1. Public Speaking
The ability to speak clearly, persuasively, and forcefully
in front of an audience is one of the most important skills
anyone can develop. Being able to speak effectively means
you can sell anything - products, ideas, ideologies and
most importantly YOURSELF - which means more
opportunities for career advancement, bigger clients, or
business funding.
2. Writing
Writing well offers many of the same advantage that
speaking well offers. Learning to write well involves not
just mastery of grammar but the development of the ability
to organize your thoughts into a coherent form and target
it to an audience in the most effective way possible. A person
who is a master of the written word can expect doors to
open in just about every field.
3. Self-Management
If success depends on effective action, effective action depends
on the ability to focus your attention where it is needed most,
when it is needed most. Strong organizational skills, effective
productivity habits, and a strong sense of discipline are needed
to keep yourself on track.
4. Networking
Networking crates the channel through which ideas flow and
in which new ideas are created. A large network is a body of
relationships. The interactions these relationships make
lead to innovation and creativity and provide the support to
nurture new ideas.
5. Critical Thinking
Being able to evaluate information, sort the potentially valuable
from the trivial, analyze its relevance and meaning, and relate
it to other information is crucial.
6. Decision Making
The bridge that leads from analysis to action is effective
decision making - knowing what to do based on the information
available. Being able to take in the scene and respond quickly
and effectively is what separates the doers from the wannabes.
7. Math
The ability to quickly work with figures in your head, to make
rough but fairly accurate estimates, and to understand things
like compound interest and basic statistics gives you a big lead
on most people. All of these skills will help you to analyze data
more effectively and more quickly and to make better decisions
based on it.
8. Research
You don't have to know everything but you should be able to
quickly and painlessly find out what you need to know. That
means learning to use the internet effectively, learning to use
a library, learning to read productively, and learning how to
leverage your network of contacts and what kinds of research
are going to work best in any given situation.
9. Relaxation
Stress will not only kill you, it leads to poor decision making,
poor thinking, and poor socialization. So failing to relax, you
knock out at least three of the skills in this list. Being able to
face even the most pressing crises with your wits about you and
in the most productive way is possibly the most important thing
on this list.
10. Basic Accounting
It is a simple fact that in our society money is necessary. Knowing
how to track and record your expenses and income is important
just to survive, let alone to thrive. The principles of accounting
apply more widely to things like tracking the time you spend on
a project or determining whether the value of an action outweighs
the costs in money, time and effort.
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