Workplace Skills

Workplace Skills of the Modern Business World Research shows that companies that employ the best talent will perform better than those companies that employ less competence people. Hence, it is essential for companies to find the right mix of skills to enhance the company’s productivity. There are a wide variety of skills out there that employers can choose from. It is best that employers choose their candidates based on the skills that the job requires. Among those skills, leadership, teamwork and creativity are the most common and highly sought after skills in the competitive business world. Those similar three skills are what college is trying very hard to develop their students to posses today. Firstly, leadership skill is one of the highly sought after skills in the workplace of today. Leadership is the ability to gain co-operation, agreement and support of a team of people to go all out to reach a common goal (Freemantle, 1999). An outstanding leader is one who is able to have intelligence quotient (IQ), Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Good Personality. A leader who has IQ is able to have a clear vision for the company or country. With EQ the leader is able to communicate and motivate people by pleasing their self-interest. Having a good personality will inspire others to the follow and respect the leader. With these three qualities, it is no wonder employers are keeping a lookout for people with leadership skills. According to Luecke (2005), little things would be done when there is no one to decide and act. Thus, employers look for people with leadership skills because every organization needs a leader. Be it managing a company to managing a department, leadership is important to ensure the smooth running of the company. Employers want someone who could set directions for the company to progress, inspire, direct and motivate a team to work effectively increasing the company’s productivity and analyze and decide what is best for the