Presentation on Personal Skills: Academic & Professional Growth Plan

This presentation provides an overview of personal skills development, emphasizing the importance of both academic and professional competencies for future growth and career success. It highlights the difficulties in learning business administration and thriving in professional practice, and underscores the significance of attaining relevant skills to increase employability. The presentation includes a personal SWOT analysis, identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, along with a self-development plan to address key areas for improvement, particularly in team management. The aim is to equip individuals with the necessary skills to navigate the competitive job market and achieve a sustainable and lucrative career. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the need for continuous skill development and lifelong learning.

Personal skills development
PRESENTATION BASED ASSIGNMENT

Developing academic and professional
competencies
Student Name –
Student ID -

Table of contents
 Introduction
 Difficulties in learning about business administration and thriving in professional
practice
 Significance of attaining academic skills
 Importance of attaining professional skills
 Personal SWOT analysis
 Self development plan
 Summary
 References

Introduction
 Personal skill development helps lays down the foundation of what one achieves on their life
starting from a young age when they start enrolling in schools and colleges. It includes the self-
awareness and reflection, it is the habits which can help the individual students to learn and succeed
in an academic setting. To improve the academic skills, it can practise such activities the ability to
learn, take testes and try to interact with the other students.

Difficulties in learning about business
administration and thriving in professional
practice
 Quite expensive coursed with low return on investment
 Client requirement and the business management field keeps on changing
 The syllabus and models being taught are sometimes too detailed and exhaustive

The importance of effective academic
skills development
 Helps to motivates performance
 Helps to identify the Strengths and Weaknesses of Students
 Active learning skills can be pursued to increase grades and performance

Importance of attaining professional skills
 Helps is getting more lucrative career paths and job roles
 Helps boost employee career progression
 Results in employees performing their job roles with better efficiency
 Allows people to get ahead of the cutthroat completion on modern job markets

Personal SWOT Analysis
STRENGTH
Good communications
Patience
WEAKNESS
Poor management of time
Team work
OPPORTUNITIES
Advance technology
Digital marketing
THREATS
High competition
Lack of computer proficiency
Major weakness which needs immediate focus:
Modern business operations are always undertaken in teams and not knowing effective standards of
team management can prove quite detrimental for my career in the long run.

Self development plan
Skill to be
developed
Current
proficiency
Required
proficiency
Evaluation
Criteria
Course of
action
Timeline
I need to
develop the
team
management
skill to get the
more
opportunities.
My current
proficiency is
low I need to
improve this
I want to
improve my
proficiency high,
so that I can’t
miss any
opportunities.
To better
performance in
team work in
start take part in
grouping activity
and attend
seminars also.
Also doing some
team work and
management
related courses
to develop my
skills and
perform better in
grouping
activities.
2 months

Summary
 In the above presentation discuss regarding the topic of professional and academic
skills. They both are very important for their future growth, they provide more
opportunities to choice their career and successful in its life. It was summarized
from this presentation that in order to make one’s career sustainable and lucrative,
individuals must focus on gaining as many relevant skills as possible to increase
their employability.

References
 Beagon, Ú., Niall, D. and Ní Fhloinn, E., 2019. Problem-based learning: student
perceptions of its value in developing professional skills for engineering
practice. European Journal of Engineering Education, 44(6), pp.850-865.
 Corral-Lage, J., De La Peña, J.I. and Peña-Miguel, N., 2021. Transformation in
economic studies via problem-based learning: facing fears to acquire professional
skills. Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting/Revista Española de
Financiación y Contabilidad, 50(3), pp.359-380.

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