Demonstrate These 12 Soft Skills to Get Any Job You Want by Lou Adler
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Non-technical, Business and Leadership Skills Essential for Job Success
- Assertiveness in pushing the status quo.
- Courage in challenging bad ideas, bad decisions and bad processes.
- Influencing others who are not direct reports - especially peers and executives - to make difficult decisions.
- Making commitments and taking responsibility for doing what you said you would without making excuses.
- Collaborating, negotiating and reaching agreement with cross-functional teams on challenging and competing objectives.
- Problem-solving, creative and strategic thinking skills that not only uncover the root cause of any problem but also figure out the optimum solutions.
- Organizational and project management skills to ensure complex team tasks are completed successfully.
- Taking the initiative and doing more than required to meet expectations.
- Communications skills to present ideas clearly and distinctly to the required audiences.
- Adaptive customer service skills regardless of who the customer is.
- Cultural fit with the hiring manager’s style, the pace of the organization and the values of the company.
- Leadership skills to not only figure out the best course of action but also to marshal the resources to deliver the solution.
While these skills are obviously important for on-the-job success, most hiring managers aren’t too good at properly evaluating them. The following is our recommended approach, but candidates need to take control if they’re not being assessed properly.
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