Workplace Survival Skills
Want more certainty about where your career is going?
Then you need to do the single most important action to control your career direction and momentum
which is to identify your current - and potentially future - soft skill deficiencies
Do you know?
- The Adecco Group Global Workforce of the Future Report 2023* states that "GenerativeAI is set to replace many technical skills, increasing the value of soft skills in the workplace."
- A previous Adecco Staffing USA survey revealed that 44 percent of executives said a lack of soft skills was the biggest proficiency gap they saw in the U.S. workforce
*The report covered 30,000 workers from 23 countries across multiple industries.
The Adecco Group is the world’s second largest Human Resources provider and temporary staffing firm, with 5,200 branches in over 60 countries and territories
What does this mean to you?
This information is absolutely crucial to your future career progression because...
Your skill deficiencies will drag you down more than the skills you already have will build you up.
The frightening reality is that because of any skill deficiencies you might have, managers or clients are less likely to entrust you with career-building responsibilities, for which they are accountable to others.
This is the solution...
You need to improve your core soft skills which include communication, leadership, problem solving, work ethic, time management and teamwork. In the Workplace Survival Skills series of six books, Book 1 is entitled Mastering Meetings & Conversations and is the roadmap that enables you to become proficient in highly valued communication skills.
But this is just the beginning of your journey.
What is crucial to your job effectiveness, and therefore to your career development, is not only HOW you apply this content but also WHAT you need to measure to assess its effectiveness.
WSS will teach you this through interactive coaching webinars
Where you need to start...
Begin by completing the self-assessment WSS Strengths and Weaknesses skill-evaluation. This is presented in the format of best-practice statements which you score on a 1-5 basis. This will give you an overview of the pitfalls and opportunities that will direct your skill enhancement strategy.
The power of one driven by the wisdom of many™
By combining evidence from the most prominent educational psychologists with collaborative learning via coaching webinars, WSS delivers a cutting-edge solution to your career progression challenges, by teaching you how to…
Identify
the skills in which you’re deficient, (or potentially could be)
Decide
which skills to prioritise
Acquire, refine and develop
these skills
Measure and analyse
what you have achieved
Who is this for?
Early Career Development
Initially, WSS is targeting graduates in their early 20s to early 30s who are working in professional environments where essential communication skills have not been prioritized in the training process but are still highly valued by management. Since the age range of early 20s to early 30s is too broad, WSS plans to work with smaller groups, especially during the testing or beta stage. WSS is particularly interested in industry verticals that cover more technical areas such as IT, financial services, or engineering. People in these categories often focus on problem-solving or technical challenges and may be less aware of the importance or relevance of soft skills to their career progression.
You can't do this on your own
No matter how motivated you are to implement these steps, it is almost impossible to do it on your own – and within a meaningful timeframe.
Leveraging advanced learning techniques, the WSS structured, guided and feature-rich blend of learning takes your career progression to the next level and beyond.
Hi, I’m Alan Naylor.
During the years I spent working for Price Waterhouse (now PwC), then running a manufacturing company and subsequently managing teams in the business magazine publishing industry, I researched, developed, refined and applied numerous high performance training techniques that are now in the Workplace Survival Skills book series.
After working with hundreds of people at the early career development stage, it was a constant reality that almost no one knew the difference between ‘doing their job’ – which is what is expected of them by others –and simultaneously ‘achieving career goals’ which means identifying and capturing the elements of their job that transition them to a higher level.
Does this resonate with you? If so, register your interest below
Register today
Upon registering your details, your self-assessment will be emailed to you as a Google form. Please complete this at your earliest opportunity, you will then be allocated a slot on a limited availability webinar