Soft skills are skills that are associated with emotional intelligence or EQ as others name it. Skills like self-management, self-confidence, stress management and communication and networking skills are all part of EQ.
Unlike hard skills, soft skills aren’t taught well in school or kindergarten nowadays and in some businesses soft skills are way more important than hard skills. Leadership skills, management skills , self-promotion skills and ways of leveraging politics to improve one's career are also part of soft skills.
It is hard to teach soft skills to someone because a person is either born with such skills or develops them at later stages. You can be very intelligent but if you do not know how to manage …show more content…
If we manage to lay out a timetable as to when we play and when we do our homework and so on then we have better chances of being better leaders. Though soft skills can be learned, it is quite tough because we’re used to not being like that. Parents help us develop these skills at a young age. They teach us the importance of being timely and organizing our work for better output. At later stages the problem is that because we’re already used to being lazy, unorganized, we tend to stick to our old habits. There’s a saying old habits never die and to some extent this is true
• Why do SOFT SKILLS MATTER?
• Apart from the technical skills, a professional must possess it is important for one to acquire soft skills as well. Let me give you an example. Let’s say you’re a client trying to promote your business with company X. The managers or the boss makes you wait even beyond your scheduled appointment and when it’s time to finally present his pitch, he cannot convey it.
• Or let’s say you’re in the waiting area of a hospital or any other place and you ask the secretary a question. Would you rather converse with one who is polite, speaks well and answers your queries or would you like to converse with one who is impolite and doesn’t answer your