Education systems are changing rapidly. Educational institutions, Schools, and Colleges are adapting to new technologies, syllabuses, and learning styles, developing infrastructures to give their students more better study environment. Many extracurricular activities are being introduced to academic years, one of which is Organisational Skills.
In any profession as well as in the corporate world, organisational skills are given importance, as they define a candidate’s abilities, competencies, skilfulness & and personality traits. Organizational skills mean one has the ability to utilize time and resources in a more effective and efficient way; Hence, these learning of organizational skills should be given importance along with other extracurricular activities.
?Some of the most important organizational skills are –
- Decision Making
- Communication
- Time management
- Teamwork
- Problem-solving
- Decision-Making is performed by using tools such as SWOT analysis, Decision Matrix, Conjoint Analysis, and Risk Analysis. Before making any decisions, one should understand the depth of the situation, gather information which are required to measure, also look for alternatives if available. Not only that, one should imagine and make an assumption of the outcomes if other alternatives are taken into consideration. It’s a self-review of the taken decision.
- Communication is key to functioning well in the corporate world as in any profession. Receiving and sharing of information is a simultaneous process at the workplace. An organized communicator can provide information to his team members & and colleagues in a timely manner. Sometimes due to bad communication skills, many projects fail which leads to conflict in the workplace, and work-flow gets delayed.
How you divide your time between tasks often reflects your time management skills. Time management means knowing how long tasks will take and adjusting your schedule accordingly.
- Time Management means working efficiently without losing more time will be lost. It creates work-life balance and job satisfaction. When someone does well in terms of time management, the company doesn't have to worry about performance; and if the employee is self-satisfied, the company doesn't have to worry about staff turnover.
- In any organization, Teamwork is important and required to achieve the projected goal set by the High-table. When someone works in a team, he/she learns how to function within a group of people with different mentalities, how to deal with others, how to analyze the strength of the team and work according to it to achieve better work efficiency at workplace. This helps an organization to move forward with a proper goal-setting and execution mentality.
- One more important organizational skill is Problem-Solving ability. Problems can come from any direction in any form which might hamper the work progress and workflow; Every individual existing in the organisation should have a problem-solving attitude. Crossing the hurdle with the presence of mind and by using the resources skillfully one tackles any kind of problem which may occur at the workplace on a regular basis.
Learning organizational skills and performing them in the organization are two different situations. One can get to know about these above-mentioned organizational skills to have an idea about what today’s world is expecting. However, implementing those at the workplace efficiently is the main part.
We, as an education institute, give more importance to educating our students on organizational skills and exercising those skills in the process, so that this can give them an idea about their own condition - which skills they are better at and on which they should work to be better as a whole.
This will help them to excel in the corporate world.
There are some benefits for those who not only learn but are able to use organizational skills.
- It helps you to become self-sufficient. You are more intended to save the company’s valuable time& during those saved times you try to do other work in advance. This gives the company more productivity.
- It helps you to perform work that is stranded and high in quality. You don’t miss out single area to cover in an assigned task, project, or assignment. And you deliver that before the deadline time. This puts you as a responsible person in the manager’s eye and at the workplace as well.
- People at the workplace will recognize you as highly working personnel. There will prevail a certain level of respectfulness among your co-employees.? Hence, you get exposure and have more chances for career growth.
- It develops mental fitness. As a manager, there are a lot of duties to govern at a time. While assigning a task & and making a team to understand the goals of a project You need to attend another meeting with the Board members & and stakeholders for some different matter. And in worst-case scenarios, you may have to analyze another ongoing project and its progress. Performing all these activities requires a certain level of Mental health & and functioning.
Organizational skills have an impact on your personal life too. For a student, It changes your behavior & and pushes you to be professional and how to carry yourself among classmates and in public. In the society where you are living, it helps you to function and communicate with others in a subtle manner as well.
?People nowadays spend money to learn and develop organizational skills. People who are good at those certifications are providing these services to others who seek them. Altogether, Organisational skills a key to functioning well in is 21st century’s advanced world.
