What are your Skills?
What are your Skills?
A skill is an ability to perform something well, with expertise.
Skill sets are groups of specific areas of strength, they are frequently used together to perform certain work functions, jobs or tasks.
Skills can be classified into: functional or transferable, personal (traits/attributes), and technical/knowledge based.
Here are some videos you can watch to learn more:
Click to watch TRANSFERABLE SKILLS : transferable to other work functions or industries (expressed in verbs: write, organize, analyze)
Click to watch: HARD SKILLS vs SOFT SKILLS
Click to watch PERSONAL SKILLS - research shows that soft skills determines 85% of a worker’s success (expressed in adjectives: diplomatic, independent, determined). Any time you interact with a client or customer, or a colleague, you have the opportunity to use soft skills to make your work easier, better or more efficient.
Regardless of how great your technical skills are, you need your personal skills to be a team player and communicate effectively. Personal skills also determine your success working with clients and business partners.
TECHNICAL/KNOWLEDGE-BASED: specific to procedures and information to perform particular tasks (expressed in nouns: contract management, budgeting)
No matter your career stage, it’s important to assess your skills.
Identify your strongest skills, identify how you’ve used them in your work experience
Identify 2-3 skills you would like to develop: these are skills you have used but you don’t feel proficient, how could you further develop these skills? (think work, projects, volunteer opportunities)
The difference between upskilling and reskilling:
To upskill is to provide training that enhances someone's existing skill set, allowing them to grow in their current role and bringing added value to an organization
To reskill is to retrain an employee for a new position
Why has upskilling suddenly become so important? Short answer: digital transformation.
The digital economy, enabled by astonishing advances in technology, is reimagining the provider-customer dynamic and transforming how goods and services are bought and sold. Customer-centric, tech-enabled, well-capitalized, new model providers are disrupting incumbents across industries. They share several core characteristics: a relentless commitment to improve customer access, experience, and loyalty; the efficient use of data; achieving “more with less” for the benefit of customers, employees, and shareholders; and constant improvement. Their models are built from the customer perspective, not to fit the provider economic model. (Source: Forbes Magazine: read entire article)
If you need help with your skills’ assessment, I can assist you.
Contact me and we can work together. Let’s get started!
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