Monday 26 November 2012

Career Building Skills For Success

You need certain skills for achieving success in a business or career. Based on surveys done on successful businessmen and executives, there are few learnable skills required to increase career advancement and performance.

Some of the important career building abilities and skills are:

Skill to sell: You should have good selling skills, so that you are able to convince customers to buy your products and services. If you are working somewhere then making sales for your company will also require good selling skills. There is no business that can be successful without sales. This also requires negotiation skills.

Skill to write well: There are many people who would be interested in knowing what you know - so why not write it down so that they can read it? Whatever you write should be precise, to the point and clear, so that anyone can understand it.

It is essential to provide written material that is not only convincing and believable, but motivational and constructive as well. It should act as a source of communication for people who want to know more about a particular topic.

Skill to speak: It is essential to know how to speak for yourself and your company when in a meeting. If you are able to speak in a persuasive and clear manner, then you can easily get approval for a budget or grab a new project.

Good speaking skills will also help you in organizing a meeting effectively, or even interviewing someone. Speaking skills can be learned from courses and books, but a lot of determination is required.

Leadership: This is a very important skill that can help you inspire people to do what you want them to do. If you are a team leader in an organization, then leadership skills will matter a lot.
Skill to judge people: This is also one of the most important abilities that could help you build a good career. If you are able to evaluate accurately and outline the possible options at work, it will help you choose the best available. When the choices are related to people then this skill works wonders.

 By Tony Jacowski

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