Upvoted for choosing an important topic and conducting original research.
Having a short âkey pointsâ 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; thereâs no clear consensus on which skills are most important, but answers emphasized broad experience; weâll 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 âattention to detailâ and âleadership skillsâ are very common in the business world, but itâs often hard to understand what they look like (especially since mainstream writing on career skills is generally very nonspecific), or how a top ops personâs use of them might differ from what we think of as ânormalâ. Thereâs 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 respondentsâ answers directly. Given that only five people responded to the questions, I donât think linking to answers would overwhelm readers, and weâd get some nuance thatâs hard to express in a summary â 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 âkey pointsâ 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; thereâs no clear consensus on which skills are most important, but answers emphasized broad experience; weâll 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 âattention to detailâ and âleadership skillsâ are very common in the business world, but itâs often hard to understand what they look like (especially since mainstream writing on career skills is generally very nonspecific), or how a top ops personâs use of them might differ from what we think of as ânormalâ. Thereâs 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 respondentsâ answers directly. Given that only five people responded to the questions, I donât think linking to answers would overwhelm readers, and weâd get some nuance thatâs hard to express in a summary â though I understand if the actual text of answers needed to be kept anonymous!