Soft skills refer to a cluster of personal qualities, habits, attitudes and social graces that
make someone a good employee and compatible to work with. Companies value soft skills because research suggests and experience shows that they can be just as important an indicator of job performance as hard skills.This is very brief, as i only put together through proper research, "necessary" soft skills you need to be an outstanding business executive.
Self Management Skills
1. Self awareness – knowing what drives, angers, motivates, embarrasses, frustrates, inspires you.
2. Self-confidence – Believing in yourself brings out the best in you.
3. Emotion management – being able to control unexpected emotions like anger and frustration so you can think clearly and at your optimum.
4. Resilience – Ability to bounce back from a misstep in your job or career.
5. Stress management – Being able to stay calm and balanced in stressful, overwhelming situations.
6. Persistence and Perseverance – Ability to overcome challenging situations and obstacles and maintain the same energy.
7. Skills to forgive and forget - Ability to move on without baggage from a past mistake or something in your career that wronged you.
8. Patience – ability to step back in an emergency to think clearly or the ability to pause and wait when you are in a rush or want to rush others.
People Management Skills
1. Communication skills - skills to listen and articulate your ideas in writing and verbally to any audience in a way where you are heard and you achieve the goals you intended with that communication. This is also known as interpersonal communication skills.
2. Presentation skills – ability to maintain attention and achieve your desired outcome from presenting to an audience.
3. Facilitating skills - ability to coordinate and solicit well represented opinions and feedback from a group with diverse
perspectives to reach a common, best solution.
4. Interviewing skills – ability to sell your skills as an "interviewee" or accurately assess other’s ability or extract the needed information as an interviewer.
5. Selling skills – this is not just for people in sales. This is the ability to build buy-in to an idea, a decision, an action, a product, or a
service.
6. Meeting management skills – at least 50% of meetings today in corporate Nigeria are a waste of time. This is the skill to efficiently and effectively reach productive results from leading a meeting.
7. Influence / persuasion skills - ability to influence perspective or decision making but still have the people you influence think they made up their own mind.
8. Team work skills - ability to work
effectively with anyone with different skill sets, personalities, work styles, or motivation level.
9. Management skills – ability to motivate and create a high performing team with people of varied skills, personalities, motivations, and work styles.
10. Leadership skills – ability to create and communicate vision and ideas that inspire others to follow with commitment and dedication.
11. Skills in dealing with difficult
personalities – Ability to work well or manage someone whom you find difficult.
12. Skills in dealing with difficult situations – Ability to stay calm and still be effective when faced with an unexpected difficult situation.
13. Ability to think / communicate under pressure – ability to articulate thoughts in an organized manner even when you are not prepared for the question or situation you are in.
14. Networking skills – ability to be
interesting and interested in business conversations that motivates people to want to be in your network.
15. Interpersonal relationship skills – ability to build trust, find common ground, have empathy, and ultimately build good relationships with people you like or in positions of power/influence.
16. Negotiation skills – ability to understand the other side and reach a win-win resolution that you find favorable, satisfies both sides, and maintains relationships for future dealings.
17. Mentoring / coaching skills – ability to provide constructive wisdom, guidance, and/or feedback that can help others further their career development.
18. Organizing skills – ability to organize business gatherings to facilitate learning, networking, or business transactions.
19. Self-promotion skills - ability to subtly promote your skills and work results to people of power or influence in your organization, or your clients. This will build your reputation and influence.
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