Report: Developing Academic and Professional Skills with SWOT Analysis

This report examines the challenges faced by students in business management, emphasizing the importance of both academic and professional skills. It includes a personal SWOT analysis, identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, followed by an action plan for skills development. The report highlights the significance of skills like communication, time management, and problem-solving. It also references various sources that discuss capstone-based mentoring, teaching study skills, and student-generated infographics for learning and professional development. This document is available on Desklib, where students can find a wealth of academic resources, including past papers and solved assignments.

Developing academic and
professional skills

Table of Contents
 Introduction
 Challenges faced while studying business management and in there
professional practice
 Importance of effective academic skill
 Importance of effective Professional skill
 Personal swot analysis
 Action plan
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
Business management focused on organizing and
managing a company resources. These are
concentrated towards people. These put a lot of
importance on communication human resources
management and human resource theory. These theory
helps manager coordinating between resources and
employees and also help in organising and accomplish
a successful position in the market.

Challenges faced while studying business
management and in there professional practice
Taking business management has its benefits and
drawbacks. There are a lot of challenges that students face
like entering into a business school to get there. These are
some challenges that students face in business school :-
 Adjusting to new surrounding
 Connecting with people -
 Learn to work as a team -
 Balancing academics with other parts of there lives -

Importance of effective academic skill
Skills are the set habits or talents that allow an individual to become successful in there
life help in learning new or create new innovation. Academic skills are important because
they aid in increase the productivity at business schools. These are some important
academic skills :-
 Boost the confidence
 Improve learning skills :-
 Relives stress :-
 Make flexible
 Leads to success :-

Importance of effective professional skill development
This is very important for a person so that they can
develop effective professional skills which helps in
improving there ability to do something well with there
life. These skills helps in providing the new
opportunities and also opening jobs in the new area .
These are some importance of developing professional
skills in an individual :-
 Development network opportunity :-
 Improves the adaption power :-

Personal swot analysis
Strengths:
• Communication skills
• Team working skills
Weakness:
• Time management
• Lack of listening skills
Opportunities
• Learn about new technology.
• Opportunities with the support of family
and friends.
Threats
• Bad memory
• Increasing competition

Action plan
Skills Target needed Development of all these
skills
Judging criteria Time frame
Time administration High For developing this skill
within me first of all I will
set the small goals on daily
basis and then set the target
for me to achieve the goal
within the time
limit(Pinas2021).
I will take report form my
friends and my family
members. They will ensure
that whether I achieve the
goal within the time limit or
not.
3 months
Problem finding and then
solving them
High I will develop this skill by
reading and getting
knowledge from different
sources and along with that I
will also pursue different
professional courses to
develop this skill.
I will take feedback from
my team members, family
members and mentors.
3 months

CONCLUSION
The above report include challenges that students face when then start studying business
management and business professional practice. This report also include importance of
effective academic skills and also importance of effective professional skills

REFERENCES
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Conference (EDUCON) (pp. 1230-1237). IEEE.
 Cottrell, S., 2020. Teaching study skills and supporting learning. Bloomsbury Publishing.
 Grieger, K. and Leontyev, A., 2021. Student-generated infographics for learning green
chemistry and developing professional skills. Journal of Chemical Education, 98(9),
pp.2881-2891.