Assignment: Professional and Academic Skills Development and Analysis

This assignment focuses on professional and academic skills development, essential for thriving in business management. It begins by describing challenges such as balancing work and life, teamwork, and time management. The importance of effective academic skills, including presentation, critical thinking, and computer skills, is analyzed. The assignment includes a personal SWOT analysis, identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, followed by a detailed personal development plan to improve quantitative skills through online lessons and regular quizzes. The conclusion emphasizes the vital role of academic and professional skills in achieving success in both academic and professional environments. References from academic journals support the analysis. This assignment provides insights into enhancing skills crucial for academic and professional success.

Professional and
Academic Skills
Development

Table of Contents
Introduction
MAIN BODY
Describing the challenges of studying business management for thriving in professional
practise:
Analysing the importance of effective academic and professional skills development:
Personal SWOT analysis:
Personal Development Plan:
Conclusion:
References

Introduction
Academic skills are those skills which
promote and support the student to become
a most productive student among their
classmates and attain the overall efficiency.
A academic skills assist the student in
order to attain the career oriented
objectives by enhancing the skills that
includes the problem solving, writing
skills and communication skills.

Describing the challenges of studying business
management for thriving in professional practise
 Balancing between work and life:
 Team work
 Expenses
 Interacting with new people:
 Adjusting to New work environment:
 Time management

Analysing the importance of effective academic
and professional skills development
 Presentation skills
 Critical thinking skills
 Computer skills

The following point describes the importance of
developing professional skills
 High confidence
 Making of dynamic character
 Making good relations with co-
workers

Personal SWOT analysis
Personal SWOT analysis is defined as the framework of
analysing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunity and
threats of the individual. This also helps them people to
have the the real side and set of skills in which they are
good at and also analyse what skills they want to improve
in future.

Strength
• I am having good communication skills
which helps in making the good
connection with the colleagues in an
appropriate manner. Moreover, this also
enable me to get the new skills and
knowledge by having effective
communication in an appropriate
manner.
Weakness
• I am not god at quantitative skills that
makes me uncomfortable in order to
handle large set of numerical data as
graphs and charts. This also create the
negative impact on the interpretation
skills while engaging with the
information related to the quantitative
aspects.
Opportunity
It is seen that the trend of online education
apps is the good opportunity by which I can
enhance my set of skills in which I am not
good at. This helps in in gaining online
lessons with the purpose of gaining so sort of
skills.
Threat
The rise in the competition among the
learners can also impact the entire
performance in negative manner.

Personal Development Plan
Skills How can I improve? How can I judge it? Time frame
Quantitative skills With the help of
online lessons from
the recommended
tutor helps me in
improving the
quantitative skills.
I will analyse the
entire performance by
taking weekly online
test which is help by
the tutor. Also, I will
solve the quiz of
maths on regular
basis.
I will take 4 months in
order to develop such
skills.

Conclusion
From the above presentation, it is
concluded that academic and professional
skills is vital for any student by which they
can give the best performance in their
study as well as professional
environment. . This is also analysed that
the development of academic knowledge
helps the learns or the student to have the
positive response in their learning from
their seniors and the mentors.

References
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 Potter, L.E., 2020, June. Preparing for Projects: IT Student Self-Evaluation of Technical
and Professional Skills. In Proceedings of the 2020 on Computers and People Research
Conference (pp. 63-69).
 Taraban-Gordon, S. and Page, E., 2017. Integrating intercultural competencies into the
professional skills curriculum. In Promoting intercultural communication competencies
in Higher Education (pp. 119-139). IGI Global.
 Sahd, L.M. and Rudman, R., 2020. Trainee accountants' perceptions on the usefulness
of case studies as an assessment tool in developing and assessing professional skills: a
national perspective. Southern African Journal of Accountability and Auditing
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Thank You