Developing Academic And Professional Skills - BMP4001 Professional & Academic Skills Assessment 1 - Individual Presentation

This presentation discusses the challenges of studying business management and thriving in professional practice, the importance of effective academic and professional skills development, personal SWOT analysis, and detailed examples of actions to develop identified weaknesses.

BMP4001 Professional & Academic Skills
Assessment 1 - Individual Presentation

Developing Academic And Professional Skills
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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

Introduction
Business management is the process of organising,
Supervising and coordinating the different business
activities and resources in order to accomplished the
specific objective. Special set of skills are required by
the employees of an organisation to achieve the set
goals of the company (Cohen, and Eyal, 2021). These
skills not only help the managers in coordinating
between resources and employees but also help the
organisation to achieve a successful position in the
market.

Challenges of studying business management and
thriving in professional practice (with appropriate
examples)
• The study of business management help a student to gain the knowledge and training about the different
functions of business. This comprises marketing, sales, human resource, finance an d many more. Some of
the challenges which are faced by an individual while pursuing a management course are as follows:-
• Connecting with different people
• Effective Time Management
• Expenses
• Learn Team Management

The importance of effective academic skills development
Skills are the habits and talent which not only help an individual to become a successful person in life bust also
help in learning new and innovative things (Williams, and Saunders, 2020). Here, the importance of developing
effective academic skill in an individual are as follows:-
• Boost the confidence
• Improves learning skills
• Relieve stress
• Make flexible
• Leads to success

The importance of effective professional skills development
• It is very important for an individual to develop effective
professional skills which improves the ability to do
something well. These skills explore the new
opportunities by opening new areas for jobs. Following
are the importance of developing professional skill in an
individual:-
• Develop network opportunities
• Increase efficiency
• Improves the adaptation power

Identification of one skill that is particularly
important – personal SWOT analysis
Personal SWOT AnalysisSTRENGTHS
Communication
Good Listener
WEAKNESSES
Time Management
Problem Solving
OPPORTUNITY
information technology skills
Support from family
THREATS
• Multitasking
• competition
One skill that is particularly important, but I am weak at:

Detailed example of the actions that would be
taken to develop skills identified as weakness
in SWOT analysis
Skills Target needed Development of all these skills Judging criteria Time frame
Time management High For developing this skill within me
first of all I will set the small goals
on daily basis and then set the
target for me to achieve the goal
within the time limit.
I will take report form my friends
and my family members. They will
ensure that whether I achieve the
goal within the time limit or not.
4 months
Problem solving High I will develop this skill by reading
and getting knowledge from
different sources and along with
that I will also pursue different
professional courses to develop
this skill.
I will take feedback from my team
members, family members and
mentors.
3 months

Summary
It is concluded that the study of business management plays a very important role for a student to achieve a
successful position in life. A student have to face different types of challenges like expenses of studies, effective
time management, team management and many more while pursuing management studies. It was also
concluded that development of academic and professional skill in an individual help them to work hard and
motivates them to perform the task with full productivity. Along with this personal SWOT analysis is also done
and their action plan to overcome form the weakness.

References
• Barnard, S., Mallaband, B. and Leder Mackley, K., 2019. Enhancing skills of academic researchers: The
development of a participatory threefold peer learning model. Innovations in Education and Teaching
International, 56(2), pp.173-183.
• Benson, L. and Enström, R., 2017. Deliberate institutional differentiation through graduate attributes:
Implementing professional skills at MacEwan School of Business. Journal of Management Development.
• Cohen, N. and Eyal, N., 2021. Skills mismatch and the migration paradox of Israeli life scientists. Population,
Space and Place, p.e2453.

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