Soft Skills for Leadership

Soft Skills
are now just as important for career or professional success as
the Hard, Technical Skills

If the development and enhancement of your Soft Skills
is not high on your professional development agenda,
then your career or business is in jeopardy.

What are Soft Skills?

• They are the people skills, social skills and interpersonal skills that, when well-developed, enhance the quality of our relationships with people.

• They are reflected in our personality, attitudes and behaviour.

• They are the intangible, difficult to measure skills whose existence, nevertheless, impacts significantly on our personal and professional development and on the culture of our organisations.

• They are the skills related to self-development, self-management and self-awareness.

The 8 Essential Soft Leadership Skills we promote here at People Empowered are:

• Self-Awareness.

• Resilience.

• Emotional Maturity and Intelligence.

• Pro-activity.

• Embracing Change.

• People Skills.

• Organisational Skills.

• Making Connections and Networking.

What are Hard Skills?

• These are the technical skills that relate to our specific profession or industry group, for example, engineering skills, accountancy skills, IT skills, building and construction skills or skills reading financial reports.

• They are the tangible and measurable skills of the profession or business that enable us to do our job and produce results and outcomes.

• They are the skills in which people can be trained. 

The people who make the most dynamic difference in their organisations and who impact most positively and constructively on their colleagues are those whose Soft Skills and Hard Skills are in balance and synergy.

These are the leaders and managers who have been equally committed to the development of both their Soft Skills and their Hard Skills.

Developing our Soft Skills is usually Hard Work because we have to

• confront,

• reflect on,

• and usually change our attitudes, personality and behaviour – our very selves.

This can be a challenging process but exciting process. 

Developing and enhancing our Soft Skills is best achieved in interaction with another colleague or small group through,for example,

• Coaching.

• Mentoring.

• Interactive team or workshop experience.

• Mastermind group. 

Dr. Maree Harris. PhD. has all the expertise and experience to help you develop and enhance your Soft Skills.Learn more about how you can do this with her by

• Engaging her as a coach.

• Participating in her workshops and teleseminars.

• Buying her audios, e-books and online courses.