The Ladder Towards The Success

On 15th of March 2012

Today the Semester is on Skills.The Skill is the 1st step in the Ladder towards the Success.According to Business Dictonary The Skill means :

Definition of Skill

An ability and capacity acquired through deliberate, systematic, and sustained effort to smoothly and adaptively carryout complex activities or job functions involving ideas (cognitive skills), things (technical skills), and/or people (interpersonal skills)

(Source : http://www.businessdictionary.com)

There are 3 Main Types of Skill:

• Technical Skills -- The most fundamental types of skills one must have to achieve in life are technical skills; including those required of life in general (e.g. cleaning, cooking, grooming, organizing, planning, etc.), as well as the very specific technical skills required of your specific job. As most of us have discovered technical skill building is an on-going, never-ending process. We suggest that you continually upgrade your skills, stay on top of changes and developments, and make continuous education a cornerstone of your life.
• Interpersonal Skills -- In addition, you will need to know how to convey information, verbally or non-verbally to people you are in contact with. These are your interpersonal skills. To succeed at a high level in life you will need to have writing, speaking, presentation, communication, and management/leadership skills amongst others. 
• Psychological Skills -- Perhaps the most important type of skills to succeed in life are psychological skills. The ability to show real concern for others and knowing how to show that concern in interactions with others is a psychological skill. Other psychological skills include the ability to help others develop and grow, the ability to create harmony in difficult situations, the ability to know how to motivate others, the ability to understand another's true motives when interacting with them, and many others. By developing psychological skills, you increase the motivation and energy of those around you, and you increase your chance for success, joy, and happiness in life.

(Roy Posner 2012)

But for success these three skills are not enough there are more skills a person should pocess to be a successfull person in life.And as a step to learn skills we did a class activity.

CLASS ACTIVITY

•         Lets identify our skills

•         Think about something you do well, a difficulty you overcame, or a personal achievement, no matter how small.  Write down all the elements that go into something you have done well

–       What did you do to create the conditions that led to success?

–       Which skills, attitudes and qualities did you exhibit? Did you practice?

–       Did you urge yourself on in a particular way?

–       Did you find people to help? Or did you just believe you could do it?

Ø Achieved 7A 2B in O/L exams

Ø I have been my own Motivation

Changed myself to an Optimist

Ø Yes I did some practices, referred many Books and websites and wrote the things I studied.

Ø Yes I started to urge myself by writing the notes and doing past papers

Ø Yes I got some encouragements from Parents, Teachers and Friends. But I believed 100% that I will do my Best

To be a successfull person, she/he should be able to grab the opportunity.For that he/she should pocess the optimism character and the ability to take risks without loosing enthusiasm.There are many people with same qualification are struggling to reach the top level and to achieve it he/she should be ready at anytime.







Wheel Of Opportunity
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Based on a number of surveys on the skills required by graduates undertaken by Microsoft, Target Jobs, the BBC, Prospects, NACE and AGR and other organizations, here is our summary of the skills which were most often deemed important.

VERBAL COMMUNICATION  -  Able to express your ideas clearly and confidently in speech

TEAM WORK  - Work confidently within a group

COMMERCIAL AWARENESS - Understand the commercial realities affecting the organization

ANALYSING & INVESTIGATING - Gather information systematically to establish facts & principles. Problem solving.

INITIATIVE/SELF MOTIVATION - Able to act on initiative, identify opportunities & proactive in putting forward ideas & solutions

DRIVE - Determination to get things done. Make things happen & constantly looking for better ways of doing things.

WRITTEN COMMUNICATION - Able to express yourself clearly in writing

PLANNING & ORGANISING - Able to plan activities & carry them through effectively

FLEXIBILITY  - Adapt successfully to changing situations & environments

TIME MANAGEMENT -  Manage time effectively, prioritizing tasks and able to work to deadlines.

Other skills that were also seen as important

GLOBAL SKILLS - Able to speak and understand other languages.

ü  Appreciation of other cultures.

ü  Study and work placements outside the SL

ü  Working Abroad

NEGOTIATING & PERSUADING - Able to influence and convince others, to discuss and reach agreement

LEADERSHIP Able to motivate and direct others

NUMERACY Multiply & divide accurately, calculate percentages, use statistics & a calculator, interpret graphs & tables.

COMPUTING SKILLS - Word-processing, using databases, spreadsheets, the Internet & email, designing web pages etc.

SELF AWARENES - Awareness of achievements, abilities, values & weaknesses & what you want out of life.

PERSONAL IMPACT/CONFIDENCE - Presents a strong, professional, positive image to others which inspires confidence & commands respect.

LIFELONG LEARNING - Continues to learn throughout life. Develops the competencies needed for current & future roles

STRESS TOLERANCE - Maintains effective performance under pressure

INTEGRITY - Adheres to standards & procedures, maintains confidentiality and questions inappropriate behavior.

INDEPENDENCE - Accepts responsibility for views & actions and able to work under their own direction & initiative.

DEVELOPING PROFESSIONALISM - Pays care & attention to quality in all their work. Supports & empowers others.

ACTION PLANNING - Able to decide what steps are needed to achieve particular goals and then implement these.

DECISION-MAKING - Determines the best course of action. Evaluates options based on logic & fact & presents solutions

INTERPERSONAL SENSITIVITY - Recognizes & respects different perspectives. Open to the ideas & views of others

CREATIVITY - Generates & applying new ideas & solutions

(Source: http://www.kent.ac.uk)

 

·         To be A Successful Person He/She shouldn’t only Pocess the above mentioned Skills

·         But He/She should pocess the most important ability

·         That is HARD WORKING

Even if a Person has Creativity,Talent,Educational skills and above mentioned skills to my opinion without the hard working ability She/he will not be able to reach the top level of the Ladder that is SUCCESS.

According to Winston Churchill :                                

  

Steps To Success



"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. "