Business Transferable Skills

Strategy and Culture

Are you running away from strategy and culture?

The first skill I'll discuss is Strategy and Culture. These two concepts go hand-in-hand. Yes, Peter Drucker said, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." However, culture is formed through strategy, thus they're symbiotic in nature.

Strategy and culture are two truths in everything. By "truths," I mean that they exist, regardless of your intention.

Leadership and Management

What skills are more important, leadership or management?

When it comes to Business Transferable Skills, the answer is both!

If you want to become unbelievably successful and be a plug-and-play employee, you need to learn both Leadership AND Management.

Change Management and Change Readiness

Are you, Ready, Set, Change?

Change is a constant these days and being resistant in the face of change paramount. Business Transferable Skills are all about preparing for change so that your resilience is positive.

Communication

Are you really a good communicator, or do you just think you are?

Communication is one of the most important Business Transferable Skills that a person can possess. 

In high school, I was terrified of getting up in front of students and speaking. I did everything I could to avoid speaking in my formal speech class. However, in the Air Force, I was thrust in front of people -- we all were -- to speak. It was horrible!!!

Today, I see people everywhere that are just as terrified as I was. And I see how it holds them back professionally.

Time Management

Do you manage time or does time manage you?

I used to be good friends with a First Sergeant in the Air Force who always said that he doesn't manage time, time manages him.

Time. It's the one thing that all of us have the same amount of, yet it always seems that some people always seem to have more. How do they do it? They manage time, time doesn't manage them!

Program and Project Management

What do you know about program and project management?

Project management is the process of planning, organizing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals within a defined timeline, budget, and scope. Program management is the practice of managing a group of related projects in a coordinated way to achieve strategic objectives and deliver business value.

Process Management and Improvement

Has anyone ever said to you, "Trust the process?"

The first truth to accept in life and business is that everything that you do is a process -- even if you haven't taken the time to recognize and understand the process, the process is there. Even if you only performed the task once, it followed a process. Process management starts with recognition of this truth. If you recognize that everything you do is a process, then everything can be managed and improved!

Business Insights

Where's your head when it comes to business intelligence?

Over the last two weeks, I've been sharing the eight Business Transferable Skills that I cover in depth in my book, Becoming Unbelievably Successful. These skills, in today's world, allow you to plug-and-play into any role in business. The last of these skills, in my book, is called Business Insights. It involves your ability to collect and leverage data and information to manage and improve whatever you do.

BONUS: Artificial Intelligence

Are you missing the AI Train?

Over the past two weeks, I've shared my eight Business Transferable Skills that I talked about in my book, Becoming Unbelievably Successful.

In Part 5 of the book, which covers these skills, I made mention of Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. At the time of publishing, these concepts were far out of reach of the common man.

OpenAI changed all that!

This brings me to the ninth Bonus Skill, not in the book -- Artificial Intelligence (Today).