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9 skills hard to learn that will pay you off forever

18/01/2017 /

Fruitful skills at work can sometimes be hard to learn and practice.

Here’s some tips to boost your work every day.

1.Time Management: planning is the first step and needs discipline. To do list and scheduling will help you to focus.

2. Empathy: do you feel what people feel? That’s the key to foster the team spirit in your office.

3. Better sleep helps, as many medical studies confirm.

4. Positive self talk: it doesn’t matter what others think of you, but what you think of yourself certainly does. Are you confident enough with yourself?

5. Be consistent. To mantain a top position you have to work harder.

6. Ask for help: when you ask people for advice, you validate their intelligence or expertise, which makes you more likely to win them over.

7. Shut up, if needed, but also listen

8. Mind your business: it will take time, but will surely help the atmospher at work.

9. And finally master your thoughts, directing them to what you want to do and accomplish.

Read the full article: the 9 tips

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Getting more from your leadership than your technical skills

13/11/2014 /

Scott Eblin, speaker and author of “The Next Level”, in his post on Govexec writes that, at some point in your career, your leadership skills need to trump your technical skills if you want to make the biggest possible impact. Eblin represents this in a simple graph: the higher you rise in leadership, the leverage in getting higher achievements comes from spending less time on your technical skills and more time exercising your leadership abilities. Here is a list of high “leadership intensive” activities he has collected by asking his readers to give their answer to this question: “What is it, given the leadership role that you are in, that only you can do?”.

  • Set the vision
  • Develop my people
  • Get the right people on the team
  • Allocate resources
  • Establish priorities
  • Build the relationships we need to get stuff done
  • Provide air cover
  • Share perspective and information with the team
  • Keep key people informed about what we are doing
  • Knock down barriers
  • Keep us focused on the plan
  • Monitor and measure progress

Read the full article here.

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Post by: Ugo Ferrero

Making sure your hard skills shine

16/01/2014 /

Soft skills are becoming crucial for career success as the world gets increasingly competitive. Beyond technical skills, the softer, interpersonal and relationship-building skills are the ones that help people excel at work.

The problem is such skills are often taken for granted and there is far less training provided for them than for traditional hard skills. That’s why it is so important to focus on soft skills training and development.

Check out if you have a soft skills gap on: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCDV_34.htm

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