Soft Skill/Competency: Interpersonal Skills

Refer previous six posts to read the detailed explanations on competencies "Result Orientation", "Problem Solving", “Self Confidence”, “Self Development”, "Action Orientation" and "Creativity").

Explanation of the Competency "Interpersonal Skills"

• Likes to interact with others.
• Can interact with others with ease and naturally.
• Can relate well with diverse personalities.
• Is in a position to establish rapport with others.
• Recognizes that every individual is unique and appreciates such uniqueness in others.
• Can foresee how others will think and behave under different situations.
• Can adjust own behavior to suit the behavior styles of others.
  
• Treats others with respect and politeness.
• Therefore can maintain a very congenial and conducive communication.
• Takes initiative to build up short term and long term relationships.
• Is adept at making personal and professional networks.
• Can create and promote an organizational climate of good interpersonal relations.

Pitfalls to be Avoided

• A strong desire to be liked by everyone all the time might seep in and therefore may fall into a tendency of avoiding difficult or unpleasant dealings.
• May spend unnecessarily too much wasteful time networking with others.  
• May not be able to sort out the deeper conflicts.
• May be seen as a person with smooth exterior but no substance. 

(You can download eBook "Competencies and Competency Matrix" from http://nbuu.co/cm)

Read the "Management Case Studies" from Shyam Bhatawdekar's book "Sensitive Stories of Corporate World" at: http://management-anecdotes.blogspot.com/ or http://shyam.bhatawdekar.com/

For "Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers", read at: http://management-games-icebreakers.blogspot.com/ or http://shyam.bhatawdekar.com/

For free tutorials on "Train the Trainers" program, refer: http://train-trainers.blogspot.com/

Soft Skill/Competency: Creativity

Refer previous five posts to read the detailed explanations on competencies "Result Orientation", "Problem Solving", “Self Confidence”, “Self Development” and "Action Orientation").

Explanation of the Competency “Creativity”

• Continually challenges the status quo and yearns to bring about improvement and newness in everything.
• Motivates others to challenge the status quo and to bring about improvement and newness in everything.
• Facilitates to bring out creativity in self and others.
• Contributes new concepts, processes and products.
• Does out of box thinking or lateral thinking. Thinks beyond the obvious by exploring wide ranging possibilities even outside the given parameters.
• Participates enthusiastically and contributes significantly in brainstorming sessions to generate creativity.
• Has the facility and talent to connect the seemingly unrelated issues and information to bring out freshness in approaches and solutions. Can grasp the nuances of cross functional working.
• Does the right brain as well as left brain thinking quite actively.
• Looks at the problems and solutions from all the possible angles.
• Is highly inquisitive and questions everything by raising a question, "why"?

Pitfalls to be Avoided

• May not be able to relate to the people who seem to be less creative and also may not appreciate them and their work.
• May get immersed deeply in an idea that may not be quite productive. May lose perspective with reference to business and organizational requirements.
• May shift from a to b and then to c and may get excited in working with many things at a time.
• May focus too much on right brain working and lose sight of hard core analysis and details.
• May lean more on being a loner as against being a team player.
• His idea generation and playing with them may affect a running assignment that he is handling.

(You can download eBook "Competencies and Competency Matrix" from http://nbuu.co/cm)

Read the "Management Case Studies" from Shyam Bhatawdekar's book "Sensitive Stories of Corporate World" at: http://management-anecdotes.blogspot.com/
or http://shyam.bhatawdekar.com/

For "Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers", read at: http://management-games-icebreakers.blogspot.com/ or http://shyam.bhatawdekar.com/

For free tutorials on "Train the Trainers" program, refer: http://train-trainers.blogspot.com/