Soft skills can make or break your career success, and among those valuable traits one stands out above the rest in importance: communication. At Labor Solutions, we evaluate job candidates carefully on an array of abilities, but if an applicant has poor communication skills, it can be particularly difficult to place them in a suitable position.
What Makes Communication Skills So Important?
If there is a workplace in Central Florida where communication isn’t vital to the operations, Labor Solutions has not yet found it. Every single company out there relies on the ability of its employees to competently communicate to some degree.
At the very basic level, managers must communicate to their team what tasks need to be done, and how, and probably when. This is when active listening is crucial. Active listening means paying close attention to a speaker and providing appropriate responses to indicate comprehension. Even if the information is conveyed via the written word, an active listener reads the document or text carefully and responds affirmatively or with follow-up questions.
Another aspect of communication that comes in very handy in most workplaces is that of persuasion. Persuasion is the ability to convince others to agree with one, to see their point of view, or to perform a specific action. This need not be as sinister as it may sound, as many of us use persuasion on a daily basis to show our teammates a more efficient method for completing a task or to assure a customer that making a certain purchase is truly a wise plan.
An effective communicator is aware that there are a multitude of communication styles that people use and adjusts how they deliver a message in order to best convey the intended meaning.
Labor Solutions Has Something to Say
If you feel that your communication skills could use a touch of refining, give us a call at Labor Solutions. We’d be glad to conduct a mock interview with you to provide some tips on how to improve your professional soft skills.
