BMP4001 Presentation: Enhancing Academic and Professional Skills

This presentation focuses on the challenges of studying business management and the importance of developing effective academic and professional skills. It highlights the significance of teamwork, research, stress management, and academic writing. The presentation emphasizes the role of academic strategies, composition, and comprehension in academic success. Furthermore, it discusses the necessity of professional skills like problem-solving, leadership, and communication for career growth. A personal SWOT analysis identifies weaknesses in IT and management skills, with proposed actions for improvement. The presentation concludes that students need these skills to achieve their goals, overcome challenges, and develop both professionally and personally.

BMP4001 Professional & Academic Skills
Assessment 1 - Individual Presentation

Developing Academic And Professional Skills
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Content
• Challenges of studying business management and thriving in
professional practice (with appropriate examples)
• The importance of effective academic skills development
• The importance of effective professional skills development
• Identification of one skill that is particularly important – personal
SWOT analysis
• Detailed example of the actions that would be taken to develop
skills identified as weakness in SWOT analysis

Introduction
Academic skills are defined as collections of learning
strategies, studying and time management instrument
which assist people to learn all the lessons. These
skills helps students not only during their school or
college time but it assist in future also. The purpose of
the following report is to understand the requirement
of academic and professional development and its
value for professional and personal development.

Challenges of studying business management and
thriving in professional practice (with appropriate
examples)
Business management mainly concentrates on planning, coordinating and evaluating a business which is
necessary to manage and conduct a business activities effectively and efficiently. It helps students to understand
what factors makes a company successful and it also assists in knowing what skills and knowledge a person
require to work in business environment. There are many different problems people face while studying
business management which are mentioned below:
• Learning to work as team
• Conducting a research
• Stress
• Academic Writing

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• Learning to work as team- One of the many different problems which are faced by students is
when they have to coordinate are working as a team, as every student comes with different mind
set so it is very tough for them to manage and work as a team to a achieve a particular goal.

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• Conducting a research- Research is an essential task of any student which is actually very effort
full and time taking work because of lack of knowledge and inadequate information which
reduces the effectiveness of the students. They also lack relevant, verifiable and authentic data
evaluation techniques.

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• Stress- Students suffer lots of stress to perform well academically even sometimes teachers and
parents exert so much of pressure on them which can impact their over all academic results and
their personal life too. So sometimes academic studies and pressure can make a student stressed.

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• Academic Writing- During the period of studying management students are assigned with many
projects which are need to be submitted on time. They need to focus on writing large research of
many different subjects and topics which should be completed in short span of time with proper
use of punctuation, proper grammar and reliable content.

The importance of effective academic skills development
• Academic skills are habits which assists students in their
academic activities like presentation, communication,
studying, report writing, analysis social etc. There are
many skills which a student can develop such as
communication skills, problem solving skills,
innovation skills etc. Below are few importance of
effective skills development:
• Academic Strategies
• Composition
• Comprehension

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• Academic Strategies- Writing effective notes are very important for students in order to get
success in their academic learning. Properly taking notes can assists in focusing and knowing
concepts easily. Brief and easily understandable notes can save a student energy, time and future
confusion and help them in getting better results. Simultaneous and non simultaneous notes can
help a student perform better in their academics.

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• Composition- Coherent arguments is very essential in development of effective academic skills
for giving logical arguments. This factor is accomplish when ideas are combined with sentences to
express the main points which are easily understandable. It allows students to grow themselves in
order to their future perspective.
• Comprehension- It is one of the important segment of academic skills development, as it
improves reading skills and develops better knowing of texts of students and it gives students
helpful training in writing which helps in developing writing skills. It also assists in developing
habit of students to learn with care and focus.

The importance of effective professional skills development
Professional skills development refers to all the education, trainings, certification which a person requires to succeed
in their career. In order to be successful a person needs to always upgrade their skills to get more growth in their
professional career and an individual cant posses every skill required for different jobs or businesses. Individual can
learn more skills in order to become better and successful. There are many skills required in a professional career
such as, problem solving skills, leadership skills, organisation skills, communicational skills etc. Below are some
importance of effective professional skills development:
• Confidence
• Increases productivity
• Career Growth

Identification of one skill that is particularly
important – personal SWOT analysis
Personal SWOT AnalysisSTRENGTHS
• Communication Skills
• Work As A Team
WEAKNESSES
• Information Technology Skills
• Management Skills
OPPORTUNITY
• Time Management
• Innovation Skills
THREATS
• Competition
• Dynamic Trends In The Market
One skill that is particularly important, but I am weak at: IT skills and management skills.

Detailed example of the actions that would be
taken to develop skills identified as weakness
in SWOT analysis
• Information and technology skill
• Management skill

Summary
From the above PPT It is concluded that, students requires important skills in order to achieve difficult goal and
objective which can assist them in developing themselves professionally and personally. In addition, they should
focus mainly on the challenges they will see, in order to overcome those challenges, they should know how and
when to use their skills. The students should also know the importance of academic and profession skill
development. Moreover they should perform their own SWOT analysis which can help in identifying weakness
and threats.

References
• Omotosho, K.O., 2021. Home and School Factors as Determinants of Pre-School Children’s Cognitive Skill
Development in Ilorin South Local Government Area, Kwara State (Doctoral dissertation, Kwara State
University (Nigeria)).
• Reißmann, D., Thrän, D. and Bezama, A., 2018. Techno-economic and environmental suitability criteria of
hydrothermal processes for treating biogenic residues: A SWOT analysis approach. Journal of Cleaner
Production, 200, pp.293-304.
• Titthasiri, W., 2020. An Impact of CS Undergraduate Programming Skill on Career Development.
International Journal of Computer Science and Software Engineering, 9(3), pp.60-63.

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