Some of the most important skills cannot really be taught in a classroom and these skills are called Soft-skills. It cannot be measured but can be proved. They not only up your chances of landing the job, but also help in your personal growth. It is the key to building relationships, helps you to create opportunities for yourself, gaining reputation and bring value to your organization and to your clients.

The 5 most important and crucial soft skills that will help you create an impact in your professional lives are:

• Communication skills: Developing good communication skills are needed in all aspects of your life, from your professional life to social gatherings, everything in between. Both written and verbal communication is very important in your professional life. It helps to create a positive image, suppose if you are skilled in public speaking, you are presenting information with more eloquence and confidence. You will be able to share your ideas and feelings in a way that others can easily understand. It improves the chances of building relationships with your colleagues. If your communication is strong it will boost your performance,if you can write and speak clearly, you can think through problems, share your ideas and connect with people.

• TeamWork: When many people work together to achieve a common goal this is called teamwork. Teamwork is essential for a company to be successful. A good teamwork improves the culture and environment at workplace. Teams are naturally made up of individuals with different strengths and weakness. Those with strong teamwork skills are able to work with clients and colleagues from diverse backgrounds. When people like working together they make more effort and when everyone makes an effort, works get done better and faster. You can improve your teamwork skills by volunteering to help your team, by working with new people so that you can build good interpersonal relationships with a diverse set of individuals, try to get an honest feedback from your coworker, mentor or supervisor. Another way of being a team player is to take responsibility for your actions in order to gain the skill of team spirit to level up your career.

• Adaptability: Adaptability simply means accepting the change at work in a positive manner, being flexible and willing to learn, trying new things, and handling the workflow.When things don’t go as planned or in times of unusual circumstances good leaders find solutions to problems. They have the confidence and ability to make difficult decisions. To gain adaptability skills you need to push yourself to be more flexible and adapt to the changes. Learn to adapt to new technology, so you can be capable of meeting new challenges. Attend training sessions to grab new ideas in an attempt to display that you are a quick learner, flexible, and can adapt to new changes.

• Problem-Solving: To know an underlying issue of a problem you need to be a good problem solver. You need to learn to find quick solutions and make decisions faster. Problem-solving skills will help you to solve issues quickly and effectively. It makes you more self-reliant and helps you to sail through unexpected challenges. You can gain this skill by familiarizing yourself with common issues, do some research it can be a simple google search or more rigorous research project and also learn from more experienced colleagues.

• Critical Thinking: Critical thinking is the ability to think rationally, logically and get new ideas to workplace. Critical thinking requires you to identify, analyze data, facts, observable phenomenon and research findings. It helps you to decide between the positive and negative approaches to solve a problem or to make a decision. You can develop your critical thinking by reading books, reading news, and talking about non-work issues with your friends and family members to help you brainstorm ideas and increase your critical thinking process.

These are the 5 soft skills that I think will help you grow and take your career to the next level.

Now its your turn!! Which SoftSkills helped you and is on your list and how do you practice them? Leave your comments below.**