Three basic skills to achieve success

By Kern Peng

There are three basic skills for anyone to achieve success. Our educational system only focuses on one. Change is needed.

Objective management does not simply mean setting objectives. It is a skill to vision the success, translating success to the achievable long term and short term goals, and mapping these goals in an effective and efficient path to achieve the target result. It is similar to strategic planning skill in managing organization. Parents often set the objective for the children and once the children achieve their parents' goals, they seem purposeless as what they want to do in life. Just like any other skill, the objective management skill must be taught at young age.

Willingness management is a skill of initiating and controlling ones willingness and desire to achieve the objectives. Our educational system attempts to generate children's interest in a particular subject but that is not enough. Instead of focus on motivate children's from outside, we should focus on teaching the children to keep themselves motivated within and develop skills to initiate and maintain a strong desire to achieve the objectives that we help them to develop in objective management training that I mentioned above.

Our educational system puts emphasis on capability development. Again, capability will come if a person has a strong desire. As in the work environment, we would hire people that are willing and capable of doing the job. If we can not get both in same situations, we would prefer to hire the people who are willing to do the job. After all, a person has all the capability but do not want to do it will not produce any result. Our educational system needs to continue develop good quality of capability training in different areas but we do very little in providing our children training on how to manage their objectives and desires.

If elected, I would push for courses that tailored to developing the objective management and willingness management skills.