Soft Skills List – People Skills People Skills address how to best interact and work with others so you can build meaningful work relationships, influence others perception of you and your work, and motivate their actions. I have split them into two sections – Conventional and Tribal Conventional – List of people skills you can find in most job descriptions and you will be assessed on some or all of these in your performance reviews depending on your level. 1.Communication skills – Being able to actively listen to others and articulate your ideas in writing and verbally to any audience in a way where you are heard and you achieve the goals you intended with that communication. 2.Teamwork skills – Being able to work effectively with anyone with different skill sets, personalities, work styles, or motivation level to achieve a better team result. 3.Interpersonal relationship skills – Effectively at building trust, finding common ground, having empathy, and ultimately building good relationships with people at work and in your network. This skill is closely related to Communication Skills. As Maya Angelou said “I have learned people will forget what you said. People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you make them feel.” 4.Presentation skills – Effectively presenting your work results and ideas formally to an audience that captivates their attention, engage their input, and motivates them to act in accordance to your desired outcome. While presentation skills is a form of communication skills, I decided to list it separately given the ability to present plays a huge role in any business profession especially as you move up in your career. 5.Meeting management skills – Leading a meeting to efficiently and effectively reach productive results. At least 50% of meetings today are a waste of time. 6.Facilitating skills – Being able to coordinate and solicit well represented opinions and feedback from a group with diverse perspectives to reach a common, best solution. 7.Selling skills - Building buy-in to an idea, a decision, an action, a product, or a service. This is not just for people in sales. 8.Management skills – Creating and motivating a high performing team with people of varied skills, personalities, motivations, and work styles. 9.Leadership skills – Defining and communicating vision and ideas that inspires others to follow with commitment and dedication. 10.Mentoring / coaching skills - Providing constructive wisdom, guidance, and/or feedback that can help others further their career development
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