Skills development

What is skills development?

I analyzed it is the ability and capacity acquired through deliberate, systematic and sustained effort to carryout easy and complex activities or job functions involving ideas, as cognitive skills,  things, well known as technical skills and/or people as interpersonal skills.

According to what i read, skill development means developing yourself and your skill sets to add value for the organization and for your own career development. Continuously learning and developing one's skills requires identifying the skills needed for mobility, and then successfully seeking out trainings or on-the-job opportunities for developing those skills.

Developing our skills begins with assessing which skills are important to desire a career development. Development should come from on-the-job activities and action learning. This can include development experiences like managing a project, serving on a cross-functional team, taking on a new task, job shadowing, job rotation, etc. Development should come from interactions with others. This includes having a mentor, being a mentor, coaching, participating in communities of practice, serving as a leader in a staff organization, etc. Development should come from training, including classes, seminars, webinars, podcasts, conferences, etc.

Once we have identified the skills you need to develop to achieve for example a career goals, the next step is identifying how we will develop the skills. The two main avenues for developing skills are through the following “Education Training” and “Developmental Experience”

I consider ways in which skill has been dissected and categorized, for the purpose of driving analysis and action. The dissection of skill has been an important feature of occupational psychology, notably through the idea of competence. 

One aspect could be the domain of an activity or job tasks in which the skill-type acts. Domains can be mapped at varying scales, with descriptions that summarize the complex functions involved in daily work. Such maps can resemble fractal graphs, where the description encompasses as much detail however far you drill down.

On the other hand, in the methods and implications we saw that most of the children show the same developmental sequence in a given domain. To understand both developmental commonalities and individual differences, we knew it was important to build the analysis starting from two important phenomena: when the context has a powerful effect on skill development and the second one is a given behavior that can be performed via number or techniques.

The context is also very important, the environmental factors, causes different behavior in the developing of a skill in children. It I not merely that practice affects the developmental maturity of a skill, but all kinds of contextual factors task, procedure, seemingly minor details of the stimuli affect developmental step.

So we can say that with all this environmental variations producing such powerful effects, research that does not deal with the variations is inevitably plagued with a huge quantity of noise in its results.