This presentation discusses the importance of soft skills for career success. It defines soft skills as personal qualities like habits, attitudes and social graces that make someone compatible to work with. The presentation outlines important soft skill categories like communication, leadership, creativity, interpersonal and professional skills. It explains that soft skills help with decision making, relationships, communication and professional development. While soft skills can be learned through courses, mentors and volunteering, developing them also has costs and requires effort from learners. The presentation concludes that soft skills are one of the most difficult things to teach but also one of the main reasons for career success or failure.

1. “An Essential Ingredient
For Success”

2. Team Presentation by-
Pushpendra khawar
Lijoy Nelson
Snehal Mahamuni
Niyati mehta
Priyanka mishal

3. This presentation contains:
Definition
Why soft skills
Objective of soft skills
Important sets soft skills
Learning softskills
Advantages
Disadvantages
conclusion

4. •Soft skills refer to a cluster of personal qualities,
habits, attitudes and social graces that make
someone a good employee and compatible to work
with.
•Soft skills influence how we interact with others.
Soft skills:

5. Why soft skills??
Soft skills are required by an individual not only to
enter into workplace, but also to sustain oneself in the workplace as they
helps in:
1. Taking proper decision
2. Handling interpersonal relationships
3. Communicating with others properly and effectively
4. Gaining Professional development
5. Having good impact or impression on others

6. • Inspiring leadership excellence & dynamic communication
• Optimizing managerial effectiveness
• Enhancing team building and time management skills
• Increasing the employability skills of students along with overall
corporate grooming
• Enhancing public speaking & presentation skills
• Developing interpersonal & time management skills
• Providing motivational training along with practical orientation that
helps in career visioning and planning
Objectives Of Soft Skills

7. Important sets of soft skills
Communication Skills
Leadership
Creativity
Interpersonal Skills
Professional Skills

8. Communication
skills
Verbal Communication
Presentation Skills
Listening
Public Speaking
Humor
Interviewing
Writing

9. leadership
Team Building
Strategic Planning
Supervising
Decision
Making
Delegation
Mentoring
Giving Feedback

10. interpersonal
skills
Networking
Interpersonal Relationships
Dealing with Difficult
People
Conflict Resolution
Personal
Branding
Office politics

11. creativity
Problem Solving
Innovation
Design Sense
Artistic Sense
Critical Thinking
Troubleshooting

12. personal
skills
Friendliness
Work-Life Balance
Time management
Self Confidence
Taking
Criticism
Enthusiasm

13. Learning soft skills
• The good news is that, like any skill, soft skills can be learned
• Boosting your soft skills not only gives you a leg up on a new job or
promotion, but these skills also have obvious applications in all areas of a
person's life i.e both professional and personal.
• Some of methods to learns
1. Take a Course
2. Seek Mentors
3. Volunteer

14. Pros
Recognition from the
industry, Employer and peers
New employment
opportunities
Promotions and advanced
opportunities
Increased ability to perform
on The job
Strong team and leadership
Incentives, rewards, and
challenges for Employees

15. CONS
Expensive to develop training
Needs regular updates
Learners efforts are also needed
Sometimes speaker lacks in
communication skills
The person should have more
current affairs and other knowlegde

16. Conclusion
• One of the most difficult things to teach
• And…the most common reason for not
hiring, not promoting, & poor performance
evaluation of any
• It is said that “Soft skills either makes your
career or breaks your career”
Pick one skill…work on it….and PRACTICE!