Developing Academic And Professional Skills

This presentation discusses the challenges in business management and the importance of academic and professional skills development. It also includes identifying a skill through SWOT analysis and actions to develop the identified weak skill.

BMP4001 Professional & Academic Skills
Assessment 1 - Individual Presentation

Developing
Academic And
Professional Skills

Table of Content
• Introduction
• Challenges in business management
• Academic and Professional skills development
• Identifying one skill
• Actions to develop identified skill
• Summary
• References

Introduction
• Professional and academic skills development is
the process which helps students to improve their
skills and knowledge. With the help of library,
classroom lectures, online sessions, database or
personal learning, searching and reading as well
as oral presentations students will develop their
skills for professional career.

Challenges in business management
• It refers to the course by which people
learn to manage the organisation and
coordination of business functions. It
includes production process, funding,
technologies, marketing and
innovation.

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• Challenges of studying business management
There are many challenges which every have to face during their semester of studying
business management.
• Understanding and learning new concepts
• Time management problems
• Socializing and networking

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• Professional practices
It refers to the practices and work of a student in a particular
profession like medical, management, bank and many others. There
are many challenges for an individual while thriving their
professional practices such challenges are shown below:
• Keeping high quality of professional work
• Managing budget and cost for future growth
• Generating continuous growth by creativity and multi

Importance concerned with effective academic
and professional skills development
Academic and professional Skills Development is the process and course which helps
students to improve their skills and knowledge for the betterment of their professional
career. There are many advantage of effective academic and professional skills
development that are shown underneath:
• To expand knowledge base
• Confidence booster

Identifying a skill through SWOT analysis
Personal SWOT Analysis
Strengths
 Innovative and creative
 Designing skills
Weakness
 Lack in communication
 Lack in public speaking
Opportunities
 Can go into content writing field
 Can be a good designer
Threats
 Can not be a good speaker
 Can not be a good leaders

Actions to developing identified weak skill
• As a student, it is important for individuals to improve their communication skills. In
order to improve communication skills an individual should take following steps:
• Be a good listener-
• Be to the point
• Assertive voice
• Watch my tone

Summary
• From the above presentation, it has been concluded that academic skills are very
important for students in moving ahead in life. These academic skills are needed
to go in an employment or setting up a business.

References
• Bennett-Levy, J., 2019. Why therapists should walk the talk: The theoretical and empirical
case for personal practice in therapist training and professional development. Journal of
behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry. 62. pp.133-145.
• Keen, D., Adams, D. and Simpson, K., 2021. Teacher ratings of academic skills and academic
enablers of children on the autism spectrum. International Journal of Inclusive Education.
pp.1-17.
• Sprott, R. A., 2019. Factors that foster and deter advanced teachers’ professional
development. Teaching and Teacher Education. 77. pp.321-331.

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