How do you improve your soft skill?
Paria Adib
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Hi, my name is Paria. I'm a product designer from Iran and have been dealing with and issue recently. It's easy to know your strength and weakness when it comes to hard skills, and there are a lot of way to improve them. But what about soft skills? How do you monitorize your soft skills? And what recourses do you use to improve them?
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Dilan Laçin@dilan_lacin
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Hi,
That's a tough question. If you are struggling on improving your soft skills, there is a good reason, and I think that's the case for everybody.
Personally, when it generally comes to skills, I try to replicate what I picture in my mind to be the ideal image of what I want. Then, I try to seek tools that would let me get as close as possible to this image in my mind.
You gotta stay open-minded about not getting nearly as close as you wish. Do not invest massively in soft skills, you will make lots of errors. First practice with free-to-use tools, keep note of everything you think of in a doc, PowerPoint, or anything else that helps you memorize it.
Soft skills can be easily forgotten, it's better to save everything into files or even papers if it helps you to focus better on your training. I never relied on my poor brain for that matter. Just build your own library of knowledge and go back to it when you need it.
Just keep trying and practicing, and be open to making mistakes or picking the wrong tool, or the wrong people as well. Just build something, as ugly as it may be at first, be confident and persistent and it will improve faster than you thought.
You can also try to get feedback on your progress and issues to skip a lot of headaches since a lot went through those issues as well.
Most people will not dare to challenge themselves out of fear of not meeting their own expectations, gotta drop the ego and throw yourself at enjoying the process.
Also, don't try to do too many at once, pick one until you reached your maximum.
Then go for the next skill you want to improve, and at some point, at least in my case, by trying different things, you learn some new aspect you wouldn't have if you had to focus just on the first skill.
Some call it a virtuous cycle. When you get into this dynamic, then your soft skills will improve mutually, almost like a symbiotic relationship.
Hope it helps! ;D
