Skills Development: Academic and Professional Practices Report

This report delves into the crucial aspects of developing academic and professional skills essential for success in business management. It begins with an introduction to professional skills and their significance in career opportunities, followed by a discussion on the challenges of studying business management and thriving in professional practice. The report emphasizes the importance of effective academic and professional skills development, highlighting how these skills contribute to career advancement and personal growth. A key component of the report involves a personal SWOT analysis, identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The analysis focuses on time management skills and outlines detailed action plans, including the use of tools like stopwatches, calendars, and time tables, to address identified weaknesses. The report concludes by reiterating the importance of skill development, both personal and professional, and its role in informed decision-making, referencing relevant academic sources to support its findings. The report underscores the value of continuous skill enhancement to navigate the complexities of the business environment.

Developing academic and
professional skills

Table of content
 Introduction
 Main body
 Challenges of studying business management and thriving in professional practice
 Importance of effective academic skills development
 Importance of effective professional skills development
 Identification of one skill that is particularly important- personal SWOT analysis
 Detailed examples of the actions that would be taken to develop skills identifies as
weaknesses in SWOT analysis
 Conclusion
 References
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Introduction
 Professional skills refers to the career opportunities,
abilities and competencies which the individual has
used to perform the function of their professional
career. There are large number of business operations
are present in the companies which the individual has
to perform in effective manner..

Tasks of learning and thriving in professional
practice business management
Business management refers to the concept of
managing the resources of the business in such a manner that
all the resources provides maximum returns and becomes able
to fulfil the demand of the company and their business.
 Complexity:
 Practical aspects:

The reputation of development effective academic
skills
Academic skills is related to those abilities of the student which is developed by them in their
academic career and it helps the individual to grab different types of opportunities from the
market and becomes successful in the market. There are many importance are present in
relation to academic skill development and the brief discussion related to the same are given
below:
 Goodwill and reputation
 Academic discipline:
 Personality development:

The effective professional skills development
and importance
 Professional skills refers to those skills of the individual which is used by
them to make the professional career more effective in he market. It is related to
those skills of the individual which makes them able to improve the career by
providing them effective returns from the business situations.
 Career development:
 Enhances value:

Documentation that is particularly important- of
one skill along with personal SWOT analysis
Strengths Weaknesses
One of the greatest skills and strength of my
personality is the availability of the effective
team working skills. This skill of my personality
enables me to work in the teams of the
organisation and helps to provides maximum
returns to the company.
It is one of the greatest weakness of my personality
that my anger management are very weak. The
weak anger management disables me to take right
decision and triggered me over react in the situation.
Opportunities Threats
There are large number of opportunities are
present in the market in relation to the
leadership skills. It is very important for me to
develop these opportunities in my personality so
that these opportunities can be achieved by me.
The technical skills of my personality are very weak
which becomes threat for my personality
development.

of the actions that would be taken to develop skills
identifies as weaknesses in SWOT analysis Detailed
examples
Skills Action plan Resources Time Frame
Decision making skills Time management skills is one of the
important skills which should be present in
the personality of the individual. To develop
time management skills in my personality it is
very important for me that I have develop
effective time table under which effective time
schedule are provided to each of the activity of
the life.
Calendar, stopwatches,
alarms, Time tables,
Gantt Charts,, clocks and
many others.
Within 4 weeks

Conclusion
 It is concluded from this report that the development of both personal and professional
skills in the personality of the individual. This report concludes the importance of both the
development of personal and professional skills which helps them to develop valuable judgement
about the topic. This report also concludes various factors of the SWOT analyses.

References
 Sotiriadou, P., Logan, D., Daly, A. and Guest, R., 2020. The role of authentic assessment to preserve
academic integrity and promote skill development and employability. Studies in Higher
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 Cottrell, S., 2020. Teaching study skills and supporting learning. Bloomsbury Publishing.
 ZELENKOVÁ, A., 2019. CHAPTER TWO THE CHALLENGES OF TEACHING
COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN ENGLISH FOR TOURISM ANNA ZELENKOVÁ. Tourism and
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 Knox, J. and Stone, M., 2019. Embedding employability skills for the legal professionals of the
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