“Graciousness is the foremost thing people drop once they get the supremacy.”
Bifurcation of Skills
5 Major Skills require becoming a successful manager
What is Effective Communication?.
Communication is the manner of sharing ideas and suggestions to other people in order to gain proper feedback through a medium or channel. Communication skills are combination of activities that make a worth public performance.
Though communication is having its own system, but in this era, communication skills is very important to practice in a fruitful manner no matter you are engaged in business or in personal life.
Successful communication can grow deeper relations with anyone in life no matter you communicate to your family or any business client or customer. Good communication builds understanding among different people.
Practicing and developing professional communication skills can help us avoid conflicts, compromise and help in better decision making in our day to day life.
The below figure provides how the communication can help person to grow better
4 Smart Ways to develop Communication Skills
| Listen with empathy | Speak up |
| Prepare your communication | Design your response |
Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is a skill that allows you to make reasonable and informed decisions to the best of your talent.
6 Crucial critical thinking skills
1. Identification
The first step in the critical thinking process is to identify the situation or problem as well as the factors that may influence it.
2. Research
When comparing arguments about an issue, independent research ability is key. The best way to combat this is independent verification; find the source of the information and evaluate.
3. Identifying biases
This skill can be exceedingly difficult, as even the smartest among us can fail to recognize biases.
Strong critical thinkers do their best to evaluate information objectively. Think of yourself as a judge in that you want to evaluate the claims of both sides of an argument, but you’ll also need to keep in mind the biases each side may possess.
It is equally important—and arguably more difficult—to learn how to set aside your own personal biases that may cloud your judgment.
“Have the courage to debate and argue with your own thoughts and assumptions.”
“This is essential for learning to see things from different viewpoints.”
4. Inference
The ability to infer and draw conclusions based on the information presented to you is another important skill for mastering critical thinking.
5. Determining relevance
One of the most challenging parts of thinking critically during a challenging scenario is figuring out what information is the most important for your consideration. In many scenarios, you’ll be presented with information that may seem important, but it may pan out to be only a minor data point to consider.
6. Curiosity
It’s incredibly easy to sit back and take everything presented to you at face value, but that can also be also a recipe for disaster when faced with a scenario that requires critical thinking. It’s true that we’re all naturally curious—just ask any parent who has faced an onslaught of “Why?” questions from their child. As we get older, it can be easier to get in the habit of keeping that impulse to ask questions at bay. But that’s not a winning approach for critical thinking.
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize your emotions, understand what they’re telling you, and realize how your emotions affect people around you. It also involves your perception of others: when you understand how they feel, this allows you to manage relationships more effectively.
| Characteristics of Emotional Intelligence |
| Self-Awareness Self-Regulation Motivation Empathy Social Skills |
Key Points
Although “regular” intelligence is important to success in life, emotional intelligence is key to relating well to others and achieving your goals. Many people believe that it is at least as important as regular intelligence, and many companies now use emotional intelligence testing to hire new staff.
Emotional intelligence is an awareness of your actions and feelings – and how they affect those around you. It also means that you value others, listen to their wants and needs, and are able to empathize or identify with them on many different levels.
| Hard Skills | Soft Skills |
|---|---|
| Statistical Analysis | Integrity |
| Programming language | Dependability |
| Marketing campaign management | Effective communication |
| Digital marketing | Open-mind |
| SEO/SEM marketing | Teamwork |
| Network security | Creativity |
| Data base management | Problem solving |
| Mobile development | Critical thinking |
| Knowing how the social algorithms work | Willingness to learn |
| Adobe Creative suite | Adaptability |
Hard skills are technical knowledge or training that you have gained through any life experience, including in your career or education.
Soft skills are personal habits and traits that shape how you work, on your own and with others.
Public Skills
“Public skills are, in short, the various attributes and competencies that allow one to play well with others,”
The following are 20 “public skills” and attributes you’ll need to succeed at work:
- The ability to relate to others.
- Strong communication skills.
- Patience with others.
- The ability to trust others.
- Knowing how and when to show empathy.
- Active listening skills.
- Genuine interest in others.
- Flexibility.
- Good judgment.
- The ability to persuade others.
- Negotiation skills.
- The ability to keep an open mind.
- A great sense of humor.
- Knowing your audience.
- Honesty.
- Awareness of body language.
- Proactive problem solving.
- Leadership skills.
- Good manners.
- The ability to be supportive and motivate others.
Problem solving
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. – Henry Kaiser (American industrialist)
Problem solving is all about using logic, as well as imagination, to make sense of a situation and come up with an intelligent solution. In fact, the best problem solvers actively anticipate potential future problems and act to prevent them or to mitigate their effects.
How to improve problem-solving skills
- Acquire more technical knowledge in your field
- Seek out opportunities to problem solve
- Do practice problems
- Observe how others problem solve
In a nutshell,
- Effective Communication,
- Usage of technology/Advancement of technology,
- Knowledge of digital marketing/social media marketing,
- Administrative operation,
- Knowledge about current scenario or market
- How quickly you adapt to change
- Multi-tasking AND
- Functional skills (Master of my art)