Workplace Skills

In today’s business environment, workplace skills, often called employability skills, are the basic skills a person must have to succeed in any organisation. They are the indispensable knowledge, skills and attitudes that allow workers to understand instructions, solve problems and get along with co-workers and customers and to enhance value to the organization. These skills are necessary for success at all levels of an organization and are transferable from one organization to another.

Very often in a workplace, teams are formed to carry out specific tasks, and as such, to work together, also defined as teamwork or the process of working collaboratively with a group of people, in order to achieve a goal. Teamwork means that people will try to cooperate as a team, using their individual skills. A team will usually be made up of a number of people, each with different strength of skills that can be used in the proper completion of the task.

However to work together as one team, each and every individual has to have the work ethics to accommodate to the dynamic business environment. It is well known that before you come to work, you have to leave your informal self back home. In the office, you're an employee, someone who's supposed to go about his work in the most professional manner. There is a way to talk to your superiors, to your peers and your subordinates. This mode of workplace etiquette is typically formal and to the point.

Yet, in comparison to working together as a team; to have the teams to come together to work as a organisation to work for the same goal, considering the fact that people come from different social and professional background, there is an importance of adopting the right basic academic workplace skills to run at the satisfactory level and people-friendly environment.

In this paper, I will discuss on 3 core workplace skills. There are Leadership Skills, Conflict Management and Stress Management and why these 3 skills are so...