CONTENT

I. Introduction 1. Preface 2. What is soft skill II. Leadership 1. About leadership 2. Ways to practice leadership III. Communication skill 1. About communication skill 2. Goals of Communication Skills 3. How to improve your communication skills IV. Conclusion V. References page 2 page 2 page 2 page 3 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 5 page 6 page 6 page 7 page 8

PRESENTING

SOFT SKILLS
I. Introduction 1. Preface Nowadays, we always associate a successful career with excellent Bachelors degree or years of experience. However, it has been forgotten how other factors come into play. It can be luck and if you are really lucky to have an extremely good job with extremely high salary, it will be nothing to say anymore. But if you are not lucky, how can you grow and develop your career. In our opinion, your soft skills will help your career be on the path to great success. So what is soft skill and how can it help you? 2. What is soft skill? Soft skills are usually behavioural traits inherent in an individual. Some individuals have the right set of soft skills that allow them to excel in any situation such as understanding instructions quickly, having the ability to take control and gain respect from a team of executives. Besides, some soft skills need to be picked up by continuously practicing and you need to make it become a conditioned reflex. Soft skills play a highly important role in the work place as well as in ones career success. They enable you to stand out in a crowd of other equal or higher-qualified job seekers and are applicable to almost every field of work. There are many soft skills that you need to have when you go to work, but we will introduce to you some soft skill which you can easily practice and train yourself when you are at university: Communication skill. Problem-solving skill. Teamwork skill. Leadership.
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LEADERSHIP
I. About leadership

People always think that leadership skill is being a leader or a boss in a group of people. However, we think that leadership is the skill that you need to be the leader of yourself before you become the leader of someone else. So we can describe leadership 1. Accepting responsibility for mistakes and wrong decisions. 2. Taking a positive attitude to and learning from failure. 3. Clarifying the problem and making logical decisions. 4. Persuading and motivating: creating enthusiasm to make things happen. 5. Presenting a positive personal image and being assertive. As you know, leadership skill plays a large role in career development. Often, your technical skills can only take you so far. Therefore, leadership skills are considered to be important traits which can help you get to the top of your career field. You're more as:

likely to be hired or get a promotion if you've been successful in leadership roles in your professional or personal life. II. Ways to practice leadership Nowadays, we live in a world where we are told that we are all leaders everyday we are capable of leading and so we grow up with huge ambitions of wanting to be like the great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King Jr. But how can you be a leader? Some people think that they can practice this skill by follow a teacher/professor or at least their boss. Because they think that when they do not know what to do as a leader of a team or a group, they love look to their teacher for answer who should know it. However, what happens if these people who are called teacher, professor do not know what to do too or the challenge faced is a new one and they do not have all the answers to deal with the situation. So we think that people should face difficult situation by themselves, they should try to solve problem. Adaptive leadership requires re-organizing our values and norms and looking at the challenges at hand and involving people to push real issues forward. Leadership is an activity it is not a title, it is the ability to mobilize people to address their own problems. Besides, people only take responsibility for what they help create so we have to empower people to know that they have the power to create their own realities. Adaptive leadership is a new way of tackling the worlds greatest challenges that we face in our workplaces everyday, It requires some character of people who will be vulnerable in acknowledging that you dont always know the answers, it requires people who are ready to say, I dont know how to tackle certain issues but believe in empowering the team to handle these issues collectively. Adaptive leadership also means that you will be dealing with loss, because it is a new way of tackling issues people will resist it. Always remember, people do not resist change people resist being forced to change. It is always a fear of what they might
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lose in the process of change, so you have to be aware of that and know how to include everyone in the process. On the other hand, practicing leadership skill also means that you must practice some another skills: 1. Be a self-starter. At the very least, you should become the go-to, indispensable person in your little corner of the company. Do whatever it takeswhether it's classes at night, attending conferences, or starting a blog about your fieldto become a super authority on your job. The key here is to kick into self-starter modea major prerequisite to gaining leader status. It's not just about doing the job you're assigned, it's about starting your own side projects to keep practicing and mastering your skill. 2. Problem-solving. Being a leader means that you are the motive force in every work for you teammate to follow. Therefore, you must be the person who dare to accept challenge, deal with problem. Dont be shy to face your difficulties by yourself, dont afraid of losing because you know that you can push yourself to the limit to find out what your realities are. 3. Self-Regulation. The skill of self-regulation is the ability to control emotions that are counterproductive to achieving goals. Self-regulation is the skill used to control the moods, impulses, and emotions that can hurt relationships with coworkers. 4. Creativity for thinking outside the box. 5. Share your vision. Good leaders are visionaries. They have a vision for what they do. A powerful leadership skill is to share your vision with the rest of the employees. You make them aware of what you fundamentally believe in and there will be a lot of people, who are willing to help you. In conclusion, great people exercise great leadership skills, it is an action and not a position. Many of the people we think are leaders, maybe MDs, or CEOs just have positions of authority, they can use their power and resources to make things happen that does not guarantee them as leaders. Leader of yourself is more important than leader of someone else.

COMMUNICATION SKILL
Nowadays, communication skills are essential for everyone. So what is communication skill? And how do you develop your communication skills? 1. About communication skills Communication is the process of sending and receiving information among people Communication is also a series of experience of: + Hearing. + Seeing. + Taste. + Touch. + Smell. The process of communication is what allows us to interact with other people, without it, we would be unable to share knowledge or experiences with anything outside of ourselves. Most common ways to communication: + Speaking. + Writing. + Body language. + Visual image. Communication skills are the ability to use language and express information.

Communication skill is one of the most important skills. Therefore, everyone wants to improve their communication skills more effectively. Effective communication skills are a critical element in your career and personal lives. 2. Goals of Communication Skills To change behavior of someone. To get action. To unsure understanding. To persuade someone. To get and give information easier. More and more confident and successful. 3. How to improve your communication skills The 7Cs effective communication to improve your communication skills: + Completeness. + Conciseness. + Consideration. + Clarity. + Concreteness. + Courtesy. + Correctness. Develop communication skills: + Make eye contact + Monitor your body language. + Practice speaking. + Develop your writing skills.

Practice active listening skills: + Paraphrase and ask questions to learn more about what someone is telling you. + Take notes when appropriate. + Do not interrupt other people. + Pay attention to other persons body language. Building relationships: + Befriend colleagues: Greet them when they get to work. Invite them to lunch or coffee. + Network with people inside and outside your organization. Practice leading: + Observe. + Practice in small group.

CONCLUSION

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