The Role of Academic and Professional Skills in Business Management

This essay delves into the critical academic and professional skills necessary for success in business management. It highlights the challenges faced by students in this field, such as research, communication, time management, and multitasking. The importance of effective academic skills development is emphasized, including improved communication, increased self-confidence, idea generation, and professional life preparation. Similarly, the significance of professional skills development is discussed, focusing on knowledge expansion, increased earning potential, and growth opportunities. The essay also incorporates a personal SWOT analysis, identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. A detailed example is provided, outlining actions to develop identified weaknesses, such as time management and problem-solving abilities. The conclusion reinforces the crucial role of academic and professional skills in overall personality development and team relationship maintenance.

Developing Academic
and professional Skills

Table of content
 Introduction
 Challenges of studying business management and thriving in professional practices
 The importance of effective academic skills development
 The importance of effective professional skills development
 Identification of one skill that is particularly important – personal SWOT analysis
 Detailed example of the actions that would be taken to develop identified as weakness in SWOT analysis
 Conclusion
 Reference

Introduction
Academic and professional skills refers to
those skills which is utilized by each
student for adapting or learning new things
and also for doing the work smartly. Skills
includes presentation, writing, referencing,
communication and others(Akramova,
2020).

Challenges of studying
business management and
thriving in professional
practices
 Researching
 Communication

Challenges of studying
business management and
thriving in professional
practices
 Time management
 Multi – tasking

The importance of effective academic skills
development
Effective skills are also essential for improving their
personalities in the form of good communication with
others(Bowling and Ball, 2018).
 Increasing of self confidence

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 Identifying ideas and creativity
 Helpful for professional life

The importance of effective professional
skills development
Professional skills refer to those elements which is
used by candidate for doing the job professionally.
 Expansion of knowledge

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 Increasing earning potentials
 Increasing opportunities for growth
(Fukada, 2018).

Identification of one skill that is particularly
important – personal SWOT analysis
Strength includes Weakness includes
communication
creativity skills
time management
problem solving ability
Opportunities includes Threats includes -
IT skills
decision making skills
competition
change in market demands

Detailed example of the actions
Skills Risk Current ability Target ability Action
Time management Due to ineffective
time management I
am not able to
complete various
task according to
the deadline.
I am average in this skill
because I face difficulty
for doing all types of
work according to time.
I done the course of time
management topic from
authorised institution.
Due to conducting course I
improved by skill with in
few months.
Problem solving
ability
When this skill are
not worked
effectively
solutions are not
prepared in time.
Due to less improvement
in skills I understand the
various problems in slow
manner.
For removing this
problem I analysed
various feedback and case
study during my studies
and doing job.
Due effective analysis of
case study I am able to
understand the problems in
fast manner.

Conclusion
From the analysis of above information it is concluded that academic and professional skills plays
the crucial role for developing the overall personality of candidates. Due to improving candidates
talents and skills the relation between the team members are highly maintained in long run.

References
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• Aldieri, L., Kotsemir, M. and Vinci, C.P., 2018. The impact of research collaboration on academic
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pp.13-30.
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• Bowling, A. M. and Ball, A. L., 2018. Alternative Certification: A Solution or an Alternative Problem?.
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