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Social skills are the skills
we use to
understand,
communicate and interact with each other, both
verbally and
non-verbally, through words, gestures,
body
language, our personal appearance, images,
behavior, and other means.
The process of learning social skills is called socialization.
Social science is any branch of academic study
or science that deals with human behaviour in its social and
cultural aspects.
Social psychology is the academic discipline
that does research related to social skills and studies how skills are
learned by an individual through changes in attitude, thinking, and
behavior.
Social entrepreneurship
is the process of pursuing suitable solutions to social problems.
Wikipedia
A social skill is any competence facilitating interaction and communication
with others where social rules and relations are created, communicated, and
changed in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning these skills
is called socialization. Lack of such skills can cause social awkwardness.
Interpersonal skills are the acts a person uses to interact with, and relate
to, others; they are related to the categories of dominance vs. submission,
love vs. hate, affiliation vs. aggression, and control vs. autonomy (Leary,
1957). Positive interpersonal skills include persuasion, active listening,
delegation, and stewardship, among others. Social psychology is the academic
discipline that does research related to social skills and studies how
skills are learned by an individual through changes in attitude, thinking,
and behavior.
Social skills are the tools that enable people to communicate, learn, ask for
help, get needs met in appropriate ways, get along with others, make
friends, develop healthy relationships, protect themselves, and in general,
be able to interact with the society harmoniously.[1] Social skills build
essential character traits like trustworthiness, respectfulness,
responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. These traits help build
an internal moral compass, allowing individuals to make good choices in
thinking and behaviour, resulting in social competence.
The important social skills identified by the Employment and Training
Administration are:[citation needed]
Coordination – Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Mentoring – Teaching and helping others how to do something (e.g. a study
partner).
Negotiation – Discussion aimed at reaching an agreement.
Persuasion – The action or fact of persuading someone or of being persuaded
to do or believe something.
Service Orientation – Actively looking for ways to evolve compassionately
and grow psycho-socially with people.
Social Perceptiveness – Being aware of others' reactions and able to respond
in an understanding manner.
Social skills are goal oriented with both main goals and sub-goals.[2] For
example, a workplace interaction initiated by a new employee with a senior
employee will first contain a main goal. This will be to gather information,
and then the sub-goal will be to establish a rapport in order to obtain the
main goal.[3] Takeo Doi in his study of consciousness distinguished this as
tatemae, meaning conventions and verbal expressions and honne, meaning true
motive behind the conventions. |
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Soft Skills
Soft skills are a cluster of
productive capabilities that characterize one's
relationships in a social environment. It
is an umbrella term for
skills under three key functional elements: achievement
know-how, people skills, and social skills.
Importance of Soft Skills
As business is people, soft skills are more important than hard skills because
they are the foundation of thinking, cooperation,
management, innovation, marketing, etc.
The influence of soft skills
on the outcome of business activities depends on the
circumstances in which the business activity takes place.
Development
of Soft Skills
The development of soft skills
is much more difficult than the development of hard skills.
While hard skills can be
learned studying from a book or from trainings,
development of soft skills
needs a combination of
environment and other people to be mastered.
It requires addressing multi-dimensional challenges,
actively interacting with others on an ongoing basis and
being willing to learn from all sorts of feedback both
verbal and situational.
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Enumeration and categorization
Social skills are the tools that enable people to communicate, learn, ask
for help, get needs met in appropriate ways, get along with others, make
friends, develop healthy relationships, protect themselves, and in general,
be able to interact with the society harmoniously.[1] Social skills build
essential character traits like trustworthiness, respectfulness,
responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. These traits help build
an internal moral compass, allowing individuals to make good choices in
thinking and behaviour, resulting in social competence.
The important social skills identified by the Employment and Training
Administration are:[citation needed]
Coordination – Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Mentoring – Teaching and helping others how to do something (e.g. a study
partner).
Negotiation – Discussion aimed at reaching an agreement.
Persuasion – The action or fact of persuading someone or of being persuaded
to do or believe something.
Service Orientation – Actively looking for ways to evolve compassionately
and grow psycho-socially with people.
Social Perceptiveness – Being aware of others' reactions and able to respond
in an understanding manner.
Social skills are goal oriented with both main goals and sub-goals.[2] For
example, a workplace interaction initiated by a new employee with a senior
employee will first contain a main goal. This will be to gather information,
and then the sub-goal will be to establish a rapport in order to obtain the
main goal.[3] Takeo Doi in his study of consciousness distinguished this as
tatemae, meaning conventions and verbal expressions and honne, meaning true
motive behind the conventions.[4]
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First
Impressionism
First Impressionism is a new vital art & science
introduced by and taught at the
Innompic University.
Knowing how to make a great
first impression is a key to lasting positive social
interactions.
First Impression contests pioneered by
Innompic Games
(see
best examples and
videos) help
people − adults (examples:
female;
male), kids (example),
teams (example)
− master this highly important social skill.
Leadership
Soft skills form the basis of
successful leadership and are, therefore, highly important
for those in leading positions. Leaders are to inspire, to
provide a strategic direction, to align, motivate and
energize people in order to achieve desired goals.
Leadership is a process of influence through a series of
interactions between a leader and their followers. In order
to be effective in these roles, the leader has to possess
relevant soft skills.
Communication
Effective communication inside
the company is the foundation of successful business
activities. Communication allows employees at all levels to
coordinate their actions to achieve a common objective.
Cross-Cultural Competency
A globally connected world is
a key driver of structural change for the global workforce.
The diversity of stakeholders
is an important point to consider. Employee, customers,
partners, competitors are all made up of people of different
ethnical backgrounds, who have different views, perceptions,
beliefs, and values.
Innovation became a systemic
phenomenon. It is achieved through synergizing diversities
and is increasingly more dependent on the collaboration
between actors from different cultural backgrounds who
combine their own perceptions, thinking habits and expertise
to create something new. This happens on all levels −
individual, team, institutional. Diversity of thought
increases creativity and, with it, the innovation potential
of individuals, teams, corporations and joint ventures.
Business activities that take
place abroad emphasize the importance of cultural
intelligence and effective cross-cultural communication
between the business and local people. Unless company
representatives have good understanding of the local
traditions and values, they might behave in such a way that
is considered offensive or inappropriate in another culture
and facilitate conflict, putting the whole local business at
risk. In order to effectively perform business activities in
a different cultural setting, company representatives must
possess such soft skills, as sociocultural competence and
empathy.
Groundbreaking Soft Skills
empower you to create remarkable positive change in
yourself, your organization and its business.
