To stand out in this
competitive world, a student is required to hone many skills and abilities
which is not a one-day job. A student needs to carve out these skills by
practising every day and this takes a long time. These skills will be helpful
not just in schools and colleges, but also in building a lucrative professional
career
What are Smart skills?
These are skills that
can be used to convey ideas and messages in an effective manner. These skills
can also be used to handle serious situations while taking care of overall
scenario. The smart skills are very important in today's world where management
and human resources are given prime focus.
Smart Skills help to
grow a powerful personality. It helps to stand out and to move forward in your
everyday activities to reach your goals. These skills are thus supposed to be
used in every other situation, big or small.
Problem Solving
Problem-solving will
help in controlling situations that may get out of hand. This skill helps one
come up with solutions for different scenarios. Improving your problem-solving
skills is very important because we live in an uncertain world, where any sort
of situation can turn into an unfavourable one. Students should know how to solve
situational problems.
Creative Thinking
Thinking creatively
is of great importance as it leads to the expansion of the imagination.
Students need to be creative in their approach in every aspect and it helps
them understand the world in a better way and come up with answers that might
give the rest of the world a new perspective. Ideation and creation are, thus,
very elemental parts of education.
Teamwork
Teamwork is the most
essential skill required at every stage of one's career. Working together will
always help in producing more. Students must understand the importance of
unity. In higher levels of work, people will have to work together, in doing so
many times they will have to confront each other and argue.
Decision-Making
Students have to learn
how to make decisions within the given time. By doing so they will have a stand
of their own and will not have to depend on other people. By deciding which
stream to pick, which electives to choose and which co-curricular activities
they must go for, they learn what is best for them, which will form the
foundation of this skill.
Moreover, the people
we choose as friends and the groups we mingle with also help us develop our
personality. Even there, decision-making is important.
Intra-Personal Skills
Skills that help you
understand yourself, your emotional intelligence, your thoughts, beliefs and
opinions on things are known as intra-personal skills.
These skills help you
mould yourself into better leaders, with adequate knowledge about yourself. You
will know your stand on many decisions and ideas. Only when you try to
understand yourself, will you be able to understand the other. You will need
them the most when you will have to work on certain tasks all by yourself, and
when you need to know your strengths and weaknesses.
Inter-Personal
Skills
Once you understand
yourself, you will start noticing how other people work. Skills that help you
understand the intelligence and behaviour of other people with whom you work
are called interpersonal skills.
These skills are
helpful when it comes to working in groups. You will know how group dynamics
work and how each person will react to a certain topic, so it will become
easier for you put for the ideas in a certain manner so that it will be in your
advantage.
Communication Skills
Be it a student or a
working professional, this skill is required for every individual. This is a
basic skill required for everyone to communicate. One has to understand how to
face people who are aggressive and how to talk to people who can be sensitive.
Students will find
communication skills very helpful, if they develop them, as it will be useful
in almost all the areas. Most of the services that careers offer deal with
human beings in one way or another. Thus having good communication skills is
not only important, it looks like a golden star on your resume.
Leadership Skills
For a student, one
will always have decision to make. Whether a follower or a leader. There will
be opportunities like class election, and student union election and club
president or representative leader that will test who the majority of people
like and think should be a leader. But leaders can also come forth due to
situations.
Someone who is quick
in thinking and can make the right decisions, coordinate other people and pull
off an event or a situation with smooth functioning can spearhead as a leader.
Leadership is an important soft skill that a student can use further in their
career.
Positive Attitude
When the world is
filled with many negative factors, one has to win hearts with a positive
approach. Starting from teachers to friends, everyone will look for someone who
drives the academic year with a positive attitude. Students have to hone this
skill to maintain their friendly atmosphere with everyone at an educational
institute.
With a positive
attitude, students should consider some key areas that will help them develop a
positive attitude such as high energy, enthusiastic, confident, cooperative,
patient, respectable, respectful and sense of humour.
Listening Skills
Surely, a good
listener enjoys the highest degree of respect in a society. Students should
rate this as the first skill that should be honed because it is very important
while pursuing a higher education.
One should hone this
skill by involving actions such as nodding their head and making eye
contact.
With these skills,
any student will be able to reach the heights that they have always dreamed of.
