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Soft skills are very relevant in the attainment of growth in
an individual’s area of specialization. At a time when there are lots of people
in your industry with the same skill set, it is your soft skills, things like
your work ethics, communication skills that set you apart.
While your technical skills may get your foot in the door,
your people skills and other soft skills you may possess, keeps you in there.
Your work ethic, your attitude, your communication skills, your emotional
intelligence and other personal attributes are the soft skills that are crucial
for career success and advancement.
With these soft skills you can be appointed to lead a team
and would excel. Problem solving, delegating, motivating, and team building
become much easier if you have good soft skills.
Without soft skills, you could end up having high staff
turn-over as a manager and you could also end up with unhappy clients closing
the room for the opportunity for more business from these clients.
In the IT industry, there are many competitive firms all of
whom can get a lot of work done according to specifications required by the
client. This makes the selection and evaluation process a bit difficult for the
client. What makes a difference in the selection process for the client is the
presence of soft skills. An organization that presents itself in a very
likeable manner speaks well and has good work ethics, better than her opponent
grabs and keeps the attention of prospective clients and eventually, when they
get hired, have the potential to generate more business opportunities from this
same client.
Soft skills are increasingly
becoming the hard skills of today's work force. It is not just enough to be highly
trained in technical skills without developing the softer, interpersonal and
relationship-building skills that help people to communicate and collaborate
effectively.
These people
skills are more critical than ever as organizations struggle to find meaningful
ways to remain competitive and be productive. Teamwork, leadership, and
communication are fortified by soft skills development. Since each is an
essential element for organizational and personal success, developing these
skills is very important and does matter… a lot!
Contributed by
Chibuzor Okeleke, Project Admin.
Office of the Managing Partner(OMP)
Quanteq Technology Services Limited.
