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Here are 5 essential skills to accelerate your career growth.
You are well-known at work for being the best at your job; you undoubtedly received the highest grades in college, but none of this matter if you lack the necessary skills. Do you have the ability to work in a group setting? Some of the most important professional skills can’t really be taught in academic education, and these skills are called soft skills and they are more crucial to get you recruited than you think. So, what are soft skills? Well, unlike hard skills, these skills cannot be measured, but they can be learnt, improved and proven. Some examples of soft skills are “Verbal and Written Communication”, “teamwork” and “leadership”. The reason why soft skills are so important is that they are the key to building relationships, gaining reputation in the society as well as at the workplace and creating more opportunities to develop your relationships. So today I am going to tell you what are some crucial soft skills to get you hired or to accelerate your career goals.
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Why are communication skills so important today?
Now the first crucial skill to take your career to the next level is communication. Let me explain this further, Let’s look out why we need communication skills. Both verbal and written communications are very important in the workplace because,
- a) They help you create a positive image
- b) They improve your chances of building relationships with your co-workers
- c) Communication Skills boost your performance.
So, whether it’s at work, in college, or in your department, good communication will help you perform better. Now let’s look at why employers look for these skills, so of course workers are more productive when they know how to communicate with each other. It’s very simple if you can clearly express the “who, what, when, why, where and how” of a project you will be a hot ticket, which means you will be much in demand. So, this is my suggestion, you must develop your verbal and written communication, but you must be thinking what are the ways to do that? So now I am going to suggest to you some tips to gain this crucial skill, so the first thing that you can do is you can probably join a public speaking workshop where you get an opportunity to speak publicly and gain your confidence. You could also do this by joining our classes at Sevenmentor. The second thing you could do is, apart from speaking you also need to be an active listener. So active listening is when you wait until the other person has done speaking and really listen to what they are saying before you jump into the conversation. As a result, this is a critical communication ability that is often ignored. I would suggest that you listen carefully and try public speaking workshops. But that’s not it, lastly you can learn to monitor your body language which means to develop your ability to communicate non-verbally. This can mean maintaining good eye contact while talking, nodding while you are listening and a firm handshake you are leaving. So, these are some examples of body language, to learn more in detail you can join our Soft Skills Classes at Sevenmentor to understand how you can improve more on your speaking, listening and body language. This is important to improve your overall communication skills.
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Why is being a team player so important?
“Teamwork” is another valuable skill to build in order to succeed in your career. So, what motivates you to work together? Since no single person can complete a project successfully on their own, you’ll need it. As a consequence, achievement is clearly the result of many people cooperating to accomplish a shared goal. As a result, when employers are looking for new jobs, they prioritise teamwork skills. The reason for this is because a good teamwork spirit improves the culture of the office environment, due to which many people stay in the organization and top talent comes to them.
So now that we know that teamwork is a crucial skill for taking your career to the next level, what are the best ways to learn it? So, the first thing you could do is lend a hand, which means to help someone when you see a friend or classmate or a co-worker in need. So, you might offer assistance by saying, “hey, I know you’ve got a lot on your plate, how can I assist you?” This small gesture will go a long way toward improving the team spirit.
Another way to develop the ability is to provide cover for a colleague, which ensures that if anyone is sick, you will cover for them. Another way to develop the ability is to provide cover for a colleague, which ensures that if anyone is sick, you will cover for them which means that if someone is on vacation and you need to fill in for them, before they ask you it’s better that you walk to them and say, “hey it looks like you are going on annual vacation. Well, have fun, but do you need any help with your cover?” great, so this way you can display your spirit of teamwork. And a third way of being a team player is to take responsibility for your actions. So that means whenever you have made a mistake, rather than putting the blame on someone else you should accept it and say that yes i did it and this is a very good way to be a good team worker. So, there you have it: my three tips for gaining the expertise of team spirit in order to advance your career.
“Adaptability” is the next important skill to have if you want to succeed in your career.
Can you adapt to new challenges?
Adaptability means the ability to adapt well with the changes and to be flexible with them.
So now the question is why do you need to be flexible? It’s because things don’t always go as planned, isn’t it? When you plan something, it doesn’t always work. So, the better thing is instead of grumbling and complaining about how things are not turning up as you planned and wanted, the best thing is to find alternate solutions and this is what good leaders do, they find solutions to problems and not increase the problem. So why do employers look for this skill? It’s because the speed of the change in any organization is so fast that employers need to adapt to the changes in the organization. So, pushing yourself is the best way to learn this ability.
That’s how you’ll be able to adjust to changes and be versatile. So, to be an early adopter of change, for example adapting to technology without moaning is crucial, so people can see you as someone who is capable of meeting new challenges or if you are in your colleges another way would be attending training sessions to learn new things about your area of study so you can display that you are quick to learn new things and be flexible and adapt new changes. So, this is how you can develop the third skill which I have mentioned here is adaptability.
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How cool are you at problem-solving?
Now another critical skill for your career is, “Problem-Solving”. The reason you need this expertise is that when something goes wrong, you have two options: complain or take action, and taking action, of course, is the better option. So, learning how to think on your feet means being able to come up with fast ideas or make quick decisions. This is a very important skill when it comes to being a part of an organization. So why do employers look for it?The explanation for this is simple: businesses face many problems on a daily basis, and they need problem solvers. These problem solvers are known as top performers, and their success aids them in navigating through unexpected challenges. The best way to gain this skill is to always approach your boss with a solution and not a problem. This is how you improve problem-solving skills. So, when an issue arises, sit down and think through how you are going to solve it before bringing it to your boss’s attention and he/she will completely appreciate your effort to solve the problem even before bringing it.
What is Critical Thinking?
Our final skill that we will explore with you here to help you advance your career is “Critical Thinking.” “Why do you need this skill? Critical thinking is needed to bring new concepts into the workplace. Critical thinking means to think about positives and negatives of every idea and employees need to be able to think about this to be better problem solvers as we discussed in the previous step and this skill will make you successful no matter what your job is.
So, how can you improve your analytical thinking abilities? I believe that the best way to improve it is to learn, so seek out opportunities to do so. You could read the news every day, you could read books, you could discuss non-work issues with your friends and family members, the reason you could do this is to generate ideas because when you discuss problems with others you are able to brainstorm new ideas and this will help your critical thinking processes.
So this brings us to the end of the blog here and today you have learnt the top skills that can take your career to the next level. So, try to use these strategies that I have shared with you and tell us how you used these soft skills. To learn more about the soft skills kindly contact Sevenmentor Pvt. Ltd.
Author:
Katake, Akshaya
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