Report on Developing Academic and Professional Skills for Success

This report examines the development of academic and professional skills, highlighting their importance in career advancement and personal growth. It addresses the challenges faced by students in business management, such as adjusting to new environments, balancing academics with personal life, and working in teams. The report emphasizes the significance of academic skills in fostering responsibility, building confidence, and improving analytical capabilities, while professional skills are crucial for increasing work interest, initiating tasks, and planning effectively. A SWOT analysis identifies strengths like strong communication and leadership skills, weaknesses like poor team working and time management, opportunities for better job prospects, and threats related to organizational survival and stress. Teamwork skills are underscored for their role in generating innovative ideas, improving work efficiency, and enhancing project quality. The report concludes by advocating for actions to enhance team working skills, such as understanding goals, clarifying team roles, maintaining a positive mindset, and managing time effectively, ultimately leading to personal and professional success. Desklib provides this and other resources for students to enhance their learning.

Developing Academic and
Professional Skills

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Challenges of studying business management
 Importance of effective academic skill development
 Importance of effective professional skills development
 SWOT analysis
 Importance of team working skills
 Actions to be taken for development of this skills
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
 Development of professional and academic skills is
important for a person as it make them capabilities of ding
a work effectively and provide various opportunities in
life.
 It helps a person to complete a work effectively and
develop career in their desire field.

Challenges of studying business
management
 Adjustment to new surrounding: In order to learn business management,
students sometimes move to another place they choose to study. When a
students move to new city, they need to encounter new environment, new
culture, new people.
 Connecting with new people: For study in colleges or university, student
needs familiar environment and friends as it makes their life easier. It is
important for students to active in social lives with their family and friends.

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 Scheduling: Scheduling also create challenge for students while
studying business management as sometimes there are many classes
in a day and each professor assign some assignments.
 Learning to work in team: It is another challenge in study of
business management as there are various assignments are assigned
by professor.

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 Balancing academics with other parts of lives:
Students also getting challenges in balancing
between academic and other parts of lives. It is
important for students to be dedicated towards
learning but at same time, it is also essential to
live life outside classroom.

Importance of effective academic
skill development
Academic skills refer to collection of habits of study, time
management tool as well as learning strategies which helps a
student to learn as well as absorb knowledge effectively. These
skills are important for various reason which are mentioned
below:
Encourage students to take responsibility: Academic skills
improve knowledge as well as learning of a person which helps
them to be more confidents.

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 Build confidence: Academic skills boost confidence of a students
for doing a work, communicating with others.
 Increase self-awareness: Academic skills are important for
students as it increase self-awareness of a person.
 Improve analytical capability: Development of skills through
education make a person more capable to analyse various
alternatives.

Importance of Professional Skills
Development
Professional skills refer to ability of a person which helps a
person to get success in job These skills are important at
workplace for various reason which are as follows:
 It increases interest in work
 Initiate:
 Helps in planning and organising

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 It increases interest in work: Professional skills are important skill as it
generates enthusiasm in a person for completion of work.
 Initiate: Professional skills make a person self-starter which is important
for employers as they want employees to take initiate for new work.
 Helps in planning and organising: professional skills help a person to
plan and organise things in well manner which helps them to complete a
task in effective manner.

SWOT analysis
Strength Weakness
 Strong communication skills which allow a person to
share view, ideas, thoughts to another person in
effective and clear manner.
 Effective leadership skills which help to influence team
members and provide direction to their efforts.
 Poor team working skills which does not allow to work in
a team. It does not allow individual to work with another
person and allow to work alone.
 Poor time management skills as academic skills require
time management which helps them to schedule all
activities to be done by a person in a day.
Opportunity Threat
 Provide opportunity to find a better jobs on basis of
communication as it is an essential skill required in any
job.
 Receiving of prise on basis of efforts, enthusiasm and
dedication.
 It creates threat for survival of a person in an organisation
as in order work, a person needs to work in a team.
 It does not allow individual to complete work on time and
create work related stress on them due to shortage of time
management skill.

Importance of team working skills
It is important for various reason which are as follows:
 It provides new and innovative ideas as all members are involved in
decision making process.
 It improves efficiency of work as there are various members work together.
 It improves quality of work of a person for project as it there are
collaborative efforts made by different person for completion of work.