Two Basic Types of Skills
1. Hard skills
2. Soft skills
Hard Skills
Hard skills are technical skills. Like writing programs for computers, preparing a balance sheet, working on a particular machine for a particular process in a manufacturing workshop, acting in a television serial or a cinema film, carrying out a surgery etc.
One must have proficiency in these skills in order to become a good professional in one's chosen fields and to earn decent living.
Hard skills are important and you should never undermine them. They are your bread and butter skills.
Hard skills are more rational types.
Soft Skills
One can do a still better job of one's chosen professions if one also acquires proficiency in those soft skills which are required to perform the jobs better. These soft skills are behavioural in nature. For example, how do you communicate with the people, how good are you in making business presentations, how empathetic you are with the people you come across, can you work as a team member, do you manage your time well and so on.
These skills make all the difference. Mere technical skills allow you certain degree of success. You can achieve higher degree of success if you equip yourself with soft skills too.
Technical skills are obvious and people learning them find it easy to understand and follow the processes of acquiring these skills.
However, one wonders as to what is there to learn in soft skills; you are already doing them. Say, communication. You have been speaking and listening from the very young age and so, one may think as to what is there to learn more and how to learn. But if you look around, you may find that some people are more effective in speaking than others. Here is the answer. The people who speak more effectively have learnt and practiced to speak effectively. They have followed and implemented certain processes and guidelines for speaking more effectively. It did hot happen to them accidentally or automatically.
Soft skills make a difference in the external and internal personalities. People who acquire soft skills of high order are more sophisticated, more cultured, more reformed and are found to be more successful in every walk of life.
Therefore, in addition to perfecting your hard skills, also try to perfect your soft skills.
Soft skills improve your emotional intelligence
Both Skills Necessary
For example, a tourist guide has to know the technical aspects of his job like showing his tourists the right places in a proper sequence with authentic commentary on them, the legalities of his job, the safety aspect of his tourists etc, yet, he will be more in demand and earn more if he also has the necessary soft skills for the job like manners and etiquette, interpersonal relations with tourists, humour, creativity etc.
1. Hard skills
2. Soft skills
Hard Skills
Hard skills are technical skills. Like writing programs for computers, preparing a balance sheet, working on a particular machine for a particular process in a manufacturing workshop, acting in a television serial or a cinema film, carrying out a surgery etc.
One must have proficiency in these skills in order to become a good professional in one's chosen fields and to earn decent living.
Hard skills are important and you should never undermine them. They are your bread and butter skills.
Hard skills are more rational types.
Soft Skills
One can do a still better job of one's chosen professions if one also acquires proficiency in those soft skills which are required to perform the jobs better. These soft skills are behavioural in nature. For example, how do you communicate with the people, how good are you in making business presentations, how empathetic you are with the people you come across, can you work as a team member, do you manage your time well and so on.
These skills make all the difference. Mere technical skills allow you certain degree of success. You can achieve higher degree of success if you equip yourself with soft skills too.
Technical skills are obvious and people learning them find it easy to understand and follow the processes of acquiring these skills.
However, one wonders as to what is there to learn in soft skills; you are already doing them. Say, communication. You have been speaking and listening from the very young age and so, one may think as to what is there to learn more and how to learn. But if you look around, you may find that some people are more effective in speaking than others. Here is the answer. The people who speak more effectively have learnt and practiced to speak effectively. They have followed and implemented certain processes and guidelines for speaking more effectively. It did hot happen to them accidentally or automatically.
Soft skills make a difference in the external and internal personalities. People who acquire soft skills of high order are more sophisticated, more cultured, more reformed and are found to be more successful in every walk of life.
Therefore, in addition to perfecting your hard skills, also try to perfect your soft skills.
Soft skills improve your emotional intelligence
Both Skills Necessary
For example, a tourist guide has to know the technical aspects of his job like showing his tourists the right places in a proper sequence with authentic commentary on them, the legalities of his job, the safety aspect of his tourists etc, yet, he will be more in demand and earn more if he also has the necessary soft skills for the job like manners and etiquette, interpersonal relations with tourists, humour, creativity etc.
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