What Are Soft Skills? Top 8
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- What are Soft Skills? Here are the Top 8 Soft Skills for career success in the workplace, leaders, and managers. Training in soft skills is the key way to develop leadership skills and advance our careers. Free Download pdf Essential Communication Skills for Professionals: www.alexanderlyon.com/
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00:00 Intro
00:15 Hard vs Soft Skills
02:10 1. Leadership Skills
03:37 2. Communication Skills
05:16 3. Interpersonal Skills
06:23 4. Work Ethic & Motivation
07:06 5. Teamwork
08:17 6. Problem Solving
09:20 7. Flexibility & Adaptability
10:27 8. Conflict Management
12:10 Free Resources
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Your teachings are truly life changing. Mistakes in communication can seriously ruin your life. Literally yes.
Am I the only one who needs to learn more on all 8 of them..
Hi Alex! Thank you for sharing this information. I will certainly take the time to beef up on all 8. It never hurts to do refreshers, even when you think you're doing great. I subscribed to your channel and look forward to viewing more of your content, Thanks!
Oh my God! Such an excellent video on soft skills. This was one of my interview questions. I believe all Projects Manager, Director and Project Leaser must follow Soft Skills as you beautifully explained. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful video!
This is great information and delivered extremely well. I have found this works well in all work environments.
Thanks for sharing. The work place really needs to hear from you, learn and praticalize all
Thanks for your insight and expertise
Your helping so many be better...
Thank you Alex, I have just landed on this channel. I desire to improve my communication skills
Thank you Alex for this informative video
Realy great presentation. Thank you.
Wow!
It is best explanation and easy to understand.
Keep up!
I love this lesson! Mainly because we don’t think about the things we do and the things we’re unwilling to do that hinder our growth and success. These are great great tips to point out. 😊
Agreed. We often don't think about them and then there's the *_will to learn_* question.
Recently found your channel, and subscribed instantly! Thanks for all the top notch content and valuable free resources.
Welcome aboard!
Thanks, Sir. This is a really great presentation, I really appreciate it
Amazing video, really helpful, thanks a lot for very useful video.
Thanks for your sharing great lessons of soft skills.
Thanks Alex! I love all of your videos! It’s great you approach communication and leadership with a view to make people happier! We really need this! I was really lost before coming across your channel... it connected lots of dots to my professional and personal life - why certain things did not work they way I planned. You’re an inspiration for me!! Your work has an impact!!
I'm encouraged that you are getting so much out of the channel, Athanasios. Thank you for sharing your experience with me. I appreciate it.
Great lessons. I am able to think of number of examples from my work to answer behavioral questions in interviews as I am watching this video. Thanks !
I love this lesson! Well said
Thank you very much. God bless you
Hi Alex, thank you for sharing your knowlegement! God bless you too. 🙏
My pleasure, Angelina.
Hello sir, your introduction was very intresting.Thankyou so much.
Thanks for your great video. Personally, I am very interested in learning how to work efficiently and keeping motivation when working conditions seem ambiguous.
I'm very glad I found your channel.
Thanks for the teachings , soft skills are greatly needed to success in every area of our life
You are very welcome, Alejandro. Thank you for the encouragement.
Thanks for these. (I teach them.) The great thing about soft skills is that you can take them with you; they are always in demand, especially by hiring managers and especially now. WSJ, Forbes, and others emphasize them above hard skills.
I'm from Ecuador, thank you so much for the video!
love this session ❣
Great Lesson, Thank you sir!!
From Bangladesh 🇧🇩
Thank you Alexander 😊
i love the pace of your speech, i lappreciate you referenced the sources you looked, i liked your description of each soft skill. i think you are a great communicator and i will take example of you hehehe
Thank you, dear!
Thanks for this video!
sir your all videos are awesome all teach a lot
I did this assignment in 6th period in engineering in 7th grade on January 23rd,2024 and I got a 90% 🎉I was so proud of myself for getting a A+ 🎉 I got 9 out of 10
Awesome. I learnt a lot here
This was so helpful
I really appreciate you many thanks
Excellent articulation
Really great information.
Loved your video so useful for my leadership course. God bless you too ❤
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you Alex. I always get value from your videos.
Glad you like them. I appreciate it.
@@alexanderlyon Thank you. I look forward to being mentored by you in the area of leadership and communication.
This will help me in my forth coming project.
Thank you soooo much!
Great lesson.
Thank you.
Hey! I really enjoy your videos. I work in the service industry as a waitress while I’m in college.
Would you make a video about communication with your managers, and about serving? Thank you
So instructive !
