I read an article that is written by Richard Berman entitled “Building Soft Skills”. It gives me clearer view of what soft skills is. Richard is quite critical by believing that soft skills is only much needed to those who are working in service industry because it will involve interacting with clients in greater scale compared to those who are working as expert neuron-surgeons,( due to highly skills of operating that they possess and everyone needs it, they seem can discard those skills).Anyway, he highlighted that still we need to have interpersonal skills and some of these interpersonal skills are teamwork abilities and leadership skills. These two skills will help us to nurture our future growth in our career. Anyway, before these two can be developed, giving empathy is most meaningful. That is why, Dean Hohl, a former Army Ranger who runs Leading Concepts believes that “Soft skills are really the hardest skills to learn, and not having them is a major reason why people find their careers stalling.”
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