Improve Soft Skills - Improve Career

From a very young age, we are trying to acquire educational qualifications, language skills and experience to achieve our dream job in the future. But there is some another important thing that we must enhance in 21st century; i.e. SOFT SKILLS. Here is some top most skills that you need to improve.

COMMUNICATION​​​​

This is the topmost skill that all recruiters expect to have in their colleagues. You have to express ideas, present projects, write professional emails, write project reports and more communication things you should be well versed in verbal communication as well as written communication. The best way to develop communication skills is by being a good listener. Try always listen to others and be confident to say what you think. Whenever you have to present for an audience; take the chance and try to engage the audience with you. Always try to improve your language skills and professional writing.

LEARNABILITY

In today's world, as everything changes very quickly, you should be able to learn and adapt to new things quickly. For this also you need to be an active listener but without commenting or taking notes. Try to listen to videos that teach new things and later try to memorize or complete the task to test your understanding.

CRITICAL THINKING

As every day gives a new divergent challenge; you should be able to analyze problems in different ways to solve. First of all, you can analyze the details that you have and question about the other details that you need for making decisions. You can try reverse thinking also. That is trying to think about the reverse cycle. 

TEAM WORKER

Every success/failure project, business or anything you lead is not an individual attempt. There is a team who work with you. You should be able to collaborate with them efficiently. For this, you should have to build trust and respect among your team members. You have to accept each other's differences without complaining. If you can share your knowledge and help your co-workers, your workplace will be a better place for you.

EMPATHY 

After all, we all are human being who has feeling. So even at the workplace, you are dealing with other's emotions as well as yours'. So you have to be careful and to use your emotional intelligence. Whenever you do not agree, you must express it in a polite way. Always try to visualize things in other's side also. Anytime that you could not control yourself try to take a break. 

TIME MANAGEMENT

This is also a high demand skill in the competitive world. Not only completing tasks on time but also you must concern about time on things as attending meetings, attending to office, meeting clients and on all office-things. The best thing to improve this skill is trying to make reminders while focusing on the tasks as focus increases productivity.

Sources:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nataliapeart/2019/09/10/the-12-most-important-skills-you-need-to-succeed-at-work/#387c4d1e1c6a
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/300466
https://www.wikihow.com/Develop-Good-Communication-Skills
https://blog.aiesec.org/learnability-must-characteristic-future/
https://andrewsobel.com/eight-ways-to-improve-your-empathy/