BMP4001: Skills Assessment 1 - Business Management Presentation

This presentation addresses the challenges of studying business management and succeeding in professional practice, emphasizing the importance of developing both academic and professional skills. It identifies personal weaknesses through a SWOT analysis, focusing on leadership skills as an area for improvement. The presentation outlines specific actions to enhance time management, leadership, problem-solving abilities, and overcome overthinking. Key strategies include setting SMART goals, delegating tasks, participating in leadership development programs, practicing mindfulness, and attending brainstorming sessions. The presentation concludes by highlighting the crucial role of personal, professional, and academic skills in achieving individual success and career advancement, advocating for continuous development to enhance self-awareness, communication, and motivation in the workplace. The document is available on Desklib, a platform offering AI-powered study tools and a wealth of academic resources for students.

BMP4001 Professional & Academic Skills
Assessment 1 - Individual Presentation

Developing Academic And Professional Skills
Name & ID

Table of Contents
• Introduction
• 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 example of the actions that would be taken to develop skills
identified as weakness in SWOT analysis

Introduction
The current presentation is related with determining the
challenges of studying business management and thriving in
professional practice with appropriate examples. It will also going
to throw light on the significance of effective academic as well as
professional skills development and will also determine effective
team working skills.

Challenges of studying business management
and thriving in professional practice
There are different challenges of studying business management and
thriving in professional practice and these are
• Time management
• Working in teams
• Researching
• Dealing with numbers

Time management
Factors affecting time management
• Planning
• Procrastination
• Prioritization

Working in teams
Teamwork results in two types of outcomes
• Building strong association with cooperation among the students
• Conflicts, competition and failure

Researching
The researching process includes different steps
• Research question
• Hypothesis development
• Data collection
• Evaluating the data
• Conclusion finding

Dealing with numbers
Issues related to pronunciation – Following is the manner of
getting pronunciation in a correct manner

The importance of effective academic skills development
Academic skills
These are being referred as methods being applied to learning. Academic skills are very essential for tertiary
study and it includes different skills such as communication, writing, independent study skills, digital and
numeracy skills and so forth. Some of the importance of these skills include:
• Getting higher grades
• Gaining knowledge
• Approaching assignment in a better way
• Critical thinking
• Motivate students to become more effective learner

The importance of effective professional skills development
Professional development is being defined as continuous career and education training after individual
has attained a desired level of academic skills and experience. Effective professional skill
development offers different benefits and these are as follows:
• Helps in boosting confidence and credibility
• Augments earning potential
• Improved efficiency
• Expands knowledge base
• Open door for future career changes

Identification of one skill that is particularly
important Personal SWOT Analysis
Strengths
 I am very patient and stand out from
crowd
 Can work under pressure
 Effective Communication skills
 Creative and inspiring
 Calm
Weaknesses
 Time management skills
 Overthinking sometimes push me
back
 Leadership skills
 Problem solving skills
Opportunities
 Internship and apprenticeships for
business
 Managerial jobs
 Learning languages
 Using networking for gaining insight
 My career objectives
Threats
 Experienced people
 Competition in the job market
 Being introverted hinder the growth