TOP 10 ESSENTIAL SOFT SKILLS FOR FASTER CAREER GROWTH -THE SUCCESS

    

    " Everything Is Easy When You Are Busy But Nothing Is Easy When You Are Lazy." 

    

SOFT SKILLS MATTERS IN PROFESSIONAL LIFE

You may be a unique leader and highly qualified person but do you know in your success what plays most important role that is your soft skills. If you are a great team leader thank to your soft skills which have helped you to achieve that height in your career. Knowingly or unknowingly you might have honed them with great efforts. Soft skills help you to secure your position and success in your career . Soft skills help a person to maintain good relations with the team members first and second the company he belongs to. Your soft skills are the skills that influence others in a very rewarding manners. These skills are cluster of those skills which are productive in a social environment. These soft skills can not be counted on our finger tips but few soft skills have been mentioned below. Lets consider the following top 10 soft skills to help your success in your profession and career:

1.LISTENING

When you Listen to others and try to understand what they mean to say this act of listening involves complex affective ,cognitive and behavioral process. Listening means you are motivating others ,attending them and understanding them thus receiving content. You on the basis of your listening will be able to respond them verbally or nonverbally as a feedback. It is must to mention here that there is a difference between hearing and listening. We hear subconsciously  but we listen consciously in order to understand that matters and makes sense. Listening helps you to become a better communicator. It builds trust ,reduces misunderstandings, helps to eliminate conflict and also improves  business relationships. Thus listening is one of the most effective soft skills among all others.   

2.SPEAKING

 

Speaking allows us to communicate effectively . We convey information verbally to the listeners. SPEAK, SPEAK, SPEAK ……. There is no magic to improve speaking. As it has been said also speak  your thoughts. Good leaders are not silent and introvert .To improve speaking skill listen more and read more. Pick up the phones, record your voice, learn good words and phrases and have fun of organizing events. Contemplate different methods of presentation ,rehearse well in front of mirror, warm up, manage your anxiety. Listen more that is the foundation of speaking. Then you will see the magic of speaking.  

3.READING

Reading is the process of looking at a series of written symbols and getting meaning from them. Reading makes our brain to convert them into alphabets, words ,phrases, sentences and paragraphs and thus teach us how to comprehend and communicate. Reading with purpose and knowledge polishes our personality and our thinking. Reading makes us perfect. Reading makes our fluency, enhances our vocabulary, reasoning and sharpens our memory. Its our reading only that helps us as a leader to take relevant text , note down important points, to understand the writers. Reading helps us in better comprehension of the critical points of a writing. 

4.WRITING

Writing is a soft skill that is a medium of human communication. It separates us from other human by time and space. Writing skills can be developed by lot of listening , reading ,speaking and no doubt by writing a lot. Writing helps a good leader to narrate , describe and to take important notes from time to time. A leader’s success depends on his writing skills. Writing skill makes a leader confident in drafting various letters and making reports. A good writing makes a leader confident and reliable and he does not depend on his subordinates for his work. Good writing skill helps him to grow with his career as he expresses his ideas and thoughts in a reliable and concrete form to all.  

5.GROOMING     

    

Grooming is also a skill that makes a leader successful. Grooming is an art of keeping oneself presentable and pleasant. Grooming is an art because a groomed person maintains himself or herself for pleasing and attractive appearance. Grooming is to keep oneself clean. Well Groomed leaders are loved, liked and admired by all.

6.CONFIDENCE

  

Confidence is also a soft skill of a good leader.  Its a feeling of being sure of yourself and your abilities. A confident leader can handle criticism also very comfortably. To be a successful leader you need to develop the skill of being confident of yourself , your success as well as your failures. Confidence comes with knowledge as has been said knowledge is power . Confidence is a strength to handle whatever comes up your way. Confident leader can handle all types of situation with cool and calm temperament and will be able to lead his team .

7.COMMUNICATION 

   

Communication is also a skill that is mandatory for any leader. Communication is a skill that includes imparting and exchanging information by speaking or writing .A good leader has to impart ,exchange and implement his opinion and ideas into action. Good leaders communicate by listening carefully, speaking and writing clearly by respecting different opinions .Communication is the fundamental to the existence and survival of humans as well as any organization. 

8.TIME MANAGEMENT

   

Time Management is next skill to success of a leader . Planning and executing with control of time increases effectiveness, efficiency and productivity of an individual as well as any organization. Always stay focused on what matters most to you in limited time. Believe in do right now, don’t delay and never drop policy. Always prioritize work most important first, less important later and least important last .Time Management impacts our goals. A leader who manages time smarter works less harder.    

9.INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS

   

 To be a great leader you need to develop a soft skill of effective leadership that is Interpersonal Relationship. An interpersonal relation is an association between two or more team members. This association is based on inference, love and regular business interactions. As a leader success can be achieved only when you have close association with your team to achieve common goals and interests. Interpersonal relationship is a soft skill that is essential for a leader. Human bonds are the sweetest songs sung by the leaders and their team members. 

10.DECISION MAKING

     

The success of a leader depends on his skill of decision making as his company depends on his decisions. Decision making is a process of making right choices, gathering correct information and assessing alternative resolutions. Step by step decision making process helps a leader to organize his company in a better way.

Thus we see that how soft skills are becoming hard skills of today’s work force. All the above mentioned soft skills are not only required by a leader for his personal success but for the success of the organization as well as success of his team too