F.A.S.T. Track – Essential Soft Skills

Course Outcome

According to LinkedIn’s “Workplace Learning Report,” soft skills are the No. 1 priority for talent development. Further, a LinkedIn study found that hiring managers indicated their company’s productivity was limited due to a lack of candidates’ soft skills. Findings by the Stanford Research Institute International and the Carnegie Mellon Foundation found that 75% of long term job success depends upon soft skills mastery and only 25% of technical skills.

 “The No. 1 problem with today’s young workforce is the soft skills gap,” “It runs across the entire workforce – among workers with technical skills that are in great demand, every bit as much as workers without technical skills.” Soft skills are key to individuals’ success in the workplace and are a competitive differentiator in the marketplace. “They’re the source of a huge amount of power that is always right there hiding in plain sight – a tremendous reservoir of often untapped value – a secret weapon for any smart organization, team, leader or individual performer,” – Bruce Tulgan

This personalized course is focused on equipping you with the essential soft skills that will produce competence in both organizational and relational effectiveness. Soft Skills are defined as a combination of people skills, social skills, communication skills, character traits, attitudes, career attribute, social intelligence and emotional intelligence quotients among others that enable people to navigate their environment, work well with others, perform well, and achieve their goals. The Collins English Dictionary defines the term “soft skills” as “desirable qualities for certain forms of employment that do not depend on acquired knowledge: they include common sense, the ability to deal with people, and a positive flexible attitude. In this lesson, we will utilize your personal DISC behavioral style and provide you with solutions in the following 6 core soft skill competencies: communication, collaboration, conflict resolution, confidence, creativity and character.

This course will produce the following outcomes:

• Understand How to Increase Communicate More Effectively With Different Behavioral Styles
• Discover How To Collaborate More Efficiently Within a Team Concept
• How to Reduce and Resolve Conflict Between Team Members
• Identify Your Behavioral Traits Producing More Confidence in the Workplace
• Uncover Your Qualities of Creativity That Can Be Utilized in the Workplace
• Recognize How To Protect Your Character 

Capturing Your Thoughts

Each of our courses offers two ways to be able to capture your thoughts. You can capture these reflective thoughts by using the note-taking section that is built into each module. Taking notes as you are learning these insights will ensure that they will not be lost or forgotten. Your note taking can serve as a kind of journaling process that you can re-visit while working through the various components of each module. Secondly, we have provided a separate downloadable interactive PDF that has questions for you to answer in each of the four lessons – Assumptions, Assessments, Application and Accountability. You can save and print out this PDF Interactive information and share with your manager, team members or peers

IMPORTANT: Before you begin your course sessions below, you will need to download and save the attached Focus Life Institute interactive document that you will be using to answer the questions within this course. This document will provide you with a complete portfolio of this course that can be used as a personal reference, a discussion with others or can be handed in as an assignment based on your specific circumstances. Please make sure you remember where you saved your document and keep it open as you will be filling the document out after each individual session in this course.