What are conceptual skills?
Conceptual skills are the abilities that allow an individual to better understand complex scenarios and develop creative solutions. From a management perspective, these skills offer the ability to approach complicated workplace situations in a variety of different ways.
The types of conceptual skills
Here are some common types of conceptual skills you can learn with an example of their uses in the workplace:
1 - Decision-making skills
Decision-making skills involve the ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently. Whether you interact with coworkers or manage issues within a project, being able to make effective decisions at all levels can increase your success as a manager.To develop these skills, you can practice attention to detail, analytical skills and resourcefulness. Excellent team members and conceptual thinkers can often identify problems that may affect the organization before they become apparent to everyone, which may require them to make a decision that leads to long-term benefits for the company.
Islam perspective for decision making
Islam never neglects anything that benefits a Muslim in life unless it provides him with what benefits him in this matter, and among the conceptual skills is: (the skill of decision-making). For decision-making in Islam, there is something that will be mentioned shortly, which is something that a Muslim, no matter how high his social rank, should not neglect.
1 - Istikhara
Sahih Al-Bukhari, on the authority of Jabir bin Abdullah Al-Sulami, said: The Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace - used to teach his companions to seek istikharah in all matters, as he teaches them a surah from the Qur’an, he says: If one of you is concerned about a matter, let him perform two rak’ahs that are not obligatory, then say: O God, I seek advice from you with your knowledge, and I ask You for Your power, and I ask of Your grace, for You have power and I cannot, and You know and I do not know, and You are the Knower of the unseen. Oh God, if You know this matter - then you name it specifically - it is better for me in my present and future affairs - he said: or in my religion, my livelihood, and the outcome of my affairs - so ordain it for me and make it easy for me, then bless it for me. Oh God, even if You know that it is bad for me in my religion, my livelihood, and my outcome - or he said: In my present and future affairs - so turn me away from it, and ordain for me what is good wherever it may be, then make me content with it.
2- Consultation with experienced people
Allah says
وَشَاوِرْهُمْ فِي الْأَمْرِ {آل عمران:159)
And consult them in the matter (Al Imran: 159)
3- Supplication Prayer
Its the believer's weapon
---------------------------------2 - Interpersonal skills
Interpersonal skills can involve many abilities associated with interacting with other people. To define interpersonal skills, it's helpful to understand which practices can help you become an accomplished leader. Here are some common traits of professionals with advanced
interpersonal skills:
The ability to motivate others
An effective leader can use motivation to increase employee satisfaction and productivity while setting a good example of the expectations of all team members within an organization.
Professionalism in your role:
Professionalism involves acting with honesty and integrity while holding yourself to the highest standards in these areas and creating examples for other members of the team to follow.
An innovative approach
Conceptual and interpersonal skills increase innovation and allow you to develop new and improved solutions for customers, re-design procedures or implement new systems to improve functionality and productivity.
Islam perspective for interpersonal skills
If you knew that two-thirds of Islam consists of dealing with others, which is called the jurisprudence of transactions, whether this other is a Muslim or a non-Muslim, whether he is a People of the Book or any other earthly religion, and only a third is for acts of worship. In a little while you will learn how the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace - motivated his companions to do something in order to support this religion.
1- Motivation by practical example
- When the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, ordered us to dig the trench, a rock appeared to us in some part of the trench where we could not take shovels, so we complained about this to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and he came and took the pick and said: In the name of God, so he struck a blow and broke a third of it and he said: God is great, I have been given the keys to Syria, and by God I will see its red palaces at the hour. Then he struck the second, cutting off the other third, and said: God is great, I have been given the keys of Persia, By God, I see the palace of Al-Mada'in white. Then he struck the third time and said: In the name of God, then he cut off the rest of the stone and said: God is great, I have been given the keys to Yemen, and by God, I can see the gates of Sana’a from where I am at this moment. Directed by Al-Nasa'i
2 - Motivation with praise
On the authority of Anas bin Malik, he said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: “The most merciful of my nation to my nation is Abu Bakr, the most ardent of them in the command of God is Omar, and the most sincere of them in modesty is Othman, The most knowledgeable of them in the Book of God was Ubayy ibn Ka’b, and the most influential among them in knowledge of the religious duties was Zayd ibn Thabit, and the most knowledgeable of them about what was permissible and what was forbidden was Muadh ibn Jabal, Indeed, every nation has a trustee, and the trustee of this nation is Abu Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah.” Narrated by Al-Tirmidhi, who said this is a good and authentic hadith.
