Hard Skills at Workplace

 

There is workplace for everyone in this world.  Knowledge,

          skills, and tools & techniques are used to get output at the

           workplace for the jobs taken up. All these three things 

           along with IQ and EQ makes the operations success full.

          The skill part is related with IQ and EQ. IQ (education and

           training) is responsible for hard skills and EQ (behavioural

          aspects) developed soft skills. The soft skills are not soft,

          but these skill plays major role at workplace for getting

           successful operations.

 

 One can take notice of the various professions going on

 for work operations at the workplace. (Any place having

  inputs and outputs).

Please refer to Understanding Workplace Operations

 The professionals do the job or get the job done.

A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns their living from a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform their specific role within that profession. In addition, most professionals are subject to strict codes of conduct and ethics. PMI provide professional certificate covering these aspects.

The professional and other workforce are further defined as below.

 Professional is

• Someone who does a job that requires special training, education or skill  
• Someone who is a member of a profession
• Someone who is paid to participate in an  activity   
• Someone who has a lot of experience or skill in a particular jo or activity 

 Amateur---  

•   A person who engages in an activity as a past timer rather than professionally or to gain 
• May have superficial knowledge of a subject or activity
•  A person who is fond of  admires something 

Workman -  A man employed to do manual labour.

Supervisor - A person who supervises a person or an activity. (May be any one from low level to high level)

Manager - A person responsible for controlling or administering an organization or group of staff at different levels.

 

Hard skills are related to specific technical and non-technical  knowledge  and trainings in different fields. These depends on IQ ( Intelligent Quotient) of the person.

Soft skills are personality traits that varies with education,  experience, environment and depends on IQ and EQ ( Emotional Quotient or Emotional Intelligence EI ) both.

(Such as  communication skills, leadership skills, or time 

management skills and others)

Both types of skills  are  necessary to successfully outputs.

It is (IQ + EQ) together, responsible for success. IQ part is mostly  stationary, whereas EQ part is dynamic and can be developed.

Hard Skills vs soft Skills

Hard skills are outcome of technical / nontechnical education or specific training.

Soft skills are overall behaviour  skills / actions that affects the  outcomes in the workplace.

Steps to develop the soft skills are as below:

These are related to  Emotional Intelligence at Workplace R1 59

   

  Know yourself

   Manage and Motivate Yourself

  Know others

      Motivate and manage others

 

“There’s been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there’s another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe.” Albert Einstein

 
What are hard skills?

Hard skills get generated through  technical (based on

techniques, technical and practical involvement) or non-

technical knowledge (not having or requiring specialized or

technical knowledge) or training and is more IQ based.

Hard skills can be tested any time.

  

 

Hard Skills Examples

 

List below shows hard skill list associated with the various type of jobs. Computer hard skills are further elaborated in the table below. The computer skills are part of all the hard skills.

 

 

HARD SLILLS	Computer skills	MS Office
Technical skills Computer skills Microsoft Office skills Analytical skills Marketing skills Presentation skills Management skills Project management skills Writing skills Speaking skills Design skills And other skills..	MS Office Database Management Web development Email Presentations Social media Spreadsheets Google Drive Typing Graphics And others…	Word Excel Outlook Power point OneNote Access And others…

 

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Indicative List of In- Demand Hard Skills

Engineering Design

Construction Management

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Communication Management

Database management

Network security

Statistical analysis

Data mining

Mobile development

Others like these….

 

Communication skills  are the main part of any project. More than 90 percent time is spent in communication. The communication skills are a set of Hard and Soft skills in communication management.

List of hard communication  skills

 Foreign languages

     

Digital communication

  

Copywriting

    Presentations

For more about the hard skills, please click the link below.

What Are Hard Skills? Definition & 51 Hard Skills Examples (resumegenius.com)

 

The successful operation at the workplace is carried out by both, the hard skills, and the soft skills.

Success = IQ (hard skill) + EQ (Soft skill)

IQ is related to knowledge , education, and trainings, and is not expandable or is slightly expandable. The EQ part can be developed and is responsible for success.

There are number of employees appointed at a particular job. But a few reach the top from the same batch, and it is because of the development of soft skill. As such hard skills and soft skills are responsible for success.

 

EQ and EI/EQ, both are necessary. It is EQ/EI that Matters more. Higher the EQ more shall be success. You need a desire, direction, dedication and discipline to cultivate EI/EQ. Man is physically ill-equipped, but it has the thinking ability and so different from other species. Successful people do small things in great way. Every failure   boosts them for their efforts to achieve success. The chicken must struggle itself from coming out of the egg and does not get any support, and if it comes out with others help it is not likely to survive. Struggle is must for success. IN the last 30 years before Abraham Lincoln became president of United States of America, passed through the phase of nervous breakdown, defeats in eight elections, failure in business twice but ultimately became well known president of United State of America.

 TAKEAWAYS

• People acquire hard skills through education, practice, and repetition.
• Hard skills can refer to proficiency in any complex task.
• Soft skills are difficult to teach and are behavioural and related to personality.
• Unlike soft skills, people can prove their hard skill competencies by producing a certificate, degree, apprenticeship, or work experience.                                                                                                                                                                                        .. INVESTOPEDIA