Workplace Readiness and Business Skills for Good

Workplace readiness skills are essential for individuals to maintain employment and succeed in the professional environment. These skills encompass personal qualities, people skills, and professional traits that are highly valued by employers. Mastering these skills is crucial for organizational success, as they contribute to improved work performance, effective collaboration, and the ability to adapt to the demands of the workplace. For this Discussion, you will reflect upon the Business Skills for Good you have encountered so far in this program and will isolate the two that have resonated most deeply with you in your professional career and why.

To prepare for this Discussion:

· Review the Learning Resources from Weeks 5 and 6.

· Reflect on the previous weeks in this course, as well as the Business Skills for Good that you have built throughout this program so far. As a refresher, they include the following:

· emotional intelligence

· growth mindset

· planning

· personal mastery

· questioning, persuasion

· Evidence-based decision making

( Note: At the end of this course, you will discuss the final skill for this program, becoming an effective change agent.)

· Select the two Business Skills for Good that have resonated most with you and that you consider most important within your job or within any business/professional setting. Develop your thinking around why you selected those two skills and how they relate to creating positive business outcomes.

· Then, in order to support your selections, identify one example of how you have put each of those skills into practice effectively in your own professional career in order to solve a problem and/or bring about a positive outcome. Or consider an example in which you did not put the skill into practice in an effective way, and it resulted in a less-than-positive outcome. If you had employed the skill effectively, how might it have produced a different result?

Post your summary of the relevance of workplace readiness skills development to positive business outcomes, to include the following:

· Identify the two Business Skills for Good that you believe are most relevant to your professional career (or to a professional career in general).

· Explain why you believe your two selected Business Skills for Good are the most relevant or necessary for either the type of work you do or for a professional career in general and how developing these skills can promote positive business outcomes.

· To support your assessment of the relevance or importance of developing these skills, provide one example for each skill (for a total of two examples) of a time you either put that skill into practice effectively in order to solve a business problem and/or produce a positive outcome or did not put that skill into practice effectively and it resulted in a less-than-positive outcome. If you provide an example of a less-than-positive outcome, propose how the situation might have gone differently had you been able to put that skill into practice more effectively.