It's no secret that many in our nation's workforce lack analytical and critical thinking skills, and monitoring one's own work are skills looked for in hiring and promoting. An organization's ability to succeed depends on using creative thinking to solve problems and overcome barriers. Employers place a premium on workers who develop such skills. Taking pride in work accomplished, setting goals and meeting them, and enhancing job skills to meet new challenges are necessary characteristics or today's employees. The formal educational system has provided little or no training in developing such attributes as self-esteem, motivation and career development.
Employers value the development of interpersonal skills and negotiation.
Employers want employees to have some sense of where the organization is headed as well as what they must do to make a contribution. Employers place a high priority on persons who can assume responsibility and motivate co-workers. The transformation of the worker's role is indicative of the extraordinary changes in the workplace. For tomorrow's employees, success on the job and in the job market depends entirely on acquiring specific skills today. Printed June 1991 in The Pacesetter, an international publication for Chamber of Commerce executives and volunteer leaders, and Look North, a publication of the North Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.