Geeta

Sharing my online article as it appeared in :Daily Brunch

Link: http://bit.ly/3aDYFsb

Climbing the rungs of a career ladder is more than just your qualifications. When someone receives an application for a new job, they tend to emphasise their hard skills more than anything else. They talk about the specific knowledge and ability they possess to execute that particular task. However, in the real world, no matter how good your skills are, you’ll cease to exist if you haven’t brushed up on your soft skills.

Though soft skills are difficult to measure or define, they are the interpersonal skills that will shape your ‘workplace well-being’. Today, companies too seek candidates that possess both types of skills when hiring for most positions.

Since it’s your workplace where you spend the maximum amount of your time, it’s important that you feel comfortable, secure, and happy.

To increase well-being at your workplace, there are tons of skills you can build. Though well-being is a subjective term, it usually emerges from your thoughts, experiences and actions on which you have control.

Whether it’s maintaining a work-life balance or finding your purpose, the skills you practice not only create a healthy work environment but also help you increase your performance to a significant level.

5 Skills that will help maintain your Well-being at Work
Given below are some skills that one can practise and comply with for well-being at their workplace:

Active Learning with a Growth Mind-set
Just as an equanimous mindset helps us function in the world a growth mind-set helps us deal with workplace pressures and difficulties. Once an employee develops a personal skillset, they look at work tensions as challenges to overcome rather than obstacles.

Active learning at a workplace is vital to promote the overall development of an employee’s growth. Academic studies reveal that performance improves when there is a growth mindset.

Creating a Supportive Environment
To thrive at your workplace, it is important to create a supportive, cohesive and encouraging work environment. For a team to deliver the best outcomes, every employee must develop great interpersonal skills with their teammates.

According to TLNT, 80 percent of workers agree that having the opportunity to learn new skills at work makes them more interested and engaged in their job. At the end of the day, supporting and uplifting others can spurt your personal growth.

Creative and Critical Thinking
To just do what you’re told at work is not always the right approach. As an employee, it is a must to interrogate instructions and processes. Life is all about maintaining a healthy balance. Instead of taking the logical route, evaluate the information available. As much as a logical quotient is important, allowing your critical thinking ability and letting your creative juices flow can help you improve processes, innovate in your field and spot pain points.

Rethinking the Value of Soft Skills
Soft skills are a broad term that is an amalgamation of social skills, communication skills, people skills and personality traits. In today’s workplace, it’s all about ‘survival of the fittest’. Working on each of these skills will help you interact better with your colleagues and maintain an overall peppy vibe at your workplace.
If you thought a job is all about ‘all work and no play’, you’re mistaken. Although business at work is important, getting a good hold on your soft skills will help you get through complex tasks with ease.

Celebrate and Share your Successes
A common reason most employees leave their jobs is that they do not feel appreciated. Whether it’s your first day at work, or you’ve been around for a while, you’re not expected to be perfect. Instead, look at yourself as ‘work-in-progress.

Thus, even if you achieve a small milestone, learn to celebrate it. A “pat” of appreciation will push you to do better and motivate you. Since a simple reward is fulfilling, rewarding and motivating, celebrating and sharing your success with teammates will only electrify your performance and encourage further growth.

Conclusion
Today, increasing importance is being placed on soft-skills. If you are looking to establish workplace well-being, it is important to develop and practice good soft skills that will influence the way you work, your interpersonal relationships, and your overall success.

Portal: Nat 24    Link: http://bit.ly/38xwppw    21st Jan 2020

Your ability to climb the rungs of the career ladder hinges on more than just your qualifications. Though soft skills are the added talent that managers look for in candidates before hiring them. Although difficult to measure or define, they dictate your attitude and conduct that will shape your workplace well-being. Soft skills include any skill that can be classified as a personality trait or habit. Adaptability, ability to work in a team, creativity, leadership, conflict resolution and many more are all a part of soft skills. Interpersonal skills and effective communication are the more specific ones that many employers look for in candidates.

