Professional and Academic Skills Development

This presentation discusses the challenges faced by students while studying business management and thriving in professional practices. It emphasizes the importance of effective academic and professional skills development and provides actions to develop a weak skill. The subject is BMP4001 Professional & Academic Skills and the course name is not mentioned. The presentation is relevant to students in any college or university.

BMP4001 Professional & Academic Skills
Assessment 1 - Individual Presentation

Developing
Academic And
Professional Skills

Content
• Introduction
• Challenges in business management
• Academic skills development
• Professional skills development
• Identifying one skill
• Actions to develop identified skill
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
Skill development is said to practice to determine skill gap in a learner and providing skilling based
training along with employment advantages to them. The aim of the presentation is to analyse
challenges of studying business management along with thriving in practices of professionalism. It is
prepared for analysing significance of effective skill development and actions for developing
particular skill.

Challenges in business management
While studying business management, various challenges that are faced by a student are as follows:
• Scheduling
• Adjusting to new environment
• Working in a team

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At the time of thriving professional practice, certain challenges faced by a student:
• Creating growth through lead generation and conversion
• Different needs of customers

Importance concerned with effective academic
skills development
Academic skills are combination of core skills which underpin huge complex skills to complete
studies. Academic skill development is a practice to recognise skills in students and provide them
training to improve them at required extent. Development of academic skills is important for
following reasons:
• Encourage to become efficient learners
• Builds confidence

Professional skill development
Certain importance of professional skill development are as follows:
• Makes succession planning easier
• Improves efficiency

Identifying a skill through SWOT analysis
Personal SWOT AnalysisSTRENGTHS
• Hard working and have excellent innovative
ideas
• Flexible
WEAKNESSES
• Lack communication skill
• Difficulty in following
OPPORTUNITY
• Learning new technologies
• Improving intra-personal skill
THREATS
• Intense competition
• Heavy academic and occupational pressure
One skill that is particularly important, but I am weak at:
Communication skill

Actions to developing identified weak skill
For development of communication skill that is identified as weakness in SWOT Analysis, some
actions are as follows:
• Taking notes and re-read
• Watching tones
• Speaking directly

Summary
• From the presentation, it is concluded that academic and professional
skills development improve ability to learn as well as achieving
success in life.

References
• Delderfield, R. and McHattie, H., 2018. The person-centred approach in maths skills development: Examining a case
of good practice.
• Lansdell, P., Marx, B. and Mohammadali-Haji, A., 2020. Professional skills development during a period of practical
experience: Perceptions of accounting trainees. South African Journal of Accounting Research. 34(2). pp.115-139.
• Plant, K., Barac, K. and Sarens, G., 2019. Preparing work-ready graduates–skills development lessons learnt from
internal audit practice. Journal of Accounting Education, 48, pp.33-47.
• Retnanto, A., Parsaei, H.R. and Parsaei, B., 2018, July. Capacity building through strengthening professional skills in
engineering graduates. In International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (pp. 146-150).
Springer, Cham.

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