Introduction
As the competition for work intensifies as well as the demands of work increasing so does the necessity for career starters and experienced employees to learn more than the basic competencies in order to succeed and climb the corporate ladder in the ever shrinking working world. To be unique in the workforce, remarkable, and occupy a higher position, it requires the upper hand that can pump improved performance, brainstorming, and flexibility. What skills does every professional need to develop in order to get the most out of them and be ready to embrace the opportunities?
1. Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify feelings in your self and others. This skill is a very helpful skill to build interpersonal rapport, oral and written communication during interaction with others and handling inevitable conflict found in every working environment.
To become emotionally smart is then to learn about the things like self awareness, self regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. Modes of EI include other source feedback, active listening, self reflection and the activities and strategies used address them. Team building activities and workshops also provide complement to and add to social interaction between the members.
2. Leadership
Leadership skills are very relevant to any professional career goal, who who seeks to rise to the top of his or her organization or company and leave a mark in the professional world. The leadership is about the process of influencing people or an organization to attain the organizational objectives through creating good relations, that is leading people, giving direction and encouraging growth of people in an organization.
To become a strong leader, there is a range of skills, which professionals should foster, such as interpersonal communication, critical thinking, problem solving and decision making skills. Second, they should explore ways to enhance their self awareness and know how to delegate work, provide constructive criticism and empower people and groups to take responsibility for their work.
3. Adaptability
Flexibility is an important quality in today’s competitive world as no worker or business is immune to changes that occur in the marketplace. Organizational learning is the ability of the organisation to adjust and be creative while responding and adapting to organisational and environmental changes.
To promote the concept of flexibility among the professionals, they ought to be a work in progress a learner, and change-seeking human. It is also relevant for event management since they can explore new contacts, attend the industry conference as well as attend professional development and improve themselves.
4. Creativity
Ideation can be defined as idea production, which can be new, useful, and innovative goods, services or concepts. So creativity in the working environment means with its application more essential, since it helps on the innovation procedure, solution seeking, and the ease of improvement. This is not about being creative in the profession like designing or artwork, but the creativity always boosts productivity levels in an organization.
For the working professionals there are several ways of nurturing their creativity, some of them being suggested approaches of brainstorm creativity, lateral thinking/creativity and mind map creativity. They also should not be afraid to fail and should need to search for more ideas, how to approach it, different ways to do this and of course discover new ways of thinking. Work with other can also increase creativity and get better and more efficient ideas, solutions and strategies.
5. Strategic Thinking
Strategic thinking is defined by the one’s capacity to recognize scenarios that are prospective and durable and to outline actions strategies for creating outcomes. It entails a holistic thinking merging AC- and scenario thinking to be able to look at the organisation beyond the present and come up with critical solution oriented strategies.
Of strategic thinking, professionalism should have good analysis capability, problem solving capacity, system thinking, trend and pattern recognition. There are a lot of tools — scenario planning, SWOT analysis, and so on — to hone your skills and become better at the making of decisions.
6. Time Management
Time management is defined as the ability to decide before hand what is to be done, how it is to be done, and when, where and how it will be done. It’s important to understand that correct time management enhances working productivity, helps meeting deadlines and bears positive impact on working and personal life.
In order to enhance working time, action planning can be used with best work prioritizing along with dividing work in to small and giant parts, work planning and organization. They can also learn to relinquish some of their decision making authority and pass the buck deciding that no they cannot get involved in tasks that are not central to their duties or seek assistance when they have too much on their plate. Applying time management means, the professionals are able to concentrate on the important, leaving out extraneous chores and utilize the time effectively.
7. Digital Literacy
This infrastructural shift in human activities makes it compulsory for any performing professional to have an insight into use of digital tools, online sites, and technologies. Digital literacy means the capability to effectively and responsibly prosecute the digital devices, software and other related tools.
Digital literacy for working professional involved the need to access, assess, and interacting with content available in the digital space, ways of communicating through the digital space and how to form and manipulate identity available in the digital space. Further, they should also keep up with how technology has progressed in the digital space, and be prepared to bring the theatre competencies up to speed with the markets in the digital space.
Conclusion
Acquiring sophisticated competencies can play a major role in the career improvement of a professional, along with his or her objectives, and added value for organizations. Therefore, using the principles of emotional intelligence, leadership, flexibility, creativity, strategic thinking, professionalism and information technology, people are able to perform well, achieve their potential in order to make a meaningful contribution to an area of work.
