effective leader, it is important to have an ability to
communicate with other in well-behaved manner, motivate and encouraging
others. Seeking help from the leadership skills individual can learn the
manners of delegating and handling accountabilities and become patient in
listening feedback of others.

Importance of leadership skills
• Drives the team forward
• Taking accountability of decision making
• Boosting engagement and motivation
• Enabling innovation

Detailed example of the actions that would be
taken to develop skills identified as weakness
in SWOT analysis
After analysing the personal SWOT analysis, there are different weaknesses which are
being determined and these are:
• Time management skills
• Overthinking
• Leadership skills
• Problem solving skills
For the development of these determined skills, different actions needs to be
undertaken.

Action plan for developing skills identified in weakness in
SWOT analysis
Skills to be developed Actions to be taken
Time management
 Setting of SMART goals
 Making meetings productive
 Maintaining schedule
 Setting of weekly priorities
 Avoiding multi-tasking
 Delegation of work activities and tasks
Leadership
 Completing the leadership developmental program
 Delegation of activities to sub-ordinates
 Communicating strategic vision and goals of the company effectively
to the sub-ordinates
 Observing other
 Learning from experiences
 Attending meetings with experienced leaders

Continued…
Overthinking
 Let going the past
 Attending yoga classes and meditation
 Focusing on things that can be controlled
 Analysing the responses
Problem solving
 Conducting and attending sessions
 Paying attention on the problem
 Brainstorming sessions
 Attending seminars and discussion
 Management of emotions

Summary
• To conclude it can be said that personal, professional and academic
skills plays a crucial role in the life of each and every individual.
• Seeking help from this, opportunities can be determined significantly
for improving the success of an individual.
• Encouragement of professional and academic skill development
helps in enhancing self-awareness, time management skill,
communication skills and motivation at the workplace
• Thus, through personal SWOT analysis, skillset lacking in an
individual can be easily determined and worked upon for further
enhancement in career

References
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• Johnson, C.C. and Fargo, J.D., 2014. A study of the impact of transformative professional
development on Hispanic student performance on state mandated assessments of science in
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• Koch, A., 2017. SWOT does not need to be recalled: It needs to be enhanced. Swinburne University of
Technology.
• Morgenstern, J., 2016. Time Management from the Inside Out. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
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