Key skills to develop
Heather selected her top five skills to develop to excel in your career. These are skills she looks for when hiring and in her community engagement work. You can improve your skills in these areas by practicing them with other people in various scenarios, even beyond your work life, such as in your personal or family life. These skills will help to enhance and improve your life in general, as well as your career:
- Communication: In order to be able to progressively enhance other soft skills, you need to be an effective communicator. One of the more important aspects of communication that may seem counterintuitive is listening. You need to listen more than you speak. This can be difficult for many people. Remember to listen or read to understand something, not in preparation to simply respond and put across your point of view. Really try to understand what the other parties are trying to communicate.
- Collaboration: You need to be an excellent communicator...
