Chapter 12
Bringing Your Soft Skills to Life
IN THIS CHAPTER
Assessing your personal values and strengths
Seeing how you can put your soft skills to work
Soft skills are sometimes referred to as life skills because they’re tools you can use every day to create a powerful, positive, and productive life. The road to professional success starts with the path to personal success, and cultivating a strong set of soft skills can go a long way to making both happen.
In this chapter, I explain how to bring each of the ten critical soft skills to your life and why doing so is essential to success and life happiness.
Taking Soft Skills Personally
Attitude, character, communication, cultural awareness, appearance and etiquette, time management, critical thinking, work ethic, and leadership. Each of these soft skills contributes to how you see yourself and others and how you perceive and comprehend the world around you. Building a strong set of soft skills is important to becoming not only a better and happier employee but also a better and happier person in general.
Before you take your soft skills to work, you have to know how to make them work for you personally. Using your soft skills ...
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