Soft Skills

Earlier, we have emphasized the importance of acquiring and mastering both types of skills- the hard skills and the soft skills. Hard skills are important and you should never undermine them. They are your bread and butter skills. For example, a tourist guide has to know the technical aspects of his job like showing his tourists the right places in a proper sequence with authentic commentary on them, the legalities of his job, the safety aspect of his tourists etc, yet, he will be more in demand and earn more if he also has the necessary soft skills for the job like manners and etiquette, interpersonal relations with tourists, humor, creativity etc.

Hard skills are more rational types and soft skills improve your emotional intelligence. Soft skills make you more cultured, empathic, understanding, caring and also, more sophisticated and reformed.

You must try to find out what soft skills you should choose to acquire and develop for success in your personal, professional, family and social life.

We are giving below a fairly comprehensive list of soft skills for your guidance. To know the details on each one of the competencies given below, you can refer to the respective weblinks (URLs) given below later in the paragraph titled "Other Topics of Interest".
Observation.
Know yourself (introspection).
Openness and flexibility (paradigm shifting).
Internal motivation and passion.
Action orientation, drive and self initiation.
Self development.
Self confidence.
Assertiveness.
Integrity.
Trustworthiness.
Composure and self presentation (appearance, manners and etiquette).
Intellectual horsepower and learning.
Creativity and innovation.
Conviction.
Moral courage.
Dependability and reliability.
Dealing with ambiguity.
Time management.
Goal setting and result orientation.
Decision making.
Problem solving and process orientation.
Organizing.
Coordinating.
Delegation.
Communication (speaking, listening, empathy, body language, writing).