Developing Academic and Professional Skills: A Comprehensive Report

This report examines the development of academic and professional skills, crucial for success in business management. It explores the challenges of studying business management and thriving in professional practice, highlighting the importance of effective academic and professional skills development. The report identifies a personal SWOT analysis as a key skill and provides detailed examples of actions to address identified weaknesses, such as decision-making skills. The conclusion emphasizes the significance of focusing on less-skilled areas and utilizing tools like SWOT analysis and career action plans to improve and develop these areas. References to relevant academic sources are also included.

Developing academic and
professional skills

Table of content
 Introduction
 Main body
 Challenges of studying business management and thriving in professional practice
 Importance of effective academic skills development
 Importance of effective professional skills development
 Identification of one skill that is particularly important- personal SWOT analysis
 Detailed examples of the actions that would be taken to develop skills identifies as
weaknesses in SWOT analysis
 Conclusion
 References
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Introduction
Professional skills are defined as the career
opportunities, competencies and the abilities which are used
in the business environment in order to perform a wide
number of business operations (Adepoju and Aigbavboa,
2021). These skills include both soft as well as hard skills
which permit a person in performing its job role in an
effective and efficient manner. Academic skills are those that
helps in enhancing the level of competencies and also
encourage as well as empower the learners or students in
becoming more efficient individual.

Challenges of studying business management
and thriving in professional practice
The concept of business management refers to the
proper management of organisational resources which consist
of financial, technological and human resources. However,
these challenges are needed to be handled by them effectively
as well as efficiently. The key challenges of studying business
management include the following points:
 Complexity:
 Practical aspects:

The importance of effective academic skills
development
Academic skills are those that provides opportunities to a person within its academic
life and it becomes significant for an individual as it permits the student in concentrating on the
process of developing skills along with recognising solutions for the challenges which arise in
academic life of an individual. There are some of the importance of effective academic skills
development which are given as below (Fadilah, Moeis and Indrawardi, 2020):
 Goodwill and reputation
 Academic discipline:
 Personality development:
 Helps in professional and career growth:

The importance of effective professional
skills development
Professional skills allow an individual in developing its growth in the career
and in order to develop professional skills, a person is needed to focus on attainment of
the goals and targets. It is very essential for a person to evolve professional skills for
evolving career opportunities in an effective and efficient manner. The development of
these kinds of skills are significant due to the following reasons that are discussed as
under:
 Career development:
 Growth and expansion:
 Enhances value:

Identification of one skill that is particularly
important- personal SWOT analysis
Strengths Weaknesses
 I have strong team working skills which aids in the
process of effectively carrying out various activities
within a team or group with the aim of achieving goals
and objectives effectively.
 I am weak in team management skills and because of
this I am not able to manage my activities within a
given period.
Opportunities Threats
• This is a great opportunity for me to develop leadership
skills within me as it will help me to lead all the efforts
and actions that are undertaken by the team to achieve
the goals and objectives in the particular period
(Viinikka, K. and Ubani, M., 2019).
 It may be a threat to me that I have less technical skill
and in near future, if more developed and updated
techniques will be used which may pose a threat to me
as I will not have much knowledge of those advanced
techniques.

Detailed examples of the actions that would be taken to
develop skills identifies as weaknesses in SWOT analysis
Skills Action plan Resources Time Frame
Decision making skills To improve my decision making
skills, I will participate in group
discussions which will help me to
decide my thoughts. I will make my
own decisions in specific
circumstances. I would also like to
give suggestions to people for their
problems.
Decision matrix, force-field
analysis, break-even
analysis, SWOT diagram,
decision making diagram,
Pareto analysis, strategy map
and many others.
Within 4 weeks

Conclusion
From above explanation of the presentation, it has been concluded that the development of academic
and professional skills plays a major part in the life of an individual. In order to develop such kinds of skills
and abilities, a person is required to focus on its less skilled areas which will help them in improving those
areas through giving additional attention. SWOT analysis helps a person in identifying its internal strengths,
weaknesses and external opportunities as well as threats that are available in external environment. Career
action plan also facilitates an individual in taking appropriate and corrective measures and actions in
improving and developing less skilled areas.

References
 Adepoju, O. O. and Aigbavboa, C. O., 2021. Assessing knowledge and skills gap for construction 4.0 in
a developing economy. Journal of Public Affairs, 21(3), p.e2264.
 Bobkina, J. and Domínguez Romero, E., 2020. Exploring the perceived benefits of self-produced videos
for developing oracy skills in digital media environments. Computer Assisted Language Learning, pp.1-
23.
 Fadilah, F., Moeis, I. and Indrawardi, J., 2020. Analysis of non-academic skills of Pancasila and civic
education teachers in the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0. In Teacher Education and Professional
Development in Industry 4.0 (pp. 76-80). CRC Press.

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