Developing Academic and Professional Skills - BMP4001 Professional & Academic Skills Assessment 1

This presentation discusses the importance of developing academic and professional skills for individuals to achieve better growth and development in the future. It also identifies challenges faced while studying business management and provides a personal SWOT analysis and action plan.

BMP4001 Professional & Academic Skills
Assessment 1 - Individual Presentation

Developing Academic And Professional Skills
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Table of Content
• INTRODUCTION
• CHALLENGES TO BE FACED IN STUDYING BUSINESS MANAGEMENT.
• PRESENTING IMPORTANCE OF EFFECTIVE ACADEMIC SKILLS' DEVELOPMENT
• IMPORTANCE OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLS' DEVELOPMENT
• SWOT ANALYSIS
• ACTION PLAN
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES

Introduction
• Academic and professional skills help the individual in increasing the productivity and helps in gaining success in systematic manner.
• Also, the present presentation will briefly describe various challenges that are faced by any person while studying any business management
course
• Moreover, presentation will identify significance of effective academic skills for any individual to achieve better growth and development in
the future

Challenges in studying business management
• Learning to work in team: Business management requires people to work closely in diverse groups so that certain projects could be
competed on time
• Getting data: While studying subject like business management there are chances that person is not able to get required amount of data on
any topic that is discussed in the class.

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• Uncertainty about future: Business management subject is based on some basic principles and theories that might not be applicable for
future events or activities due to the changing business environment.
• Scheduling: This is also major problem that have to be faced by every business students as there are chances that time adjustment is not
done properly and students have less time left to focus on the other daily routine activities
• Money management: Some business management course requires lot of money to learn things from the practical life experience

Importance of effective academic skills' development
• Academic skills are very crucial so that effective learners might be developed for any future activities.
• Also, there are basic academic skills that need to be learnt by each student so that better learning might be developed.
• Some of these skills are time management skills, note taking, researching skills, essay writing skills and much more
• Thus, all these skills help the individual to build greater self-confidence and motivation to grab best future opportunities.

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• Moreover, proper academic skills' development allow students to develop and strengthen strategies that would minimize overall time and
give best results in the future
• Furthermore, there are various learning centres that offers range of workshops to students so that better academic knowledge could be
gained
• Also, these workshops identify those students that are struggling very hard in developing certain skills and thus allow them to identify their
own areas of improvement so that they might work accordingly on them

The importance of effective professional skills development
• In the current era where most of the people are using modern technologies it is very important that students are able to learn new skills' so
that better decision-making could be done at workplace and individuals are able to adopt flexibility to greater extent.
• Also, professional skills helps the individual to save extra time would be rather spent in the training sessions organized by any firm.
• Moreover, professional skills is very important as it develops great leaders and managers that are able to lead large group of people at
different times

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• Also, it has been seen that professional skills have allowed various persons to solve complex problem as firstly it identifies the issues and
then suggest ways into break down into smaller pieces so that it could be solved in faster manner.
• Furthermore, professional skills also help in developing emotional intelligence among the individuals as it is able to identify needs and
problems of others and then act accordingly
• Also, person with high level of professional skills is able to do better reasoning with others that are either less skilled or have limited
knowledge relating to any particular topic or concept

Personal SWOT analysis
Personal SWOT AnalysisSTRENGTHS
• Ability to pick up new skills in the easiest manner.
• Great attention to small details
• Strong teamwork skills
WEAKNESSES
• Need to improve communication skills
• Poor time management skills and not able to meet project
deadlines
• Less efficient in taking session notes
OPPORTUNITY
• Better career growth opportunities in professional business
environment
• New technologies available to improve business
THREATS
• Certain personal issues that hinders the learning process.
• Lack of availability of finance for higher learning
One skill that is particularly important, but I am weak at: Based on the above analysis I have identified that my time management skill is
very weak as I am not able to manage all my daily routine task in proper manner. Also, due to this most of my tasks either remain pending or
I missed the given deadlines.

Action Plan
Particulars Action taken Resources required Timescale
Time management skill • Prioritizing the tasks
• Dividing daily routine tasks
according to time.
• Giving more time to
challenging tasks.
• Noting down in calendar
to analyse the total time
taken on each tasks
• Keeping timer to track of
activities.
5-6 months

Conclusion
• From above presentation it can be concluded that academic and professional skills are very essential for growth of individual in long run
• Also, presentation had identified certain challenges such as learning to work in team, uncertainty about future, scheduling etc. through
various examples.
• Also, significance of effective academic and professional skills in achieving better future projects had also been discussed in report in
detail.

References
• Danaher, M., Rhodes, A. and Kranov, A. A., 2021. Applying the computing professional skills assessment method to esl students in a
computing program. International Journal of Engineering Education. 37(5). p.1429.
• Retnanto, A., Parsaei, H. R. and Parsaei, B., 2018, July. Capacity building through strengthening professional skills in engineering
graduates. In International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (pp. 146-150). Springer, Cham.
• Trinidad, J. E., Raz, M. D. and Magsalin, I. M., 2021. “More than professional skills:” student perspectives on higher education’s
purpose. Teaching in Higher Education. pp.1-15.
• Zrníková, P. and Bujalková, M., 2018. Development of academic skills and learner’s autonomy in medical English courses. Journal of
Language and Cultural Education. 6(3). pp.1-20.