In this, the seventeenth in my series of posts exploring soft skills, I want to focus on Self-confidence. How does Self-confidence drive success? One of the problems I have with this particular soft skill is that it can easily become or be viewed as arrogance. There is a fine line…
The Myth of Multitasking
My focus for this final post on the soft skill of personal management is on multitasking. Multitasking is exactly what it sounds like – trying to do more than one thing at a time. How many times have you heard a colleague proclaim that they are great multitaskers? Many of…
The Power of Flow: A Personal Management Soft Skill
Have you ever had those moments when you are involved in an activity and time just seems to have flown by? Maybe it was sitting at the piano, painting, a challenging chess match, or reading a really good book. Maybe you were playing a sport and everything was working—every pass…
Is Professionalism a Soft Skill?
This is the second in a series of posts exploring Soft Skills and why they are so important to your success in any endeavour. “Soft Skills, or the ability to manage soft issues, is a challenge for modern leaders to master” Aly Moreno I received a…