Upvoted for choosing an important topic and conducting original research.
Having a short “key points” section at the top of the post (and future posts) would be valuable; I think the core insights can be collected in a couple of lines. What I took away: some skills are innate, but most are acquired; there’s no clear consensus on which skills are most important, but answers emphasized broad experience; we’ll learn in the next post how to measure your skills and acquire new ones.
Also, I wish that this post featured more examples. Phrases like “attention to detail” and “leadership skills” are very common in the business world, but it’s often hard to understand what they look like (especially since mainstream writing on career skills is generally very nonspecific), or how a top ops person’s use of them might differ from what we think of as “normal”. There’s clearly a difference between the way Tara Mac Aulay attends to detail and the way an average office worker does, but what exactly is that difference?
Following on that: Did your survey ask people to give examples of times when a given skill was useful to them, and what the skill looked like when it was in use? If not, future surveys should.
Finally, I wish that we could access respondents’ answers directly. Given that only five people responded to the questions, I don’t think linking to answers would overwhelm readers, and we’d get some nuance that’s hard to express in a summary — though I understand if the actual text of answers needed to be kept anonymous!
Upvoted for choosing an important topic and conducting original research.
Having a short “key points” section at the top of the post (and future posts) would be valuable; I think the core insights can be collected in a couple of lines. What I took away: some skills are innate, but most are acquired; there’s no clear consensus on which skills are most important, but answers emphasized broad experience; we’ll learn in the next post how to measure your skills and acquire new ones.
Also, I wish that this post featured more examples. Phrases like “attention to detail” and “leadership skills” are very common in the business world, but it’s often hard to understand what they look like (especially since mainstream writing on career skills is generally very nonspecific), or how a top ops person’s use of them might differ from what we think of as “normal”. There’s clearly a difference between the way Tara Mac Aulay attends to detail and the way an average office worker does, but what exactly is that difference?
Following on that: Did your survey ask people to give examples of times when a given skill was useful to them, and what the skill looked like when it was in use? If not, future surveys should.
Finally, I wish that we could access respondents’ answers directly. Given that only five people responded to the questions, I don’t think linking to answers would overwhelm readers, and we’d get some nuance that’s hard to express in a summary — though I understand if the actual text of answers needed to be kept anonymous!