BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES
I attended an enriching seminar on
Behavioral Competency. It talked about inculcating employees’ behavior
conducive to positive work environment walking on the company’s ethnicity, “You
are the owner of your work.” I was lucky to attend such an enthralling
presentation at young age keeping in mind that as a fresher, it is better if
you start early. Mainly there are 8 types of behavioral types that an employee
should have, which I will be discussing later at length. What follows in this
document is the precise explanation of what was discussed.
TEAMWORK AND COLLABORATION
Teamwork is a group of people
working together to solve a problem and achieve a shared goal. Everyone’s
opinion matters. Even if you are placed higher in position it is your duty to
listen to your colleague. This is not just few people dictating terms and
others happily accepting it just because Boss is always right. In this there is
no teamwork and time is wasted in pretending to consider others thoughts but
eventually ending up doing what was initially planned. Collaboration is the way
of reaching the goal through sheer teamwork. We do not always need
professionals to achieve results because sometimes best solution can come from
unexpected source.
COMMUNICATION
The best way to a communication
is through non-verbal way. The best way to put it would be, “First impression
is the best impression.” There are thousand ways in which one can send the
message across but we should be confident enough to use the right method for
example grapevine, etc. It is important that you make the receiver comfortable
enough to be a part of conversation and let him share his viewpoint on the
topic of discussion. One should always remember that the great speaker is always
the best listener. Babbling and chattering unnecessarily is a harmful to one’s
career.
ANALYTICAL THINKING
When one thinks of the analytical
thinking, it is not only related to their ability to apply professional skills
but how he can solve any problem put to him through a logical and systematic
way based on the data provided to him or his seniors’ opinion. Before you start
working on the problem, there should be enough perquisite data to understand
earlier where we had gone wrong. This is not what is taught at any educational
level, and no one will develop their analytical thinking by book knowledge. The
more complex problem you solve, the widen idea you get to think for the next
problem.
PROBLEM SOLVING
This competency has been
inculcated in us since the days of our board exams. Though it is a combination
of all the following competencies, if followed on daily basis can be a great
asset. It may so happen that an individual can be very good at his technical
skills but weak in general problem solving and vice versa. It is in other words
a decision making skills, starting from recognizing a suitable way to overcome
a problem up to leading to a new innovative idea. To solve a problem, he should
be able to identify the problem, address the obstacle, analyzing the result and
reexamining if the results are still not satisfactory.
INITIATIVE AND PROACTIVENESS
Soon we will be discussing
innovation which comes ahead in the report. We should have clear understanding
of the difference between initiative and innovation. Initiative is the prompt
action taken by the respondent for example volunteering for a committee that others
would try to avoid. This is by far the most required competency in a good
candidate, and no one can ever have any proactiveness in him at all. Please
correct me if I am wrong but according to me, the quality of work becomes
secondary here, taking up the job and willingness to commit is more important.
Physically the quality may vary because of the highly demanding energy level
from our side.
CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
It may sometime happen to us that
we think our work has hit the rock bottom; this is where an individual should
be able to find alternative way to get to the end of the solution. Innovation
is challenging the paradigm, not letting others affect our method of approach,
creating something that once world said could not be twisted further. It is not
only about how creative you are but can you also encourage someone to do
something new. I won’t be undervaluing any competencies here but creativity is
a part of decision making knowing when to implement new rules to get work done
faster. I agree with the sir about the children being the most creative because
they don’t have insecurities to feel when they fail.
DEALING WITH AMBIGUITY
As a fresher into the corporate
world, the biggest difficulty I am going to be facing is to be coping with the
change and that is bad. It is very wrong on our side to be stuck in the same
loop, not anticipating any change in the future. Dealing with ambiguity is the
willingness of the self to be prepared for anything the life throws at you. On
the plus side, one should not change him because his job demands it, this
should be self-procured. Dealing with ambiguity can be related to proactiveness
but the latter is more work related. In this competency we find two types of
people, one who is comfortable with uncertaincy and the one finds it
restraining to change whatever may the reason may be.
Report by,
Rohan Deepak Patil
B.tech Mechatronics