Soft Skills

 

Introduction to Soft Skills

 

Ø  Soft or social skills are also called non-technical skills.

Ø  Soft skills are those Personal values and interpersonal skills that determine a person's ability to work well in a team.

Ø  Soft skills are needed to deal with the external world and to work in a collaborative manner with one's colleagues.

Ø  Soft skills are experienced and used by all types of professionals.

Ø  'Soft skills' are directly related with ones personality traits, social manners, communication skills, personal habits, friendliness, and confidence etc. 

Ø  These skills include effective communication, leadership, and teamwork skills.

Ø  These skills have demonstrating problem solving abilities, initiative, and motivation skills; displaying honesty and strong work ethics.

Ø  Soft skills play a vital role for academic and professional success.

Ø  For successful two kinds of competence i.e. Subject-related knowledge (get with hard skills) to get good results while using that knowledge (with soft skills). 

Ø  For good Competence two things are necessary: knowing what to do (hard skills help) and knowing how to do a job (soft skills help) in the best possible manner.

Ø  Hard skills are directly related with the educational background, experience and expertise etc and technical skill directly related with soft skills is an ability to perform certain functional tasks.

Ø  Most of the soft skills are related with an individual's personality rather than formal training get with hard skills. 

Ø  Several soft skills can be gained through training and practices.

Ø  Soft skills help to work in collaborative manner with one's colleagues.

 

Difference between hard and soft skill

 

Ø  Hard Skills are domain-specific while as Soft Skills are Non-domain specific.

Ø  Hard Skills are Rule-based while as Soft Skills are Experience-based.

Ø  Hard Skills are specialized but Soft Skills are Attitudinal/Behavioral.

Ø  Hard Skills are Procedural/Methodical but Soft Skills are   Non-technical.

Ø  Hard Skills are Replicable but Soft Skills are Trans-situational.

Ø  Hard Skills are Predictable and Tangible but Soft Skills are People-related and intangible.

Ø  Subject-related knowledge is gained with hard skills while at to get good results for using that knowledge soft skills are necessary. 

Ø  Hard skills help for knowing what to do and soft skills help knowing how to do a job. 

Ø  Hard skills are directly related with the educational background, experience and expertise etc and technical skill directly related with soft skills is an ability to perform certain functional tasks.

 

 

Importance of soft skills

 

Ø  Soft skill is important in the contemporary globalised world.

Ø  Soft skill plays vital role the workplace which is becoming a wide-ranging, multicultural, and international and sex sensitive place.

Ø  One should not only know the types of soft skills but should practice them in real life.

Ø  Soft skill helps us in all fields of life such as at a workplace, being able to interact successfully with different types of people.

Ø  Soft skills do not only make our job easier but also helps us to build good relationships in a practical manner, take on leadership roles etc. 

Ø  Soft skills help us to have a positive attitude towards our work.

Ø  Soft skills help us to make our life more ease and prospective.

 

Acquiring soft skills

 

Ø  All human beings are not gifted with all soft skills naturally but one can acquire them. 

Ø  Man can acquire the soft skills by working at them consciously to make them a part of their natural behavior.

Ø  Many of the soft skills can be gained by training such as communication skills, interpersonal relationships and leadership qualities etc.

Ø  Soft skills are experimental and can be acquired through human dealings in practical life. 

Ø  Sometimes continue training and practices can help us to get soft skills to a large extend.

Ø  Soft skills can be slowly acquired by a person in practical life.

Ø  Determination is necessary for learning soft skills. 

 

Advantages of soft skills

 

Ø  Development of soft skills is advantages for the overall personality.

Ø  A person's soft skill is an important part of his contribution to the successful life.

Ø  Soft skills help at a workplace such as face-to-face customer care etc.

Ø  Employers give stress on soft skills in their approaching employees.

Ø  Soft skills are important to achieve optimally at home as well as at  workplace.

 

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