Soft Skills That Make or Break Your Success
It is sad to witness professionals and leaders who have off chart technical know-how and skills struggle to get along and lead others successfully.
Statistics show that the lion's share of success in any endeavor comes from soft skills.
Unfortunately, many people focus on technical skills ignoring or neglecting to develop their people skills.
As a result, they are experiencing lots of setbacks individually and corporately such as lack of harmony, high turnover, poor productivity, and more.
This book is relevant to everyone regardless of whether you're a student, parent, leader, artist, technocrat, doctor, lawyer, mechanic, and so on. Notwithstanding in which industry you operate, your ultimate success is highly dependent on soft (people) skills. They're mandatory everywhere as far as there are two or more people living and working together.
This book is based on a true story where how one superstar with great technical know-how and skills stumbled to lead when promoted to lead a megaproject because of a lack of certain soft skills, and how his superiors teamed up to help him develop 12 mandatory soft skills that enabled him to save his career and continue to excel.
Wherever you may be individually and corporately, this book empowers you with lots of insights, frameworks, assessments, methods, and actions you can take right away to take your soft skills competence to the next level to enjoy synergy, getting along among diverse stakeholders, high performance, and so on.
Books
Below are the different versions of the book
Print & Kindle
Soft Skills That Make or Break is available on Amazon in print and Kindle versions.
eBook
The eBook version of the book is available. Download and begin reading it right away.
Amazon Review
"As a college professor of business, this book is a must for students. I love the straight forward language because my students are able to understand and translate what they read to how they can apply it now and in the future.
Dr. AZ's books are practical and applicable."
Hot Soft Skill presentations
Below are some of the hot soft skill topics clients requested for their events
1. Regulating Emotions
This keynote motivates and equips your leaders to manage their and the emotions of others to improve relationships, develop resilience, and ultimately advance the mission of the organization and improve the well-being of its people.
2. Managing Time and Energy Effectively
The speech shows the impacts of mismanaging priorities and how that leads to an unproductive workforce, missed deadlines, wasted resources, poor quality products and services, damaged relationships, multiple crises, and more.
3. Communicating Effectively
The presentation emphasizes the critical role communication plays and the importance of becoming effective communicators at multiple levels in order to excel in 360 all-around communication both in-person and virtually for a healthy workplace and increased productivity.
4. Turn conflicts into opportunities
The presentation empowers your leaders to develop the right mindset and the necessary competencies to turn conflicts into opportunities and negotiate to achieve win-win deals.
5. Promoting Diversity and Embracing Inclusiveness
The presentation shows participants the difference between just bringing diverse people to the table, and achieving inclusion by mixing the diverse people at the table well.
6. Leading Change
This speech empowers your people to manage both planned and unplanned changes by developing the right mindset and putting in place robust systems and approaches, using workable models, strategies, and tactics to thrive amid change and crisis.
Frequently requested
Below are the 3 frequently requested soft skill resources
Turning Conflicts into Opportunities
Turning conflicts into opportunities requires developing the right mindset and the necessary competencies. It also demands negotiating to achieve win-win deals. You can request for a keynote or workshop (with or without taking TKI, an assessment that reveals the most preferred mode of your people as they deal with conflicts).
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Emotional Fitness
One of the most important soft skills necessary in the 21st C in all industries and cultures is emotional intelligence though emotional fitness may vary from one industry to another and from one culture to another. Improving EQ enables one to manage one's and the emotions of others, and in turn, improve relationships, develop resilience, and ultimately advance the mission of the organization and improve the well-being of its people. You can request a keynote or workshop (with or without taking EQ).
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Stand-alone half a day or full-day workshops; one-on-one, and group coaching; and cohort soft skills development programs based on the book
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Description
Master These 12 Soft Skills and Propel Your Career Into Success - Become an Amazing Team Player and Learn How to Successfully Lead Your Team With Realistic Approaches That WORK!
It’s insane how most people overlook the importance of soft skills when in fact, research shows that the lion’s share of success comes from the mastery of soft skills rather than technical.
Unfortunately, most professionals pour all their effort into technical skills while soft skills are pushed to the back.
This causes many problems in an organization like lack of synergy, high turnover rate, rise in conflicts, and low levels of productivity.
This book takes from the real experiences of Dan Murphy, a researcher from Global Health Research (GHR), who was given the opportunity to handle a multi-million dollar project, but due to his lack of certain soft skills, problems began to pop up between him and his team members that would hinder the project’s progress.
Dan was almost removed from leading the project. However, he was given a chance to remain leading the project by attending a soft skills development program with a fellow up mentoring after each session from Rafael Arthur, a senior leader at GHR.
Learn straight from the mentoring sessions between Dan and his mentor!
Discover the 12 life-changing soft skills that will propel your career into success and change the way you work with a team.
After all, no man is an island!
In this book, you will:
- Understand the common challenges many professionals and companies face because of a lack of soft skills.
- Learn the 4 key lessons Dan gained from 12 interactive workshops.
- Find the latest insights, applicable models, practical approaches, strategies, and tactics to improve all the soft skills you’ll need to find success!
- Excel at managing your emotions, time, energy, problems, and make smart and right decisions.
- Get along with your team and other stakeholders to promote a happier and healthier work environment!
- Discover immediate actions you can take so you can start implementing these soft skills ASAP!
- Empower yourself and achieve extraordinary success in your personal and professional life!
- Lead and influence others to meet your team’s and the greater organization’s goals!
- And so much more!
Change your life by mastering these soft skills and never face problems in the workplace ever again!
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OUTLINE
Introduction
Lack of soft skills wreaking havoc at GHR
- The genesis of the problem
- The CEO intervened to rescue one of his superstars
- Negotiation to break the deadlock
- Soft skills development program to tackle the problem
Part I: Mastering Self
Soft Skill 1: Increasing self- awareness
Soft Skill 2: Regulating Emotions
Soft Skill 3: Managing time and energy effectively
Soft Skill 4: Solving Problems & Making Right Decisions
Part II: Getting Along with Others
Soft Skill 5: Playing Teamwork
Soft Skill 6: Communicating Effectively
Soft Skill 7: Promoting Diversity & Embracing Inclusiveness
Soft Skill 8: Turning Conflicts into Opportunities
Part III: Leading Others
Soft Skill 9: Motivating
Soft Skill 10: Coaching and Mentoring
Soft Skill 11: Negotiating
Soft Skill 12: Leading Change
Conclusion
Endnotes
Praises
Some of the praises for the book
Marshall Goldsmith
Get your first-time leadership role on the right foot with this excellent guide ... With the latest leadership insights & tools and tips to make a smooth transition, you can feel confident moving into your new leadership role. A must read!
Sylvia Baffour
Dr. Assegid Habtewold’s unrelenting quest to help others become better leaders is admirable. His positivity and wealth of coaching experience shine through. If you’re in a first-time leadership role, this book can be an invaluable guide and asset...
David Burkus
Whether you’re a first-time or a seasoned leader struggling with 1st timer syndrome, this book will give you the practical tools you can use to find your intrinsic value and create even more value for those you lead.
Eddie Turner
Dr. Assegid Habtewold does a fine job adding his voice to the conversation about emerging leadership and the 1st timer syndrome by covering the key concepts needed for success.
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