Book Description

This is the 2nd edition of my eBook "10 Essential Skills for Public Servants: A Handbook" which I wrote in 2015 and was published by the Amazon. It got a very good response from the readers for its comprehensive treatment of the subject in an objective and easy to understand and remember the style. At the same time, I also got a lot of advice from different corners of the world after its availability in French, Spanish and Portuguese languages. It prompted me to thoroughly revise it and publish its updated version. Being a public servant is an honour and a privilege on the one hand but a great responsibility on the other. Faithful discharge of your duties demands you to be very effective in service delivery, efficient in execution and honest in your public dealing. This, in turn, requires a public servant to be an emotionally stable person, a strategic planner and a very skillful executive, knowledgeable, about the skills essential for performing the above role. And this Handbook is all about those skills which I considered essential for making you an emotionally stable person, a strategic planner and a very skillful executive. Fortunately, all these skills can be learned and are not inherited. It only demands wholehearted commitment and dedicated efforts to learn them. We can go through these 10 lessons in one go or these could be staggered over a period. Refer to them off and on throughout your career until they become your habits. The synergistic effect of all these skills will make you excel because the human brain has a tremendous capacity to learn new skills and habits. Firm determination through repeated practice builds the necessary pathways in a mind, needed to make them into habits.