Developing Academic and Professional Skills for Business Management

This assignment explores the crucial development of academic and professional skills within the context of business management. It begins by outlining the challenges students face in this field, such as adjusting to new environments and balancing studies with other commitments. The assignment then emphasizes the importance of both academic and professional skill development, highlighting how these skills contribute to career advancement and success. It delves into the significance of effective communication, teamwork, and time management. A SWOT analysis is presented to showcase strengths like a learning attitude and opportunities for teamwork. The assignment concludes by reinforcing the value of these skills and includes a comprehensive list of references from books and journals to support its claims. The content provides a framework for students to understand how these skills are important in the workplace.

DEVELOPING ACADEMIC
AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
MAIN BODY
• 1 Describe the challenges of studying business management and thriving in professional practice.
• 2 Explain the importance of effective academic and professional skills development
• 3 Demonstrate effective team working skills
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES
Books and Journals

INTRODUCTION
• Professional skills and academic skills has huge
importance in the career development of students.
Academic skills represents the abilities and habits of
learner to become successful in his studies. These
skills contains the analyses, way of communication,
students social skills, studying and technical abilities
(Ansari and Biswal, 2022). Professional skills are
combination of both hard and soft skills.

DESCRIBE THE CHALLENGES OF STUDYING BUSINESS
MANAGEMENT AND THRIVING IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE.
While studying business management many students has to face challenges to grow in terms of
professional practice (Baik and Greig, 2009). Some of the barriers has been discussed below –
• Adjusting to new surroundings
• Connecting with new students
• Expenses
• Balance between studies and other part

EXPLAIN THE IMPORTANCE OF EFFECTIVE ACADEMIC AND
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
Importance of effective Professional skills
Professional skills plays important role in developing the career of business management students (Fadil and
Khaldi, 2020). Professional skills helps in building career and also help in succeeding in job. These skills are important for
professional students such as communication, team work, coordination, problem solving and should be a creative or have
critical thinking. These skills plays major role in developing the professional career for students. Some of the benefits has
been explained below -
• Opens up new opportunity – Professional skills development in students will promote the new growth opportunities for
its career. To avail new job opportunities or growth students should have effective professional skills that could help them
in building their professional career in more efficient way.

CONTINUE
Importance of effective Academic skills
Academic skills help students in increasing their confidence, their strengths, abilities to do work or
competency level (Plato, 2018). Some of the importance of effective academic skills are described as -
• Academic skills provides a direction in which student can manage their work schedules and studies in an
effective manner. Time management is considered as most important factor in academic skills. This
could lead students to better learn the aspect related to the business management subject effectively.

DEMONSTRATE EFFECTIVE TEAM WORKING SKILLS
SWOT Analyses –
Strength
• Learning attitude
• Hard working
Weaknesses
• Wanted to do best every time
• Procrastination
Opportunity
• Team work
• Time management
Threats
• Concentration on studies
• Communication skills

CONTINUED
Action Plan Skills Importance Action Time taken
Communication skills Good communication
skills are important in
every business
management student. It
does not only required in
professional growth but for
personal improvement
also. Effective
communication skills are
most important to better
understand the lectures.
To increase the
communication skills,
students should more focus
on more listening, on body
language and should verify
or clear about the message
before convey.
2-3 Months.

CONCLUSION
• From the above presentation, it has been evaluated that professional and
academic skills has their own importance and place in career development
procedure of student. This presentation also includes the brief explanation about
the challenges that has to be face by every student while studying business
management course respectively.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
• Ansari, S.P. and Biswal, A., 2022. CREATING A MOOC IN TEACHER EDUCATION–TEN
STEPS ACTION PLAN. Towards Excellence, 14(2).
• Baik, C. and Greig, J., 2009. Improving the academic outcomes of undergraduate ESL
students: the case for discipline‐based academic skills programs. Higher Education Research &
Development, 28(4). pp.401-416.
• Cole and Et. AL., 2019. Constructive Alignment Beyond Content: Assessing Professional
Skills in Student Group Interactions and Written Work. In Research and Practice in Chemistry
Education (pp. 203-222). Springer, Singapore.

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