Developing Academic and Professional Skills for Business Success

This report discusses the challenges of studying business management and thriving in a professional practice. It highlights the significance of developing effective academic and professional skills, including learning new things, teamwork, socializing, and time management. Academic skills, such as learning habits and time-management, are crucial for mastering literacy and technical subjects. Professional skills, including personal traits and habits, are essential for job success and reducing employee turnover. The report includes a personal SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, focusing on improving interpersonal and problem-solving skills through group activities and mentorship. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of skill development for effective business management.

DEVELOPING ACADEMIC
AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

TABLE OF CONTENT
• Introduction
• Challenges of studying business management and thriving in professional practice
• Significance of effective academic skills development
• Significance of effective professional skills development
• Identification of one skill set
• Action Plan
• Conclusion
• References

INTRODUCTION
• Studying business management is all about learning
the way of organising and coordinating several
business activities.
• Moving forward to build career in the area of
management means to make and influence employees
to reach their best levels that brings efficiencies and
productivities in the organisation.

CHALLENGES OF STUDYING BUSINESS
MANAGEMENT AND THRIVING IN
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
• When an individual looking to build his or her career
in the business management, it is very important to
have a right knowledge and learning to develop such
skills that required to manage people and business in
the organisation.

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• Some of them are mentioned below:
• Being open to learning new things
• Working in a team
• Socialising and networking
• Schedule

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• Being open to learning new things- When an individual wants to grow in management line, then there is a
requirement to spend two years to get a master degree of management.
• Working in a team- Management involves people to work with and to deal with. It is more important for an
individual to learn to work within a team who involves diverse people.
• Socialising and networking- During the time of studying, there is a chance of meeting new people who come from
diverse backgrounds and have different tastes and preferences.
• Schedule- In order to get a degree of business management, it is quite complicated to handle and manage busy
schedules and one hardly have enough for everything.

SIGNIFICANCE OF EFFECTIVE ACADEMIC
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
• Academic skills is meant by a set of learning habits,
time-management tools, learning strategies that
support a learner to learn and acquire various
academic lessons.
• These skills commonly assists the student to master on
literacy and other technical subjects such as physics
and English.

IMPORTANCE OF ACADEMIC SKILLS
• Academic skills are essential for an individual as they can boost the success and productivity level at college or
school and then these skills may help in performing future activities.
• Beyond support and assistance, one can earn the academic credentials that he or she may require to get a job in the
well reputed organisation.
• For instances, work in teams, finishing multiple tasks, passing message is helpful and beneficial to the make a good
career in the management field.

SIGNIFICANCE OF EFFECTIVE PROFESSIONAL
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
• Professional skills are those skills or abilities that are
required by an individual to get a good job and
success in the dream organisation.
• These are personal traits, habits or abilities that shows
the performance level within the organisation. When
an individual having professional skills, then it can
help people in nearly all positions of jobs.

IMPORTANCE OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
• It helps in reducing the employee's turnover
within the company. When employees see that
they indulged with several learning
opportunities in their office then it makes the
reason to stay longer for the business.
• Having professional skills build the confidence
level to work in any activity within group or
individually. It supports individuals to develop
credibility as they continue to acquire new sets
of skills and certificates.

IDENTIFICATION OF ONE SKILL SET
• A personal SWOT analysis helps an individual to
know the key strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and
threats.
• It is important to work on the areas in which the
individual is weak.

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• Strengths-
• I am good to manage my work on time and meet the deadlines effectively. I am also able to maintain a balance
between my personal and professional life.
• Weaknesses-
• I realised that when I am getting more into people, it leads me to increase conflicts between me and my friends
which is my weakness. This is because when opinions do not match over something.