And those are what you call technical skills. Those are the hard skills.
But more importantly now, especially in today's marketplace,
are the soft skills.
What are some skills that you need to succeed in your career? Hi,
this is Grace Lee and I am a
career mentor and educator.
I help career focused individuals to command top dollars for their
skills in the marketplace while they're doing work that is meaningful to them
and also working at their fullest potential.
So today what I want to talk to you about is the skills that you need to
succeed in your career. Now, most people, when they think about skills,
they think about something like,
I have programming skills or I have a certain skill that I know how to use
specialized software to just a certain task.
And those are what you call technical skills. Those are the hard skills.
But more importantly now, especially in today's marketplace,
are soft skills, right?
So these are soft skills that you are going to be needing to have and to develop
if you don't have them already to succeed in your career.
And today I'm going to be talking to you about four key soft skills that are
important to succeed.
The first soft skill that is going to be important to your career success is
active listening. It's active listening.
You might be thinking that it is more important to learn presentation skills,
but that's actually not true.
It is will serve you better if you focus on active listening.
And here's why it's because when you are actively listening,
when you have honed that skill and you're good at it,
it shows that you have communication because active listening allows
you to have open-mindedness. Active listening allows you to support one another.
It allows you to be the team player and it allows you to be the biggest
contribution to your organization's overall mission. So the reason why,
because active listening is important.
It's important because you are going to be a part in a part of a job marketplace
that is quickly evolving towards having matrixed to teams, right?
Cross departmental communication,
cross functional teams and cross departmentational missions
that you want to work with other people and people of different backgrounds.
And also people of different job levels.
So you as a new entrant to an organization,
you're not just going to be communicating with people at your job level.
You might also have to talk with supervisors, managers,
executives or VP levels that are higher in the
organization, organizational structure.
So practicing active listening will help you to be
that supportive team member and to be able to communicate the value that you
bring in the organization. The second soft skill, and this is my favorite one,
it is learning agility, learning agility. So what does that mean?
Learning agility means how agile,
how hungry are you to feed your curiosity.
It means that you are constantly learning.
You are striving for higher performance in yourself, of yourself,
by learning new things.
Now what can you learn? Learn about trends in your industry,
learn about your organization, learn about what are the things that you,
the skills that you need to develop that will help
you to perform your service in that organization. Here's the thing.
The job market reality is that
the organization that you work for is going to have more and more huge demands
on them in this marketplace. Because the marketplace is constantly changing.
Consumers and customers,
the audience of that organization are going to be more demanding because they
can be. So organizations, in order to stay competitive,
companies have to keep up with the market demands and to do that,
they have to constantly be evolving. They have to adopt to
demands in the marketplace. They have to be more competitive.
They have to do things that are different from their competitors.
And so that's why the organization
is evolving quickly. And in order for you to adapt,
you have to also be evolving quickly and also be learning
what the next move is going to be. Learning the trends of your industry,
learning the skills that will help you to succeed.
So learning agility is one of the most important things you can do to
ensure your career success.
So here's another thing that you can learn is how to build a career,
how to start and how to grow a career.
If that is you and you are interested in learning about this.
How do you do that? How do you develop your career?
How do you get to that next level of your career. Then I have something for you.
It is a training, it's a masterclass where
I teach you the skills in developing your career.
So go to this link below it is careerrevisionist.com/masterclass
and I'll see you there.
Soft skill number three is emotional intelligence. So what do I mean by that?
Emotional intelligence means that you have the empathy, the adaptability,
the emotional self control.
When you are dealing with people and having high emotional intelligence means
that you are more than capable,
that you are more likely to be promoted into positions of leadership.
And the reason why is because when you are in a leadership position,
you are going to be managing people.
You're going to be leading people to do things that sometimes they don't want to
do in order to be aligned with the company's mission, right?
And nowadays work is more about being able to
be around people and working well with people than it is about doing the actual
work, right?
So developing your emotional intelligence will serve you well when you want to
have career success.
Soft skill number four is intrinsic motivation.
This is motivation but it's a better form of motivation
because there are two types of motivation.
You can be intrinsically motivated or extrinsically motivated.
When you are extrinsically motivated,
that means that you look to things like having more money or
time in order to feel motivated to do something. But however,
when you are intrinsically motivated,
which is actually better and longer lasting,
it means that you are self motivated, that you are motivated
to do something,
you are motivated to do your work and do your activities because you in and of
yourself feel like doing it right. So how do you achieve intrinsic motivation?
It just means that you have the desire to challenge yourself.
You have the desire to explore and
learn and and also to become a better version of self and to explore those
things outside of achieving external awards like money, right?
So being externally, sorry,
being intrinsically motivated will help you in your career success because
people like to be around people who are intrinsically motivated because it
necessarily means that you
don't need people to remind you and to always be offering you something as bait
in order to get the work that you need to accomplish. Done.
So strive for internal motivation and look for areas where
you can educe and pull that out. Bring that forth of yourself.
If you are in a position right now that you
don't feel intrinsically motivated to do something,
then get yourself in an environment, in a position where you do.
And that is the fourth skill, the soft skill that you need to have to have
success in your career. Comment below.
What did you learn and what is your favorite skill of the four soft skills?
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