Soft Skills & Image Building Techniques - Training & Development

Soft Skills & Image Building Techniques       

Attaining the Right set of Skills at the Relevant Time to Be Successful in Today's Global Scenario through Soft Skills & Image Building Techniques.    

SOFT SKILLS is the winning mantra in today's  highly competitive sector across diversified domains. Soft Skills is an enhancement to your Hard Skills and formulate your self actualization Success Story, which further leads you towards your ultimate goals. Hard Skills are those skills which one acquires through education and work experience and reveals that whether you have the required knowledge and skills to get the prospective work done. They are reflective set of benchmarks for a particular field.

Soft Skills, also known as People's skills help you differentiate from regular employees to excellent employees.  It's an art of interacting, presenting and building the right professional relationships by attaining the ability to adapt and think creatively to solve problems in a given scenario. These skills encompass interpersonal communications, collaborations, Personality & Behavioral Development, cross-culture management, Presentations, professionalism and adhering to meet critical deadlines.

These skills automatically reflect on your body image, self image, self esteem, self confidence, self competence, self actualization and your achievements. Opportunity & Deliverance are two keys which make a mark in your success in a competitive set-up. So whenever the opportunity arises, one must grab it with both hands and perform to the best of his ability on the given day and seize the momentum. Here the right mix of Soft & Hard skills helps you perform and create the right impression and appropriate image at the suitable time. The corporate scenario acknowledges these skills and looks positively towards such career aspirants who have acquired such wining skills or strive to acquire them in the due process of professionalism. For organizations the winning mantra is simple in the testing times, they look to hire faster, smarter and cheaper people with adequate people's skills. Horizontal cultures are prevailing over the prior vertical cultures and so are the command and control managerial hierarchy being replaced by collaborative practices. To achieve common company oriented goals, the core competencies are increasingly becoming Team driven.

IMAGE MANAGEMENT is the proactive ongoing process through which you continuously control and evaluate the impact of your appearance on you, others and achievement of your goals. It's a framework incorporating all elements of body language, clothing, grooming, etiquette and communication, which eventually helps creating the right image for each role a person undertakes at different occasions. Image Management also imbibes the different aspects of the person, including the inner self, characteristics, as well as the outer environment working towards achieving the image goal .The people we meet judge us by what they see about us, although we individually have different set of experience ability and skills. So our appearance or Image reflects vibes about us, based on what one decides quickly to connect with you or discard you. So as you evolve as a human, first and foremost the body image develops which affects the self image, self esteem, self confidence and this helps you perform better.

Simultaneously soft skill increases your competency level and reflects on your confidence and self esteem. Hence projection of a winning image and possessing soft skills are the dual & vital ingredients of survival in today's professional world.

Manjul Thapliyal

Principal Consultant

Visions Ahead

Web:  www.visionsahead.com

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