BMP4001: Developing Academic and Professional Skills Presentation

This presentation addresses the challenges in studying business management and professional practice, highlighting issues like adapting to change, teamwork, networking, and time management. It emphasizes the importance of academic skills development, such as time management, research, self-discipline, and critical thinking, and explores the benefits of professional skills like teamwork, communication, leadership, and flexibility. A personal SWOT analysis identifies weaknesses and proposes an action plan to improve communication skills through participation in discussions, speech activities, and feedback. The presentation concludes by summarizing the key points and providing references.

BMP4001 Professional & Academic Skills
Assessment 1 - Individual Presentation

Developing Academic And Professional Skills
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Content
• Introduction
• Issues of studying business management and indulging in professional practice
• Benefits of academic skills enhancement
• Benefits of professional skills enhancement
• SWOT Analysis
• Action Plan to Overcome Weakness
• Summary

Introduction
Personal and career/profession development includes many integral components of skills, abilities and
knowledge to gain success in the academic and professional career. Personal and professional development
activities are very important for an individual so that they can achieve their desired academic and professional
goals. This presentation will describe various problems or issues of studying business management and
including in professional practice. Along with this, it consists of the benefits of effective academic skills
development in terms of achieving the desired future goals. The importance of effective professional skill
development will also be elaborated for achieving career goals. In the end, the presentation will present
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats with the help of personal SWOT analysis and explain actions
for overcoming weaknesses.

Issues of studying business management and
indulging in professional practice
Studying in the field of management has its benefits for the students like ready job market, income potential and
others. There are some of the common problems that are encountered by students pursuing business
management and thriving in professional practice that are given below.
• Team Work or Group Work
• Continuously Adapting to changes
• Networking and socializing
• Scheduling and managing time
• Better Communication
• Multi-tasking
• Thinking critically

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Continuously Adapting to changes Team Work or Group Work

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Networking and socializing Scheduling and managing time

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Better Communication Multi-tasking

Benefits of academic skills enhancement
Academic skills can be elaborated as the combination of skills that helps an individual to study, process, retain,
integrate, and apply information in the academics as well as other areas. Academic skills can be considered
integral as they help to raise the productivity and intensity of success at the educational institution for higher
education. The academic skills not only help to improve the level of success in the educational field but it also
helps to enhance the professional skills because most of the academic skills are transferable to the professional
field.
• Managing Time
• Computer skills or digital literacy
• Reading comprehension ability
• Research skills

Benefits of academic skills enhancement
• Time management ability to organize and schedule the time effectively is important for completing
assignments, projects and learnings before deadlines so that productivity can be improved.
• Self-discipline is important for innocent motivation and focusing on priority tasks in an organised manner.
• Computer skills or digital literacy are important for performing research, creating graphics, writing or drafting
assignments etc.
• Reading comprehension ability is important for understanding written instruction, gathering information and
communicating effectively.
• Research skills help to identify data through credible sources and effective search strategies so that academic
work can be completed.

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• Self-discipline
• Goal planning
• Presentation and public speaking
• Writing skills
• Group work
• Constructive criticism
• Critical thinking

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• Self-discipline is important for innocent motivation and focusing on priority tasks in an organised manner.
• Critical thinking is important for effectively analysing information and understanding concepts through
techniques that help to enhance knowledge.
• Group work is important to develop collaboration, better communication, leadership and conflict resolution
among each other for improving team performance.
• Presentation and public speaking is important for interacting confidently and effectively with known or
unknown people.
• Writing skills are important for better processes, communication through writing etc.