Showing posts with label Personality development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Personality development. Show all posts

Monday, January 17, 2011

Personality Development to Improve Your Career Growth

Improve Your Time Management Skills

Are you lingering on job duties too long and finding the days pass too quickly for you to get your work done?? you should try to improve your time management related issues. Try making a weekly schedule which includes appointments, time to answer calls/emails and other important aspects of the workday. By outlining the things each day, you will find that you are scheduling enough time to complete the things you need to and not wasting time on things you do not have to address each day.

Hone Your Communication Skills

Improve on how you communicate with others in the workplace, as communication is key to your job whatever position you may be in. When improving your communication skills, think about your position in order to be able to communicate for the daily job duties.

Direct Your Career

Personal development can also involve deciding which way to take your career. Some individuals work each and every day yet don't have a set goal in mind as to where they want their career to go. Personal development involves having some sort of idea as to how you can pursue your goals to the best of your ability. Therefore, if you want to improve your career, it is a wise idea to give some thought as to which direction you want to take your career in and how you can do it.

Plan

Lastly, you can really improve your career by having a plan set up which outlines what you want to achieve in the workplace. Once you know where you want to go in the workplace, you will find that getting there is much easier than once expected.

All The best.

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Friday, July 16, 2010

Understand + Develop Your Soft Skills

Soft skills in todays corporate world is one of the important tool which will lead you to success. Yes, Technical skills alone may lead you to a good job, however to continue to move your professional graph upward you need to develop your soft skills.

Soft skills are nothing but your personality. It may needs more efforts to be developed your personality (soft skills in you) than technical skills.

Few of the soft skills which corporates look in you before hiring you are,
- Your Attitude.
- Your interpersonal skills.
- Your Presentation skills.
- Your personality.

Tough formal training can only guide you to enhance your soft skills. To actually achieve them you need to consiously practice and bring that change in you.

Few of the steps which can help you to develop your soft skills are:
* Be a good listener - Do not jump into an argument or a conclusion just because you are 100% sure. Listen there may be something more to add to what you know already. Also be an Active listener, you may not be involved in certain topics in a meeting but listening may help you to learn something and show your patience to your collegues / other members.
* Communicate with examples - You may not be a great communicator or finding it difficult to explain your point to the listener. An illustrative example will do the job of communicating what you wanted to rather than creating communication gaps. This again will get you in good books of listeners who may look up on you the next time they face a certain problem.
* Participate - Participate in something which involves team work, it can be a fun activity or a problem solving discussion at office. Listen and also communicate your ideas. Observe reaction of people on your involvement. Slowly you will gain lot of confidence in self when in a group.
* Get Feedack - Yes you read right. Try getting feedback about you, about your personality, about the way you speak/communicate, about your body language etc, from your friends and family. Belive me you will be surprise to hear the feedbacks about you. One important thing, do NOT react immediately to the feedback, Think and try improving on the areas where improvement is needed.
* Dont react or make instant decisions - You may be very angry at what your collegue or friend just said, You may be dissapointed that your team mate did not meet the deadlines. You may have just got firing from your manager for something which was not your fault. Take a few seconds to react, think about it, they may be right. This will do wonders to how people look upon you.

Once again, unless you actually put these points into practice its almost impossible to improve your soft skills and hence your personality.

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