Balancing
Soft Skills & Hard Skills
to advance at work and in life.
This site is devoted to sharing ideas, tools and resources to help you develop a more balanced outlook on soft skills and hard skills, to help you advance in your career and to build better relationships with those who matter most in your lives.
How Important is Soft Skill?
In a recent research, it was found that most people lose their jobs due not to their lack of technical skills (aka hard skills). Rather, it is because of the lack of soft skills. But what are soft skills? Well, if you were to ask ten human resources managers what one soft skill they look for in new hires, you'd probably get 10 different answers. This is because soft skills are very difficult to define and depend on many factors including work environment.
Soft skills have much to do with integrating and working well with team members. Good soft skills will help you communicate positively and contribute towards building a pleasant work atmosphere. While hard skills may get you a job, soft skills often determine how well you get ahead in the job.
Soft skills are needed not just at work but in our everyday life. DazFocus will publish weekly articles and quotes to generate awareness and to inspire incremental improvements to your existing soft skills.
Popular Courses
Time & Productivity Hack
Have you ever wondered where very successful people get the time to do all the things they do in a day? Do you think they have more hours than you do? Well, think again . . . we each are given 24 hours a day. How did you expend yours?
Learn how to identify and squash distractions, focus on what's most important and increase your productivity.
Better Communication, Happier Atmosphere
Don't you love to work and live in a happy environment? Sure your do! But your tone, facial expression and choice of words can sometimes cause lots of unintended confusion and frustration.
Discover the secrets of effective communication. Learn to apply the strategies and methods that will make a difference to the way you get your messages across while maintaining a happy atmosphere.
Conflict Management
So you're a member of a team or you're a team leader. Your team comprises of people with varied skills and personalities, not all of whom have the same ideas of how and when things should be done. Inevitably conflicts arise.
Conflicts are not necessarily bad. It is how you deal with it that determines the outcome. Learn to do it right, to achieve the best outcome.