Ability to Work
Image by Storyset on Freepik The article ‘ Effectiveness at Workplace ’ in this blog touched upon three critical factors that determine the effectiveness of a person in performing any task at personal level or professional level. This article explores the ‘Ability to Work’ aspect in some more detail. Ability to work is possession of necessary qualifications, skills and experience that are necessary for performing a task effectively and efficiently. The skills include both hard skills and soft skills. The educational qualifications are endorsement of hard skills that are job specific and often technical in nature. The soft skills on the other hand are inherent in an employee to some extent and further developed by training and constant practice. The soft skills are generic and are necessary to manage the work environment and for application of hard skills more effectively to perform a given task. The hard skills are easier to acquire and measure compared to soft skills. Ability to...