@00:04:29 was a shock for me :
I cannot figure out (yet) a clean body language to express disagreement
A really good video and focused on soft skills in the workplace and not so much Society in general. I liked the short video clips so it wasn't just a "Talking Head" lecture. If you want to see a young person being coached is soft skills from first contact thru to soft skills excellence then the IPL has created a free TH-cam channel and uploaded the 86 Step Interview Ninja Golden Path process from beginning to end.
Conflict Management is very important to deal with....
Great video! My main problem is working with others who have these underdeveloped soft skills. It can be a real pain to work with someone who isn't good at communicating or good at working in a team.
Good point!
I also find that difficult. In that case it falls under skill number 9: Give good feedback.
What I understand, is that good feedback typically contains:
some motivation for the other to change,
a clear formulation what needs to change and how to change,
and the preservation/improvement of the relationship.
I currently have 2 bosses, one older than the other. The older one is close to retiring and therefore slowly withdrawing from work. Unfortunately the other boss is not as good at communicating/cooperating as the older boss, which is also demotivating.
This has become clearer to me over the past few weeks, but was already happening for several months. I now often return feedback to the younger boss, and it is clear that he is really desperate for it. (example: this week he interrupted my train of thought, and that caused the meeting to take much more time as I Iost what I was saying and found it difficult to recover from that, and everyone who I talked to who was at that meeting told me that this was not a good start to the meeting)
When other people from the team talk in private with me about this. I tell them I agree that things are not going well. But I also try to create an understanding so that everyone is better equipped to solve the issue, rather than just saying that things are bad.
I never knew i had this soft skills. Thank you for sharing. I have an interview soon. Hope I'll be able to pass😊
Did you got that job .?
These Recommendations hit closer to home than I would like to admit. But right on target. That being said the wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. If we are never confronted with the areas we need to develop and grow in, transformation is not possible.
Thank you sir
This was very, very good. I have a 2nd interview coming up and this is a tool that will be very helpful for others, like myself, to use. Thank you for sharing. :)
Good Luck Janeice!
Thank you for this video, it is important for me,how aobut to be Came a leadershep smart in my organizqtion,thanks al lot of.
I need to work on these soft skills the most interpersonal skills with listening and receiving criticism. flexibility to work with uncertainty. Conflict management to avoid win lose philosophy and reduce conflict and deal with it appropriately there I said it as this affects my time management
Love it, thanks
I need leadership skills and communication skills most.
I have to talk to a senator tomorrow and im not used to dealing with important people or talking. Thanks for the tips. I really need his vote and i need to learn.
Hope it goes well, Anthony!
@@alexanderlyon Thank you!
It went awesome! I cut down in talking to much. I let her speak without interruption and I made her feel like what she said matters to me. It was great. They are supporting the bill I need passed. Thanks. I have lots of work ahead learning this but i know i can do it here.
I need to leadership skills and management skills to work productively.
Great video, Alex. Once again! Hey, let me pick your brain a sec? Your thoughts on individuals with narcissistic and/or passive-aggressive personalities, trying to tackle numbers: 3, 5, 6, & 8? ....... God Bless!
Thanks you teacher
I mostly should work on verbal and non verbal communication
This actually helped me. I thought someone voodoo me 🤦🏽♀️ i just lack skills but some of them I have 🙂
There are challenges I’m currently working in my new career as a life insurance agent.
Communication:
Be clear and concise with my speech
Team work:
Contributing to the conversation outside of my expertise.
Problem solving:
Making good informed decisions
Good takeaways. Thanks for sharing.
I need to improve flexible and adapable skill!
Excellent video. One thing I'd like to acknowledge is that these Soft skills overlap. For instance, one could use communication skills to build good interpersonal relationships and vice versa. Points mentioned about flexibility is very true. Id say that To be successful, Soft skills is a vital for everyone regardless of one's occupation.
Yes, they overlap for sure.
Recently found your channel. My most recent supervisor had none of these skills and I always wonder how she was able to get her position. I ended up resigning due to the work environment being toxic. She created conflicts. But it is good to have these skills...it's a must
Sorry to hear this story. People get promoted for many reasons that do not necessarily indicate their leadership abilities like how many years they've been on the job, their technical competence, their history with influential people in the organization, their ability to "manage up" well but not people below them, etc. In my experience, supervisors like that often hang on and survive longer than they should but eventually get stalled out and lose influence and credibility. If you have a safe channel for sharing feedback about how poorly they do their jobs, then that might be a good idea to communicate that. I wouldn't "come after them" but if the organization asks for feedback, I'd certainly let them know. They may not get fired but somebody might talk to them and supervisors like that are frequently moved to lateral positions but do not directly supervise people anymore.
