BMP4001: Developing Academic and Professional Skills - Presentation

This presentation provides an overview of developing academic and professional skills in the context of business management studies. It addresses the challenges of studying business management and thriving in professional practice, emphasizing the importance of effective academic and professional skills development. The presentation includes a personal SWOT analysis to identify key strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, with a focus on improving team working skills. Actions to develop identified weaknesses are detailed, including joining an online teamwork course. The presentation concludes with a summary of professional development's benefits, such as gaining industry knowledge, boosting confidence, and the creation of a personal development plan with a timeline.

BMP4001 Professional & Academic Skills
Assessment 1 - Individual Presentation

Developing Academic And Professional Skills

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
• Professional and academic skill development is the way of developing
independent skills such as study skills, numeracy skills,
communication and many more.
• Professional development helps in making individuals competent to
their respective professions and excel within the same.
• This report deals with skill development while pursing for the course
of business management.

Challenges of studying business management and
thriving in professional practice (with appropriate
examples)
• Understanding and learning the concepts and working of business
management.
• It helps in creating countless opportunities while on the other hand,
there will be many challenges within the professional way of business
management.

• Being open to learn new things: Individuals learning for business
studies are mostly with a bit work experience can understand the
environment of learning from different members and friends.
• This can be challenging to open up with new people and opening the
mind to learn new things along with looking at things differently with
a different perspective.
Challenges of studying business management and
thriving in professional practice (with appropriate
examples)

• Working in team: This factor is very essential in the professional
context and is hard to develop team working skills.
• While studying for business management, one has to work on
assignments on individual as well as group level.
Challenges of studying business management and
thriving in professional practice (with appropriate
examples)

• Adjusting to new culture: Pursuing the course of business
management is about working within a new environment and adjusting
to new situations while making interactions with variety of people.
• I order to overcome this challenge, it is important to familiarise with
the new business culture and environment.
Challenges of studying business management and
thriving in professional practice (with appropriate
examples)

• Socialising: Networking and socialising are one of the most important
aspects within business studies while understanding the different
between the two.
• This will involve coming across different people from varied
backgrounds and possessing different interests.
Challenges of studying business management and
thriving in professional practice (with appropriate
examples)

• Business management helps in providing academic knowledge and
skills that will benefits for gaining the opportunity and understanding
the business as well as its specific areas.
• Along with the challenges, business management also results in
producing major benefits such as:
• Learning management skills: This is the highlight for learning
business management course and allows to form a valuable asset within
professional career path.
Challenges of studying business management and
thriving in professional practice (with appropriate
examples)

• Understanding various disciplines: It is important to keep the
knowledge window broad with the help of business management
course.
• It helps in understanding various business functions that will lead to
its success and will be able to specialise areas within.
Challenges of studying business management and
thriving in professional practice (with appropriate
examples)

The importance of effective academic skills development
• Professional and academic skills play a vital role as it makes individuals able in performing job roles in an effective
manner and helping out companies in accomplishing goals for which they work. By having academic skills students
can accomplish academic goals in an effective manner. There are number of skills that are common and can help out
individuals at both workplace and university. In addition, it can also be said that professional and academic skills
develop personality of individuals and boost their confidence. Some skills that can be beneficial in both fields include:
• Communication: It is one of the common skills that is vital and can help individuals in accomplishing their goals.
Communication is all about active listening, speaking and influencing others. An effective communication skill can
help individuals in attracting customers, gathering detailed information and making decisions accordingly. On the
basis of self-evaluation, I can say that I am good in this skill and I believe that this skill will make me able in
becoming a successful employee.