Networking opportunities arise pretty often in the professional sphere. While you may think your business card says more than enough about who you are and what you do, preparing to introduce yourself with your professional information is a great way to make a lasting impression. In this [...]
Controlling your emotions means you’re keeping emotions in check in the workplace. That includes not losing your temper! Learning how to control your emotions takes time, but once you learn it, you’ll experience a better workplace. In this video, listen to what the manager says. How did [...]
Active listening means you’re concentrating on what the other person is saying and asking follow-up questions if you don’t understand. Learning how to actively listen to someone may take time. However, practicing how to listen and respond is an important soft skill for the workplace. In this [...]
Flexibility is a willingness to change or compromise. In many cases, it means adjusting your own plans for your time to accommodate a need or opportunity to assist project coworker. It is not a skill that comes naturally to many people as it requires putting aside your [...]
Technology allows us to do things more easily and faster than ever before. For businesses, that means employees can do their jobs more easily, which saves time and money. On the other hand, with this new technology comes new guidelines, or rules, on how to use it properly in the [...]
Teamwork is a combined effort on the part of a group of people working together to achieve the same goal. Teamwork is built on three parts: vision, trust and communication. The first step to team building is to create a vision for the team. What is the team’s purpose and [...]
“I meant to get to it, but I ran out of time!” Sound familiar? We are all guilty of this. Time got away from us and we didn’t get to all the things we wanted to accomplish. Remember, Elon Musk? His goal setting was a soft skill we highlight; [...]
Perhaps no hard or soft skill gets as much blame when social situations break down as communication. It’s pretty common to hear disagreements end with “You’re just not communicating well,” or “It must have been a miscommunication.” Understanding communication For its apparent necessity, communication doesn’t always include a huge margin [...]
Primary Soft Skills: Resiliency, Drive Strength / Motivation “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.” - JK Rowling The creator of Harry Potter didn’t even have a [...]
Known For: minister, humanitarian, activist, and leader of the Civil Rights Movement Primary Soft Skills: Empathy, Resiliency, Communication Skills, Attitude, Drive Strength/Motivation The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. [...]