The Value of Soft Skills in Your Career

Training is probably the best investment an organization can make for its people. Regular training programs add to the skills set of its people thereby increasing their job satisfaction.

Getting results in business is both art and science. The art is the soft skills, nuance abilities and emotional intelligence. The science incorporates the rest. While the science part can be taught, art becomes the differentiators.

 

It’s often questioned if soft skills really matter if you are extraordinary at the technical aspects of your job? The answer is ‘Absolutely YES’.

Soft skills as a term is most often associated with a person’s EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient). It includes personality traits, social graces, communication skills, integrity, friendliness and optimism that characterize relationships with other people. Soft skills complement hard skills which are the occupational requirements of a job and many other activities.

A person's soft skill EQ is an important part of their individual contribution to the success of an organization. Particularly those organizations dealing with customers face-to-face are generally more successful, if they train their staff to use these skills. Screening or training for personal habits or traits such as dependability and conscientiousness can yield significant return on investment for an organization.

 

Soft skills are taught using a healthy combination of relevant examples, scenarios, games and assessments.

Both sets of skills (hard and soft) are a complement; you are not going to be successful in your job interview or at work with one set without the other. However, in this globalized and continual changing world, "soft skills" are gaining more importance; it's not enough to be highly trained only in hard skills, without developing the softer, relationship-building skills that are crucial for career success, good communication and collaborate effectively in order for a company to remain competitive and productive.

The best complement between hard and soft skills can be put forth as ‘It’s the hard skills that get you through the interview but you need soft skills to keep your job”.

To help organizations increase their productivity, The Yellow Spot offers the following Soft Skills Training workshops –

• Leadership
• Basic and Advanced Communication Skills
• Team Building
• Time and Stress Management
• Goal Setting
• Sales Training
• Presentation Skills
• Emotional Intelligence
• Problem-solving and decision-taking
• Conflict Management
• Interviewing Skills
• Creativity and Lateral Thinking