#capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.
Delegation skill is the ability to effectively assign task responsibility and authority to others. Or, in other words, delegation skill is a person's ability to get things done by using work and time of other people. Effective delegation is a critical survival skill for managers and supervisors, and this is...
Time management is a skill that many of us seem to learn through necessity. The problem with learning a skill through necessity is that, more often than not, bad habits creep in and, although the skill may be useful in general, we do not use it to its full potential....
A growing business needs both Leadership and Management to thrive. Article explains that the best companies have managers with strong leadership skill and superb management skill. But when chaos strikes, they can’t always concentrate on both. Article examines what they lose when they neglect one or the other, as both...
This paper investigates the impact of globalization on wages earned by low and high-skill workers when openness leads to the outsourcing of high-tech jobs abroad. The authors have shown that low-skill workers may become considerably better off after globalization due to the fact that high-skill workers start accepting low-tech jobs....
Knowledge is more and more a key factor within companies. Nearly 40 percent of all employees are so called "knowledge workers". Distribution and inquest of knowledge within companies are supported by skill management systems. Although not all aspects and potentials of this instrument are yet utilized skill management systems have...
Your time management skills are directly proportional to your ability to take the right actions at the right time for the right reasons. The act of making a decision is part of this time management skill. You have to quickly go through each thing and just decide what action you...
In my previous post, "Top Ten Sales Skills," I presented John Asher's excellent list of the key skills needed to become a successful sales professional. As usual, I asked you guys if there were some more that should have been on the list. You...
The argument that paying for animated people skills and capabilities rather than inanimate jobs was and is a powerful and convincing one. It just makes immense sense to organize the work to be done around the capabilities of the people to hire, rather than just forcing people into jobs and...
Time management is a skill that many of us seem to learn through necessity. The problem with learning a skill through necessity is that, more often than not, bad habits creep in and, although the skill may be useful in general, we do not use it to its full potential....
This paper shows that international trade affects the demand for skill through an export based channel. The paper presents a working hypothesis, which states that the very act of exporting requires an effort of skill upgrading, in particular among occupations related to marketing and development. Using firm level data,...
There are few really profound truths about selling, and fewer still are the people who know how to communicate them. One of these rare creatures is John Asher the CEO of the eponymous sales training firm. I interviewed John a few months ago --...
The author of this article says that the marketing is a skill, just like playing piano or playing golf. As you increase your marketing skills, you can expect greater and greater results. The same way you increase any skill -- by learning the effective steps system of that skill and...
Skill based pay plans, flexible by nature, seem to offer a great solution to organizations who must be flexible to survive --- isn't that all of us. Based on competence rather than duties performed skill pay allows companies to pay employees for their value to the organization and provides a...
There exists substantial evidence that skill shortages have characterized labor relocation during the transition from plan to market. Along with technological and aggregate demand changes, this pattern of human capital relocation has been associated with unemployment and income inequality. Using a search model, it is examined that the link between...
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry ACCI have been working with the Australian Government and the member organisations to identify the reasons for, as well as solutions to, the issue of skill shortages. Skill shortages are one of the most significant concerns for business and ACCI is determined to...
There was a time when business moved at a much slower pace than it does today. There was also a time before "Downsizing" when organizations had more people - sometimes more than enough people - to complete all of the workload within their companies. Before the advent of e-mail, voice-mail,...
Although it is important to improve your time management skill, procrastination will short-circuit it every time. Schedulers and day planners are all great tools, but they are useless if you block yourself from using them to your advantage. A schedule is only good if you stick to it. The problem...
Efficient project planning from a human resource point of view requires project oriented organization forms to take into account the permanent change of requirements and framework conditions during the duration of a project correctly. Skill management systems are an excellent management tool for this challenge, if in addition to default...
A good analogy does not just invoke some chance resemblance between the thing being explained and the thing introduced to explain it. It capitalizes on a deep similarity between the principles that govern the two things...A good analogy helps you think: the more you ponder it, the...
Despite the documented increased use of skill or knowledge based pay programs in organizations, little evidence exists to demonstrate whether these plans achieve the results that are intended. This study, a quasi-experimental, empirical test of the organizational outcomes from the introduction of a skill based pay program, addresses this need....
