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What Are Soft Skills? 12 Examples to Benefit You Personally & Professionally

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Developing these soft skills examples as a growth challenge will do more than accelerate your career. These skills are often learned in college, trade schools or job training. Examples of soft skills encompass a wide range of abilities, including communication, empathy, adaptability, problem-solving, leadership and teamwork.

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Finding Your Voice: Advocating and Negotiating for Yourself as a Woman in the Workplace

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Women are taught at a young age, through either words or example, that by speaking up for themselves they are being “difficult.” Therefore, we learn not to speak up unless we are certain we are right and/or safe. Effective Negotiation. The art of negotiation is a powerful skill to master in your career.

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How to Ask for More Money (and Get It)

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Below are the top three lessons I learned. Lesson 2: Always demonstrate value in negotiations. Focus on results rather than personal circumstances when approaching negotiations. If you exceed your expected revenues by $10,000 for example, there’s no need to wait until your next performance review to ask for more money.

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How Taking Charge of Your Emotions Can Help You Find Success in Business

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But learning to manage and respond appropriately to the negative emotions that can accompany our workdays isn’t just a means to avoiding hushed conversations and looks of confusion. It’s your [emotional intelligence] that enables you to be effective in your role, get promoted and do well in the workplace.” Can you make a shift?

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Unlearning Silence in the Workplace: How to Speak Up at Work

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You’re in a meeting—perhaps learning about a new company initiative or listening to a boss who wasn’t happy with your team’s performance—and you have something to say, but then you just… don’t. She asks people to examine the costs of staying silent: “We unlearn being silent by recognizing and wrestling with the silence we’ve learned.

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A Manual for Dealing with Rejection

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These instances are often painful, but many moments of rejection are opportunities for learning, notes Susan Heathfield, an organizational development consultant since 1987. You can only accomplish these two tasks: learning and responding to the intended message. Let’s Make a Deal. “The It truly is a science.

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A Noncompete Clause Ban Is on the Table—Here’s What Employees Should Know

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In TV news, for example, a station might justify noncompete clauses for on-air talent because it heavily promotes the TV lineup in advertising to appeal to viewers, Davenport says. As Davenport learned, while TV stations might negotiate on other terms of a contract, noncompetes were an “absolute non-negotiable.”