7 Skills You Need to Succeed at Work

2. Social Intelligence

It is an ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions. Employees who are socially employed will be able to quickly assess the emotions of those around them and adapt their words, tones and gestures too.

This is considered to be one of the essential skills for workers who need to collaborate and build relationships of trust but it is even more important when they collaborate with larger groups of people in different settings.

3. Adaptive Thinking

Adaptive thinking is nothing but finding solutions to unexpected situations, whether these occur in high-skill professional or technical roles or in lower-skill roles. Task as different as writing a convincing legal argument or creating a new dish out of set ingredients both requires adaptive thinking. This skill will be considered to be premium in next decade.