One of the questions you get asked in a work interview is what skills do you have. This is because you need to have a certain number of technical skills to be qualified enough to get the job. Usually, employers require these skills so they can be confident that you’d be able to perform your tasks as efficiently as possible. However, there are other non-technical skills that enable you to fit in any environment and ensure that you can adapt to any changes you’re faced with.
Here are four surprising skills that will impress your coworkers.
1. Problem Solving
Many workers claim to have this skill, but once they are faced with a problem that they have to fix, they get confused and are often a mess. Therefore, it’s ideal that you know how to solve any problem you are faced with and see it as a challenge rather than a problem. Moreover, being able to solve problems quickly would drive your coworkers to ask for your assistance when they are faced with problems themselves. You will not only impress your coworkers, but management will recognize you for it, and they might put you in charge of finding a solution to a recurring problem at work.
2. Be Creative
Creativity is impressive because even if the activity is unrelated to work, it would enable you to think outside the box and come up with ingenious solutions for work. Moreover, creativity allows you to take a pause from work so you can regroup yourself and allow yourself to blossom. When you make room for creativity you will be able to come up with creative solutions when you are faced with a hurdle in a work project. If not for creativity, we wouldn’t have achieved any progress in art, language, or have such impressive advances in technology.
There are many examples of things that can aid you in showcasing your creativity, you can unscramble letters with your coworkers. Unscrambling words and letters can help nudge your passive vocabulary and freshen your mind. Unscrambling words can also enhance and increase your vocabulary. An extensive vocabulary allows you to process information at a faster rate, and knowing more words increases your perception of different ideas. Another thing that can be a great creative outlet is math games. There are many math games that you participate in with your coworkers, and compete with each other.
3. Don’t Be Scared of Failing
Failing may sound like a bad thing, but being able to embrace and accept failure is a great skill that is not easy to obtain. When you fail you learn from your mistakes and you allow yourself to grow and get better. When you make a mistake you learn how to avoid repeating it in the future. Additionally, failure keeps our drive alive, it keeps us motivated to always do the right thing. Another great benefit is the lessons you’d give your coworkers on how to avoid the mistakes that you previously made. Your coworker will appreciate your mentorship, especially the new recruits. Embracing failure proves that you have room to grow and that you are not afraid of anything. Some famous successful people failed but managed to get back up and succeed afterwards. For instance, Walt Disney was fired from his job because his editor thought he lacked imagination and lacked creative new ideas. However, he did not give up and started an animation company that at first closed down due to a lack of funds. But once he started another, it succeeded. He went on to become the best animator of our time and won 59 Academy Awards.
4. Reliability
Reliability is being consistent in finishing tasks promptly and showing up to work on time. An employee who does what they say they’ll do is dependable. If you are reliable you will have a positive effect on your team. One worker’s unreliability could have a ripple effect on the quality of the product made because along the line of production some workers fell short of doing what they were supposed to do. Reliability makes employees more efficient and productive.
We spend half of our day at work, so it’s important to create special bonds with your coworkers. It’s obvious that to reap the fruits of these social interactions with your coworkers you need to possess a number of soft skills. It’s not hard to adapt and learn these skills, it could be a little bit challenging at first, but with trial and error, you’ll be able to get there.