what is a skill

PHILOSOPHY OF A SKILL

Abdalla Ali Mohamed 15/5/2016

Agenda :

• What is a skill ?• The Difference between knowledge & Skills &

abilities• Types of Skills • Soft skills Vs. Hard Skills• How to acquire a new skill.• Q

What is A skill ?1- the ability to do something that comes from training, experience, or practice.

2-An ability and capacity acquired through continuous, systematic, and sustained effort to smoothly and adaptively carryout complex activities or job functions involving ideas (cognitive skills), things (technical skills), and/or people (interpersonal skills)

3-the ability to use one's knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance

Skill

• 1-knowledge• 2-Practice• 3-Experince

Knowledge is the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.

Abilities( Internal-genetic ) are the qualities( Cognitive/ Physical / psychological ) tools of

being able to do something

the ability to do something that comes from training, experience, or practice

Types of skills :

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hard skills :

usually takes smarts or IQ (also known as your left brain-the logical center). Examples of hard skills include math, physics, accounting, programming, finance, biology, chemistry, statistics,

soft skills:

usually takes Emotonal Intelligence or EQ (also known as your right brain- the emotional center). etc… Examples of soft skills include self management skills like self confidence, stress management and people skills like communication or networking skills

Note :

•Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills – Which is more important?

It depends highly on the career you choose. Here is why.:

Careers can be put into 3 kind of categories. It is up to you to figure out which category your career is in.

1) Careers that need hard skills and little soft skills (example: Physicists); This is where you see brilliant people who may not easily work well with others. They can still be very successful in their career – look at Albert Einstein

2) Careers that need both hard and soft skills – many careers are in this category (example: Accountants, Lawyers – they need to know the rules of accounting or law well but they also depend on selling to clients to build a successful career. Dealing well with clients require excellent soft skills like communication skills, relationship skills etc…)

3) Careers that need mostly soft skills and little hard skills (example: sales. A car salesman don’t really need to know that much about cars, just a little more than the consumer. His job is more dependent on his ability to read his customers, communicate his sales pitch, persuasion skills, and skills to close to deal. These are all soft skills)

1- Check your readiness

2- Make sure it’s needed

3-Know how you learn best

4-Get the right help

5-Reflect along the way

8- Challenge yourself to teach

it to others

7- Be patient

6-Start small

Acquire a new Skill