3- Set examples using previous role models
On the authority of Khabbab bin Al-Art, he said: “We complained to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, while he was leaning on his cloak in the shade of the Kaaba, so we said: will you not seek victory for us, will you not pray for us? He said: It was before you, a man would be taken and dug for him in the ground, so he puts him in it, then a saw is brought and it is placed on his head and it is cut into two halves, and he combs with iron combs what is between his flesh and bones, so what will turn him away from his religion? By God, this matter will be completed until the passenger travels from Sana’a to Hadhramaut, fearing no one but God, and the wolf is on his sheep, but you are in a hurry.” Sahih Al-Bukhari
4- The nthusiastically with the bliss of Paradise
Sunan Al-Bayhaqi, on the authority of Jabir bin Abdullah, told him that the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace - remained for ten years following the pilgrims to their homes during the seasons, In Majnah and Okaz, and their homes in Mina: “Who will shelter me and support me until I convey the messages of my Lord, and to Him is Paradise?”
---------------------------------3 - Technical skills
Technical skills refer to a measurable skill or trait related to the subject of your work or industry. To succeed in a leadership role, you can work to fully understand your industry and what each member of the team does to further the goals of the organization.However, it also helps to develop technical skills in other areas that apply to multiple fields. This may include the ability to market and sell the organization's products or services. Mastering most technical skills requires experience and training.
Islam perspective for Technical skills
1 - Urge for land reconstruction
Allah says
۞ وَإِلَىٰ ثَمُودَ أَخَاهُمْ صَالِحًا ۚ قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ اعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ مَا لَكُم مِّنْ إِلَٰهٍ غَيْرُهُ ۖ هُوَ أَنشَأَكُم مِّنَ الْأَرْضِ وَاسْتَعْمَرَكُمْ فِيهَا فَاسْتَغْفِرُوهُ ثُمَّ تُوبُوا إِلَيْهِ ۚ إِنَّ رَبِّي قَرِيبٌ مُّجِيبٌ (61)
And to Thamud, their brother Salih, he said, “O my people, worship God. You have no god other than Him, He produced you from the earth and made you to reconstruction therein, So seek His forgiveness, then repent to Him. Indeed, my Lord is Near, Answerer (61)
The noble verse told us about a people in previous nations: We talked about a people who increased in architecture to the point that made their civilization known among the nations around them that they were superior in construction to others: then one of them speaks to them, who is not a king, because he is a noble prophet of God, and he speaks to them about not worshiping anyone but God alone, as if he is saying to them: Do not worship your money or your power, and do not be impressed by what you have achieved, why, because he is the one who gave you the resources in the environment and gave you the minds and physical strength, so you inhabited the earth until it became a reconstruction, so seek His forgiveness and repent to Him, From here we know that the Qur’an did not blame the previous nations for building, rebuilding, and reconstruction, but rather blamed them for worshiping other than God, and God is Most High and Most Knowing.
2- Encouraging professionalism in mastering work
The hadith of Abu Ya’la Shaddad ibn Aws, may God bless him and grant him peace, on the authority of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, who said: God has prescribed the beneficence for everything, If you kill, then kill well, and if you slaughter, slaughter well, and let one of you sharpen his blade and make his sacrifice rest.
---------------------------------Now: You can imagine that Islam does not conflict with any of the principles of administration, but it has its own approach to that
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