Soft Skill
Soft skill is a broad set of skill, behaviors, attitudes, and personal qualifies that enable people to effectively navigate with others, perform well, work well with other, and achieve their goals. Unlike hard skill that is tend to be specific to a certain type of task, soft skills are broadly applicable. Soft skill helps people communicate and collaborate effectively. Hard skill may get you an interview yet soft skill will get you and keep you a job. This is one of the most difficult things to teach and the most reason of not hiring, not promoting, and poor performance evaluating.
Interpersonal Abilities:
- Empathy
- Leadership
- Communication
- Good Manners
- Ability to teach
- Works well with diversity
- Self-confidence
Intrapersonal Abilities:
- Self-esteem
- Open mindedness
- Being aware of your own thinking
- The ability to learn, being able to understand and manage your own emotions
- Self-confidence,
- Self-discipline
- Self-motivation
- Being able to overcome boredom
- Being patient
IQ vs EI
Intelligence quotient, or IQ, is a number derived from a standardized intelligence test. On the original IQ tests, scores were calculated by dividing the individual’s mental age by their chronological age and then multiplying that number by 100.
So, a child with a mental age of 15 and a chronological age of 10 would have an IQ of 150. Today, scores on most IQ tests are calculated by comparing the test taker’s score to the average scores of other people in the same age group. IQ represents abilities such as:
- Visual and spatial processing
- Knowledge of the world
- Fluid reasoning
- Working memory and short-term memory
- Quantitative reasoning
Emotional intelligence refers to a person’s ability to perceive, control, evaluate, and express emotions. Researchers such as John Mayer and Peter Salovey, as well as writers like Daniel Goleman, have helped shine a light on emotional intelligence, making it a hot topic in areas ranging from business management to education.2 EQ is centered on abilities such as:
- Identifying emotions
- Evaluating how others feel
- Controlling one’s own emotions
- Perceiving how others feel
- Using emotions to facilitate social communication
- Relating to others
Since the 1990s, emotional intelligence has gone from a semi-obscure concept found in academic journals to a popularly recognized term. Now you can buy toys that claim to help boost emotional intelligence or enroll kids in social and emotional learning (SEL) programs designed to teach emotional intelligence skills. In some schools in the United States, social and emotional learning is even a curriculum requirement.
