7 Skills Students Need for Their Future
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There is a powerful presentation of a director of Harvard Change Leadership Group – Dr. Tony Wagner. He speaks about 7 essential skills to develop if you want to become a successful person in the future. They are included in the list below.
Critical Thinking, along with Problem Solving
Business undergoes constant changes and improvement in order to be relevant to the market demand and meet expectations of customers. Thus, companies expect students, who graduated from university, to be able to apply critical thinking to a problem and find an effective solution in short period of time. For example, Toyota hires those people who can meet three their demands:
- Produce products of high quality;
- Find ways to improvement;
- Create cars of the future;
Collaboration and Ability to Work in Team
Nowadays, the world has no boundaries, people constantly communicate with each other. Thus, no matter what is your position, you will work as a part of a team sooner or later. That is when team-working skills are important. Students should learn how to interact with other people, ask right questions and get needed answers.
Vivacity and Ability to Adapt
Working years are quite long time, and almost every person will change his or her job in their course. That is why it is so important to be good at adaptability and know how to adjust to different conditions. Even if you will work at the same company for the whole life, it will definitely undergo certain changes and you will have to get used to them. Thus, agility, along with adaptability are vital for a successful career.
Initiative and Competitiveness
It is important to have dreams which you can achieve. However, it is even more important to set goals, which are challenging. If there is a person who achieved 5 goals out of 5 and another person with 8 achieved goals out of 10, the employer will hire the second one because he always leaves space for self-development and improvement. That is how initiative and competitiveness are trained.
Effective Communication
A lot of employers complain that graduate students do not know how to communicate efficiently. They obtain this skill neither at school nor at college. The other critical issue, related to communication is writing. They have no idea how to express themselves in a convincing manner. Such students do not know how to persuade people and that causes harm to business. Thus, you will be extremely valuable on the job market if you elaborate your communication and writing skills.
Ability to Analyze Information
Information is everywhere, and you will face tones of it on the daily basis. It is essential not only to perceive it, read and remember, but also differentiate between main and secondary one. As soon as you learn to highlight the key information needed for project, report or conversation, you will become valuable in a corporative world. In order to be able to do it, you need to develop your analytical skills.
Imagination and Curiosity
Our world is built on images and expectancy. In order to be able to give these two things to customers, you need to be curious about everything and be creative in any situation. It is important to develop your creative skills no matter what is your degree and sphere of interests.
