Enhancing Professional & Academic Skills: Business Management Report

This report examines the professional and academic skills essential for business students, focusing on challenges encountered and skills required in the workplace. It highlights the importance of academic skills such as writing, research, and referencing, alongside professional skills like problem-solving, leadership, and communication. The report includes a SWOT analysis to assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, culminating in an action plan for personal development with specific goals for time management and decision-making abilities. The conclusion emphasizes the role of these skills in career development for MBA students, underscoring the significance of effective communication for skills enhancement. References to relevant academic literature are also provided.

Professional and Academic
skills

Table of content
 Introduction
 Key challenges Business students may face and explain why there are a challenge
 Identify and explain the skills required at work
 Academic and professional skills
 SWOT analysis
 Action plan
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
The professional development is the learning or development of skills or knowledge that to enhance
better current work practice and future career. In every professional skills there requirement of proper academic
skills which enhance more leads towards that generate positive base outcomes in term of success. Academic
skills are made up of better high core skills such as academic writing, presentation skills presenting referencing
which undertaken for more complex of skills such as critical thinking and other reflective practice.

Key challenges Business students may face
and explain why there are a challenge
 Academic writing
 Researching
 Meeting deadlines
 Team working
 Harvard referencing

Identify and explain the skills required at
work
 Problem solving
 Leadership skills
 Communication skill

Academic and professional skills
The description of business management is the branch about education which provides
knowledge and trying pertaining towards effective planning and getting proper guidance
through experts within business enterprise.
As the platform of business management is wider concept which commence different base of
project and implementing skills and attributes such as Communication, adaptability, decision
making and other certain aspect to generate more productive outcomes.
There are some of the challenges which business can faces like lack of communication,
leadership, unethical decision making arises.

SWOT analysis
 Strengths
 Weaknesses
 Opportunities
 Threats

Action plan
What do I want to learn? What do I have to do? What support and resources
will I need?
How will I measure
success?
Target date for review?
Time management Time management ability
has to be created so that I
can accomplished my task
work in particular field of
the deadline.
My coach will provide
accurate response and it will
support me to enhance my
time management abilities.
I will evaluate my success
rate as per to the reviews
that are given by coach.
20 September
Decision making I have to increase my
decision making abilities as
it will support me to
enhance my potential to
handle the task work
suitably.
My staff and group faculty
were asked about my
experience and working
skills.
Response will be
interpreted from superior
and coach and on the
framework of their response
of their performance that
are evaluated
15/10/21

Conclusion
From above report of professional and academic skills is summaries about
studying business related business management where student use to create their
career path goal at the time of pursuing MBA. During that particular course
candidate use to reform career in better performance. Using with skill of
communication that scrutinize importance to create an effective skills development.

References
• Meissner, D. and Shmatko, N., 2019. Integrating professional and academic knowledge: the
link between researchers skills and innovation culture. The Journal of Technology Transfer,
44(4), pp.1273-1289.
• Ye, J., 2019. Designing an Academic Skills Bridging Course for University Freshmen.
International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 9(11), pp.836-842.