Ahmed Shaami
In order to keep a job, you typically require a repertoire of technical skills. But beyond the technical skills, a person is more valued whose attitude is positive and upbeat, who is always willing to help, and is flexible. This is the reason that your work ethic, attitude, communication skills, and emotional intelligence are crucial for your career. These soft skills help you to excel as a leader. When you know how to get along with people, problem-solving, delegating, motivating, and team building becomes a lot easier.
There are few soft skills that are increasingly becoming the hard skills of today’s workforce. You are not considered highly trained unless you develop the softer, interpersonal, and relationship building skills to communicate and collaborate effectively. Following are the skills that you need to focus on improving for boosting your productivity, making more friends, and innovating in no time.
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Effective listening:
One of the most important skills that you can have is listening. Your job is greatly affected on how well you listen and the quality relationships you make with other people. You need to listen in order to learn more. When people are speaking to you, you need to be fully attentive to listen to them. making a complete eyes contact and responding once you have heard everything, makes a good impact on the relationship you make with the person who is speaking. You develop more empathy and understanding in any situation and become capable to better solve all the problems.
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Nonverbal cues:
It is no doubt that to become a good communicator you need to have a strong hold on the words you speak and the style you use to convey your message. But another thing that is also important is your nonverbal communication. Your facial expression, posture, gestures, and your eye contact play an important role in the effectiveness of your message. Therefore, be respectful in your face-to-face interactions with people and should adopt a body language that does not come in conflict with your words.
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Adapting to change:
One of the most important aspects of improving upon your soft skills is that they make you adapt to changes. It is because when something suddenly changes at work, it can be tricky to navigate. In this situation if you don’t have the skills to adjust to a situation, it may take a long time. Make a list of friends whom you consider can give you an advice when going through a change and understand the situation completely; it will help you adjust to new changes.
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Being grateful:
You become happier in life when you start to be grateful for the things you have. When you make it a habit of saying “thanks” to people who even bring small favors to you, you project more than just professionalism. Being grateful to others communicate kindness and team spirit. It makes people feel valued and they start to respect you for your humility.
