Professional & Academic Skills: Development, SWOT Analysis and Plan

This report discusses the importance of professional and academic skills development for students to achieve their goals. It highlights challenges in business management, the significance of skills like communication, writing, and critical thinking, and the development of professional skills such as confidence and problem-solving. A personal SWOT analysis identifies strengths (communication), weaknesses (quantitative analysis), opportunities (skill improvement via online platforms), and threats (competition). A personal development plan focuses on improving quantitative skills through online learning and regular testing. The report concludes that academic and professional skills are crucial for success and references relevant academic sources.

Professional and Academic Skills Development

Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Main Body
• Challenges faced in Business Management and thriving in professional practice
• Importance of professional and academic skills development
• Development of professional skills
• Personal SWOT analysis
• Personal Development Plan
• Conclusion
• Reference

INTRODUCTION
• Professional and academic skills are the ability which
should be developed by the students in order to achieve
their academic goals (Mauritti and et.al., 2021).
• The skills involved in the academic skills are writing
skills, communicating skills, Critical thinking skills and
several more which helps the carrier oriented students.

Challenges faced in Business Management and thriving in professional practice.
• Balancing between work and life
• Team work
• Expenses
• Interacting with new people
• Adjusting to New work environment
• Time management

• Communication skills
• Writing skills
• Reading skills
• Presentation skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Computer skills
• Quantitative skills
• Research skills
• Academic Integrity and plagiarism
Importance of professional and academic skills
development.

• High confidence
• Effective listeners
• Problem solver
• Making of dynamic character
• Making good relations with co-workers
The development of professional skills

SWOT analysis
Strengths.
I have good communication skills
which help me to get effective
information from other team member
and develop emotional connections.
.
Weakness
I am week in quantitative analysis. Its
hard for me to handle numerical data in
the form of graphs and charts which
affects my interpretations kills.
Opportunities
I can improve my abilities which are
lacking behind by the use of various
online platform
Threats.
My performance level get negatively
affected due to high rise in competition
among the students.

Personal Development Plan
Skills How can I
improve?
How can I judge
it?
Time frame
Quantitative skills By joining online
teaching from the best
online education
platforms
By giving weekly test ,
I will judge my
performance. I will also
solve maths quiz
regularly
I will develop this skills
in 2 months

Conclusion
• From the above discussion it can be concluded that, the
academic and professional skills are very important for any
student to reflects his best performance in academic as well
as professional level.

References
Mauritti, R and et.al., 2021. SOFT SKILLS'IMPACT ON DISTANCE
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Hamad, F., Al-Fadel, M. and Fakhouri, H., 2021. The effect of librarians’
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Language Course as a Means of Developing the Communicative and
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