Hey There,
Do you ever wonder what skill sets are required to barely make it through each workday at your current place of employment? Have you ever had to think through the skill sets you need for the new position you are being transferred to? You do not need to be perturbed. There are seven key skills every effective worker possesses.
These skills serve as the base for other skills to build up on and grow. Do not be quick to forget that the more skills you have, the more valuable you appear to your employer. The seven key skills are listed below.
#1 Effective Communication
In every workplace, city, town, industry and nation, communication will always be a key factor in determining how attractive you are to intending employers. If you can communicate effectively, the employer is rest assured that you could relate with your co-workers and supervisors, brainstorm and work together to reach an achievable goal. You should try and equip all your communication skills, and do not limit this to verbal communication. Sharpen your skills when it comes to writing e-mails and receiving phone calls. Communication is key and would go a long way in your career.
#2 Prioritizing & Effective Management
At ALL levels in the organization, this skills is required. Most employees do not realize that each and every one of them has been given something or someone to manage; or sometimes both. When you are given a position, you are required to manage the position effectively till your supervisor feels you can move from managing just yourself and your position to managing a team. This happens over time by constantly proving yourself in the tasks you have been given and being an excellent team player. Proving that you can manage both resources and time among other thing can prove valuable on the long run.
#3 The Power Of Negotiation
Contrary to popular belief, negotiation is a skill that can be learned. You need to learn to negotiate without being manipulative. You do not need to create a complicated Ponzi Scheme that involves water skiing on your co-workers backs in order to feel you have made a good negotiation. Pure negotiation is usually in public, open to scrutiny and with clear intensions. However, if you are so good at negotiating for personal subject matters, Go Ahead! As long as it does not harm your co-workers or make them view you as a betrayal to the team.
#4 Creative Thinking
Most people would rather refer to this point as critical thinking, but we choose to see it as something more broad. A term that would capture its essence. You have to be able to think hard, smart and reasonably all in the same second. You have to be a coherent boom box. You have to learn to pass across ideas that would help the company with its best interest at heart. Critical and creative thinking creates room for you to access loopholes and most importantly proffer solutions that are logical and tenable to the problem or weakness you have discovered.
#5 Teamwork & Delegation
It is no news that to work in a company and be effective, you would come across several people from several works of life. Therefore, it is no secret that you have to learn to be versatile and also, how to adapt to people and their weaknesses. As isolated as your position might currently seem, you need to learn to work with people to achieve a common goal without breaking a sweat on the teamwork aspect. You also need to master the art of delegation without offending your co-workers, so you do not become the boss everyone loves to hate.
#6 Research & Analysis
In every industry, research and analysis give room for the company to evolve and grow. This skill is definitely more pronounced for sales and marketing employees. Engineers also need to learn to research and find the loopholes in systems that can be improved on. You should be able to research, review, analyze, plan and execute data effectively.
#7 Be Confident!
At all times, be confident at your job! This gives the impression that you are comfortable with what you do for a living. Also, confidence can be learned like most skills. This comes with practice and patience and before you know it, your faux confidence is as real as it gets! Walk around with a smile and don’t appear like your world just crashed simply because your supervisor called for you in his/her office to review your performance. When you are confident, your superiors and co-workers respect you more, you are more precise in your dealings, and this leads to greater efficiency on the long run.
If you do not possess all of the skills mentioned above, be quick to remind yourself that they can be learned, and over time you would get comfortable with each and every skill. Dedicate time into working on these skills to make you an indispensible employee overall. This would maximize your chances of getting hired, retained and even promoted.
Regards,
PushCV Contemt Team.
