Why Are Practical Skills Important in Management Programs?

Dr. Sonia Dhir, Faculty (JIMS Rohini): Every functional company working in the organization is directly responsible for the achievement of the objectives laid down by the organization. Directors are anticipated to work in cohesive brigades to fulfill the varied conditions of the design they're involved in. Directorial chops are, therefore, pivotal for any association to succeed and achieve its pretensions and objectives.

Directors endowed with practical chops are especially suitable to steer ahead of the organization toward the achievement of business goals. Apart from technical skills, which might be industry-specific, skills that are non-assiduity-specific help an employee perform his directorial tasks more efficiently than his peer who doesn't retain similar chops.

Some of the similar practical skills which take precedence status include digital knowledge, problem-working, speed reading, and oral and written communication chops, among others. Nevertheless, India is coming under the grip of the 5th artificial revolution making digitalization an absolute necessity for IndiaInc. to borrow to steer ahead their business operations. This makes digital knowledge a practical precedence skill that directors have to come complete with.

Digital knowledge basically means having the capability to use  IT and digital technology with ease to estimate, assay, and communicate information for a purpose.  Certain skills that operation scholars can aim for to come digitally knowledgeable include having knowledge of current technologies, understanding their connection in the business terrain, and being suitable to effectively communicate in the online terrain. This could involve learning how to set up a meeting over videotape conferencing or webinars using operations like Zoom, Google Meets, Webex, etc., and being suitable to use their colorful features for different purposes.

Other communication chops related to digital knowledge include being suitable to write a dispatch and parade dispatch form. Other skills like speed reading and problem working help in developing logical reasoning along with quick skimming through extensively available information to break business problems in no time, therefore keeping ahead in the competitive business terrain. These, combined with good communication chops, help organizations keep themselves ahead in this fastly paced, largely competitive business terrain.  

Though these are general skills applicable to all areas of operation, certain functional area-specific skills which operation scholars can aim for depending upon the specializations chosen by them may include skills like being complete in counting styles, commercial valuation, combinations and accessions, specialized and abecedarian analysis, fiscal modeling, deducible and prophetic analysis, auditing, taxation, etc. for finance scholars; product operation, basics of imprinting and advertising, copywriting, logistics operation, channel operation, import procedures, etc. for marketing and; compensation operation, training, and development, creating cohesive brigades, race planning, handling legal issues, etc. come applicable for those concluding for HR specialization.

Operation scholars today have a plethora of options in the form of MOOC  courses and live systems piecemeal from conventional courses to come digitally knowledgeable and acquire chops related to the sphere specialization areas.