Nowadays soft skills are as important as hard skills. In this blog, we are going to cover why soft skills are required, and how the boost your soft skills in both professional as well as your personal life.
Before jumping into the soft skills let’s imagine a hypothetical situation. Suppose you have to work with a colleague in your office for your next project. And you are left with two choices :
Choice A: This person is very clever and fast at work. But he often gets irritated with others. He has quite a bad temper.
Choice B: This person is just average (in skills) as compared to the first choice. but he is more responsible, helpful and supportive. Somehow, he always finds solutions for the problems and rarely blames others.
Now, tell me honestly, who would you choose to work with?
Absolutely, I am going to choose person B and so should you. Or else who would like to surround themselves with irritated people. And this decision of yours is enough to prove that soft skills are more important than hard skills. Soft skills are bios of humans. They play a major role in your life. These skills help you to understand, communicate and coordinate with them and the most important thing is that it will help you to make a presence in the group.
Soft skills are the seed of innovation, creativity, confidence, negotiation, communication, leadership and so on. In fact, soft skills are the shield that makes you capable enough to face the worst situations.
You can learn any technical skills through good training but for soft skills, you have to polish yourself. So even preparing for any career, you also have to focus on your soft skills. Here is a list of top demanding soft skills you need to have, which is praised in every profession.
Communication
Communication is not only the art of presenting your point, but it also includes listening to others, writing about thoughts, storytelling, expressing your ideas creatively and many more. Understanding the culture of a company and building a friendly environment is also the base point of communication.
Along with that writing emails, attending meetings with colleagues and clients, presenting your idea to the boss is all part of this soft skill.
Team Player
You can’t do the whole job by yourself, you need someone to help you. Everyone is not perfect with everything. Having a good understanding of your team will give you a better outcome.
It is obvious that everyone has their own approach to the same thing, some times there are miscommunications which breaks the unity of the team. But in the end, the whole team is responsible for the outcome of their task.
A person has to be a leader and sometimes a follower in a team. It is always a priority in the hiring process. Transforming yourself according to the requirement of the team might become a necessity. Being humble and respectable to others is the basis of a team player.
Decision making
Machines are too intelligent now but decision making is something which is always upon human beings. The corporate world always welcomes those people who are capable of making good decisions.
The demand for Fast and good decision-makers is always an attractive skill. The other skills that are important are to have logical thinking, patience, knowledge of analytics.
Creativity
This is okay to say that machines are capable of working fast but they can’t be creative. A person with creative thinking is always the first choice in the market.
Generating new thoughts and adapting new thoughts are two different approaches to being creative. Thinking out of the box provides tools for facing new problems.
Emotional Intelligence
Controlling own thoughts, understanding other’s thoughts and empathizing with them is called emotional intelligence. This is a key skill in the list of soft skills.
For that, you have to pay more attention to what others are saying and getting their inner thoughts process from that.
With emotional intelligence, you can handle some worst situations like people’s bad behavior and some sensitive people. But first, you have to be cool and patient.
Problem Solving
Everyone likes a problem solver in their team. Passion is the key to solving a problem because a good solution takes time. Problems are everywhere, but thinking differently and then diving into a problem is a must for a problem solver.
