Academic & Professional Skills Development for Business Management

This report explores the challenges faced by students in business management, both academically and professionally, emphasizing the significance of developing effective academic and professional skills. It delves into adapting to new environments, building connections, managing schedules, working in teams, balancing academics with personal life, and handling expenses. The report highlights the importance of professional development in increasing retention, building credibility, facilitating succession planning, re-energizing staff, enhancing efficiency, expanding knowledge, and boosting earning potential. Furthermore, it underscores the necessity of effective teamwork skills such as communication, time management, problem-solving, listening, critical thinking, and collaboration for success in business management. The document concludes by reiterating the critical role of academic and professional skills in navigating the complexities of business management studies and professional practice.

Professional and Academic
Skills Development

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 MAIN BODY
 Challenges of studying business management and thriving in professional practice
 Importance of effective academic and professional skills development
 Effective team working skills
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
 The academic skills are important for studying the business management while some of
these important academic skills are the digital and the numeracy skills, communication,
writing and the independent study skills.
 This report will discuss the challenges that occur while studying the
business management and while thriving in the professional practice, the importance of
the effective academic and the professional skills development and the demonstration of
the effective team working skills.

Challenges of studying business management
and thriving in professional practice
 Adapting to new surroundings
When the students select the programs while they move to the business schools. Majority of the
students tend to choose the locations which are far from their home place and sometimes they can
even move out of the country.
 Connecting with new people
When the students did not join the business school then before that they have kind of active social
lives with the family and the friends and also the neighbours. Although in school the students are
required to meet the new peers for the interaction like the lecturers and the classmates. These
students need to make new friends in the school with the same mentality of the people that might
actually take some time

 Scheduling
The students learning the business management need to make a proper schedule in which they
have to divide their timings for the preparation of the presentations, study groups and the other
academic works which can take a lot of time of these students.
 Learning to work in a team
In learning the business management, the students are sometimes required to perform or work
individually and at times they are required to work in the groups. This can also become
complicated for those people who feel comfortable in working alone. Although, a person need to
learn to work in groups for being successful in the project
 Balancing the academics and other lives
The students learning the business management have to give a lot of their time to learning but
they also need to maintain the balance between the academics and the outer life which involves
their friends, hobbies, social life and other roles and the responsibilities that they have

 Expenses
The course of the business management is very expensive and so the
students are needed to deal with it. Although, there exists the loans for
the students which are being given in majority but some of the students
take the scholarships but still they have to take on extra personal
expenses which consists of the food and utilities, rent and also some of
the money for the purpose of entertainment. Some of the people also
have to work on the part time basis for meeting their financial
requirements

Importance of effective academic and
professional skills development
 Increases retention
As increased number of the people are looking for the cost cutting opportunities like the training then the organisation
can differ from the rest by providing and doing the promotion of the professional development alternatives.
 Develop credibility and confidence
Offering the employees with the professional development training that permits the staff to create the confidence in
the specific task that they perform which also assist them in the creation of the credibility while they acquire the new
skill certificates and sets.
 Make the succession planning easier
The professional development is one of the most important tool which is used in training the leaders for the future in
the organisation. Instead of hiring the candidates from outside the business the leaders must do the promotion in the
organisation only that will lead to the staff to think that they have the longer period of the time or career in the
organisation

 Re-energizing the staff
Professional development can assist in preventing the monotony of the routine work and it will also help in
re energising the creativity of the staff
 Enhanced efficiency
Professional development not only provides the new skill sets but it also permits the staff to take on the
opportunities in order to learn from the others in the process of training.
 Expands the knowledge base
The continuing opportunities in the field of education and the professional development can help the
individuals to acquire the latest ideas, enhance their knowledge and also enhance their expert or
knowledge in that particular field..
 Boosts the credibility and confidence
When the individuals increases their knowledge with the help of the professional development then their
confidence in their task or the particular project tends to rise

 Increases earning potential and hireability
The continuing education and the professional development provides the individuals with
a lot of opportunities to increase their potential of earning and also enhances the
knowledge and the upgraded skill sets
 Offer new working opportunities
Workshops, conferences and the other networking events permits the professionals to
interact with other people in their industry that can help them with the new career
opportunities in the future.
 Keeps the professionals aware of the industry trends
The continuing education and the professional development along with the learning
opportunities are the best measures in which they can be aware or stay up to date with the
trends and the knowledge of the industry.

Effective team working skills
 Communication
It is very important in the effective teamwork if an individual is working in the group to make the presentation or
starting a new project or task at the work, it is necessary to communicate in an open and honest manner with the
members of the group about the deadlines, responsibilities and the expectations
 Time management
Responsibility, accountability and time management are important for the building of the career in a equal
manner.
 Problem solving
The ones who are the effective problem solvers tends to think outside of the box when any kind of the issues or
the problem occurs. Instead of focusing on the negative results, these kind of the people tend to stay calm and
also they are likely to help the team members in finding out the solution.

 Listening
When performing in the groups, it is necessary to be open minded and
identifying that the team members can see the things from another opinion and
also listening to them.
 Critical thinking
This kind of the skill permits the individual to be better and make improved
decisions as at times thinking in a critical manner will help in the solving of the
problem in a different and easy manner.
 Collaboration
Performing in a team can become challenging sometimes but also it is
considered as a great opportunity for discovering the creative and the new ideas,
share multiple perspectives and the experiences and it also helps in improving
the skills of the individual.

CONCLUSION
 This report will discuss the challenges that occur while studying the business management and
while thriving in the professional practice, the importance of the effective academic and the
professional skills development and the demonstration of the effective team working skills.
 As the job training is an important aspect of the professional development, this type of
the concept also have the wide range of the topics and the formats that are related to the formal
education, advances professional learning and the specialized training. These kind of the learning
activities also differs on the basis of the sector, experience and the function which involves the
training workshops, e-learning programmes, industry conferences and the professional development
courses.