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Soft skills are termed as interpersonal skills and personality traits that make a person successful in his job place. It only creates a positive and functional work environment but also makes the organization highly competitive.
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DEFINITION Soft skills are termed as interpersonal skills and personality traits that make a person successful in his job place. It only creates a positive and functional work environment but also makes the organization highly competitive. They must not be mixed with hard skills. While, hard skills are described as technical skills that define a person’s ability to perform a specific task, whereas, soft skills let that person retain his job. Listing soft skills in your resume and demonstrating them in your interview will open new doors of opportunities.
Top soft skills which are highly in demand • Below is a list of some of the top soft skills which are highly in demand in every job sector. • Communication • Leadership • Decision Making • Team Work • Time Management • Creativity and Problem Solving
Communication • Strong communication skills include verbal communication, non-verbal communication, and written communication. • Developing them will let you clearly and precisely express yourself, listen to your customers' grievances, and build long-lasting relationships with your clients. • Leadership • Leadership as a soft skill means that a person vests in himself the ability to grow within the organization and lead other employees in the organization too. • It encompasses the ability to encourage peers, accommodates their needs, resolve conflicts, and cultivate the organization’s culture in future employees.
Decision Making • Decision making as a soft skill infers making well-thought decisions after weighing its pros and cons. • It doesn’t mean taking hasty decisions rather choose among the possible solutions to a problem either through an intuitive or reasoned process. • Teamwork • Possessing teamwork as a soft skill infers the ability to carry out the work in collaboration with others that not improves the quality of work but also results in prompt completion of the task. • Working in a team also develops the acumen knowing when to be a leader and when to be a listener.
Time Management • Inculcating time management skill states working productively in a smart way. • It lets you manage your time effectively so that all the important tasks get completed within the assigned deadline. • Highly valued by the employers, it also let the employees work under the pressure. • Creativity and Problem Solving • Employees with problem-solving skills tend to more reliant and self-dependent. • They possess the ability to analyze the causes of the unwanted situation, generate a set of alternative interventions to achieve the end goals, evaluate the best solutions, implement the best plan, and assess effectiveness.
Importance of Soft Skills in the Workplace • Gone are those days when the employers just focus on honing the product knowledge of the employees. However, in today’s competitive era, every organization takes initiative in offering soft skills training to the employees that not only benefits the organization but also results in the overall development of the employees. • Below are the indispensable objectives of soft skills • Improves customer service • Mitigates the risk • Augment’s the employees' productivity • Encourages collaboration and accumulation of multiple ideas for the effective and efficient completion of the work. • Let you hone presentation skills, networking abilities, and etiquette awareness that can go a long way to help you win new clients and gain more work from existing ones. • The development of teamwork, communication, and time management will smoothly deliver results and help you gain confidence thus positively influencing your personal life
Statistics surrounding Soft Skills • Research conducted by Harvard University states that 85 percent of job success comes from having well-developed soft skills while only 15 percent of the jobs come from technical and hard skills. • The laboranalytics firm Burning Glass analyzed millions of U.S. job postings and found that one in three skills requested in job postings is a soft skill. Even in the most technical career areas such as IT, Healthcare, and Engineering more than a quarter of all skill requirements are for soft skills. • In a 2017 paper, Harvard professor David Deming reported that jobs with high social-skill requirements are on the rise.
How to Acquire Soft Skills • Like any other skills, soft skills too need to be developed among the new hires. It not only impacts the professional life but also positively influences the personal life too. • As an employer or the content developer, develop an engaging soft skill course. • Never impose rather create engagement so that learners automatically adopt this teaching. • Incorporate Learning Management System that enlists courses on communication, collaboration, problem-solving, creative thinking, etc.
Conclusion Every organization irrespective of their sector is highly considering the dire need of soft skills. The incentives and rewards it offers are limitless. It has come to the light that by 2030, soft skills will account for two-thirds of all jobs. Therefore, make your workplace a better and more productive environment.
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