5 IMPORTANT BUSINESS SKILLS EVERYONE NEEDS

1. Financial Accounting Skills

Accounting know-how can be beneficial to your career, even if you’re not in a job focused on numbers. While it can seem like an intimidating subject, it’s easier if you have the right software at your fingertips. MS Excel teaches you to use patterns, organising your data to save you time. Using Microsoft Excel, you can easily create spreadsheets and use modern formulas to perform calculations.

With our Excel Pre-Assessment Tool, you can determine your level of proficiency before enrolling on either a Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced course.

2. Leadership Skills
Leadership skills are vital to workplace success. While some people think of leadership and management as the same, there’s a big difference between being a good manager and a good leader.

Management is centred on implementing processes, while leadership focuses on the people and vision that guide change. Building up your leadership skills can be beneficial in any profession. From learning to handle situations that might be stressful or developing your leadership style, these skills will help you understand how to bring your vision to life and set your team up for success.

We have a variety of courses on leadership on www.sacampusonline.com
Below is just one of many to choose from.

3. Management Skills
Strong managerial skills are intrinsically linked to organisational performance. A recent study found that managers account for 70 percent of variance in employee engagement, underscoring the need for companies to develop leaders who can drive team productivity and morale.

For seasoned and aspiring managers alike, it’s valuable to know how to lead meetings, delegate, make decisions and enforce discipline. Our Complete A-Z Course on Management Principles covers any Management topic you can think of, with more than 12-hours worth of video content. Click below for more info.

4. Emotional Intelligence
Another essential business skill is emotional intelligence, and research shows it’s a leading indicator of performance in the workplace. According to a recent study, 90 percent of top performers have high emotional intelligence.

Emotional intelligence is commonly broken down into four concepts: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. In short, this skill refers to your ability to understand your emotions and how they impact certain situations and your capacity to recognise and influence the feelings of others. No matter your industry or position, having this awareness of yourself and those around you will enable you to have more control over your interactions and help you and your team accomplish goals effectively.

The course below combines essential leadership skills with the principles of Emotional Intelligence so that you can implement both in your daily office life.

5. Effective Communication
In any business setting, professionals rely on communication to coordinate efforts and accomplish organisational goals. Ineffective communication, or a lack of communication altogether, can prove catastrophic.

Along with developing your skills, a large contributor to success in this arena is being able to understand and adapt to the communication styles of others.

Other key communication skills include:

• Active listening
• Empathy
• Reading body language.