It is always good to review and have open discussion with students before taking a test. Sometimes it helps them tobetter prepare with any last minute touch ups.

I understand and support the data that most problems and dismissals in the workplace are caused by soft skill or EQ issues. However, perhaps that is because the technical or hard skills are a given, something like compensation. I have also seen research that shows that cognitive ability tests are the best indicators of job success. However, because of the adverse impact, they are not often used. How do you integrate these two ideas?

In the workplace, there are many types of people that have many different types of personalities. One may have soft skills and display a character that another that has soft skills doesn't understand. Many people become offended too easily in the workplace. Many have underlying emotions that are brought to the workplace and taken out on other people. Soft skills are very important to have in any area of life especially when teaching. Being able to approach someone and be approachable are keys to be a successful instructor.

I really enjoyed this module. We have a annual advisory board meeting. This board discuss areas in which our students need improvement across the board. The number one topic is "Soft Skills". I can walk away with greater knowledge understanding the difference between EQ and IQ. The tips were also helpful pertaining to becoming aware of your emotions.

I think before we develop skill sets such as soft skills, we first have to know ourselves. Many instructors including myself don't know what makes us who we are. We have to list self weaknesses, strength and then figure out what makes us tick or motivate us from the start. By learning ourselves, we can then focus on development of soft skills based on ourselves. We often do these type of learning thinking that one size fits all attitude. We are all unique and diverse that by using these techniques to fit out needs. Often we are too busy with our schedules, personal issues, we often do not reflect who we are in the first place. Often, we should reflect how we got here, who we are and from within, we can develop our own unique soft skills. The "Most Interesting Man" commercial speaks volumes. Once you know who you are, done things that no one has done, we become unique and students and others around you will treat you such so that your soft skills or "hook" will make you better and effective instructor/teacher.

This is a topic that is new for me and I am very excited to learn about it

fisrt be a good listener and solve conflicts

It is true...you get what you give...So, when you bring a positive attitude to the classroom, you will, mostlikely, receive the same from your students.

A great class is a motivated Instructor and an Interested class.

Soft skills are essentially important for all types of students but most important to the troubled students. Identifying them and meeting their needs is only done through these skills. Instructors that lack these skills should not be teachers. They cannot be effective teachers unless they get to know their students and identify their needs educationally. Some students will not be sucessful unless approached in the right manner. For many of these students, you only get one shot at this. If approached in the wrong way, in a threatening manner for example, they may completely shut down and it may become impossible to resolve.

I would love to hear suggestions from others regarding motivating students that are ready to give up on their education and/or those that are not applying themselves to their abilities.

Being polite,tactful, honest, providing a constructive feedback and having good positive relationships with students is key success for a good instructor.

I teach Psychology and have noticed that many of my students lack emotional intelligence skills. This topic is even briefly lectured on, but the mindset of the students doesn't seem to change from the beginning to the end of the course. I know that the students would be more successful throughout their program of study and in the work place if they would actually recognize their deficit and practice using emotional intelligence. Any ideas?

I enjoyed this lesson. I can see that soft skills along with people skills are important to function of a healthy work environment or a teacher student relationship. It's like comparing it to an overly strict parent. Being strict is ok but overly strict is not. The child will rebell initially.

I am teaching a Human Growth & Development class right now and some days I am seriouslly thinking of showing up to my class dress as a clown just to get them going. If anyone have some suggestions on how to motivate this specific group I would appreciate it.

People skills are so very important in every area of life, especially being a nurse educator. we deal with people every minute of the day, and if you are not aware of every word, every body language you are exhibiting you can totally distroy your patients their family members, and your students.This module is a refresher course for me. Thanks

Motivating student is difficult until you can generate their passion in a subject. Got to find what the passion is.

I completely agree with all that is promoted in this section; however, with me being a communication instructor I feel most students identify soft skills as purely an innate behavior. "I already know how to communicate with others" is a very common complaint from my students. Is there a method/way that could by-pass all the complaints about learning these emotional intelligence/soft skills/people skills?

Managing emotions is a fine art that very few people have mastered. I am asking for advice on the following: Let's say you sit in an area at the office where you are surrounded by many employees because of lack of space. So therefore you are constantly hearing other people's conversations, and a lot of them are not appropriate. Specifically, you hear others talk trash about other employees, the school as an organization and even students. Let's say you have given suggestions on handle to handle these feelings on many occasions, but they never seem to take your advice--they just continue to complain. They are all talk and no action. So what do you do? This has happened to me a lot and I have had to keep myself a time or two from losing my temper.

Having worked in an environment that was strained at best because of the behavior of the workers. Degrating,name calling, arguments and disrespect were an everyday occurance. I referred to the job as the toxic dump. EAP had to come in and be a mediator to help improve the work place. Employees were not happy therefore the customers were not happy. I have learned that a work place needs to be free from verbal harrassment. Once the work place is out of control how does one retake the environment and change it into a pleasant place with mutual respect between employees?