Soft Skills: What Are the Basics You Need for Success?
While hard skills are great, you definitely do not want to sleep on your soft skills development! Here’s what you need to thrive after COVID-19…
When we think of taking a course for our self-development, often hard (technical) skills sound good. To learn to design a website, to master data analysis, to be fluent in the Japanese language.
While I was casually browsing a World Economic Forum Report, it hit me (and, yes, browsing reports is one part, albeit a small one, of my responsibilities as a content writer). It hit me that soft skills are where the value lies.
Underrated, soft skills have the potential to make you grow on a deeper level. The term soft skills cover a wide range of skills as diverse as teamwork, stress management, critical thinking, empathy, and delegation. Soft skills do more than help you better manage your time; they help you hone your abilities to resolve conflicts, solve problems, and provide excellent customer service.
Ultimately, soft skills give you confidence.
The Report intro sums it well:
As a new global recession brought on by the COVID-19 health pandemic impacts economies and labor markets, millions of workers have experienced changes that have profoundly transformed their lives within and…
