Soft Skills - Preparation for the Canadian Workplace
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Source: “Soft Skills” - retrieved April 05. 2014http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/soft-skills.asp Source: About.com Job Searching - List of Soft Skills – retrieved April 05, 2014http://jobsearch.about.com/od/skills/fl/soft-skills.htm
What are they?
What is their purpose?
How do we develop them?
Why do we need to learn about them?
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Source: “Soft Skills” - retrieved April 05. 2014http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/soft-skills.asp
Attributes of every person
Required for effective interaction
Based on what we are
Complement hard skills
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Being attentive
Communicatingappropriately
Being positive
Collaborating
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Soft Skills
Attentive listening
Appropriate communication
Adaptability
Assertiveness
Collaboration, cooperation
Collegiality, courteous behaviour
Critical thinking, observing
Cultural competence
Following instructions, elaborating
Reliability, work ethics
Motivation, interest
Self-directed, self-supervising
Sense of humour
Dismissive
Short-tempered
Inappropriate
Source: “Soft Skills” - retrieved April 05. 2014http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/soft-skills.asp Source: About.com Job Searching - List of Soft Skills – retrieved April 05, 2014http://jobsearch.about.com/od/skills/fl/soft-skills.htm
Photos and images courtesy of ClipArt
Soft Skillsadaptability
ethicsmotivation
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Cultural
competence
reasoning
innovation
leadership
creativityflexibility
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team work