Change is Necessary for Self Improvement to Happen →

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Self-improvement only takes place if you have identified your strengths and weaknesses. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses is essential, from your relationships to those in your career.

Self-assessment and seeing yourself outside of yourself help you better understand what you seek and where you are likely to thrive and excel. It gives you a better understanding of your desire and where you will likely do well.

The change enables you to become the person you want to be. Practicing and enacting change yourself is one of the most rewarding processes you will ever experience. It also displays a particular life skill, the ability to reinvent yourself.

Why is Work Ethics a Soft Skill? →

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Soft skills are those things that make you a good worker and include people skills, manners, emotional intelligence, and your ability to communicate and interact with others effectively. These skills are often self-taught and self-developed. Unlike hard skills, they are not specific to an industry or job.

Hard skills refer to employees' job-related knowledge and abilities to perform their duties effectively.

Research shows that a good work ethic is the number one soft skill sought by employers. This soft skill is linked to improved performance and a greater likelihood of career advancement, which are essential to your job satisfaction level.

Maybe you thought just being in the race was enough? Well, you can be in the race, but unless you finish, one might say the race wasn't in you. Finishing the race is how it is remembered. Work Ethics is finishing what you start.

LinkedIn's Global Talent Trends report found that 92 percent of hiring professionals say soft skills matter more than hard skills. Employers seek out employees they can trust to represent the company in a professional and friendly way.

You will not likely get good feedback on how effective you are using or not using your soft skills in your employment reviews. Even when these measures are in place, soft skills are still considered intangibles and seldom discussed. Most people don’t know how to talk about them and aren’t comfortable doing so. People with gaps in their soft skills are often blindsided the first time they hear that there’s a problem. They’re given vague feedback like “you’re just not a people person” or “we need someone who shows more leadership.” Then they’re left to their own devices to try and figure out what that means and how to fix it. They’re mostly confused because something that’s never been quantified feels arbitrary, personal, and optional.

Stick to your Task,

by Anonymous 

Beginners are many, but enders are few.

Honor, power, place, and praise

Will come, in time, to the one who stays.

Stick to your task till it sticks to you;

Bend at it, sweat at it, smile at it too

2 Most Important Skills for Success →

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These skills can be called “Soft Skills,” but they are the most important and often neglected. A person can have many other skills, but these are important.

#1 is showing up!

#2 is showing up on time

These skills set you apart if you don’t have them. Everybody else on the team is impacted when you are late or don’t show up, and it makes you the least important person when it happens.

These two things create the image of many things. They suggest you are trustworthy, loyal, and can be counted on.

Should you use a coach or a mentor? →

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Coaching is more performance-driven, designed to improve the professional's on-the-job performance. Mentoring is more development-driven, looking not just at the professional's current job function but beyond, taking a more holistic approach to career development.

Coaching is a process of training and supervising a person to better their performance. At the same time, mentoring refers to the counseling process carried on to guide and support a person for career development.