Hone your life skills

In today's reality, both our life and workplaces require more thinking abilities than actual content or academic knowledge. Life skills, for example, self-direction, initiative, versatility, adaptability, cross-cultural and social skills are vital in today's environment.

Here are some life skills that you have to develop to be able to standout in today’s competitive world. Do you have any of these in your life? If not, then Dr. Ashima Shukla will help you in figuring out how to build and hone your life skills.

Adaptability and Flexibility

  Ø  The ability to adapt to change - this will help you in adjusting to jobs obligations, varied roles, context and schedules.

  Ø  Being adaptable - permits you to work towards social in multi cultural situations.

  Ø  Work successfully in an atmosphere of vagueness and changing needs.

  Ø  Deal emphatically with setbacks, praise and feedbacks.

Self Direction and Initiative

  Ø  Being a self starter

  Ø  The ability to work outside a defined role or profile.

  Ø  Successful management of time and goals

  Ø  The ability to set objectives with unmistakable and elusive achievement criteria

  Ø  The ability to adjust strategic (short-term) and key (long haul) objectives

  Ø  The ability to work autonomously

  Ø  Go past your essential abilities and/or educational modules to investigate and extend your learning with a specific end goal to fabricate and enhance or add to current expertise sets.

  Ø  Exhibit initiative to propel skill levels towards an expert level

  Ø  Exhibit responsibility to learning as a lifelong process

  Ø  Ponder critically on past encounters so as to inform future progress

Cross-cultural and Social Skills

  Ø  Cooperate viably with others

  Ø  Know when it is suitable to listen and when to talk

  Ø  Behave in a respectable, proficient way

  Ø  Work adequately in different groups

  Ø  Regard cultural differences

  Ø  React receptively to various values and thoughts

Accountability and Productivity

  Ø  Manage Projects

  Ø  Set and meet objectives

  Ø  Plan, organize and manage work to accomplish the expected result

  Ø  Produce results

  Ø  Work ethically and emphatically

  Ø  Participate enthusiastically, and be punctual and reliable

Responsibility and Leadership

  Ø  Lead and Guide Others

  Ø  Use interpersonal and critical thinking skills to impact and guide others toward an objective

  Ø  Leverage qualities of others to achieve a common objective

  Ø  Rouse others to achieve their absolute best

  Ø  Show trustworthiness and moral conduct in using power and influence

  Ø  Be dependable to others

All these life skills are a must for everybody and thus Dr. AshimaShukla is working to pave a way for people to hone their life skills.