Soft Skills of Success
- 1. The “Soft” Skills of Success Strategies to Get Hired, Stay Hired and Get Promoted
- 2. Thee Job Phases 1. Potential 2. Momentum 3. Harvest Your value changes throughout any job
- 3. Plateaued “Job” Cycle 2 Years – 5 Years 100+ % Proficiency In Assigned Tasks Management & Professional Jobs
- 4. Sustainers Hard Work Education Technical Skills Merit Is Its Own Reward Do It On Their Own Fair World Mentality
- 5. Ideal “Job” Cycle 2 Years – 5 Years 100+ % Proficiency In Assigned Tasks 20% Developing Proficiency I n Unassigned Tasks Management & Professional Jobs
- 6. Use the 20/80 Principle Exceeding “Job” Expectations May Not Be a “High Value” Activity 80% of Time on the “Expected” Determine “High Value” Areas 20% of Time on “High Value” Areas Add Value In Ways That Get Noticed
- 7. Differentiate Your Performance Study How Value is Really Created Triage Your Activities Leverage Relationships Opportunity Comes to Those Perceived as Wanting It.
- 8. Achievers Work Hard Negotiated World Mentality Use Non-technical Skills Give without expectation Actively Seek Recognition
- 9. Career Competencies Experience Doing Risk Linking Show Belonging Exhibit Specializing Catapulting Magnify Accomplishing
- 10. The Seven Habits Don’t Gamble With Your Future 1. Be Proactive 2. Begin With The End In Mind 3. Put First Things First 4. Think Win-Win 5. Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood 6. Synergize 7. Sharpen The Saw
- 11. Interpersonal Skills Thank-you Notes Recognition Help Others Give Credit
- 12. Emotional Intelligence “The capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships.” Daniel Goleman
- 13. EQ Competencies Self-awareness Self-regulation What is Motivation your EQ? Empathy Social Skills
- 14. What We Know About IQ Predicts Grades In School Does Not Predict Success In Life Predicts 6% of Job Success Peaks In Late Teens Is Static Culture Bound
- 15. What We Know About EQ 80% of a Managers Success Is Related to EQ Overall 67% of Abilities Essential for Success Relate to EQ The Primary De-railer of Top Executives Is a Lack of Impulse Control EQ Skills Can Be Learned At Any Age
- 16. Two Minds In One Body IQ: Thinks EQ: Feels Intellectual capability, 90% of the difference knowledge, and between outstanding technical expertise and average leaders is are threshold related to EQ. competencies. EQ is two times as important as IQ and technical expertise combined.
- 17. EQ and Technical Success “Computer programmers in the top 10% of EQ competency develop effective software three times faster than those with lower EQ skills.” Hay Group Why?
- 18. Sources Citrin, James and Smith, Richard. The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers. New Your: Crown Business, 2003 Covey, Stephen. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. New York, Simon & Schuster 1989 Goleman, Daniel. Working With Emotional Intelligence. New York. Bantam Books. 1998 Scheele, Adele. Skills for Success. William Marrow and Company, 1981