Saturday, January 29, 2011

Skills to Success in Life

These seven skills are:

1. Learning to Learn: to independently acquire and apply the new knowledge and skills required for meeting constantly changing needs;

2. Literacy: to raise proficiency in reading,writing and computation for interpreting, analysing and using more complex information and data;

3.Listening and Oral Communication: to learn from co-workers and customers, understand needs and explore new opportunities;

4. Problem-solving and Creativity: to go beyond conventional approaches, offer novel solutions and make the leap to innovation;

5. Personal Effectiveness:to take personal responsibility for self development and meeting the changing needs of the organisation;

6. Group Effectiveness: to achieve synergy among team members for achieving higher performance;and

7. Organisational Effectiveness and Leadership: to understand values and systems, take the lead and make decisions which support the organisation’s goals.