ESSENTIAL SOFT SKILLS TO BOOST YOUR SUCCESS

“Having hard skills gets you hired. Lacking Soft skills gets you fired.” 

Soft skills also known as People Skills – the non technical, intangible, personality specific skills that determine one’s strength as a leader, listener, negotiator and conflict mediator. Soft skills play a significant role in one’s success in life particularly in one’s profession. They help one to excel in the workplace and their importance cannot be denied in this age of information and knowledge.

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 Soft skills are very important in business. It is essential to be technically sound, but one should have the ability to convey the idea to the masses in the simplest possible manner. Planning is necessary but execution is also equally important and it takes soft skills to execute any idea because it involves dealing with the people directly. Soft skills are the differentiating factor between success and failure. Now let’s look at some of the essential Soft skills you need to excel in your career. 

1. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: “Winners don’t have the best of everything….. They make the best of everything.” – Anthony Robbins EI is a type of social intelligence and the ability of an individual to control their own emotions and use this to recognize and guide others emotions and actions. EI is a collection of emotions, skills and characteristics that drive performance and success. EI imply means to use emotions intelligently according to your advantage. When you have high EI, it is far easier to solve complex problems, deal creatively with challenges of an ever changing, dynamic environment. In our desire to acquire Soft skills and develop dynamic personalities, it becomes more important to develop EI.

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 2. COMMUNICATION SKILLS: The ability to communicate ideas to others effectively is an absolutely essential requirement. Developing your communication skills can help all aspects of life, from your professional life to social gatherings and everything in between. In fact, communication skills could be the deciding factor in determining wheather or not you are selected/ promoted, So without them your career would be severely impaired.

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3. TIME MANAGEMENT: The busy man only can manage to do many things, which seem to be beyond the reach of ordinary people, they have to do many things in spite of their busy schedule. The secret therefore lies in the scientific management of time. Time management is the ability to use your time effectively and distributing time between activities, with the result of maximizing productivity.

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 4. STRESS MANAGEMENT: Stress is the word that many people use when they are describing how the demands of their life seems to be becoming too great for them to cope with. The ability to cope with stress varies from individual to individual. But the fact that stress go hand in hand. Everyone in every job experiences pressure/stress. Your success in a job depends on your ability to handle work pressure.

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 5. TEAM WORKING: Today’s world is driven by innovation leading to constant change and success of an organization depends on its team. Thus it has become mandatory to train the employees in all spheres of management. Team building is one of the crucial areas in which the employees need to be trained.

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 6. INTERPERSONAL SKILLS: These include the ability to lead, motivate and delegate. They are important at every level of organizational responsibility and should always be evident. Being the most technical person in your field is not always enough to succeed unless you have the ability to convince others that what you are doing is important.

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 7. NEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION: Negotiating in a way means you are able to achieve desired outcomes and still maintain successful ongoing relationships with others. Influencing positively will help you achieve more of what you want and build relationships based on openness, trust, understanding and mutual respect.

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 Soft skills can be developed by formal training or leadership and guidance of your team. 

 Written by: -Ms. Divya Kumari (Batch- 2018)

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