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A recent survey conducted by an outside research firm for my employer revealed that employers view the following skill sets as being most desirable.
What Employers Want
Skill Percent of Employers who rated this as "important" or "very important"*
Interpersonal & Communication Skills 96%
Learning Aptitude & Desire to Grow 95%
Collaboration and Teamwork 93%
Creative Problem Solving 92%
Of what values, attitudes, or behaviors do one think these skills consist? Which of these skills would we like to evolve over the duration to our work.
If you look at these values, we can dissect them into 2 groups:
Learning aptitude and desire to grow and creative problem solving
Interpersonal skills and collaboration/teamwork
The first set is a cogitative set of skills which a person is born with, and which they could develop during their life. These values could be established when a person is a child, and desire to grow could be seen as a life long goal. Creative problem solving falls under this realm as well. It is in essence a analytical skill in which a person is able to come up with different solutions to problem, which is a key component in a person's ability to think clearly. This is also a cognitive skill that is instilled when a person is young, and then further developed with life experiences.
The second set of skills more lie in a person's attitudes and behaviors. To be able to properly work in a group and to have a productive dynamic group, the members of the group must be able to cooperate, take charge when needed, but then sit back and listen when necessary. They can't be shy, narcissistic, or pessimistic. They need to be agreeable, reasonable and flexible. If a person thinks they are better then the group, there will be no collaboration. If they are too shy to participate in group activities, they lack the interpersonal skills to properly fuel the progress of the group.
These attitudes and behaviors could be attributed to individual differences set at birth, however, with time a person might be able to learn how to work in groups.
Which would we like to evolve?
Well, I think that a person's Interpersonal & Communication Skills might be hard to evolve since this is a cognitive trait that inherit in the person's character. I person's communication skills might be able to be improved with training, but this is outside the scope of a business. A manager would like to hire someone who is already competition in this realm. A similar rational is made with Learning Aptitude. The Desire to Grow could be seen as an intrinsic motivational factor which an individual would need to evolve internally for their own satisfaction.
I would like to see Collaboration and Teamwork evolve the most, since with time and experience, it might be possible to teach individuals teamwork. If you look at current trends at offices, more and more work is being devoted to office work. Employers want to find and train people to be able to collaborate properly. It would be ideal to find individuals who are already able to work in groups, and then help them evolve their attitudes, skills and behaviors.