How Soft Skills Are Recognized And How It Is Related To Performance
Soft skills refer to the personality traits, friendliness, social graces, and facility with language, personal habits and optimism that mark people to varying degrees. Soft skills are needed for everyday life as much as they are needed on work. One individual may not possess all the soft skills such as interpersonal, informative, convincing and negotiation, [...]
Role Of Soft Skills In A Person’s Career
Soft skills represent a fundamental attribute that today’s knowledge based economy is demanding of its employers, employees and businesses. Soft skills give the opportunity to enhance organizational skills and leadership skills to improve team results. If you are perceived to be difficult and unfriendly, of what value are your hard skills when nobody is ready [...]
Management is a Practice, Not a Degree
Would you trust the life of your loved one when an uneducated person performs a heart surgery or a brain surgery? The answer is obviously a no! Even the government would not allow a person to perform a surgery without a proper degree. In fact, it is very likely that a person who performs surgeries [...]
How Professional Are You?
The word that is very often used in the world of management is ‘Professionalism’ or ‘professional’. When we question ourselves, “Am I professional?”, although most of us answer ourselves with a reflexive “yes”, we should truly know what is ‘True Professionalism”. As given by David H. Maister in his book “True professionalism”, True professionalism means [...]
Unprofessional Behavior eventually destroys completely
While dealing with someone, if you are spending too much time planning in detail so that basic things can get done. And if you don’t put in this much effort, work does not get done, you are dealing with an unprofessional and incompetent person. If you think this is how professionals are – you are [...]
Books For Starting Managers
There are many books on management written by so many authors and there are some classic books by famous authors like Peter Drucker, Stephen Covey, John Adair, Warren Bennis and others which are must to read for the managers at all levels to excel in their career and achieve true success. But there are some [...]
Surprising first products of 14 famous companies
Some companies find their niche and stick to it. Others, though, have to adapt to changing markets in order to thrive. Here’s a look at some companies that switched industries at some point in their histories, usually for the better. 1. Avon David H. McConnell started Avon in 1886 without really meaning to. McConnell sold [...]
