Professional and Academic Skills Development: A Comprehensive Report

This report provides a detailed analysis of professional and academic skills development, highlighting the key challenges faced by business students such as academic writing and meeting deadlines. It identifies essential skills required at work, including problem-solving and learning skills, and explores the similarities and differences between skills like communication and prioritizing work. A SWOT analysis is conducted to assess personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, with a focus on developing communication skills through a structured action plan involving active listening, reading, and practice. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of continuous professional and academic development for both individual and organizational growth, supported by relevant references.

Professional and Academic
Skills Development

Table of Contents
 INTRODUCTION
 key challenges business students may face and explain why they are a challenge
 Explain and identify the skills required at work
 Four academic and professional skills and describe why it is important to
develop these skills.
 Perform a SWOT analysis and identify that particular skill which needs to be
develop in future.
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
Business management refers to organising and
coordinating the business activities into positive manner
for achieving the objectives. Management is the process
of organizing, planning, controlling and directing the
business resources so that they can meet out the
objectives of organisation

Key challenges business students may
face and explain why they are a
challenge
 There are certain key challenges which business students face
at the time of learning and it is defined into following manner:
 Academic writing: While writing at academic level, they have
to face problems related to plagiarism and research part as well.
For writing a good content, students have to do research on a
large scale so that they can provide content into positive
manner

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 Meeting deadlines: It is that pointer which is based on prioritising work
parameter because students can only meet out the deadlines in those conditions
when they manage their work on priority basis (Early and et.al., 2017). For
business students, it is difficult to meet out the deadlines because they have to
do research in a depth manner to give content into appropriate manner. That's
why sometimes students miss their deadlines.

Explain and identify the skills
required at work
 There are certain skills which are required at professional
level to meet out their deadlines and it is defined into
following manner:
 Problem solving: Business students need to have problem
solving skills so that they can show their range of other
competencies at professional level. Such as creativity, logic,
imagination, determination and lateral thinking.

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 Learning skills: This skill is necessary at professional level learning is the
parameter which keeps an individual mind engaged and body active as well.
This skill helps in terms of gaining new experiences and knowledge-based
perspectives as well. Learning skill is that skill which helps the brain to handle
every kind of challenge in a wider manner.

Four academic and professional skills
and describe why it is important to
develop these skills.
 Similarities between meeting deadlines and
prioritising work: Both these skills have one similarity
parameter that both are based on. For meeting out the
deadlines and prioritising work both needs proper
planning and strategy to execute the task into effective
manner. Under both these heads, it is necessary that they
have to use correct approach to execute the task into
effective manner.

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 Similarities between communication and learning skills: Both these skills
require confidence level because if an individual does not have confidence
level then they can't do their work into effective manner. Communication and
learning skills both require active nature so that results can be achieved at
organisational level.
 Differences between communication and learning skills: Learning
skills can be developed within a set period of time and communication skills
development is a long term process and also it takes longer period of time as
compared to communication skills.

Perform a SWOT analysis and
identify that particular skill which
needs to be develop in future.
STRENGTHS
 I am good at problem solving skills parameter due to
which I can face any type of challenge at organisational
level.
 I also have leadership quality due to which I can lead the
team into effective and result-oriented manner.

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OPPORTUNITIES
 As I am good at problem solving skills so I can act as strong parameter in
terms of growth of an organisation.
 Leadership quality helps me in terms of raising my confidence level for
handling such a large team and also good for business growth as well.

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For improving the communication skills, it is required that to make an
action plan so that it can be achieved in terms of different time period of goal.
From perspective of short-term goal an individual should engage more themselves
in listening and reading and also take time to respond. Communication skills can
also be improved through taking practice classes for it.
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