The Necessary Surviving Skills
by As a student, education is vital. Yet, beyond academic level, there are necessary skills that students ought to possess for life in society.
Education does play crucial role in the young citizen’s life in society. After all, education is the bedrock of progress in every society. But then is it really enough, when we, the students have to strive through sweat and toils to get a piece of recognition bestowed through a piece of yellow paper to seek our niche in society?
During the last decade, interpersonal skills have become more integral to effective leadership. The best manager’s working output is based on a combination of self-management and relationship skills and an awareness of how their behavior affects others in the organization. Such mangers are deemed to possess emotional quotient (E.Q), which is the ability to perceive and understand personal feelings and those of others. Hence, for life in society, the young should possess highly-developed E.Q which involves self-awareness, self-control, self-motivation and relationship skills.
Self-awareness is the most fundamental element in developing E.Q. By building self-awareness, the young citizens cope better with change in the workplace. They, as the managers, must be able to get along with others in the organizations, on both intellectual and emotional platform. When they face conflict with their colleagues, they should identify their emotional states. This would be easier for them to identify and deal successfully with emotions in themselves and others by talking it out with each other if there is dissatisfaction emerging among themselves. So, effective leaders in the workplace are expected to modify strong emotional reactions or conflicts to coach employees to a better level of self-awareness and performance.
The second dimension of E.Q is self-control which is the ability to control ones emotions and actions. This element is not always everyone can take on since it needs high patience and patience. For example, there is a time when people at the workplace talk bad about us and it is not easy to withstand it but we know we don’t want to get into an uproar. This is how we have to deal with such emotion when there is a backstabber behind our back, and we know we don’t want to delay our works.
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