When speaking of essentials skills to have in the work place, some may over think the simple but complex nine skills.
Oral communication is a self explanatory essential to have in the workplace, having the ability to express your thoughts, ideas, and concerns in the work environment is a key piece to having a functioning and happy career. Numeracy refers to a worker capability to think in quantitative terms. Working with money, creating schedules, budgeting all fall under that category. Working with others is another very simple explanation but an essential to have. Being added to a team or partnered to another individual happens quite often in the work force, and having the ability to carry out task together is key. Continuous learning, think of it as a sponge. When in water, it continues to collect water little by little, it stays wet. As a worker, you want to be able to continue to learn new material, techniques. It’s essential because as a worker, you want to grow from where you started. Reading texts not only involves reading paragraphs, but having the ability to scan over information and data. It includes reading forms, label, charts, table graphs. This skills allows us evaluate and integrate information. Writing falls next to reading, it’s an essential because we use it in so many forms, communication, how we keep things organized, record keeping and that’s only the beginning of that list. Thinking comes in to play for most workers, and has it’s own categories it falls into problem solving, decision making, critical thinking, finding information, planning and organizing. It’s important because it’s a skill not only will you use at work but in everyday. Document use includes in plotting information onto a graph, entering information to a schedule, print or non print media (computer screens or equipment gauges, clocks and flags) this skill is use to read and understand graphs, tables, list, etc. A prime example of a worker using this essential skill is a carpenter reading a blue print. These nine skills form a well rounded worker, but it doesn’t mean someone must be excellent in all of them, certain jobs fall into certain skills.
