1. Workplace Readiness Skills
Chattahoochee Technical College, Adult Education

2. 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”

3. 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.

4. 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……
-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

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

6. What does your body language say about you?

7. 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
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.

8. 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.”