Challenges and Importance of Professional and Academic Skills Development in Business Management

This presentation discusses the challenges faced while studying business management and the importance of professional and academic skills development. It also covers the significance of personal SWOT analysis and how to develop problem-solving skills. The challenges discussed include adjusting to new surroundings, connecting with new people, scheduling, learning to work in a team, balancing academics with other parts of their lives, and expenses.

Assessment 1 - Individual Presentation

Content
• Challenges of studying business management and thriving in professional
practice (with appropriate examples)
• The importance of effective academic skills development
• The 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

Challenges of studying business management and thriving
in professional practice (with appropriate examples)
In today's world many things are changing continuously in order
to make peoples life easier in effective manner. Some of these
challenges are described below:
● Adjusting to new surroundings
● Connecting with new people
● Scheduling
● Learning to work in a team
● Balancing academics with other parts of their lives
● Expenses

The importance of effective professional skills
development
Effective professional skill development is a set of many
activities that help individual to get success in their future
career in effective manner. Following the importance
related to effective professional skill development for an
individual:
● Opens up new opportunities
● Competitive edge
● Makes individual confident
● Increases level of productivity
● Career improvement
● Makes versatile

Identification of one skill that is particularly
important – personal SWOT analysisPersonal SWOT Analysis
STRENGTHS
● My most effective skill is my strategic
thinking.
● I have good analytical, interpersonal and
presentation skill
WEAKNESSES
● I need to improve my marketing skills
● I found difficulty in order to visualize
my potential
OPPORTUNITY
● Meeting with new people from different
country
● volunteering to speak at an forthcoming
group meeting
THREATS
● Stress can lead due to overworked
● Strong competition in the market
One skill that is particularly important, but I am weak at: Problem-solving skill

Detailed example of the actions that would be taken to develop skills identified as
weakness in SWOT analysis
Problems-solving skills are important in order
to conduct a business in effective manner. If an
individual is lack in this they have to perform
some important actions in order to improve it in
effective manner. I can improve my problem-
solving skill by properly identifying the
problems, defining the main elements related to
problem. By examining the possible solution,
act on resolving the problem and looking the
lessons to learn how to solve problems in
effective.

Summary
From the following presentation, it is concluded that professional and academic skills
development provides some effective ability to individual in order to achieve success
in effective manner. Adjusting to new surroundings, Connecting with new people,
Scheduling, Learning to work in a team, Balancing academics with other parts of
their lives and Expenses are some challenges faced by individual while studying
business management and thriving in professional practice in effective manner.

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Thinking Skills and Creativity, 31, pp.275-283.

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