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Training » soft skills guide » list of soft skills 30. Crisis Management
Influencing
"Soft skills" is an unfortunate term. It sounds weak or dull. 31. Facilitation
32. Selling
The fact is that soft skills are the most important skills for 33. Inspiring
your career. They are the skills that are difficult to 34. Persuasion
systemize and automate. They are the skills that define 35. Negotiation
leadership and creativity. 36. Motivating
37. Collaborating
By definition, soft skills are those skills that are difficult to
Interpersonal Skills
measure. In other words, hard skills can easily be
measured by a test but soft skills can't. 38. Networking
39. Interpersonal Relationships
It's easy to determine who has the best math skills. It's 40. Dealing with Difficult People
difficult to determine who's best at innovation or 41. Conflict Resolution
diplomacy. 42. Personal Branding
43. Office Politics
The following list of soft skills may be useful for your Personal Skills
resume, job descriptions or training plan. 44. Emotional Intelligence
Communication Skills 45. Self-Awareness
1. Verbal Communication 46. Emotion Management
2. Body Language 47. Stress Management
3. Physical Communication 48. Tolerance of Change and Uncertainty
4. Writing 49. Taking Criticism
5. Storytelling 50. Self Confidence
6. Visual Communication 51. Adaptability
7. Humor 52. Resilience
8. Quick-wittedness 53. Assertiveness
9. Listening 54. Competitiveness
10. Presentation Skills 55. Self-Leadership
11. Public Speaking 56. Self-Assessment
12. Interviewing 57. Work-Life Balance
Leadership 58. Friendliness
13. Team Building 59. Enthusiasm
14. Strategic Planning 60. Empathy
15. Coaching Creativity
16. Mentoring 61. Problem Solving
17. Delegation 62. Critical Thinking
18. Dispute Resolution 63. Innovation
19. Diplomacy 64. Troubleshooting
20. Giving Feedback 65. Design Sense
21. Managing Difficult Conversations 66. Artistic Sense
22. Decision Making Professional Skills
23. Performance Management 67. Organization
24. Supervising 68. Planning
25. Managing 69. Scheduling
26. Manager Management 70. Time Management
27. Talent Management 71. Meeting Management
28. Managing Remote Teams 72. Technology Savvy
73. Technology Trend Awareness  Social e.g. peer pressure, inter-
74. Business Trend Awareness
relationships, etc.
75. Research
76. Business Etiquette  Economic e.g. lack of resources (such
77. Business Ethics as finance, basic necessities), excessive
78. Diversity Awareness
resources.
79. Disability Awareness
80. Intercultural Competence  Emotional e.g. anger management,
81. Training hormonal influences, etc.
82. Train the Trainer  Spiritual e.g. exposure to conflicting
83. Process Improvement
religious beliefs.
84. Knowledge Management
85. Writing Reports and Proposals  Etc.
86. Customer Service
87. Entrepreneurial Thinking
Categories of Life
Skills
This post is part of our Skills Inventory. CATEGORY 1: SKILLS OF KNOWING AND
LIVING WITH ONESELF

 Self-awareness
Definitions
 Self esteem
Life Skills are psychosocial competences
which enable an individual develop adaptive  Coping with emotions
and positive behaviour so as to deal  Coping with stress
effectively with challenges and demands of
everyday life. The development of Life Skills is CATEGORY 2: SKILLS OF KNOWING AND
a lifelong process that starts in early childhood LIVING WITH OTHERS
and continues throughout one’s life}}
 Empathy
 Psycho  Effective communication
Those skills that deal mainly with the mental
 Conflict resolution and negotiation
functions and processes, such as the problem
solving skills. Social Those skills that deal  Friendship formation
with one’s interaction with self, others and the
environment.  Assertiveness

Life Skills Education is the study of abilities for  Peer pressure resistance
adaptive and positive behavior that enable CATEGORY 3: SKILLS OF EFFECTIVE
individuals to deal effectively with the DECISION MAKING
demands and the challenges of everyday life.

 Critical thinking

Challenges facing the  Creative thinking

 Problem solving
youth  Decision making

 Psychological e.g. preparing for

examinations, peer pressure, etc.