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Editor’s note: Improve your skills and get the cost of living in the workplace. So what skills are the most important skills to learn? The authors say that skills that generate income are the most important skills to learn. These skills include persuading others, excellent pens, speaking in public, leadership, communication, focus, and decision making. But you must also be mentally prepared. Just as Rome was not built in a day, learning these skills is not so easy. This article is translated from medium, article author Darius Foroux, original title 7 Income Generating Skills That Every Professional Should Acquire.
Recently, one of my readers asked me: “If I want to build my career on my strengths and skills, what skills should I learn?”
My answer to this is – ” Skills that can help you generate income.”
I have to say that this is one of the best questions I have been asked. My article often talks about the philosophy of Peter Drucker and many other management thinkers that you should create more value in the marketplace.
The best way to create value is to have valuable skills. But which skills are really valuable to your organization? According to my experience, there are still many such skills.
But there are actually 7 skills that can generate income for you because they have an immediate impact on your organization. Next, I want to talk about the skills that every professional can and should master, and I hope to help you.
1. Persuasiveness
You should not be surprised by this. If you’ve read enough articles about personal growth, or heard enough interviews with successful people, you know that persuasion is everything.
You always need to sell yourself and your own ideas. In fact, I am convincing you now. Convincing others is nothing bad. People always have a sense of resistance to sales from others. me too.
But true persuasion is not just about selling goods. You can take this abilityUsed on the blade. I have found that if you have more knowledge of psychology, it will be of great benefit to improving your ability to persuade others.
2. Writing
One point I have been insisting for years is that writing is one of the most important skills in today’s society.
Translating your ideas into language effectively will help you stand out from the crowd. After all, my entire career is based on this skill.
In addition, writing is a skill that will pay off quickly. A small advancement in the writing field will have a big impact on your career.
3. Public speaking
Every time you answer a question in a group discussion, talk to your team, or try to get a group of people together, it’s all “speaking in public.” Believe me, you don’t need to be a TED speaker, you can master this skill.
It’s not easy to explain your thoughts clearly to others. Because we often use unnecessary words in communication. But what’s interesting is that we all think we are good at communicating with people.
We talk all the time, right? So standing in front of the crowd and making a small speech is not difficult for us, right?
I hope that things are as simple as that.
In fact, speaking in front of a group of people is not easy, you need to invest time to practice. Otherwise, even if we stand on the stage, we can’t say a word, or we can’t say a word.
4. Communication
In my experience, most business people lack communication skills. What does communication mean in the end? In fact, it is not complicated, communication is just to effectively share your thoughts and feelings.
But the focus is on “effective.” In other words: If people can’t understand you, you are a bad communicator.
How many times have we been misunderstood by others?
Absolutely quite, right?
Do we always habitually think that this is someone else’s fault?
You must have nodded again.
The problem is not with them, but with you. But this is good news, because you can solve this problem by becoming a better communicator.
5. Focus
This is a skill that will make you worthwhile. Most people are addicted to smartphones, and they don’t even pay more than 90 seconds.
If you improve your ability to focus on difficult tasks, each time you spend a few hours, you will be surprised to find out how many things you have done. What happens if you apply this skill to the fire? Yes, you will get more rewards.
6. Leadership
The more value you can create, the more you earn.The greater the energy. Now, if you master the above skills, you can certainly create enough value.
But do you know that there is anything else that can create more value? The answer is to lead a group of people to do the same thing.
When you always focus on yourself, you may only be able to create a fixed amount of value because of time and effort. But if you organize and lead a team, the value you can create must be exponential.
Leadership is a complex skill. After all, the best leaders are those who lead by example. But leadership is not just about setting a good example – it’s why the salespeople who sell things are not always good sales managers.
I don’t believe that leadership can be learned from books. You only need to have the desire to be a leader. If the real leader around you sees this, they will point you in the right direction.
7. Decision making and reasoning
Many people never take decisions as a skill. Why is this? In my opinion, anything you can learn is a skill.
Most people think that decision making is not a skill because they only focus on the outcome. But in fact you can’t control the results. For example, I can decide to publish three articles a week, but that doesn’t mean more people will read my article.
This is why I don’t pay attention to the results. Instead, I am concerned with the decision-making process. So the question is coming, how can you improve it? You may recommend using a mental model.
But I think the amount of work done is too great. So I suggest that you improve your reasoning ability, because decision-making is essentially the application of your reasoning ability to make and choose.
To say how to improve the ability to reason, I think it is a philosophy of learning. It is not important to learn what philosophy is. What is important is that all philosophy is reasoning.
How to learn faster?
People usually say, “Well, that article is good, but didn’t tell me what to do.” These people are not interested in actual learning. They think they can learn the above seven skills immediately by looking at my article.
Of course I hope so.
But in fact, it takes time and effort to improve these skills. You have to go to class, read a book, talk to an expert, get guidance – whatever you say – getting a skill is never an easy task.
This is why skills will make you stand out from the crowd. When you have the skills I discuss in this article, you are not just a skilled performer, but a person who knows how to learn.
A person who knows how to learn can learn anything.
Translator: Xi Tang