Soft Skills/Competencies You Can't Do Without

Indispensable Soft Skills/Competencies

Among all the competencies/skills the ones that are most important for every person are the following:

1. Goal Setting
2. Time Management
3. Managing Anger 
4. Assertiveness 

Every individual at personal, professional and family level must start with setting up the goals in these respective areas. The goal should be long term goals, medium term goals and short term goals. Obviously each goal must be accomplished within a specified time.

The time element in goal setting then makes you to look at the second competency/skill and that is time management. Time is the most valuable resource with every human being and one should know how to utilize it most prudently.

Almost every goal of yours will involve interactions with people. And so interpersonal relationships play a vital role in your life. Effective interpersonal relations facilitate goal accomplishment. Two most important aspects of any interpersonal relationship are managing your anger and yet being assertive while dealing with the people. 

Therefore it is important that everyone should gain authentic and necessary knowledge in these competencies/skills and put it to practice in the best ways. Effective implementation depends on how well you have picked the threads of these subjects.

We are aware that in their busy schedules most of the people do not find enough time to read the literature/books to gain knowledge even in the most essentials areas of their lives. Therefore we scouted around and found for you some reading material that gives most important knowledge of these subjects in the shortest possible time. We recommend following four books that are part of the "essentials of a subject" series books. We give below the links from where you can obtain these books:

1. Essentials of Goal Setting

eBook in PDF format: http://nbuu.co/cv
eBook in Kindle format: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AP1DEXO
Printed book: http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Goal-Setting-Subject-Volume/dp/1481283790/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

2. Essentials of Time Management (Taking Control of Your Life)

eBook in PDF format: Not available now
eBook in Kindle format: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009WXI1ZW
Printed book: http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Time-Management-Taking-Control/dp/1480196436/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

6. Essentials of Anger Management

eBook in PDF format: http://nbuu.co/cy
eBook in Kindle format: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AZFLIII
Printed book: http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Anger-Management-Subject-Volume/dp/1481963554/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

7. Essentials of Assertive Behavior (Recently Added)

eBook in PDF format: http://nbuu.co/cx

eBook in Kindle format: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C5UMCEU
Printed book: http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Assertive-Behavior-Subject-Volume/dp/1484036891/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

Our New Release: Competencies and Competency Matrix

The Much Awaited Book on "Competencies and Competency Matrix" Finally Unleashed (Preview link: https://www.createspace.com/Preview/1101359)

The famous authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar have been writing articles on the 'competencies' and 'competency matrix' for quite some time now. It has been attracting an extremely large readership till date.

Considering that such a large audience needed knowledge and its application on this subject, the authors finally decided to write a self-contained book covering all the necessary aspects of 'competencies' and competency matrix'.

The book titled "Competencies and Competency Matrix" has been published in eBook format as well as in the print format and is available from Amazon.com. (You may like to preview the book at its preview link https://www.createspace.com/Preview/1101359)

For Owning your Copy/Copies

For owning your copy/copies of the book, you can refer the following links:

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About the Book and the Authors

In this book, you will read all about building competencies to achieve effectiveness and therefore, to achieve success in professional, personal, family and social life. For this purpose explanation of a large number of important competencies and the methodology of “competency matrix” have been included in the book.

Authors, Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar, in their capacity of top notch business executives, highly sought after business consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors have had extensive and intensive hands-on experience of competency matrix and competency building. Therefore, the treatment that is given to this vital topic in the book has turned out to be quite authentic. 

Table of Contents 

Following are the contents of the book:

1. Competency (or Competence) Defined
2. Definitions of Certain Terms That Clarify Definition of Competency Better
3. Why Competencies?
4. Hard Competencies and Soft Competencies
5. Proficiency Levels of Competencies
6. Developing Competency Matrix
7. Value Addition by Competencies
8. Soft Competencies
9. Descriptions of Some Soft Competencies
10. Generally Asked Questions on Soft Competencies in Interviews

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