The ability to communicate involves knowing how to speak with others in different situations or settings. For instance, when working with a team on a project, you may find an idea or process ineffective and may need to communicate the same with your team. Finding a way to tactfully disagree with others on the job without creating conflict is an important skill that employers value.

Another example is that of adaptability. How easily do you adapt to changes? Changes in processes, environment, tools or clients you work with can happen quickly at work. Employees who are capable of adapting to new situations and ways of working are valuable in many jobs and industries.

Since your workplace is where you spend the maximum amount of your time, it’s important that you feel comfortable, secure, and happy. To increase well-being at your workplace, there are tonnes of skills you can build. Though well-being is a subjective term, it usually emerges from your thoughts, experiences, and actions on which you have control. Whether it’s maintaining a work-life balance or finding your purpose, the skills you practice not only create a healthy work environment but also help you increase your performance to a significant level.

5 Skills that will help maintain your well-being at work

Given below are some skills that one can practice for well-being at the workplace:

Active learning with a growth mindset

Just as an equanimous mindset helps us function smoothly in the world, a growth mind-set helps us perceive work tensions as challenges to overcome rather obstacles. The idea of personal growth at work helps us focus on finding solutions to problems rather than getting demotivated by them. The will to grow instils a positive attitude through constant motivation of keeping an eye on the end game.

Active learning at the workplace is vital to promote the overall development of an employee’s growth. Learning and developing skills that will enable you to navigate your ship through difficult waters is imperative to achieve growth.

Creating a supportive environment

To thrive at your workplace, it is important to create a supportive, cohesive and encouraging work environment. For a team to deliver the best outcomes, every employee must develop great interpersonal skills with their teammates.

A healthy environment is created by changing the culture of the company. Employee focus should be at the core of the organization by creating an environment that encourages showing gratitude to your team mates, eradicating negativity, exercising flexible work hours, team building exercises and open workspaces. A positive environment encourages commitment to excellence, open and honest communication, respect, compassion and empowerment. It also increases self-motivation, innovation and creative thinking which enable the organization to expand business, optimize quality and increase profitability.

According to a TLNT[A1] , 80 percent of workers agree that having the opportunity to learn new skills at work makes them more interested and engaged in their job. At the end of the day, supporting and uplifting others can spurt your personal growth.

Creative and critical thinking

To just do what you’re told at work is not always the right approach. As an employee, it is a must to interrogate instructions and processes. Life is all about maintaining a healthy balance. Instead of taking the logical route, evaluate the information available. As much as a logical quotient is important, allowing your critical thinking ability and letting your creative juices flow can help you improve processes, innovate in your field and spot pain points.

Using critical thinking while problem solving is an effective way to learn and progress. When your manager presents you with a particular problem and you immediately start looking for solutions. Ideally, you should take a step back and analyse the situation by researching and reviewing information. Interviewing the parties involved and coming up with more than one solution for the stated problem before coming to a conclusion is the way forward. This involves problem solving with critical thinking skills.

Celebrate and Share your Successes

A common reason most employees leave their jobs is that they do not feel appreciated. Whether it’s your first day at work, or you’ve been around for a while, you’re not expected to be perfect. Instead, look at yourself as ‘work-in-progress’.

Thus, even if you achieve a small milestone, learn to celebrate it. A “pat” of appreciation from yourself will push you to do better and motivate you.Since a simple reward is fulfilling, rewarding and motivating, celebrating and sharing your success with teammates will only electrify your performance and encourage further growth.

Importance of Soft Skills

Soft skills are a broad term for an amalgamation of social skills, communication skills, people skills and personality traits. In today’s workplace, it’s all about ‘survival of the fittest’. Working on each of these skills will help you interact better with your colleagues and maintain an overall happier vibe at your workplace.

If you thought a job is all about ‘all work and no play’, you’re mistaken. Although business at work is important, getting a good hold on your soft skills will help you get through complex tasks with ease.

