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?

grumpy are you a chef?

Yes,I was for years. Now I work restaurant,with many shifts on Hot Counter,serving food.Sometimes tables,sometimes tills.

And acknowledging and learning from mistakes so they don’t happen again (ish!)

Touch typing

Fighting off Impostor Syndrome.

Not being afraid to ask when you don't understand something. Don't pretend to understand things when you don't.

Approach everything as a learning opportunity.

Don't expect your team to do something you wouldn't be prepared to do yourself.

Talk to your team, get to know them. You might like them & they might like you. Your job will be so much easier if you do.

And as my old boss told me before I applied for my first management role: Don't be a twat. Treat people as you would like to be treated yourself. Nobody respects a twat.

Knowing how to turn my colleagues display screen upside down on the keyboard.

1: workplace fun is always needed at times
2: makes me a genius for knowing how to put it right again

Computer whizzes are invaluable

Learning to drive

Giving the impression that I am constantly busy and delivering shit loads whilst frankly doing fuck all

There are terms on here that I don't really know what they mean. What does "I'm a people person " mean? I've got an idea but really it just sounds like something people say. Also, my dd says she doesn't know what hard working means. They aren't really quantifiable things

Hard working is an easy one. You can see the difference between a hard worker and someone who does the minimum in any level of job. Work quicker, more diligently, less complaining, more flexible where possible, keen to take on more responsibility, looks for opportunities to do more/do different.

Like in a cafe - if it’s quiet you can stand there and do nothing, or you can get on with non customer focused tasks like checking and refilling sauce bottles on tables.

People person = not a dick (but it’s a lot more obviously). People like doing business with people they like.

@CaviarAndCigarettes best prank ever, played to all new starters when I was a new grad 10 years ago. So funny.

Driving

Confidence

Willingness to learn new things / evolve

Loads of other things - see 'confidence'

Empathy
A good 6th sense
Able to think on my feet and quickly
Excellent people and communication skills
Not a stress head.

Touch typing. I learnt it in secondary school. It makes working life easier because my typing is faster than average.

Being unafraid to ask questions, even if not sure who to ask - "if not you, please point me in the right direction!". I've had to really work to build the courage to do so.

Touch typing makes things much quicker!

A ready smile.

The ability to establish rapport very quickly.

Getting on with people and good at working out who does what.
Delivering what I agree to deliver, on time and appropriate quality
Not being a jobsworth - the number of people who almost pass out with shock when I call them back (public sector) and a refusal to say "that's not my job".

Not actually giving a crap about 90% of what I do.
The last 10% is vital.

typing
Excel
listening. I mean really listening, shutting off judgement completely and just listening.

@GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal

Been a SAHP for years now, but prior to that my biggest skill was that I interview really well. I mean really well. If I got an interview, I got the job

Help me please?! 😂 I have my first interview in 6 years and I'm a tad apprehensive.

I can always decide on a direction to take. So many people can’t do this it’s amazing.

"Hard working is an easy one. You can see the difference between a hard worker and someone who does the minimum in any level of job. Work quicker, more diligently, less complaining, more flexible where possible, keen to take on more responsibility, looks for opportunities to do more/do different.

Like in a cafe - if it’s quiet you can stand there and do nothing, or you can get on with non customer focused tasks like checking and refilling sauce bottles on tables. "

See, I don't think it is this straight forward.

I've had times when I was honestly busting a gut in work but achieving...not much. Outwardly it probably looked like I was doing nothing. Inwardly, I was working so hard to keep going, due to a mixture of symptoms from my chronic illness. I don't have social anxiety but could see how they could be in a similar position.

Would you say in that situation I'm just not a hard worker, because it doesn't translate into measurable output for the business? I get that. But I was still working as hard as I possibly could.

What is considered a good touch typing speed?

Speaking fluent German.
Being a hard worker who just gets on with it.
Tact and diplomacy
Being able to be nice to fuckwits

I soooooo wish I was able to get to grips with Excel. I have a colleague whose Excel productions are things of beauty. Mine are glorified Word documents 😕

Patience

Learning to ask for help. No one knows it all.

Touch typing
The ability to explain technical things to non technical people.
Writing clear English.

Big I used to do 60 wpm when I did temp secretarial work but one of my hands doesn't work properly so I'm slower now.

Being curious
Remembering to say please, and even more importantly thank you.
Always talking to people in the tea queue rather than staring at your phone
Never pass up the chance to do people a favour - work karma always pays back eventually
If some asks you if you fancy a cup of tea always make time...it is nearly always code for something important, sensitive or interesting