1. Leadership skills: Can we stress this enough? The leadership we are talking about begins with how well you are able to lead yourself and others. Developing the right leadership skills will leave you making huge impacts and influencing as many people as possible. It will make your absence at any point in time to be very well pronounced that people will be wondering to themselves, if only he can be here!

2. Listening skills: You will be living in a world of your own if you do not believe that listening is a skill and one that must be cultivated. One of the things that throws spanner to the wheel of achieving results is when all you do is hear. Listening will enhance your ability to absorb and process information quickly and accurately too. The result you produce will depend on how well you listen to either superiors or even subordinates. Whether in appreciative listening, empathic listening, comprehensive listening or critical listening, you must sharpen your listening skills.

3. Creative thinking: Your ability to process thoughts in an original, imaginative, purposeful, valuable and goal oriented way will greatly set you apart. Creative thinking will give you an edge at producing great ideas and solutions to problems when you reflect on thoughts, evaluate ideas, iterate them and plan ahead in very quick successions.

4. Questioning: Topnotch questioning skill will not just prevent you from asking dumb and foolish questions, it will enable you to assess deep knowledge and information about matters. Use of effective questioning skill will enhance connection between you and anyone you engage in a conversation. It is a way of breaking down complex issues into small understandable parts.

5. Emotional intelligence: Surely you’ve heard of emoticons. You Infact use them on your social media platforms such as whatsapp, bbm etc perhaps without knowing it stands for “emotional icon”. Just as you understand what each means when you receive them is how you must be able to recognise your emotion and that of others. You must go on to discriminate between different feelings and label them appropriately using such emotional information to guide and manage thinking as well as behavior.

6. Persuasion: Except you intend to rest in the cocoons of your room all life long, you will need this skill to influence people’s beliefs, attitudes, intentions and behaviors. In all your encounters, you will have to deal with people of different origin, different backgrounds, ideals, tenets and values. To maximize result and output, you will need this skill to get the best out of people and situations.

7. Interpersonal relationship: Life cannot be lived in isolation. You definitely need people as you go up and down the ladder of life. No matter how brief your social connection is with others, that brief contact may leave an impression that will last a life time with those you had contact with. It then lies in your interest to interact and treat others well.

8. Digital literacy: The transformative power of today’s technology to solve problems can not by any means be underestimated. Here, we talk of skills that enables you to locate, organise, analyse, communicate, collaborate, and effectively apply knowledge and information using technologies.

9. Communication: What is the essence of beautiful thoughts and sound ideas without an effective know-how on how to pass it across? Your capacity to use words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to pass information or to express your ideas, thoughts and feelings will definitely put you in a top enviable class.

10. Crisis management: Who will desire your presence when all your conducts at the face of emergencies is unmanly? Perhaps you even daunt others and sap them of their confidence. You must develop the confidence and capacity to handle unforeseen circumstances and turn them around for your good and that of people around you. This skill will enhance the way you handle, contain, and resolve sudden events.

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Good one

I must commend you OP for this post, it's really awesome. And you ave got a cool blog there, I find the colorful border somewhat creative.

People who climb up the ladder fast in organizations and generally in the society practice one or more these soft skills either deliberately or unconsciously.

Like I keep saying, hard skills can easily be thought and learnt over time through books since there are already laid down formulas and theories.. Actually, soft skills is what differentiate the technical lead from the head of department.

Take No 5 seriously, and see yourself winning.

You can be whatever you wanna be, Six Principles of Success as explained by Arnold Schwarzenegge: http://naijayouthonpoint..com/2016/10/six-rules-on-how-to-be-successful-full.html

OP, this is well stated.. Kudos!

prodam:
I must commend you OP for this post, it's really awesome. And you ave got a cool blog there, I find the colorful border somewhat creative.

People who climb up the ladder fast in organizations and generally in the society practice one or more these soft skills either deliberately or unconsciously.

Like I keep saying, hard skills can easily be thought and learnt over time through books since there are already laid down formulas and theories.. Actually, soft skills is what differentiate the technical lead from the head of department.

Take No 5 seriously, and see yourself winning.

You can be whatever you wanna be, Six Principles of Success as explained by Arnold Schwarzenegge: http://naijayouthonpoint..com/2016/10/six-rules-on-how-to-be-successful-full.html

Many thanks