What is a skill ? difference between skill ability and knowledge types of skills

1. PHILOSOPHY OF A SKILL
Abdalla Ali Mohamed
15/5/2016

2. Agenda :
• What is a skill ?
• The Difference between knowledge & Skills &
abilities
• Types of Skills
• Soft skills Vs. Hard Skills
• How to acquire a new skill.
• Q

6. 1- the ability to do something that comes from training, experience, or
practice.
2-An ability and capacity acquired through continuous, systematic, and
sustained effort to smoothly and adaptively carryout
complex activities or job functions involving ideas (cognitive skills),
things (technical skills), and/or people (interpersonal skills)
3-the ability to use one's knowledge effectively and readily in execution
or performance

7. Skill
• 1-knowledge
• 2-Practice
• 3-Experince

9. Knowledge is the theoretical or practical
understanding of a subject.

10. Abilities( Internal-genetic ) are the qualities(
Cognitive/ Physical / psychological ) tools of being
able to do something

11. the ability to do something that comes from
training, experience, or practice

12. Types of skills :

14. •

15. hard skills :
usually takes smarts or IQ (also known as your left brain-the
logical center). Examples of hard skills include math, physics,
accounting, programming, finance, biology, chemistry, statistics,
soft skills:
usually takes Emotonal Intelligence or EQ (also known as your
right brain- the emotional center). etc… Examples of soft skills
include self management skills like self confidence, stress
management and people skills like communication or
networking skills

17. Note :

18. • Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills –
Which is more important?

19. It depends highly on the career you choose. Here is why.:
Careers can be put into 3 kind of categories. It is up to you to figure out which category
your career is in.
1) Careers that need hard skills and little soft skills (example: Physicists); This is where
you see brilliant people who may not easily work well with others. They can still be very
successful in their career – look at Albert Einstein

20. 2) Careers that need both hard and soft skills – many careers
are in this category (example: Accountants, Lawyers – they
need to know the rules of accounting or law well but they also
depend on selling to clients to build a successful
career. Dealing well with clients require excellent soft skills like
communication skills, relationship skills etc…)

21. 3) Careers that need mostly soft skills and little hard skills
(example: sales. A car salesman don’t really need to know that
much about cars, just a little more than the consumer. His job is
more dependent on his ability to read his customers, communicate
his sales pitch, persuasion skills, and skills to close to deal. These
are all soft skills)

22. 1- Check your
readiness
2- Make sure it’s
needed
3-Know how you
learn best
4-Get the right
help
5-Reflect along
the way
8- Challenge
yourself to teach
it to others
7- Be patient
6-Start small
Acquire
a new
Skill