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Soft Skills Definition

  • When people begins his or her career life in one company, often they will have at least one soft skill training each year as personal career development.

    So what is soft skills all about? Soft skills somehow related to a person in terms of sociological or emotional quotient.

    Communication, negotiation, interpersonal, presentation, leadership skills was part of the soft skills that each employer would want their employees to develop.

    Often an organization believes that a person’s soft skill plays an important role in his/her individual contribution towards the organization.

    A person’s soft skill plays an important role of his or her individual contribution to the success of an organization.

    Imagine if you hired a new sales guys who can deal customers  face-to-face with his good negotiation skill and reach out a business agreement in the end. Isn’t it wonderful to have such individual contributor in your organization?

    Today soft skills was one of the criteria that employer screen on your resume or CV as additional qualifications.

    If the employer compares two candidate for a people manager position and one shows leadership skills while another one shows none, who will slot into the people manager position in the end?

    Soft Skills Examples

    What is the soft skills in examples that an organization will send their people manager or individual contributor for training?

    • Communication skills
    • Presentation skills
    • Negotiation skills
    • Human relation skills
    • Conflict management skills
    • Leadership skills
    • Listening skills
    • Influencing skills