Meaning & use
organization skills
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Meanings
nounplural
The ability to plan your time and arrange your work or belongings in a neat, orderly way.
Grammar: Used as a plural noun; it usually follows words like 'good', 'poor', 'strong' or 'excellent'.
Patterns
- have good organization skills
- improve your organization skills
- poor organization skills
His organization skills helped him finish the project two days early.
The job advert asks for strong organization skills and basic computer knowledge.
She keeps every file in order, so her organization skills are clearly excellent.
nounpluralbusiness
Practical abilities in planning and arranging tasks, often listed as a requirement for a job or course.
Grammar: Common in job adverts and school reports, often in a list with other skills.
Patterns
- list organization skills on a CV
- develop organization skills
- organization skills training
When you write your CV, put organization skills near the top of the list.
The course teaches organization skills such as planning, prioritizing and record keeping.
Employers often test organization skills during the interview.
Common combinations
- good organization skills
- Good organization skills are useful in any office job.
- develop organization skills
- Group projects help students develop organization skills.
- poor organization skills
- His poor organization skills meant he often missed deadlines.
- organization skills training
- New staff receive organization skills training in their first week.
- strong organization skills
- We are looking for someone with strong organization skills.
Synonyms and how they differ
- time management
- Focuses only on planning how long tasks take, while organization skills also cover tidiness and arranging things.
- planning skills
- Emphasizes deciding what to do in advance, whereas organization skills include keeping everything in order as well.
Word family
- organize verb
- To arrange things or tasks in a clear, ordered way.
- organized adjective
- Describing a person or place that is neat and well arranged.
- organization noun
- The act of arranging things, or a group such as a company or club.
Commonly confused: organization skills or organizational skills?
organization skills vs organizational skills
This is the adjective form and means roughly the same thing, but it often describes skills used inside a company, not personal tidiness.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'organization skills' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Organization skills' is a plural noun phrase, so it takes a plural verb and no article: 'She has good organization skills.' Option 1 wrongly adds 'a', option 2 uses the singular 'skill', and option 3 puts the phrase after 'is' as if it were an adjective.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “organization skills”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.