What is Soft Skill ?
What is soft skill?
“Soft skills are most critical personal traits
to magically succeed in any and every aspect of life.”
Each one of us has basically two kind of skills within us.
First one – the domain knowledge, that is given utmost importance throughout our personality formation age (from school to college to first job or business).
What it includes –
- Subject’s theoretical knowledge gained from books
- Subject’s practical knowledge gained from experience
- Subject’s situational application scenarios learned from situations faced
Second one- the personal traits, that is given utmost ignorance throughout our personality formation age (from school to college to first job or business).
What it includes –
- Quality and direction of your thought process
- Quality and direction of your mindset
- Quality and content of your paradigm
- Quality and content of your inner-self
- Quality and intent of your behavior
- Quality and intent of your attitude
- Quality and intent of your emotions
- Quality and clarity of your communication
- Quality and clarity of your interpersonal skills
- Quality and clarity of your confidence
- Quality and clarity of your intellect
- Quality and clarity of your perceptions
- Quality and clarity of your decisions
- Quality and clarity of your focus
- Quality and clarity of your moral values
- Quality and courage of your adaptability and flexibility
- Quality and courage of your leadership skills
- Quality and depth of your problem-solving abilities
- Quality and depth of your relationship management skills
- Quality and efficiency of your time management skills
- Quality and efficiency of your resource management skills
- Quality and efficiency of your capability to earn reputation
- Quality and efficiency of your capability to earn trust
- Quality and efficiency of your capability to earn respect
- Quality and efficiency of your capability to earn self-esteem
- Quality and efficiency of your team building skills
- Quality and effectiveness of your negotiation skills
- Quality and effectiveness of your presentation skills
- Quality and effectiveness of your conflict management skills
- Quality and effectiveness of your pressure handling skills
And last but not the least is …
- Quality and capability of upgrading your beliefs & competency
Collectively almost 100% people around the Globe, till the age of 25, invest all their time and money in gaining the domain knowledge but very little on their Soft skills. And that’s the biggest mistake, because, when it comes to attainment of Success and happiness, the contribution of that hard-earned domain knowledge and technical skill has very little role to play. Your success mostly depends on those 31 life skills or soft skills that has never been put at your attention for a conscious development.
Look at the gap, its huge for most of us. That’s the real reason behind our everyday sufferings and failure in personal and professional lives. That’s the real reason behind our messed-up relationships with people around us. That the real reason behind all those non-favoring situations which are dragging us down every day. That’s the real reason which is blocking us from gaining great career growth despite of all those great competencies we have. All that stress, anxiety, dissatisfaction, demotivation, anger and rage is just the outcome of this “huge gap” between our current and required level of soft skills, more precisely, the Life Skills, the mandatory life skills for earning astounding health, wealth, success, inner peace and happiness. This gap is not only blocking our learning curve but also diminishing our basic emotional equilibrium as well.
When Emotional Equilibrium is swamped, our thoughts immediately go negatively charged and furiously unstable. Our intelligence gets hijacked by such devil thoughts so strongly that we get stuck within our own internal world. We produce nothing but just the more negativity and more complexities in our own daily life. We then, forget about progress, performance, responsibility, courage, learning, love and happiness rather we get engaged with shadows of our own past. This is how, unknowingly we trap ourselves in the situations which could have never been the part of our lives, but they are.
This is the critical time to understand, accept and realize that ninety percent of our life problems are created due to lack of right personal traits within us. The traits which are outcome of right soft skills required to be present within us. The soft skills which are not so easy to gain, not so easy to sustain.
The Soft skills which are definitely classified as timeless wisdom because once earned they never expire but keep creating wealth and wellness throughout the life we live.
An article by – Skills Ahead SME
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