SOFT SKILLS

EVERY STUDENT MUST HAVE THESE

SOFT SKILLS

PRACTICE ALL FOR YOUR BETTE LIFE

1.  KNOW YOURSELF

2.  SWOT ANALYSIS

3.  GOAL SETTING

4.  POSITIVE ATTITUDE

5.  BODY LANGUAGE

6.  TIME MANAGEMENT

7.  INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

8.  PRESENTATION SKILLS

9.  J A M

10.  TEAM DYNAMICS

11. GROUP DISCUSSION

12. RESUME WRITING – TEMPLATE

13. TELEPHONE/ E-MAIL / SMS ETIQUETTE

14. INTERVIEW SKILLS

15.  PREPARATION FOR EXAMINATIONS

Why Soft Skills?

An old Cherokee was teaching his grandson about life.

He said to the boy: -“A fight is going on inside me. It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego”.

“The other – he continued – is good, he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.”

“The same fight is going on inside you and inside every other person, too.” – said the old man.

The grandson then asked his grandfather: “And, which wolf will win grandpa?”

“The one you feed, my son!” – simply replied the old Cherokee. (Adapted from :soft-skill.blogspot.com/2008/02/definition-of-soft-skills.html)

Well, I think that this is just what soft skill is about. It is about feeding and training the ‘good wolf’, showing kindness and being gentle towards the others, being patient and listening to them, giving pleasure to them while they communicate with you, smiling with everyone around you and radiating respect, understanding and pleasure.

In today’s world, we need soft skills more than our technical skills and academic qualifications , to make our lives peaceful, successful and productive , both in the private and public spheres.

Why Soft Skills?

“You can’t manage your life until you manage your emotions.” Lynn Clark (2002).

We strongly desire to live happily and successfully. So we go for higher education and seek employment in good companies.

We cannot get trained in all the skills in our academic education, so finishing schools have come up in America, Europe and India to bridge the gap between education and industry.

We need two kinds of skills to lead a happy and successful life: hard skills and soft skills. Soft skills are more difficult to acquire than hard skills. Most of the students are very good at hard skills but they are not very good at soft skills.

We acquire hard skills (technical) through our education. Soft skills determine how happy and successful we are in our life. So soft skills are also called life skills though they are a little different.

Soft skills are classified and divided in various ways. We can divide them into three major categories:

1.     Communication skills: verbal and non-verbal.

2.     Emotional skills: personal and inter-personal

3.     Thinking skills: critical and creative.

Soft skills are necessary for all kinds of people in all kinds of professions.

We are going to learn about them and start practicing them from this class itself!