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Ah... the summer is in full swing. For some of us everything slows down a bit, which is usually a good time to complete an inventory of our personal skills. Yes, we all can benefit from doing this, since these skills impact our jobs. So, let’s take a look at a list of personal skills that can benefit us and then decide which ones could use some improvement.
Carefulness: Thinking and planning carefully before acting helps reduce the chance for costly errors, as well as keeping a steady. “Look twice before you leap.” - Charlotte Brontë.
Cooperation: Willingness to engage in interpersonal work situations is very important in the workplace. “It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.” Irish Proverb.
Creativity: You've heard of "thinking outside the box"? Employers want innovative people who bring a fresh perspective. "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." Charles Mingu.
Discipline: This includes the ability to keep on task and complete projects without becoming distracted or bored. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” Chinese Proverb.
Drive: Businesses want employees who have high aspiration levels and work hard to achieve goals. “There's no ceiling on effort!” Harvey C. Fruehauf.
Good attitude: T his has been shown to predict counterproductive work behaviors, job performance and theft. "A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier." Anonymous.
Goodwill: This is a tendency to believe others are well-intentioned. “Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.” George Eliot.
Influence: Groups need strong leaders to guide the way. Influence includes a tendency to positively impact social situations by speaking your mind and becoming a group leader. “Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.”Albert Einstein.
Optimism: A positive attitude goes a long way toward productivity. “The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser-in case you thought optimism was dead.” Robert Brault.
Order: "Where did I put that?" A tendency to be well organized helps employees to work without major distractions or "roadblocks." “I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.” William Blake
Safe work behaviors: Employers want people who avoid work-related accidents and unnecessary risk-taking in a work environment.“It is better to be safe than sorry.” AmericanProverb
Savvy: This isn't just about job knowledge, but knowledge of coworkers and the working environment. It includes a tendency to read other people's motives from observed behavior and use this information to guide one's thinking and action. “It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” Henry David Thoreau.
Sociability: How much you enjoy interacting with coworkers affects how well you work with them. “In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” Albert Schweitzer.
Stability: This means a tendency to maintain composure and rationality in stressful work situations. “The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.” Aristotle.
Vigor: This is a tendency to keep a rapid tempo and keep busy.“Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.” Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Sources: http://www.trainingmag.com/; www.act.org/workkeys; http://www.enotes.com/famous-quotes; http://www.famous-quotes.com/; http://www.quoteworld.org/; http://quotations.about.com/; http://www.motivatingquotes.com/; http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/; http://philosophersnotes.com/
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