What are the common "hard skills" of newcomers in the workplace?

First of all, general workplace skills

1. Time management

Gantt chart: Gantt chart is similar to the combination of project list and calendar. The vertical axis is the list of items, and the horizontal axis is time. This tool is mainly used for project management. After receiving a project, you must decompose and assign tasks, and then calculate the milestones and time of each project according to the deadline. Based on this, the project can be clearly divided and completed on time. Tasks are graded and prioritized: full moon or full moon, tasks are prioritized (what am I talking about …). Tasks can be divided into four quadrants according to their priorities. Important and urgent tasks should be done first. If it is not important or urgent, consider doing it slowly or giving it to others in the future; It is not important but urgent, and it is made of jam or for people who are not busy; Important but not urgent, hurry up and do it. Reasonable authorization (throwing pot): throwing pot is not necessarily a derogatory term. You have too many pots on you, which is not good for the team. If you can't finish it, it will affect the whole project cycle. You might as well hand in the task and let other members trouble you. Step 2 be good at it

Good at using Excel, even proficient! ! Most importantly, this is the basic tool for most people. Data display and project management are all needed. Regular work is managed by it.

For example, weekly reports, even daily reports, Gantt charts of project progress, weekly data report updates and so on.

3. Weekly report

This is a weekly report, not a composition! It's not about reading! Not to keep a diary! !

Briefly talk about the format of the weekly report. The following is a summary of my weekly report.

No matter how small the work at hand is, it should be managed in a scientific way. There are so many dimensions in this format table.

Goals and values: Everything you do has goals and values, which can be quantified or qualitative. This will also help you let your boss know what you are doing and what the value is. Short-term goal: Do a long-term project. After you have a big goal, you'd better set some process goals in the process, which will help you complete the task in stages. Just like long-distance running, you can first set yourself a goal of running 1000 meters, then bite your teeth, run 500 meters, and then try to run 300 meters, so you can constantly set yourself small goals. Progress: After you set a goal, you will strive to achieve it, and everything you do revolves around it. This can also help you sort out which ones are related to your core goals, which ones have high priority and which ones have no influence on your goals. You can put them aside first. Data situation: The data situation here is more a monitoring tool for work and project quality. Only by knowing where there is a problem can we know how to optimize and improve the next step and achieve the goal. 4.PPT/'s's Logical Thinking Ability

Why put PPT and logical thinking ability together? Because the two are closely related. Now whether you go to Baidu or Zhihu to search for posts and answers about PPT, the same thing is to teach you how to color, how to choose fonts, how to typeset, how to handle pictures and so on. The PPT made is pleasing to the eye and beautiful.

But please remember that in the workplace, the "content" of PPT is the most important. Think about it, what is the purpose of your PPT? Is it to let others remember that you have done a good job in PPT? Definitely not. Is to let others remember what you shared. You can achieve your goal by showing PPT, which is just a means of showing. If PPT is too fancy, it will affect the listener's attention to "content". If you add "content" itself, it will make people feel empty.

So what is the general "good content"?

Logical thinking ability plays an important role here. In fact, the process of people's understanding of things is a rational understanding produced by the integration of concepts, judgments, reasoning and other forms of thinking. If your content is organized and logical, it will make it easier for listeners to receive your content information and achieve the desired effect.

Summarized the following four elements that should be paid attention to when writing PPT:

The whole picture is clear. I prefer the overall structure of the total score when writing PPT. There will be a chapter at the beginning, which will sum up all my contents in one page, so that the listener can have a general understanding and psychological prediction. At the same time, I also help myself to write the following clearly.

Strong logical thinking can be reflected in close-up articles, and small thinking can be reflected in every sentence you write, mainly including:

Inferential thinking: the process of judging or predicting reasoning according to known concepts and phenomena. Usually because of A, platform ecological thinking with or without B: it is also an important Internet thinking. Any problem may be caused by a link in an ecology. For example, when consumers sign for inspection, they often open their eyes and sign, and then find that there is something wrong with the goods. As a result, they sign for it and bear the responsibility themselves. Some people say that who can sign for the express delivery now? Who stipulated this? Article 3 10 of the Contract Law clearly stipulates that it is necessary to sign in person, but is this provision really reasonable? The contract law was officially implemented in 1999, when Taobao was not even born. Of course, the terms formulated in that environment did not predict that logistics would be so developed now, but this rule has not changed until now. This is actually the thinking path from a single point problem to a platform rule problem behind it. Subtractive thinking: use as few elements as possible to achieve the best effect; Focus on doing your best; Executive thinking: that is, break down a complex project into N simple tasks mentioned above, and then set the completion steps of each task according to time management. From the project-task-step process content is very clear, I don't need to say more. I'll show you the report and feel what it means.

5. Language "concise" skills

I like simple communication too much in the workplace. Speaking 1 hour for something that can be finished in five minutes is the most unbearable thing. The workplace is not about falling in love, efficiency comes first.

The department wants to buy a camera. The young man went to JD.COM to look for and select two cameras. He came back and reported that "there are two alternatives, A 5288 and B 6288. Which one to buy? " Nonsense. I know the difference. Then the report said, "One is CCD, one is CMOS, one supports HDR, one does not, one is equipped with 1855, and the other is equipped with 2470 heads ... Which do you think is better?"

In fact, it can be simplified as "I chose two sets." Considering that we are used for indoor portrait shooting and have video needs, I suggest buying Type B. Of course, if the budget is not enough, we can buy Type A, which can also meet the basic needs. "

Another simple example:

Description 1: We hope that the user's service request can get a response from our platform at the first time.

