Report on Professional and Academic Skills Development in Business

This report examines the significance of professional and academic skill development, focusing on the challenges faced by business management students and the benefits of acquiring these skills. It highlights the difficulties in adjusting to new learning environments and emphasizes the importance of academic skills in enhancing learning efficiency. The report also includes a personal SWOT analysis, identifying strengths like efficiency and flexibility, and weaknesses such as poor listening skills and difficulty handling pressure. It concludes by stressing the importance of continuous skill development in the face of competition and the need to address personal weaknesses to improve professional performance. The provided references support the concepts of professional learning and academic success.

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC
SKILL DEVELOPMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• TASK
• Issues and challenges of studying business management
which act as a barrier in professional practice.
• Benefits of good academic and professional skills
development.
• Identification of one skill that is particularly important –
with personal SWOT analysis
• SWOT analysis
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
Development in an individual brings ability to perform
better in particular sector, development can be in any form
whether its personality development, skill development,
development in education but its brought enhancement in
an individual in certain aspects. Professional development
refers to the enhancement in an employee by providing
appropriate training, certification and education which
helps in building his or her career.

ISSUES AND CHALLENGES OF STUDYING BUSINESS
MANAGEMENT WHICH ACT AS A BARRIER IN
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE.
Business management is a course that takes multiple years in
completing and learning whole course. This course of business
management enrich learners with different concepts and with
various aspects of management. It encompasses multiple areas
which generates career path to the individuals who are pursuing the
course.
• Adjusting with the learning and new environment- It is evaluated
that learning business management own country is somehow
beneficial and easy for learners but with that also students face
issues in adjusting to the new learning environment.

BENEFITS OF GOOD ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
Academic skills are describes as the combination of basic skills
and specific skills used for developing learning in academic area.
The basic skills works as the base and makes it easy to
understand the complex area of studying.
Encourage students to learn in more efficient way- It is very
essential for the learners to develop the skills which provides
great understanding in improving needed skills in the learners in
order to start higher learning (Sweet, Blythe and Carpenter,
2018) . The learning process make student more capable to fight
with the difficult situation.

IDENTIFICATION OF ONE SKILL THAT IS
PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT – WITH PERSONAL SWOT
ANALYSIS
Strengths:
 I am very efficient in my working and have
excellent ideas to complete working at
academic and professional level.
 I am very flexible to do tasks in changing
environment.
Weaknesses
 I lack in listening skill as I didn't listen
people properly and in always hurry.
 I also face difficulty in while doing tasks in
pressure as it reflects on my productivity.
Opportunities
 Learning ability to carry out operations
with new technologies for working at
professional role.
 Improving intra-personal skill to
understand myself better.
Threats
 Intense and heavy competition for me at
academic and professional level.
 Academic and occupational burden or
pressure for effective performances.
One skill that is particularly important, but I am weak at:
My listening skill and handling pressure.

ONE SKILL IN WHICH I AM WEAK AT:
I am very weak in listening to other as my ability to pay attention
and interpreting others are very weak. My poor listening skills
leads me in trouble in multiple times as it makes me stand in
situation of wrong assumptions and misunderstanding (Yan and
Yang, 2019). Lacking in listening makes worker disorganised.
Whereas another weakness of mine is handling pressure , I get
stressed out when I am in pressure which as result affects on my
working capacity.

CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that Academic and
professional skill development is very much important in
developing an individual in accordance to the competition. In
respect to develop these skills in the learning process there are
different hurdles that a learner have to face. This report covers
the challenges that an individual face while leaning academic
and professional skills with that there is multiple benefits of as
well such as Encourage students to learn in more efficient way,
Boost confidence and Make increment in learning efficiency. It
also covers the personal SWOT analysis with evaluation of one
weakness that a student or learner need to develop.

REFERENCES
• Culp, B.D., 2019. Professional Learning Communities: The
Ultimate Blueprint for Academic Success. Rowman & Littlefield.
• Kelley, A., 2021. Improving teacher professional learning:
Inquiry cycles and the whole teacher. In Supporting early career
teachers with research-based practices (pp. 147-166). IGI
Global.
• Le, V.H., Maor, D. and McConney, A., 2021. The potential of
social networking sites for continuing professional learning:
investigating the experiences of teachers with limited
resources. Studies in Continuing Education, pp.1-17.

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