Professional and Academic Skills Development Report - Semester 1

This report delves into the core concepts of business management, emphasizing the significance of both academic and professional skills for aspiring professionals. It highlights the challenges students face, such as time management and networking, and underscores the importance of skills like communication and public speaking. The report includes a personal SWOT analysis, identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, followed by a detailed action plan to improve specific skills, particularly public speaking. Finally, the report concludes by summarizing the key takeaways, reinforcing the value of continuous professional development in the field of business management. The report also provides references that support the findings of the report.

Professional and Academic Skills
Development

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Challenges of Studying a Business Management and thriving in
professional practice
 Importance of Academic Skills
 Importance of Professional Skills
 Personal SWOT
 Action Plan
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
The term business management can be defined as the managerial process
through which all the activities of the business is being operated in the
organisation. There are various strategies that can be applied in order to
achieve the efficient business management. The professional skills are related
to a particular profession. These are the abilities that effects the operations of
an individual in an organisation(Alshahrani, 2020).

Challenges of Studying a Business Management
and thriving in professional practice
 Connecting with fresh individuals: It is one of the vital
challenge that an individual generally face. This is because the
individuals has to meet totally new people and they have to
mix up with them
 Managing the time: The management of time is the main
task for the pupil of the business management. This is because
the students has to manage between studies and working.

Importance of Academic Skills
 Improves learning: It allows the student to learn
things expeditiously. This would enhance the wider
concepts of management in the minds of the
individuals.
 Public talking: It can promote the pupils to speak up
in between the group of individuals. This would be
more beneficial for the introvert people as they
would learn to mix up with the other people in an
organisation(Dacre, Senyoand and Reynolds, 2019).

Importance of Professional Skills
 Communication: The communication is
the process through which a person can
convey its own ideas to other people. So,
there is a great demand for good
communication skills in an individual.
 Time management: The time is a very
important part in everyone's life. So, it
requires a proper management.

Personal SWOT
Strength
 Punctuality in time. I accomplish all the assigned
tasks in the given time period.
 Team Work. I am comfy at employed in
team(May, et.al, 2022).
Weakness
 Public Speaking skills. I like a bit nervous while
talking in front of public.
 Presenting skills. Because of fear in speaking
publicly.
Opportunity
 Writing skills. I can better it by doing more
projects.
 Creativity skills. It it crucial to think fictive and
work creative.
Threat
 High competition. There are many individuals
who are more creative and are capable to work
expeditiously.
 Lack of skills.

Action Plan
Skills that I want to
develop
How can I create that
skills?
Judgement Criteria Time Period
Public Speaking I would ask to my
instructor to arrange
weekly at least two
classes for the public
speaking along with
providing us with
various topics for
talking.
I would make
comparison from my
past execution. My
instructor would also
tell me about what
advancement do I
have after each talk
and then on the
basis of this I'll
evaluate my
Three months.

Conclusion
 This report concludes about the concept of the business management. This would also
summarise about the professional skills and the academic skills that must be posses by an
individual. This report would also explain about the importance of the professional skills
in an individual. Moreover, this report would also summarise about the person strength
and weaknesses of the individual.

References
 Alshahrani, H.H., 2020. Evaluating the impact of continuing professional development
within intensive care unit nurses in the UK. American Journal of Nursing Research, 8(2),
pp.227-244.
 Bremner, P., Laing, A.M. and Scott, H., 2019. Developing the student journey through
collaborative Professional Skills Enhancement sessions.
 Dacre, N., Senyo, P.K. and Reynolds, D., 2019. Is an Engineering Project Management
Degree Worth it? Developing Agile Digital Skills for Future Practice. Engineering
Education Research Network.

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