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Nawal Abboub
Nawal est experte en neurosciences.

Top 25 soft (core) skills to master in the workplace in 2023

February 26, 2024
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5 min

The skills at the heart of human intelligence have often been poorly defined and often referred to as “soft-skills”, “non-technical”, transversal skills, or even behavioral skills.

Soft-skills suffer from a profound problem: their credibility.

We doubt their usefulness, their definition, or even the terms that are sometimes catchall.

However, they are one of the most valuable foundations and the guarantors of business performance.

For 7 years we have been working to redefine these concepts scientifically. But what did we actually do?

What is the new definition of soft skills?

In the eyes of the cognitive science experts at Rising Up, they are not neither soft, nor transversal and even less “non-technical”.

Because they are our cognitive abilities (core-skills) which are directly linked to soft-skills and in recent years we have made giant strides in their understanding.

The skills at the heart of human intelligence are just as technical, simply they are not learned in the same way.

How do you learn soft (core)  skills?

They can be learned implicitly, from birth, through our experiences professional and personal.

At Rising Up we decided to use 3 criteria to define soft (core) skills.

They must be:

  • attached to a mental action and produce specific behavior
  • modular over time, so that they can evolve (contrary to personality traits).
  • Dependents From the context in which the individual evolves.

For this we have defined 25 soft (core) skills that are essential to be efficient in business.

What are the soft (core) skills to master as of tomorrow?

  • Ambiguity tolerance :

Ability to deal with contradictory, ambivalent, and uncertain information.

  • Anticipation:

Ability to predict a series of events in the future

  • Emotional control:

Ability to trigger, modulate and maintain emotional states.

  • Mental flexibility:

Ability to move from one objective to another quickly or to consider a subject from different perspectives.

  • Perseverance:

Ability to continue to perform actions with a view to a long-term goal.

  • Scheduling:

Ability to prioritize tasks and complete them on time while meeting deadlines.

  • Influence:

Ability to impact the beliefs or behaviors of others.

  • Empathy:

Ability to infer the mental state of others while providing moral support.

  • Logical reasoning:

Inference capacity, which makes it possible to establish links between the occurrence of events and to draw statistical patterns from them.

  • Assertiveness:

Ability to carry and defend one's beliefs and rights.

  • Autonomy:

Ability to complete tasks and set goals with little or no supervision

  • Curiosity:

Ability to explore a wide variety of areas, try to understand how the world works, ask new questions, and actively seek answers.

  • Opening:

Ability to take into account the ideas of other people depending on their experiences, culture, gender or religion.

  • Spirit of synthesis:

Ability to extract and reproduce essential and relevant ideas in the face of a multitude of information.

  • Give positive feedback:

Ability to appreciate and recognize the work and skills of the people you work with.

  • Intuitive reasoning:

Ability to recognize and respond to a situation quickly based on past experiences.

  • Oral expression:

Ability to share information in a clear, appropriate, and effective manner.

  • Be attentive to the other person:

Ability to actively research and understand what an interlocutor is saying when speaking.

  • Monitoring:

Ability to monitor, modify and improve strategies.

  • Efficiency:

Ability to produce maximum results while minimizing time and energy expenditure.

  • Positivity:

Ability to analyze and capitalize on the positive elements of a situation.

  • Emotional identification:

Ability to identify one's emotions and those of others.

  • Responsiveness:

Ability to react quickly to unexpected situations or requests and to adjust priorities accordingly.

  • Taking initiatives:

Ability to perform tasks spontaneously, without being asked.

  • Multitasking:

Ability to manage several tasks over a limited time, while prioritizing them.

Amongst all this list, do you know which ones really belong to you?

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