Description 2: Respond to users' needs quickly.

In addition, in many cases, we have to report some things or emergencies. Actually, there are some skills.

For example:

Due to xxx, xxxx problem is caused. (Describe the current situation)

Lead to xxx results. (result)

Personally, I think this is the reason behind XXXX. (feeling)

Recommend XXXXX. (Give advice)

6. Other skills

Google Docs: It is very similar to the Office suite, but it has a special function called "form". Students who know how to surf the Internet scientifically suggest learning this powerful function. The form is very suitable for investigation. In addition, the collaboration function of Google Docs is very powerful (for example, several people can edit a form and document at the same time, and they can also leave messages to each other @), so many companies are willing to use it instead of Office. Various cloud disks: Dropbox, Google Dirve, One Drive, etc. , which may be the choice of some teams for file storage and * * * sharing. You also need to know how to enjoy it and how to set permissions. Mind mapping tools: Mind Manager, Xmind, etc. Are powerful mind mapping tools. When the logic is unclear or there are too many ideas, you can visualize them to help you think further. You can also use this kind of tools to sort out the process, organizational structure and so on. Information search: In the Internet age, the acquisition of information becomes relatively cheap, and one of the necessary skills is search. At least you should know how to search in Baidu and Zhihu ~ Explore it, boy, it's really not just the skill of directly typing what you want to ask and pressing Enter. If you don't believe me, you can try searching Baidu for "job hunting for fresh graduates", "recruiting fresh graduates" and "campus recruitment". Work-related tools: for example, product managers should be familiar with Axure, design students must know PS and so on. If conditions permit, both Windows and Mac OS need to be familiar: each company's computers are different. If a company supplies Apple computers, you should not only show them, but also know the operating system, and don't let the most basic operations reduce office efficiency. Second, the most basic ability training.

Okubo Yukio, a Japanese professional research expert, gave the answer in 12 Working Basis. In this book, Okubo starts from the essence of work and tells readers a set of basic methods suitable for solving all problems in work in easy-to-understand language. Whether you are a white or an old bird in the workplace, as long as you master these basic abilities of 12, promotion and salary increase will no longer be a dream.

Let's first look at the corresponding sports skills of each age group.

From the picture, we can see that the lowest ability should be cultivated as soon as possible, while some abilities such as negotiation ability, entrustment ability and teaching ability can be cultivated in their thirties and forties, and even the effect may be better. But no matter which kind of ability is cultivated first, I think the most important ability in the workplace is the ability to find goals, the ability to continue learning and the ability to coordinate.

1. Target discovery ability

You will find that colleagues around you, including yourself, will do nothing without the boss's order to arrange specific work. Such people, Okubo Yukio, are called "standby families". Such people just follow the instructions of their superiors completely, never think about what their work is for, and lose the ability to decide their work goals on their own initiative.

When meeting in the company, I often hear the superior leaders constantly emphasize the "ownership spirit" and hope that every employee will regard the company as his own enterprise. I think this is the same as the author's emphasis on target discovery in the book. No matter what company wants its employees to be people without goals and dreams, because only the ability to find goals can you master the "ability to find problems" and "ability to solve problems", which are the most urgent and important skills in the workplace at any time. At the same time, only by really taking action and constantly improving yourself towards the goal can we get rid of the state of doing nothing all day.

2. Continuous learning ability

I think many people are familiar with learning. After all, everyone was studying before the age of 20, and they continued to study. Then everyone should have this ability. However, in the workplace, you will find that many people can't learn or even know how to learn.

From primary school to university, students have to learn through external coercion such as exams and homework. Many people do not study independently. After graduating from college, you will find that many people leave school without exams and homework, and few people will study systematically again. Try to remember. How long has it been since you finished reading a book? How long has it been since you studied and practiced a subject seriously?

My best friend Xiao C University studied Chinese, but after graduation, she was not interested in all kinds of copywriting work and only liked photography, so she attended all kinds of photography training courses at her own expense, bought many books on photography and actively participated in all kinds of photography exhibitions, hoping to improve her photography skills and realize her photography dreams. Now she dumped me for several blocks, and her photography skills have reached the point of opening a solo exhibition. I watched her coming step by step and really admired her learning ability.

If everyone can keep pace with the times and keep learning in the workplace, are you still afraid that new forces such as the post-90s and post-00s will take your place? Are you even afraid that you can't afford a warm cabin of 20,000/m2?

3. Coordination

Coordination is the ability to adjust, mediate and advance things. In my opinion, coordination is the ability to arrange the people and things involved in the matter reasonably within an effective time. Coordination ability is the most advanced ability among the basic abilities in 12, and it is an essential comprehensive skill, and coordination ability is the most important ability throughout your whole career, no matter you are a white or an old bird in the workplace.

Why do you say that? Because the coordinator must first have professional knowledge and contacts in the corresponding fields, and then find the needs of the other party, and occasionally make the most perfect plan while teaching, and when multiple stakeholders are involved, the coordinator needs to coordinate in the middle, properly guide and guide, and urge everyone to reach a * * * knowledge and determine a unified goal.

Therefore, coordination is not a skill that exists alone, and it can be exercised independently. It needs to constantly polish itself on the basis of other 1 1 capabilities, which is why coordination is a higher-level capability, because coordination itself is the synthesis of 1 1 capabilities.

I think the above three abilities are indispensable skills in the workplace. Of course, it doesn't mean that other abilities are not important, but that you need to consciously improve the abilities that must be matched at this stage according to your own situation.