Soft skills are incredibly essential to organisations across industries. In today’s constantly changing world, organizations need people who can adapt to new situations, apply their thinking and skills to evolve and develop new skills when the environment around them is constantly changing. If you are looking to establish workplace well-being, it is important to develop and practice good soft skills that will influence the way you work, your interpersonal relationships, and your overall success. No matter where you’re at in your career, you need soft skills to complete your everyday tasks effectively. They’re also extremely vital for promotions and career growth.

Blog 3/52: Try a different Perspective
Try a different perspective if you want a new result in your life. The same old thoughts will lead to the same old results which you don’t want in the first place.
What makes you think your perspective is the only one and the right one. Often EGO comes in the way. Being judgmental comes in the way.70% of the population don’t trust others.
What does it mean to be open to other’s ideas and views and accept another point of view? Trust the other person as an equally intelligent being. Try focusing on the other’s needs. Try reframing thoughts and language in a positive way. It allows you to have a different perspective. It opens out opportunities. Opens out options and choices to deal with the situation in a different way.

Blog 1/52 by Coachgeeta

Date:  Jan 6^th 2020

Based on my book : The Game of Change: Chapter 1:  Hero or Zero

Your Happiness in Your Hands

Being a Zero:

What is a Zero person? You always blame others for whatever circumstance you are undergoing. You feel life is unfair and bad things happen only to you all the time. Does this sound familiar ?  Is it the story of your life?  And maybe it is justifiable. Say for example, you are the leader of the team and you have to make the presentation today. You have explained to your team members what each one has to do. I mean you have literally spoon fed them. And just one day before the presentation, when you check the PowerPoint,  you are in shock. It was nothing close to what you wanted your presentation to be, nothing close to perfection.

Do you take the responsibility?

You of-course can’t take the responsibility for the shoddy work of your team, and you blame them. You complain that you are stuck with a bad team. You become a Zero. People do not like to take responsibility for the unpleasant things and circumstances in their lives. Unfortunately this shows up as a  lack of your confidence in yourself, a lack of risk taking ability and adds to your tendency to procrastinate.

Being a Hero:

When you are able to catch yourself in such unresourceful state, and realize there is a choice, That is when change happens. Change from Zero to Hero.  Think about it this way…What could I have done differently, what was missing?  Maybe I spoon fed my team instead of being more proactive, and asking them for their input, having an open conversation where I exchange information with my team members. It makes them feel move valued.  Maybe there was no shared understanding. By being response-able, you can change the mood and energy of the team and get positive results.

Empathy in the Hero Story:

Sometimes a simple conversation, simple words with empathy, recognizing the other person’s feeling and saying sorry, or appreciating their work, hearing out other person are great tools to not only help your team, but they help you change from Zero to Hero. It brings in more lightness in a relationship . It brings in more openness, more curiosity and actually empowers you and everyone around you with the ability to bring in an attitude and mindset change in the way things are done.

95% of People Live in Victim State:

Being A victim , a Zero, is very easy and has become a fall back habit, an attitude for all of us. And it is like an almost accepted attitude. And rarely do we take the time to step back and examine this attitude and see what we can do about it. Look for opportunities here, convert every failure as a learning. It helps you to become the  hero of your life. It brings back the confidence to your life, even when sometimes you may not be able to change the circumstance. It is the courage to try that counts.

Let me leave you with this Quote by John Reyes

‘Your happiness depends on your self-reliance to take responsibility of your life, regardless of who had a hand in making it the way it is now’ It is about being the Hero in your life not the Victim’.

This is coachgeeta signing off…

Need more ideas to Win the Game of Change?

For more inspiration and ideas on handling stress and achieving success in what you seek, you can read through all my blogs.

Interested in taking this Further?

Curious about my coaching methods and easy to follow tips and tricks in managing your stress and achieving success in professional and personal life?

To learn more about Winning the Game of Change, you can schedule a complimentary coaching call from my website :   https://coachingwithgeeta.com/book-a-session/

To read more about Change Management, you can pick up a copy of my book, also available in Kindle and Audible version from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Game-Change-Unleash-Success-Happiness/dp/0648340201