Soft Skills You Must Have in 2022

There is always someone at every company who seems like everyone wants to work with. It might be because they are nice, or it might be because they have a finely-honed set of soft skill. What exactly are soft skills, and why are they so important to grow your career.

What are soft skills?

Soft skills are the combination of people skills, social skills, emotional intelligence, communication skills and personality traits that makes it easy to get along and work harmoniously with other people.

The basic core soft skills includes: Emotional intelligence, team player attitude, growth mindset, adaptation, work ethics, openness to feedback and active listening.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is often referred to as the ability to recognise and manage your emotions and the emotions of others. It is made up of five key elements.

• Self awareness
• Self motivation
• Self regulation
• Empathy and
• Social skills

Team player attitude

The ability to play well with others is a soft skill you have been working on – unknowingly- since your first day of pre-school or day care. You might not have known it when you were figuring out the rules of a made up game, but you were actually preparing for a lifetime of workplace collaboration.

Growth mindset

In any job, no matter what the role, you will encounter road blocks, disappointments and other situations that might frustrate you. Someone with a growth mindset might look at failure to meet a quarterly goal as an opportunity to identify their strength and weaknesses to tackle the quarter goal

Adaptation

No matter your role or industry, the ability to adapt to change and a positive attitude about change will go a long way towards growing a successful career.

Whether its a seat shuffle or a huge company pivot, nobody likes a complainer. Its important not only to accept change as a fact of life in this constantly evolving business world, but as an opportunity to try out new strategies for striving in an environment of change

Work

You can’t succeed in a role without being willing to put in the effort, and elbow grease to hit your goals and company leaders and hiring managers are looking for people who will put in the extra leg work to succeed without being ask

Conclusion

All these skills are achievable. It’s not rocket science. As simple as they are, it just might be what makes you an asset to your company. These skills have been proven time and again to be the bedrock of productive working environment as well as longevity in your workplace.

Author: Hillary Chifunanya Odiakose