Workplace Readiness Skills Chattahoochee Technical College, Adult Education

Soft Skills Abilities and traits that pertain to personality, attitude, and behavior Are not formal or technical knowledge 75% of long-term job success depends on soft skills. In fact, the most sought after and hardest to find skills in the market today are soft skills. What do you think are the top 5 soft skills? Soft skill is the ability required and expected from persons for finding a suitable job, its maintenance and promotion. “ITS NOT YOUR APTITUDE BUT YOUR ATTITUDE THAT DETERMINES YOUR ALTITUDE”

Soft skills, or interpersonal skills, relate to employees’ ability to get along well with others, social graces and communication abilities. Soft skills training for managers and employees is vital to successful collaboration in the workplace.

Examples of personal attributes Time Management Showing up to work on time Integrity and Honesty Personal Appearance and Hygiene Works with diversity Listening Willingness to help How are some ways we can make time our ally? How can personal appearance be effective? Give scenarios……court appearances, 1st date……https://karencovy.com/dressing-success-what-to-wear-to-court/ -Collaboration. You don’t compete, you collaborate -trust, confidence, empathy, adaptability and self-control Time Management Training Topic Areas: Multitasking Planning and Scheduling Prioritizing Tasks Project Management Meeting Deadlines

Communication The corner stone: (non-verbal) body language Posture Facial Expression Eye Contact: cultural Gestures Head Motions communication skills, interpersonal skills and initiative (www.workforce.com) Jul 1999

What does your body language say about you?

Dressing for Success, Create your brand Implementing GeorgiaBEST Next Steps Videos, group activities, handouts for exercises to practice Interviewing Techniques Dressing for Success, Create your brand Implementing GeorgiaBEST https://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/youth/softskills/ When your workforce has lots of technical skills but an absence of soft skills, you have a soft skills gap. Soft skills are what accompany the hard skills, and help your organization use its technical expertise to full advantage. If you're really good at getting clients, and not so good at retaining them, chances are you have a soft skills gap. If you have lots of staff turnover and have to keep retraining people, chances are you have a soft skills gap. When you have lots of managers but no real leaders – that's a soft skills gap. www.mindtools.com https://careerwise.minnstate.edu/iseek/static/WBL_Mentoring2_13.pdf https://www.weareteachers.com/9-awesome-classroom-activities-that-teach-job-readiness-skills/ https://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/youth/softskills/softskills.pdf https://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/youth/softskills/

Questions The CEOs tell us, ‘Don’t worry so much about the technical skills…We need you to teach them how to show up on time, how to work in teams, how to take supervision.”