An Analysis of Professional and Academic Skills: BMP4001 Report

This report, focusing on professional and academic skills, begins by outlining the challenges of studying business management, such as time management and teamwork. It then delves into thriving in professional practices, emphasizing adapting to changing work environments and achieving targets. The report highlights the importance of developing effective academic skills, including problem-solving and listening skills, and professional skills like critical thinking and leadership. A SWOT analysis of personal skills is provided, alongside an action plan for skill improvement. The report concludes with a summary and references to academic sources, offering a comprehensive overview of skills development for career success. This report is a valuable resource for students seeking to enhance their professional and academic capabilities, with a focus on practical strategies and actionable insights.

BMP4001 Professional & Academic Skills

Table of Content
• Challenges of studying business management
• Thriving the professional practices
• The importance of effective academic skills development
• The importance of effective professional skills development
• SWOT analysis of personal skills
• Action plan for improving the skills
• Summery
• References

Challenges of studying business management
• Connecting with new peoples: in the academic management, connecting with
the new people is challenges which are face by the students because they are not
able to understand as well as being comfort with the new peoples in the
environments.
• Time management: the students are facing the challenges in studying the
business management because business student have various scheduling at the
time of schooling.
• Multi tasking: the multi tasking works and assignments are handling and
managing are also challenging for the students in the academic management.
• Team work: working in a team are occur the complexity and confusion because
students are like to work alone. The accomplish the task in team is more
complicating and occur the conflicts between them so, it is the more challenging
to manage in academic practices. It is difficult to work in a team as well as its
affects the performance and success of the project in the academic management.

Thriving the professional practices
• Working environments change: The employees are working with the different employees and
different customers in the changing environments which are challenging for the new employees.
So, it is difficult to understand for them such as environmental cultures and structures as well as it
can take time to become success in the business and corporate life.
• Value experience: the prospering in the professional practice is the most hard to manage the
business management because of the lacking of skills and confidence in the professional practice.
• Achieve targets: it challenging to accomplish the objective when the changes in academic to the
professional practices because the whole environment are change at the time of the professional
practices so, there are face the trouble in reach the goals and targets of the life in the business
management to thriving the professional practices.

The importance of effective academic skills development
• There are several performance of acquisition the
professional skills at the academic and higher
education duration such as improved the career
readiness, academic performance and increase the
efficiency.
• The academic skills are important to increase the
performance and productivity at higher education and
it may need in the workforce and they are also
transferable in the workplace and professional life.
• It helps in control the better studies as well as helps in
organizes the new challenges to become progress in
the university degree.

Cont..
There are several skills which are important in the build the effective academic developments.
• confidence: it helps in build the confidence of the students as well as result in the more
independent.
• Problem solving skills: this skills are essential in the academic development because it helps
students in the critical thinking at the time of solving the problems.
• Listening skills: the active listening are also important in the various aspects to become the
success in the academic life.

The importance of effective professional skills development
• Professional skills helps in become the succeed in the job of the
employees and no matter when they are working.
• The development of the professional skills are helps in improve
and boost the productivity and performance of the organization.
• The professional skills are important to build the strong future to
accomplish the goals and targets of the life.
• It also helps in maintain the standard across the all areas of the
practice.

Cont..
• Critical thinking: the critical thinking skills are important to solve the problems which are create
in corporate.
• Leadership skills: leadership skills are also important in business to manage and handle the
employees and staff at the top level and middle level of management.
• Creativity and initiative skills: the creative thinking skills are helps in build the business
organization to find the new opportunities. The creative thinking skills are helps in creating the
efficiency in the business and launching the new initiative to accomplish the goals of the business.
The creative thinking skills in employees are helps them become the popularize within the
organization. Other employee in the business are automatically interact and communicate as well
as ask the creative ideas to do the task.

Swot analysis of personal skill
Personal SWOT AnalysisSTRENGTHS
• Communication skills
• coordination and corporation
• innovative skills
• problem solving
WEAKNESSES
• Decision making skills
• time management skills
• adaptability
OPPORTUNITY
• Improve CV
• obtain growth
• effective performance
• professionalism
THREATS
• Higher competition
• lack of future growth
• changing skills requirement

Action plan for improving the skills
Skills Strategy Resources Time
Decision making skills Read books, go through case
studies, join problem solving skills,
suffering
Books, case study,
classes, internet
2 week
time management skills Noting down time, prioritize work,
bifurcating the work in important
or necessary
Device, timer, alarm, and
short notes
3 week
adaptability Determine the pros and cons, learn
the effectiveness and practice on
models
Short notes, practice
book, researching
platform
1 week

Summary
• As the conclusion, this report discussed the professional and academic skills which are important
in become the success in the future career.
• In the conclusion, this also discussed the effective skills which are using the academic and
professional developments.

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