Professional and Academic Skills Development

This presentation discusses the challenges of studying business management and the importance of effective academic and professional skills development. It also includes a personal SWOT analysis to identify one important skill and provides detailed examples of actions that can be taken to develop skills identified as weaknesses.

Professional and Academic Skills
Development

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Challenges of studying business management and thriving in professional
practice with appropriate examples
 Importance of effective academic skills development
 Importance of effective professional skills development
 Identification of one skill which is particularly important-personal SWOT
analysis
 Detailed example of the actions that can be taken in order to develop skills
identified as weakness in SWOT analysis
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Professional and academic skills development refers to those skills which are very
significant at organisational level. Development at professional level refers to
instructors who are improving developing their skills in order to meet better
requirements of their students. Academic skills are those which includes learning
to learn, working with others and manage tasks and solve problems into
appropriate manner. The present report will cover analysis about challenges of
studying business management and in which manner it can be applicable at
professional level.

Challenges of studying business
management and thriving in professional
practice with appropriate examples
There are certain challenges which has been faced by an individual while
studying business management and it is defined into the following manner:
 Being open to learn new things: As a student of business management,
it is important to learn new things and should have open nature as well so
that students can adopt new things with free nature. From professional
aspect, it is necessary that they are open in terms of learning new things
with new experiences so that they can face realistic situations with full
confidence level.

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 Socializing and networking: While studying for business
management, it has been observed that people comes from
different backgrounds due to which it is difficult to socialise and
network into appropriate manner. It is important to socialise
because it will give better perspective of things and it will help in
terms of working towards project into collaborative
manner(Desimone and Pak,., 2017). From professional context, it is
important that to socialise at organisational level due to which
individuals can work into more appropriate manner when they have
proper collaboration with other people. When there is no proper
networking among team members then it is a challenging task to

Importance of effective academic skills
development
Academic skills are important due to certain reasons and it is defined into
following manner:
 Contribute in terms of improving productivity: Academic skills are
important because they contribute in terms of increasing productivity at
school and university level. When an individual has some qualities then
they will progress in terms of their career due to which it will contribute
in terms of increasing productivity in the form of large number of
selections at University level for purpose of job.

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 Increases rate of selection for job or professional life: Effective academic
skills also contribute in terms of selection for job. In this competitive world,
skills plays a very important role due to which an individual can work with
their full confidence level. These skills also act as support system in terms of
standing out differently at professional level. So academic skills will
contribute in terms of increasing the rate of selection in this professional
world.

Importance of effective professional
skills development
Professional skills development are very important for an individual in terms of
establishing themselves towards the positive future and it is defined into following
manner:
 These skills are important from professional point of view and their development is
also important because it opens up new opportunities for an individual that offers a
lucrative packages and if proper development has not been done then individual stuck
into particular situation and can't move forward in terms of their career. Professional
skills development basically gives competitive edge to an individual and it helps in
terms of keeping ahead from their competitors and also makes an individual more
acceptable towards increasing market standards.

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Professional skills development also help in terms of increasing the level of
productivity. With support of advanced knowledge, the productivity has been
increased on a very fast pace manner in terms of future. It is exactly
companies expect from their employees. It has been observed at
organisational level the more productive an individual is, the more valuable
an individual is at organisational level. Professional skills development is
also important because it makes an individual more efficient and effective as
well. Professional development in advanced manner, also help in terms of
delivering results into more accurate manner.

Identification of one skill which is
particularly important-personal
SWOT analysis
Personal SWOT analysis act as important parameter in terms of identifying one
skill which is very important for an individual. This SWOT analysis basically
provides an insight which is based on personal strengths, upcoming challenges
and present opportunities which can maximise in pursuit of career goals.

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STRENGTHS
Good learning ability
Strong in terms of communication skills
Problem-solving skills
Hard working nature with smart approach
WEAKNESSES
Weak in terms of concentration power
Lack of initiative in terms of learning new
things
Takes time in terms of grasping things
Poor in terms of multi tasking
OPPORTUN ITIES
Act as support system for an organisation in
terms of technical parameter
Good in terms of making networks and
contacts
A new role in terms of project handling at
organisational level
New and updated skills act as important
parameter for an organisation
THREATS
Competition for same role with the peers
Lack of initiative in terms of new things act
as threat for me at professional level
Not adjusting with changing environment act
as threat for me at professional level

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One skill which is very important from professional point of view or learning
business management is communication skills because on the basis of this skill,
an individual can easily work within team and can make their effective stand at
professional level. When an individual has good communication skill then
misunderstandings can be minimised into positive manner.

Detailed example of the actions that
can be taken in order to develop skills
identified as weakness
According to personal SWOT analysis, it has been observed that an individual has
some strengths and also have weaknesses as well due to which for improvement
in this spectrum certain corrective actions needs to be taken so that positive
development can be done within an .For improving the weaknesses, certain
corrective actions has been taken through setting three types of goals which are
named as short-term goals, medium term goals and long term goals as well.

Conclusion
The above stated report concludes that professional and academic skills
development is very important from personal and professional point of view. It
has been concluded that there are certain challenges which has been faced by an
individual while studying business management and from professional point of
view it has impact which affect the working of an individual. It has been
determined that academic skills are very important for an individual career and
these skills act as base for the progression in terms of their career.

References
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 de Prada Creo and et.al., 2020. The acquisition of teamwork skills in university students
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 Desimone, L. M. and Pak, K., 2017. Instructional coaching as high-quality professional
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 Foster and et.al., 2019. What’s So Hard About Soft Skills? When they enter the work world, our
former students can no longer count on IEP support. To succeed, they need “soft skills.” And
we can help students cultivate them.
 Hilton and et.al., 2016. Promoting middle school students’ proportional reasoning skills through
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