#2 Young? Essential? Skills?
These were the first three questions when I began my brief workshop at the British Council today. The workshop was titled Essential Skills for Young Professionals and I opened with, "Do you have any questions?" Asked for it, literally! How young is young? Someone said 20-30 years, someone else said it's the ability to change, be flexible, adopt new technologies. As expected the one liner, age is just a number, you're as young as you feel was popped up. So, I used my facilitator's shield - I don't know the answer, ask yourselves why you have come here. To me it's really not important to define the word 'young'. It's more important to recognize that these people attended a workshop with that title to learn a little about skills considered essential to the workplace. What are skills? This was easy. Anything that can be learnt and practised. So while the group recognized that there are some people born with innate characteristics, the rest ...