Dear friends,
I am excited to share with you that I authored
a book on soft skills that can be used for both academic and reference
purposes. It is titled, “Soft Skills: Toward a Sanctimonious Discipline.” Here
are the details about the book with a free chapter. I would appreciate if you
could share your thoughts about this book on social media channels including
Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
About The Book
“Novice teachers often share what they
know. More seasoned teachers focus on what the participants need to learn and
take away to improve their work. More mature teachers know their audience and
why those participants are at the session.” —Dave Ulrich
This book strives to achieve
sanctimonious status to the soft skills discipline. It explores soft skills in
global organizations and educational institutions. It emphasizes the
significance of soft skills and explains the methods to acquire soft skills. It differentiates between soft and hard
skills. It enlightens that a judicious blend of hard and soft skills is
essential to achieve professional and leadership success. It crafts a course
curriculum for soft skills. It unveils the list of soft skills essential for
leaders. It explores tools and techniques to measure soft skills. It coins an
innovative evaluation tool―Meka’s Five-Level Model to measure soft skills
training. It implores to build hard skills but mind soft skills. It calls for
appreciating others to make a difference.
It is a universal book to improve your attitude, personality, and behavior to achieve all-round success.
This book can be used for academic and
reference purposes. It is a short course on soft skills to achieve your career
and leadership success. You can easily toss the book into a briefcase or purse
and read here and there as time allows. It is a quick reference guide for
educators, executives, leaners, and leaders to achieve personal and
professional success.
"With the realization of one's
own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better
world." —Dalai Lama
Most people talk about building
confidence but they are not aware of the right tools and techniques to build
confidence. Confidence is the first step to achieve peace, happiness, and
success. Confidence is essential in every aspect of life throughout the day and
every moment. Hence, we will discuss confidence; differentiate between
confidence and overconfidence; and explore tools and techniques to build
confidence.
Confidence
versus Overconfidence
Confidence should not be confused with
overconfidence. Confidence means when you think that you can execute the tasks
effectively whereas overconfidence means when you think that you can alone execute the tasks effectively. Confident
people are aware of their limitations while overconfident people ignore them. In
my personal life, I made many decisions hastily resulting in lots of failures.
I was overconfident and felt that things would fall into place automatically
and would achieve the desired outcomes. But I failed miserably in many
instances. The only solace is that I learned lessons from each failure and
evolved as an educator and executive coach. My failures served as inspiring
stories during my leadership training programs and coaching sessions. Things
will fall into place automatically reflects overconfidence. On the other hand,
if people take risk factors into account and act with firmness and calmness, it
reflects confidence. Currently, I started making decisions slowly and cautiously
because of my previous failures and the success rate is relatively higher now.
Therefore, people must analyze, understand themselves and learn from their
failures to excel as a confident person.
Tips
to Build Your Confidence
It is easy to excel as a confident
person if you understand the tools and techniques. Here are some tools and
techniques to build your confidence.
- Believe in yourself. Unless you believe in yourself the world doesn’t believe in you.
- Journal your feelings, emotions, egos,
and observations regularly. Analyze them.
- Overcome your apprehensions and superstitions.
- Silence your inner critic.
- Maintain a positive attitude.
- Surround with positive people.
- Praise others graciously and
liberally.
- Dress well in comfortable clothes
and shoes.
- Exercise regularly to energize your
body.
- Maintain positive body language.
- Remain calm under uncertainty and
stress.
- Love yourself. Unless you love
yourself, you cannot love others.
- Set your goals in such a way that you feel uncomfortable to share with your friends and relatives.
- Don’t compare with others. You are a unique gift to the world. Nobody can be like you.
- Don’t focus too much on your weaknesses. Instead, focus on your strengths but guard against your weaknesses.
- Stretch yourself by coming out of
your comfort zone.
- Execute tasks with thorough
preparation without any fear.
- Anticipate distractions and
failures.
- Don’t worry excessively about your mistakes. Mistakes are the learning lessons. Remember, everyone makes mistakes and nobody can grow without making mistakes.
- Develop an attitude to understand the circumstances which are beyond your control.
- Take feedback to identify your successes and especially failures.
- Emphasize excellence, not perfection because perfection wastes a lot of your precious time, money,
and energy.
Visualize that you are successful.
Entertain positive thoughts and downplay your negative thoughts. Remember that
nobody is perfect in this world. Identify your inborn talents to leverage them.
Build skills around them. Shift from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. Learn
from failures. Consult experts and seek their guidance. Don’t hesitate to learn
from others irrespective of rank and position. Everyone is good at something.
Identify, develop, and leverage them. Acquire and share your knowledge with
others. Be creative to stand out from others. Be altruistic to make a
difference in the lives of others.
Conclusion
We are born with certain gifts to change
this world. Hence, nurture your nature. Identify what kind of seed in you,
explore and exploit it completely.
Life is full of challenges. It throws
both opportunities and threats. Don’t be overjoyed by opportunities and get upset
by threats. Take challenges in your stride to build your confidence.
There is a thin line separating
confidence and overconfidence. Understand the difference and raise your bar
constantly by emphasizing excellence. Remember that overconfidence kills your
opportunities. Hence, believe in yourself and be confident to achieve amazing
success in all aspects of your life.
Note: Here is the link to purchase my bestselling book ‘Soft Skills: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Overcome Workplace Challenges to Excel as a Leader URL: https://www.amazon.com/Soft-Skills-Overcome-Workplace-Challenges/dp/1628653035
Life is great!
Professor
M.S. Rao
Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants,
India
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