The Importance Of Soft Skills

September 11, 2020 (San Francisco)

What are Soft Skills?

Soft skills are a mix of social skills, communication skills, people skills, and personality traits that are very helpful for success in one’s personal and professional life. Some specific soft skills examples include: time management, networking, teamwork, work ethic, creative thinking, and conflict resolution.

Why are soft skills important?

Before hiring, managers tend to look for people with exceptional soft skills because of their ability to work well in a team and enable others to be more successful in the workplace as well. Technical skills alone will not guarantee a job, as poor soft skills can cause improper attitudes and toxic relationships, leading to an unproductive and unsuccessful workplace.

Soft skills characterize individuals based on how they interact with their peers, based on aforementioned examples such as time management, work ethic, creative thinking, teamwork, and most importantly communication. In a study conducted by an assessment company Wonderlic, about 93% of employers have stated that these soft skills and interpersonal skills play a huge factor in the hiring process. However, in another study conducted by LinkedIn, around 59% employers were said to have struggles in searching for people with great soft skills. This highlights how one can separate themselves from others in their career. Demonstrating strong leadership, communication, interpersonal skills, and time management skills can help someone gain a significant advantage compared to people with only strong technical skills, as soft skills can provide the room for much higher growth and improvement.

Soft skills not only help someone in their professional life, but also in their personal life as well. Proper discipline, manners, kindness, and a humble personality will help to form form tight bonds with people in life. The saying “forgive all, forgive yourself” exemplifies this mindset. By understanding other people’s point of views, following proper etiquette such as arriving at meetings, be it professionally or personally related, and assessing the “room temperature” or the mood of the room before speaking can really help earn and maintain respect in various family and social circles.

What our program offers

We at Harmony Plus provide classes for these soft skills taught by a successful pitcher, Mr. Ethan Schur. We go into depth about the concepts of pitching to others as well as the concepts of soft skills. At the end of the class, we also offer a pitching competition, with the top performers in class receiving a recommendation letter to help with their future goals as well as a course certificate certifying successful course completion.

Here are just some of Mr. Schur’s many accomplishments:

• Honored with the VFX Societies Lumiere Award and hold the title of “America’s Greatest Maker” as the $1 Million Dollar Prize winner
• Speaker, panelist, and moderator who has appeared on Forbes, CNN, and TBS
• CEO at Grush, the inventor of the smart connected toothbrush technology
• CTO at Telepresence Robotics Corporation (TRC). TRC disrupts the economics of the service robot industry with an advanced multipurpose modular robotTM and MMR-PlatformTM
• Board member of the VR Film Festival and the Robotic Fashion Network
• Co-author of several patents and papers, and is an accredited journalist with the International Federation of Journalists

Come join us and Mr. Schur as we help you achieve a successful career!

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