Soft Skills -Tough Times / MENTORING
Here’s a soft skill that makes challenge us. While other soft skills are for own benefit, Mentoring offers us an opportunity to benefit someone else and by doing so, demonstrate our leadership in action. In the office or on the Zoom screen, what do you see? A group of...
Soft Skill 15 : Brainstorming
As the name implies, people can get very animated when it comes to Brainstorming. I was in a training course once and a member of our group got so carried away by the rush of ideas he was experiencing that he rose up, rushed towards the leader, lifted the marker pen...
Soft Skills for Tough Times No.18 : Responding to Pressure
I expect it’s different now but the idea of a teacher at the school I went to, pausing mid-lesson, sitting down (they always stood) and saying… ’…Boys (we were all boys) as you go along life’s winding path, you will encounter difficulties and life altering setbacks....
Soft Skills in Hard Times No. 23 : Resolution & Commitment
As soon as I had typed those two words on the page I got a rush of enthusiasm followed by a slow sinking feeling. You can’t argue with the concept and it does inspire me but I find the action implied by the Commitment part more challenging. I cant imagine too many...
About Malcolm Andrews
After working in sales and then purchasing roles for almost 18 years with companies in the UK, Japan, Korea and then here in Hong Kong, I became involved in the field of business skills development. 20 years later, my special interests in this area are individual management style building, interpersonal communication and influencing strategies.
