Social skills are one of the foundations of employability and life success. We use social skills every day to interact and communicate with others. Social skills encompass the capacity to know oneself and to know others. Despite this crucial impact on our lives, we only learn social skills from experiencing the learning by doing method.
Asking for help, seeking feedback, conflict management, praising others, teamwork, emotional intelligence, and working with others are skills like any other skill. They develop from experience with people and learning from successes and failures in social settings. Social skills can be taught, practiced and learned. We can improve them if we put an effort into it.
Developing social skills is about being aware of emotions and communication patterns and using them effectively in different situations with people, for instance negotiating, customer service, project management, chatting with friends and family.
Evidence-based techniques from positive psychology build skills and incorporate lasting habits into people’s lives. By using positive psychology tools, we ensure the lasting impact of our projects in which we support people in developing their emotional and social intelligence. In those projects we usually focus on effective listening, clear communication, knowledge of social rules, understanding self and others, using social skills in different settings such as work environment and private life.
