Developing Academic & Professional Skills: A Business Student's Guide

This report explores the development of academic and professional skills vital for business students, highlighting key challenges such as academic writing and essential workplace skills like problem-solving, leadership, and communication. It emphasizes the importance of skills like prioritizing work, meeting deadlines, communication, and learning, noting similarities and differences between academic and professional contexts. The report includes a personal SWOT analysis to identify strengths (effective communication) and weaknesses (time management), with short-term and medium-term action plans for improvement. The conclusion underscores the significance of continuous skills development for both individual and organizational success. Desklib offers a range of resources, including past papers and solved assignments, to support students in their academic and professional journeys.

Developing Academic and Professional
Skills

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Key challenges business students may face and explain why they are a challenge
 Skills required at work
 Four academic and professional skills and describe why it is important to
develop these skills
 Performing personal SWOT analysis and action plan to develop lacking skill
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Business management refers to coordination and
organisation of business activities into positive manner
for achieving organisational objectives and goals as
well. Management is basically refers to controlling and
directing the group of people to reach to a certain goal
within a set period of time. In the professional and
personal life, there are certain skills which needs to be
developed to grow in terms of their career.

Key challenges business students may face
There are certain challenges which business students face during
the time period of learning and it is defined into following manner:
 Academic writing: They have to face problems related to
plagiarism and research part while writing at academic level.
For writing a good content, it is necessary that students have to
do research into appropriate manner in order to deliver an
appropriate content.

Skills required at work
There are certain skills which are required at professional level in
order to meet out the deadlines and it is explained into following
manner:
 Problem solving: For showing the range of competencies at
professional level business students should have problem solving
skills.

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 Leadership: This skill will help in terms of leading the team
into positive manner at professional level. Leadership is
important because as it brings out best capabilities and
abilities in their team members.
 Communication skills: This skill plays a very important role
in professional life because to execute the task into
appropriate manner it is necessary that problems needs to be
discussed into positive manner. If each team member
receives correct information then it is easier to achieve goals
within a set period of time.

Four academic and professional skills and describe
why it is important to develop these skills
Similarities between prioritising work and meeting
deadlines: Both these skills have common factor that
they are based on time. For meeting out deadlines
and prioritising work both require proper planning
and strategy for executing task into effective manner.
Under both these heads, they have to use correct
approach in order to execute task into effective
manner.

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Professional Skills: In this business world, professional skills are important
because these skills determine success and failure as an employee. These skills
contribute in terms of the way people cooperate with each other, handles the
workload and act in the office environment.

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Differences between communication and learning skills: Learning skills can be developed within a
set period of time and communication skills development is a long term process and also it takes
longer period of time as compared to communication skills(Grant., 2018). Learning skills can be
developed by assuming things and also based on imagination. Communication skills can be done
without imagination parameter and it can be done at any place.
Importance of communication and learning skills: At professional level it is necessary to have good
communication skills so that an employee can easily work within a team and can also interact in
positive manner with other senior staff as well.

Performing personal SWOT analysis and
action plan to develop lacking skill.
Personal SWOT analysis is crucial as it
provides assistance in understanding oneself
and is an vital step towards determine life
and career direction. Given below is my
personal SWOT analysis:
Strengths:I have effective communications
skills that assist me in expressing my
opinions and ideas to other clearly.

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Weaknesses:I lack of proper management of time in order to complete task in one
of my major weakness.
 I can get stressed when I am under pressure for large amount of work-load
which reduces my performance.
 I lack motivation when I encounter multiple tasks in a shirt-period of time.

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Threats: The increases in competition is high which will require for me to have
valuable skills and abilities to gain advantage.
 High level of stress an cause imbalance in my personal and professional life.
 Increased procrastination can be developed if I get demotivated by
incompletion of tasks.