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Monday, June 30, 2008

Soft Skills and Hard Skills

(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)

(You will benefit more if you also read all of my previous write-ups on this site).

You will need to sharpen your soft skills as well as your hard skills in order to become effective, efficient and successful in your life and your professions.

Hard skills are to do with the technical skills and soft skills are the behavioral skills. Both types of skills are required for carrying our your professional activities effectively and efficiently. They are also required to be successful in your personal, family and social life.

You should first identify as to which soft skills and hard skills you need to develop. Each person may have his or her unique requirements. Once having identified them, you will need to feel motivated about developing those skills. I have emphasized earlier that there is no short-cut to master the skills. You will have to acquire the right kind of knowledge about those skills and then
keep on practicing.

Then you are there to win the world.

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

Read "Management Anecdotes" authored by Shyam Bhatawdekar at: http://management-anecdotes.blogspot.com/

Friday, June 27, 2008

Doing Every Verb of a Dictionary Needs Skill

(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)

(It will be prudent to read my previous posts).

To sit (properly and decently) needs skill of sitting properly and decently. You have to learn the right way of sitting and then keep doing it that way every time you sit.

To walk (smartly) needs the skill of walking smartly. You have to learn as to how to walk smartly and then practice walking using that knowledge.

To dance (artistically) needs the skill of dancing artistically. (The professional dancers rehearse hours and hours before they are ready to perform in front of an audience or a camera).

To make love (in satisfying manner) does not happen the very first time. You got to learn its theory and then practice it and every time improve upon the way you do it in order to gain the right kind of expertise in it.

So choose the skill you need to and so, wish to develop and learn about its theory and practice it.

Good luck.

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

Read "Management Anecdotes" authored by Shyam Bhatawdekar at: http://management-anecdotes.blogspot.com/

Friday, June 13, 2008

Excellence in Competencies/Skills

(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)

(It will be prudent to read my previous posts).

You will be able to achieve the excellence in any skill or competency only if you rehearse or practice the learned skill a large number of times. Knowledge alone is no guarantee for achieving great levels in skills or competencies.

Only if you start swimming, you will become a swimmer; mere knowledge of swimming or great theories of swimming will not automatically make you even an ordinary swimmer. Knowledge surely helps and is a must but without doing, it is of no use to you. If you wish to become a good teacher, start teaching the subject you know well. If you want to become an actor, start acting. Seek roles in movies or dramas or TV shows and keep refining your acting by doing it and also applying your knowledge in doing it better. If your desire is to become an author, start writing. Write something every day. And use your knowledge to write even better. Doing is what makes you what you wish to become, knowledge alone does not.

Implementation of knowledge is the name of the game.

Great Knowledge + Zero Implementation = No effectiveness, No results, No success
Some Knowledge + Some implementation = Some Effectiveness, Some Results, Some Success
Great Knowledge + Great Implementation = Great Effectiveness, Great Results, Great Success

There are 4 levels of competencies or skills:

1. Unconsciously incompetent: Ignorance (example: you are not even aware that there are some proper styles of swimming)

2. Consciously incompetent: Acceptance of incompetence and creating a desire to learn (example: you accept that you do not swim properly and you will like to learn the correct styles of swimming)

3. Consciously competent: Gaining the knowledge about the skill to be mastered and begin practicing the knowledge gained (example: gaining knowledge on how to swim using proper styles of swimming and start swimming using the right styles of swimming)

4. Unconsciously competent: Keep practicing the knowledge gained till you gain mastery in the skill (example: you have now become an expert swimmer since you have been swimming using the proper styles of swimming over number of hours and you can now give yourself 9 on 10 or even 10 on 10)

For greater success in life, you should try to reach the unconsciously competent level in the skills required by you for your professional, personal, family and social activities/tasks/projects.

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

Read "Management Anecdotes" authored by Shyam Bhatawdekar at: http://management-anecdotes.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Excellence in Any Skill is All About "Practice"

(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)

(It will be more useful if you read all my posts).

In my previous post, I mentioned that "practice" makes a man (and a woman) perfect. Its true.

Why do you think that the soldiers and their officers in the armed forces walk smartly (as compared to large numbers of civilians)? Simply because they are given the knowledge on how to walk smartly, they learn the standard operating procedure (SOP, the process) on walking smartly. And, then, they walk every day for hours together in their daily parades/drills. They rehearse and rehearse and try to make it perfect.

So, when you have a desire to pick up any skill and become the best in it, get the required knowledge to perform that skill correctly and then, practice, practice and practice.

You do need skills of all sorts to become successful in your personal, professional, family and social life and you got to be damn good in them if you wish to excel. And who doesn't?

So, choose a skill and perfect it.

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

Read "Management anecdotes" authored by Shyam Bhatawdekar at: http://management-anecdotes.blogspot.com/

Monday, June 9, 2008

Effectiveness: All about Desire, Knowledge and Skill

(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)

(This post is in continuation of my previous post).

Personal and professional effectiveness means that you can perform a particular task or activity in a superior manner, better than the best benchmark currently available for that task/activity or at least, you should be able to match up with it. It may not be possible to reach that excellence level from the level where you are at present, all of a sudden. However, you can improve upon your effectiveness gradually from your current status to the newly defined status.

You will have to follow a standard operating procedure (SOP or a process) for that.

First, you should have a desire to improve in that particular task/activity. You can take a horse to water but can not make it drink water unless the horse has desire to drink water. Same with human beings too.

Secondly, you should learn the relevant knowledge pertaining to that task. There is lot of knowledge for every task. Some one has written a 200 pages book titled "how to do a great handshake".

And, then you should practice that task again and again. Practice makes a man (and woman) perfect. There is no short cut to practice. There is no short cut to knowledge and desire also. If you wish to excel in shaking hands with people, first learn from that 200 pages (make sure that the stuff is authentic) and keep on shaking hands with every one you meet.

Ultimately, you will score 10 on 10 in shaking hands and it will become your habit. You will internalize that skill. It will happen to you, automatically, in the superior most manner, effortlessly.

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

Read "Management Anecdotes" authored by Shyam Bhatawdekar at: http://management-anecdotes.blogspot.com/

Thursday, June 5, 2008

You Will Learn to Manage Your Personal, Family & Professional Life

(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)

Through these pages, I am going to pen down a few very important things for you. If you learn and practice them, you are sure to become very effective. With that enhanced effectiveness, you will be able to manage your entire life very successfully. You will manage all aspects of your life: personal, professional, family and social.

More than 100,000 people from all walks of life have attended my talks, presentations, seminars and workshops (around 35000 hours of speaking engagements). A large numbers of them tell me that they are benefited.

On this site, by and by, I will keep on posting those few important things. Be on look out for them here.

See you soon.

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

Read "Management Anecdotes" authored by Shyam Bhatawdekar at: http://management-anecdotes.blogspot.com/