Friday 5 April 2013

Importance of Adaptability and Interpersonal skills for IT personnel


When  a baby born, it adapt with its mother and later on it adapts with its environment while changing from baby to child, child to teenage, teenage to adult and at last adult to old. Changing is the natural norms of everything and technology change so fast that the personnel who are connected to technology need to adapt with its changes. Adaptability is very crucial to an IT professional to keep track with the latest technology. The job market of technology change very frequently and there exist elimination and recruit of the employee based on their recent knowledge on the current technological phenomenon. In this competitive world survival depends on new innovation and in order to create a technical device the innovator must have the knowledge of new technology and adapt their new technological devices according to the recent technology. For example, if any company is creating a new smartphone, the IT professionals should have the latest software that will attract the customer to buy the phones.
Secondly the IT professional should be skilled in interpersonal skills like self-awareness, effective communication, conflict management, trust building and cooperation. In business each step need to be taken very carefully and that is why IT professional should have a self-awareness so that whatever problems come, the IT personnel can be aware themselves and also other. Another factor is that make the business successful or ruin is the skills to communicate. A good communicator can communicate effectively with different classes of people and that is where the success lies on. So in order to be a good businessman and also a good employee the IT professionals must have gained the values. Moreover, it is very common to have misunderstanding and conflict within the colleague and also the external party. So in order to take care of these kinds of situations the IT professional should have the skills of managing conflicts. Furthermore, an organization can never be established by only one person that is why collaboration is crucial to maintain the stability of any company and develop the productivity. 

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