'Top 6 Skills You Need To Learn Before Going For Professional Life'

"The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative way"
Robert Greene~

There are some essential skills that every human must have, to start his/her professional life.
here are a list of general skills which helps anyone to move ahead in practically any field.
These are the skills that can be learn in any position and very essential for every career.

1) Good communication skills:

Being able to communicate effectively and confidently is perhaps the most important of all life skills.
communication is basically the act of transferring information from one place to another.It could be verbal, written, visual and non verbal.

The ability to communicate information accurately, clearly and as intended, is a key life skill and something that should not be overlooked. It’s never too late to work on your communication skills and by doing so, you may well find that you improve yourself and the quality of life.

"If you can communicate, you can get by. but if you can communicate skillfully, you can work miracles"

As you step to your professional life the important of communication skills increase.
you can improve your communication skills by smoothing your relationship with people.listening effectively is the best tool in communication skills if you listen carefully you can portray yourself more clearly and effectively.
many other things like volume, clarity, empathy, respect, confidence, understanding non verbal cues, responsiveness and feedback can make communication more effective.

2) Self management skills :

Self management sounds like being your own boss but actually self management means taking responsibilities of your own actions and doings.You will be a successful in professional life if you consider yourself accountable and you take ownership of your responsibilities.

Self management teaches you to be productive no matter what are the situations are and it will give you discipline to progress in your career. You can improve your self management skills by stress management, time management, good decision making, taking responsibility of your actions and correcting them.

3) Decision Making:

Decision making is the vital skill in workplace and its a way more important when you want to a good leader.

"Choices we make every day present us with daily opportunity to improve our skill in making decisions. Many of these choices are made out of habit, but just bringing these selections to a conscious level can enable evaluation, analysis, and self reflection that can be used to improve these and other decisions."


Probably, improving decision making skills will come from learning from experiencing the consequences of poor decisions. This skill can only acquire by taking risk and taking positive result from the failure or success.
 
I am not a product of my circumstances, i am a product of my decisions. "Stephen Covey"

4) Critical Thinking:

Critical thinking is the capacity to think clearly and rationally, understanding the logical connection between ideas. It requires you to use your ability to reason and It is about being an active learner rather than a passive recipient of knowledge.

"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of mind to think" Elbert Einstein~

Critical thinking can be improved by asking thoughtful questions, information seeking,interpretations,judgement, asking important questions, assessments, expressing opinions and ideas, curiosity, imagination,  Attention to details and evaluation.

5)Research:

Research skills refer to the ability to search for, locate, extract, organised, evaluate and use or present information that is relevant to a particular topic and it can be anything from looking at competitors and seeing what they do well to producing a written report on how your department could work better. this skills can be improve by learning to use of internet effectively, learning to use library, learning to read productively and what kind of research are you going to work best in given situation.

6) Writing Skills:

The writing skills is very important part of communication.You might be called upon to write a report, plan or strategy and planing at work or write a grant application or press release within a volunteering role, or you may fancy communicating your ideas online via blogs.  And, of course, a well written CV with no spelling or grammatical mistakes important if you are heading to professional life.

Following things by which you can improve your writing skills.

 a) Write like its your job.
 b) Find a Writing Partner. 
 c) Join a Workshop or Take a Night Class.
 d) Imitate Writers You Admire.
 e) Accept That First Drafts Are Almost Always Crap
     Find a Good Editor.
 f) Don’t Be Afraid to Say What You Think.
 g) Remember Done Is Better than Perfect.
 h) Dissect Writing That You Admire.