The following is a practical guide to learning the most essential soft skills that everyone should have. Many of the topics listed are incredibly complex, but have been condensed into a relatively quick and easy to understand read. The breadth of topics is meant to provide value to as many people as possible regardless of their current level of soft skill understanding.
Your ability to change another person’s opinion.
Your ability to find an acceptable middle ground between two parties in disagreement.
Your ability to communicate authentically and respectfully.
Allows you to maximize the authenticity of what you say while minimizing the negative impact of saying it.
Allows you to explain any concept to anyone at any level of understanding.
Your ability to communicate with as few words as possible.
Your ability to delay taking action until the optimal time.
Your ability to limit the emotional impact of people who upset you.
Your ability to be someone other people want to be around.
Allows you to shift your perspective of a situation to be whatever you want it to be.
Allows you to listen to opinions you don’t like and still consider their validity.
Your ability to ignore distractions and concentrate on a single task for long periods.
Your ability to set goals for yourself and pursue them.
Allows you to do what has to be done when you don’t want to do it.
Your ability to adjust your level of productivity to something you can maintain indefinitely.
Your ability to show up and deliver work on time.
Your ability to recover from failure.
Allows you to embrace change.
Your ability to increase your skill level.
Your ability to learn new skills.