It is not always about the skills that you can put down on your CV. The skills that enhance your everyday efficiency are just as important for your career success.
Ensuring that you are able to master practical life skills will enable you to manage everyday career challenges with better ease and could be the key to your professional advancement. Life skills refers to the competencies that enable an individual to successfully complete everyday tasks. Indeed career guide suggests, “they [competencies] typically combine skills, abilities and knowledge and can include the specific behaviours an individual carries out to succeed in their position.”, thus emphasising the importance of spending time on mastering as many competencies as you need to allow yourself to thrive. Here are some recommendations from the OLLMOO team.
Persuasive speaking is a necessary skill that allows you to effectively communicate your ideas and get buy-in from your colleagues. Simple inclusions like being more descriptive, being relatable, having some emotion and being authentic are a great place to start. The tricolon rule is another effective tool: the magic of 3's. Break your messages into sets of 3 words, phrases or clauses instead of using long, complex sentences to ensure that your ideas are communicated clearly, concisely and effectively.
The tricolon rule is another effective tool: the magic of 3's
Actionable and useful notes are the foundation of great organisation and once again, increased productivity. AI is a great place to start for transcribing and summarising meetings but it often lacks the personal touch that allows you to turn your notes into workable snippets of information. We suggest either the outline or mindmap method of note-taking. In the outline method, you would divide your notes into sections by using overarching headings, subheadings and then providing more information under each section. The mind mapping approach is a more visual way of note-taking in which you create a diagram of branching information showing connections between all elements. Read about a few more note-taking techniques as suggested by Zapier.
There’s never a bad time to start investing; the sooner the better. Set yourself up for investment success by knowing how much you have to invest, your end goal and by having a realistic timeline within which to achieve your goal. Familiarise yourself with investment strategies. Read HOW TO START INVESTING: A GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS to better understand the investment options that best suite you and your current financial position.
...better understand the investment options that best suite you and your current financial position.
You need no reminding that we live in a digital age with new rules and a very new normal. Effective and inclusive online collaboration has become a bare necessity in 2024. First things first, ensure that you have the correct virtual conferencing tools like a great quality webcam, noise cancelling headphones, good lighting and that you’ve mastered decent online etiquette. Here are the 3 best platforms to use for online conferencing:
Effective and inclusive online collaboration has become a bare necessity.
One of the biggest advantages of being able to type faster is increased productivity. Tasks like writing reports, emails or even essays will become a lot easier if you are able to type at least 100 words per minute, WPM (click here to see what your WPM count is). Coupled with productivity, you will also be able to increase your writing flow and efficiency, improve your communication and decrease any stress and fatigue associated with typing tasks. We suggest touch typing which refers to the training method in which each finger has its own area on the keyboard, allowing one to type without having to look at the keyboard. Try Ratatype with its guided learning steps to master touch typing.
Most practical life skills do not require formal training. All practical life skills require time and dedication. Here at OLLMOO, we encourage you to dedicate time to advancing your skillset; in turn empowering yourself and enhancing your career prospects.
