Continuing in the skills you learn in school that you need for successful work habits, I pick up from where I left in the previous post.
5. Complete Tasks. While in school your teacher assigns work. This work is to help you in several skills not to mention learning the subject matter that you are studying. This work helps you develop the skill of pacing, the skill of working independently, the skill of working neatly, and the skill of completing a task within the amount of time given. In the workforce you must complete your tasks within a specific time frame. If you don't you will hold others up in their jobs, miss deadlines, and in the end not make a very good impression on your boss. If you complete your tasks on time you develop your reputation as a person who is dependable, responsible, and trustworthy. These things are good.
6. Work Together. In school you will be assigned work where you have to work in groups to complete an assignment. Sometimes you get to choose your groups and other times you are assigned to a group. Group work is important because it teaches you how to get along with your classmates and with those that you may not get along with. Group work teaches you how to divide the work, complete tasks for the benefit of the group and how to combine one's efforts with others to produce a quality project. It also teaches you how to motivate those who may not want to work to benefit the group, how to problem solve, and how to compromise.
7. Get along with others. This goes hand in hand with group work. But it goes further than that in that in school you need to learn how to get along with others. You may be seated behind someone who is taller than you and now you can't see the teacher or the board. You may be seated next to someone who doesn't use deoderant. You may be seated next to someone who sucks on the top of his pen. You may have a bully in the class or in the school who is constantly picking on you. You may have others who like to gossip. These situations are all real in the work environment too. This is a great time to learn how to get along with others even if they drive you crazy or make you angry or even pick on you. Use your school time to learn and practice skills in dealing with others.
8. How to disagree appropriately. Oh, this is a BIG lesson. Learning how to disagree appropriately is a skill everyone needs to learn. School and the classroom is a great place to learn this skill and a perfect time to practice it. Everyone has their own opinion and everyone must respect the opinions of others. This doesn't mean that you have to agree with it. It means that you respect that they think differently than you and that they are ALLOWED to think differently. If you wish to disagree with them the skills for communicating this is important. You must express that you acknowledge that they have their own opinion and that it is not your opinion. You must express that you understand that their opinion and ideas are not necessarily wrong but just different than yours. If you disagree in the workplace particularly with your boss the way of expressing this can mean your job.
More to come in part III.
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