Essential Workplace Skills

Students should take every opportunity to develop the skills that will be essential to them throughout their lives, both in the workplace and in their every day lives. Such skills help people to adapt quickly to new situations, rise to ever greater challenges and achieve their own definition of success.

1. Reading Whether in the form or emails, books, street signs, reports, journals, pay checks or brochures, a vast amount of information is communicated through written language. Anyone can access five thousand years of wisdom by learning to navigate sentences and paragraphs. e-mail, magazines, morning reading time.
   
2. Document Use Paperwork doesn't have to be tedious or boring. It allows workers to take a step back from their tasks, assess what's been accomplished, and reflect on the best way forward. Encourage your students to develop their organizational skills, and put them to work when handling documents. grades, 2Coats bills/money, collecting papers.
   
3. Numeracy Basic math skills are fundamental to every occupation. From calculating taxes and estimating distances to determining how many hours will be needed to complete a task, everyone needs to use numbers to make important day-to-day decisions with confidence. mancala, paying bills, managing books
   
4. Writing Writing is one important way we share our thoughts with the world. Your students will need to fill in forms - like those needed for a driver's license, credit card, job application or to mail a parcel - type on a computer and express themselves clearly through written words. e-mail, blogging, facebook updates
   
5. Oral Communication Speech is the fastest, most direct and often the most persuasive form of communication. It is the primary method for workers to exchange thoughts and information. Encourage your students to be in on the discussion and learn to articulate their ideas verbally. teaching, preaching, conversation with others.
   
6. Working With Others In the workplace, as in life, people are always interacting with other people. Whether over the phone, by email or in person it is important to respect your colleagues and clients, and learn to work with them to achieve common goals. teachers, students, mrs. hindy
   
7. Continuous Learning Once people know how to learn, they can gather the skills and knowledge they need for any job, at any point in their career journey. First, they need to know their preferred learning styles - to discover how they learn best. Second, they need to know their environment - learn how to find resources, find information and identify opportunities. school, church, youth group, small group
   
8. Thinking Skills With practice, we can all think faster, more accurately and more creatively. Encourage your students to train their mind to solve problems, make decisions, think critically, plan and organize, enlarge their memory and gather information. Then they will be better able to identify the root causes of problems - both at work and at home - and find lasting solutions. creating lessons, organizing outreaches, dreaming
   
9. Computer Use Twenty years ago employees prepared documents and office records by hand, or used a typewriter. Now with advances in technology and the rapid evolution of the work environment, most jobs involve regular computer use. e-mail, prezi, facebook