What has been the most useful skill in your working life?

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What innate talents or acquired skill really stands out for you?

Bags of energy? Team player knack? Great networker? PRINCE2? Excel?

Touch typing here too.
And I am VERY, VERY good at making people want to do things for me

Empathy i'm a student vet nurse and i deal daily with distressed animals and owners. I couldnt do my job if i didnt share a tiny bit of people's heart break

grumpy are you a chef?

Touch typing and Italian.

"Can do attitude"

But what if you CANNOT do anything very well at all? Sometimes I get bogged down in worry that this is me. Yet, I still have to earn a living somehow.

Being able to talk to people...Doesn't sound much but I work in aa environment where folk hate me and wouldn't think twice about doing something to injure me. I can generally talk folk round and diffuse situations so neither of us get hurt.
I'm known as a bit of a hard faced cow by colleagues but the service users like me

My accent, sense of humour and general sunny attitude.

It's all a game really.

I'm good at explaining technical things to management so that they get behind my ideas, and give me the freedom to execute them effectively.

I also listen very carefully when someone tells me how they like their tea/coffee to keep everyone happy in the office.

I always try to be pleasant and diplomatic with colleagues - even when they're being dicks!

But what if you CANNOT do anything very well at all? Sometimes I get bogged down in worry that this is me. Yet, I still have to earn a living somehow.

^^

Just nod and smile. The battle is half won if you just show up on time!

Fake it till you make it, baby!

Never feeling inferior.
Sounding expert on any given topic.
Empathy.

Technical skills and qualifications

Excel

Ability to connect quickly with people - clients and colleagues - in an authentic way

Being a ‘can do’ person

Good at accepting development points and working on them

Things that hinder me:
Getting fustrated easily
Loosing interest once the initial exciting party of a project is over
Being inherently a bit lazy
Don’t like managing shit people (love managing good people)

Modelling kindness and empathy, whilst giving clear and consistent expectation of desired behaviours.

Not taking undesirable behaviour personally.

Excellent inbox management

Presentation skills.

Communication. Most important skill and always will be.

Faking being a capable, competent and mature adult. My motto is Fake it til you make it!

Excel (vlookups!), ability to make decisions and recommendations with confidence, ability to remain extremely calm in face of shit hitting fan, ability to be friendly and make time for people who work for me

@delphguelph agree it’s all a game, you’ve just got to play it!

I’m really practical and a good problem solver - not the most Hollywoodnof skills but I know I can sort anything and rarely lose my cool.

And Excel. I did a course years ago and am in a profession where many cannot really use it

Not the first time Excel is seen as a vital skill. DH is great at excel and shock horror enjoys it too, it's opened many doors.

Discerning facts from 'interpretation'

Ladies - index match can me more useful than vlookuo in lots of situations ;-)

1. Ability to get on with everyone I.e. keep my swearing in my head and vent to non-work people.
2. Able to take a sentence from a senior person and develop a entire project from the (usually vague thought) idea
3. Pragmatic and practical approach to work (see point 2) looking at what ' they' want vs what can we actually achieve?

Languages, given I’m a language teacher! And energy, apparently I have lots!