Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA)

Knowledge, Skill and Ability.  What are they? How can you gain these values?  It relates to one another.  To measure your ability, you must have the right skills. In order for you to be trained on such skills, you must first gain the knowledge.

How do you gain knowledge? Knowledge can be gained through reading, attending courses / training, working experience and people.  When you have acquired knowledge, you need to transfer it into skills.  You have to determine skills that you are good at or perhaps skills that you are required to learn.  After you have mastered the skills, than only you can see the last result, that would be ability.

For example:  Aina studied Engineering for 4 years.  Knowledge being gained during the 4 years.  Later she started working in an Engineering firm. There she gained knowledge via experience. If the employer send her for courses, more knowledge gained from there.  While she accumulates the years of experience, the hands on training lead her to some basic skills.  And so on and on following the process and flow.

In work,  KSA plays important role to produce a good, competent and quality staff.  For those who have subordinates, please ensure that they are sent to the right training, at the right time.

During those days, there are many competent people with different background. As of todate, mostly have the qualification but lack of these value in them.  All they see is good pay and refuse to learn from the basic.  The trend now is so different that than old days. Hmmm...... Do you agree with me?