what is a skill

What is a skill ?
difference between skill ability and knowledge
types of skills

1. Philosophy of A skill Abdalla Ali Mohamed 15/5/2016

2. Agenda : What is a skill ? The Difference between knowledge & Skills & abilities Types of Skills Soft skills Vs. Hard Skills How to acquire a new skill. Q

3. What is A skill ? 1-  the ability to do something that comes from training, experience, or practice. 2- An  ability  and  capacity  acquired through continuous,   systematic , and sustained effort to smoothly and adaptively carryout complex   activities  or  job   functions  involving  ideas   (cognitive  skills), things (technical skills), and/or people (interpersonal skills) 3- the ability to use one's knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance

4. Knowledge  is the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.

5. Abilities( Internal-genetic )  are the qualities( Cognitive/ Physical / psychological ) tools of being able to do something

6. the ability to do something that comes from training, experience, or practice

7. Types of skills :

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9. hard skills : usually takes smarts or IQ   (also known as your left brain-the logical center). Examples of hard skills include math, physics, accounting, programming, finance, biology, chemistry, statistics, soft skills: usually takes Emotonal Intelligence or EQ  (also known as your right brain- the emotional center).   etc … Examples of soft skills include self management skills like self confidence, stress management and people skills like communication or networking skills

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11. Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills – Which is more important ?

12. It depends highly on the career you choose.  Here is why .: Careers can be put into 3 kind of categories .  It is up to you to figure out which category your career is in. 1)  Careers that need hard skills and little soft skills (example: Physicists) ;   This is where you see brilliant people who may not easily work well with others.  They can still be very successful in their career – look at  Albert Einstein

13. 2)  Careers that need both hard and soft skills – many careers are in this category (example: Accountants, Lawyers  – they need to know the rules of accounting or law well but they also depend on selling to clients to build a successful career.  Dealing well with clients require excellent soft skills like communication skills, relationship skills etc…)

14. 3)  Careers that need mostly soft skills and little hard skills (example: sales.  A car salesman don’t really need to know that much about cars, just a little more than the consumer.  His job is more dependent on his ability to read his customers, communicate his sales pitch, persuasion skills, and skills to close to deal.   These are all soft skills)