Skills needed at workplace (other than technical).

You must have expertise of using MS Office, Photoshop, and other important software because you can’t work in an office without having the skills in the said software packages. But in addition to these, there are other skills too that are often underrated but are far more important than having a know-how of using software and these skills contribute a lot towards strengthening your position at the workplace.

Be friendly.

Subtracting Saturdays and Sundays, we have to spend 40 hours every week in the office and of course who would want to spend a major part of his day with a difficult colleague! An easygoing, helpful and co-operative colleague is the one who is always in demand and is appreciated and respected by everyone. Being friendly does not only mean that you remain polite only with your co-workers but giving respect to the cleaning staff, peons, waiters and office boys is equally important.

Be a good writer

This is the era where everyone is communicating via email and text messaging and remains in touch through networking websites where nothing but your writing skills count when you write on your friends’ walls, comment on their photos, etc — you won’t be able to make a right impression if you are not good at writing. So having expertise in writing is very very necessary these days to build your reputation and enhance your career prospects.

Diplomacy is the key.

You find many different types of colleagues at workplace — majority of them are unlike your expectations and you find it hard to cope with them. Here comes the role of ‘diplomacy’ when you can put to use your flexibility and politeness and come with rather rational solutions of difficult problems without creating mess. In addition to being polite, it is also important to remember your limits while being friendly and if someone is not interested in sharing his/her personal matters with you, showing reluctance and minding your own business would help you a lot.

Talk to the point.

In this fast paced era, you need to learn the skills of talking to the point and getting right info in lesser possible time. So learn to ask exactly what you want to know, avoid being vague and unnecessarily prolonging your talk time (both face-to-face and on phone) — and while writing emails too, (here comes the test of your writing skills)! An email or a written form of communication too, is required to be direct, to the point, concise yet polite.

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