For instance, I once worked under 2 to 3 very difficult supervisors. For a while, I thought I was the only person who had trouble working with these three. I soon heard that there were numerous complaints about them from all over the organization. Within the span of about 2 to 3 years, 2 of them had been completely removed from any leadership roles and the last person was moved into a job with a title of a leader but didn't have anybody reporting directly to them.
@@alexanderlyon It's ok and Thank you.. It was time for me to move to something else. I was able to be accepted into a tech bootcamp, and the time affords me to study for certification.
And you brought up some interesting points. My former supervisor does have other employees that have complained about her, we also have an exit interview that we complete, when we leave the company in which I made sure I completed one. There are several other employees that a resigning as well and will be completing the exit interview.
Definitely need the most work on teamwork lol. I usually try to get everything done myself and assume that it nothing will work if I’m not involved. Trying to fix that 😅
Thank you
Hi Alex! Awesome video! Are there certain techniques to learn to communicate correctly?
Hi, Rudy. My channel has hundreds of videos on communication skills. Welcome aboard!
Fantastic✨✨
hey so do you do any social comunication tranning for aspies
Constructive criticism! I haven't been able to embrace it & I am in my 50's!!!
Very useful.. Thank you
Glad it was helpful, Nada.
sir you have almost covered all type of soft skills that are used in personality development but this is my humble request to you that do a sort of act with more persons so that we visualize everything
Excellent
Thanks
Very nice ❤
Thank you!
Happy to help, Husam.
Aaa, Finally you made it. Big thanks ❤
You are welcome, Ayza. :-)
Thank you Alex. 😇
You're very welcome, Yasantha.
I love your explanation
Glad you liked it!
I know these as ‘transferable’ skills, or skills you exercise that transfer to any position at any job anywhere. I have observed that these are largely tied to one’s personality (or gift mix). They can be recognized for discussion, even quantified (as here in this video; but for the most part they are cultivated (sometimes acquired) by experience. In other words, a company cannot necessarily train someone in these particular skills. That said, I see that it is important (1) to recognize these as skills, and (2) highlight them to potential or current employers.
I hear where you're coming from. The research on the trainability of these skills is actually really encouraging. Essentially, with instruction and effort, virtually anybody can improve these skills. We are not equally gifted as a starting place but anybody who puts in the time and effort and has a decent teacher gets better over time. In other words, these skills can be trained just like any other skill. I've worked with thousands of students and professional clients and I've watched them improve right before my eyes in just moments.
Right. Personality disorders& people with other psychiatric illnesses are totally overlooked here.
a great leader is not always a great manager and vice versa.
an inspiring leader can sometimes miss important operational details when forging onwards and exploring ideas. a leader needs a manager, so they can lead.
an effective manager identifies staff with particular skills (ex leadership or commeraderie, communication) and uses those skills to benefit the team. no one person embodies all of the soft skills, but an attentive manager can create a team that does.
Hi Andrea, Informative and detailed. After reading your comment, I would like to know which category you belong to.
Perfect vid
Thank you!
Sir, beautiful explain.
But sir now make a video on how to improve be best in these skills.
The video lists the following eight soft skills as the most important:
1- Leadership: The ability to successfully guide a group of people.
2- Communication: This includes both verbal and nonverbal communication.
3- Interpersonal skills: These are people skills such as listening well to others, showing empathy, and being assertive.
4- Work ethic: This includes self-motivation, dependability, and a strong work ethic.
5- Teamwork: The ability to collaborate effectively with others.
6- Problem-solving: This includes critical thinking, logical reasoning, and the ability to make good decisions.
7- Flexibility and adaptability: The ability to be open to change and find new ways of doing things.
8- Conflict management: The ability to deal with conflict productively.
Gotta work on team work
Interpersonal skills & communications
Good video
Wow😱👍Thank u very much🔥
P.S hello from Russia 😊
Thanks for the support!
Soft skill is basically make people do what you want.
Excellent job sir, I'm from Pakistan ☺
Thank you, Atia.
Very hard to follow but not impossible, after experience and studies
I'm 18, and it's my first day of work ever, I got 6 hours until it starts any tips? I'm going to a caregiver if that helps. This helped a lot btw thank you
Work hard. Be respectful. Learn all you can and pay attention. In the coming days and weeks, be brave and ask for feedback on how you can improve. Good luck!
@@alexanderlyon thanks so much I feel much more confident and more capable thank you
Flexibility and adaptability
Bienvenue aux étudiants
Amazing 🥱