Soft skill can make or mar your career

                Here are a few tips on cultivating all important skills that can improve your career prospects and enhance your personality as a whole:

Be self aware:
                This includes how you look, dress, think, feel, communicate and build relationships.

                Cultivate positivism in your thoughts. You must learn to live consciously and put thought to your words and actions. Don't be concerned with speed. It will come with time. Your first priority is to get the basics right.

Get over inhibitions:
                 We all have our faults and our insecurities, and it creates negative thoughts and feelings that pull us down and stop us from achieving our fullest potential.

                 Worse, it can become addictive. Break free of negative thought patterns and create a new and positive mindset for yourself, and feel great about what you have in your power to achieve.

Read:
        Books can give you a better perspective and teach you things you might otherwise have not known. Get trained in tools and techniques that may improve your command over the skill.

                  Find successful role models, who can help you set goals and reach milestones. Learn from experience, and from failure, for they too teach you to discern the right from the wrong, the good from the bad.

Broaden perspective:
                  We may think we are good at something, until we see something better and realise that there is scope for improvement.

                  For example, you may think you are a good communicator, but you could be better at it, if you took the trouble to find out the right techniques and tactics to hold the attention of the listener and add clarity to your speech.

                  Open yourself to new ideas and experiences and be willing to change if it will make things better or easier.

Practice:
            Remember, with skills, it is always use them or lose them. Whether it is to unlearn a bad habit, learn a new skill, or refine what you need to practice with dedication.

                   Practice improve your performance, helps you discover and overcome shortcomings and mistakes, and while there is no guarantee that it will make you perfect, it will certainly give you the confidence you need to use your skills instinctively and with poise when the time comes.