Applied Improvisation Techniques to Enhance IT Majors' Soft Skills, Communication Skills, and Teamwork Skills

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Teamwork Skills

scholarly journals EDUCATING SOFT SKILLS IN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 4.0: THE CASE OF OFFICE ADMINISTRATION, TRA VINH UNIVERSITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-288
Author(s):  
Chi Yen Le ◽  
Nghi Diep Phuong Nguyen ◽  
Truc Thi Nha Le
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Training Method ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Training Institutions ◽  
Teamwork Skills

Education in the direction of developing soft skills competencies for students is an issue that needs to be addressed at the training institutions. In particular, in the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0, it is creating many challenges for educational activities. The results from the study of soft skills situation on Office Administrationstudents indicate that most students are satisfied with the skills equipped with the rate of 74.7%, in which, communication skills, teamwork skills, presentation skills, decision making and problemsolving skills,  negotiation and conflict resolution skills are highly appreciated by students for their need. However, the actual capacity of students is only above average. Therefore, the School needs to pay more attention to the training of soft skills, innovating the training method towards approaching the Industrial Revolution 4.0 to create a quality, intellectual and soft skills capacity workforce will be the top task for current training institutions.

Relevance of Soft Skills in Career Success

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-102
Author(s):  
Mitashree Tripathy
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Work Atmosphere

In this fast transforming business economy caused by globalization, it has become incredibly important that employees keep on upgrading their hard skills and polish their soft skills if they aspire for a career that not only pays them well but also promises better opportunities in career development. Though the importance of soft skills is recognised in everyday life, in maintaining interpersonal relationships, in buildings strategies for success, its implications are mainly found in organisations and workplaces. Soft skills, however, play a significant role in building a career. Today to succeed and survive in the competitive workplace employees are expected to change their attitude, attention, and commitment to work. Besides, they are also expected to develop other abilities like effective communication skills, teamwork, leadership qualities, stress management, emotional intelligence etc. Competition is progressively increasing across workplaces worldwide. The need to be fit, flexible and existing is highly intrinsic. Soft skills thus help deal with challenges as they offer essential factors to influence the success of the employees and the organisations. This paper focuses on discussing the relevance of soft skills in career success, job satisfaction, creating a better work atmosphere and bringing about productivity at the workplace.

PECULIARITIES OF DEVELOPING “SOFT” SKILLS AT FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES FOR CADETS AND MASTERS OF STATE FIRE ACADEMY OF EMERCOM OF RUSSIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
M. Korosteleva ◽  
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A. Muzychenko ◽  
E. Skurko ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Team Leadership ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Language Classes

Universal competencies (“soft” skills), which must be developed in a modern specialist along with the professional ones are analyzed in the article. The importance and relevance of developing such skills as communication skills, the ability to work in a team, leadership qualities and others are justified. Practical examples of developing such skills in foreign language classes are presented.

scholarly journals STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING IN RELATION TO CLASS PERFORMANCES AND SOFT SKILLS: A META-ANALYSIS AND SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Rukmini ◽  
Cindy Cindy ◽  
Pricillia Tanoto
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning

Background: Studies showed that SCL improved quality of medical education through knowledge acquisition, class performance, students’ attitude and soft skills. Although research about SCL and its impact has been widely known, overall correlation of SCL to the class performances has not yet been established. Strong correlation between SCL to class performances would serve the purpose of teaching and learning and more importantly would answer the skepticism of institution or faculty members in implementing SCL. In addition, learning through systematic review of others’ studies, how SCL influenced soft skill aspects would be benefited for medical educators. Soft skills such as learning motivation, communication skills, and teamwork may lead educators to the favor of SCL approaches. This review was to find the correlation of student-centered learning to the students’ performances and soft skill aspects in medical education.Method: To find the correlation of the SCL and class performances, we used meta-analysis. We also performed a systematic review to qualitatively find the relationship between SCL and other aspects, such as teamwork, communication skills, and learning motivation. Literatures were filtered from databases of: Proquest, Springerlink, Biomed Central (BMC) open, BMJ open, and Google Scholar. The inclusion criteria were published empirical articles (2000-2013) reported SCL’s effect on class performances or other aspects (learning motivation, teamwork, communication skills). We utilized PRISMA protocol to filter the inclusion articles. By reading abstracts and further snowballing searching, we found 12 articles for the meta-analysis and 33 articles for the systematic review.                                                                 Results: Among 12 articles of the meta-analysis, 9 articles showed positive correlation between SCL and class performances. Three studies reported that SCL had no effect on the class performances. None of the articles reported any negative impact. We utilized the Comprehensive Meta-Analysis software to analyze the data and found r = 0.46 and 95% CI: 0.32 - 0.57. It showed a statistically significant correlation between SCL and class performances. On the systematic review, we found that SCL improved communication skills, team work, and learning motivation.Conclusion: From the meta-analysis we found that SCL improved class performances about 46%. It was showed that SCL methods were superior in improving soft skills such as communication skills, teamwork, and learning motivation.                

scholarly journals INTEGRATING SOFT SKILLS INTO TEACHING ORGANIZING EVENTS SUBJECT AT SCHOOL OF STATE MANAGEMENT, OFFICE ADMINISTRATION, AND TOURISM – TRA VINH UNIVERSITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-234
Author(s):  
Tuan Minh Chau
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Specialized Knowledge ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
State Management ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teamwork Skills

The article presents the importance of integrating soft skills into teaching specialized knowledge. Through the article, the author presents the importance of Organizing Events subject as well as shows that Organizing Events is a subject that requires learners to have many skills such as: independent working skills, teamwork skills, creative thinking skills; coordination skills, problem-solving skills, listening skills and some other skills. All the skills mentioned above are applied to Organizing Events at each stage, each activity when organizing the event. In order for students to effectively apply the skills into the subject, teachers can design lectures, provide exercises in accordance with the content of the subject, divide each stage so that it can be further taught helping students grasp each content, thereby being able to best use the subject when designing each profile for the assumed event and students have to practice organizing events according to reality. Besides, the articlealso emphasizes that integrating soft skills into teaching specialized knowledge is a necessity, from the reality of the Organizing Events subject.

scholarly journals REALITY OF ASSESSING GROUP WORK SKILLS IN CDIO-BASED TRAINING PROGRAMS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-116
Author(s):  
Quoc Khac Nguyen ◽  
Thanh Ngoc Dan Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Work Skills ◽  
Important Stage ◽  
Teamwork Skills

Courses in the undergraduate Information Technology CDIO-based training program are usually designed to  integrate at least one kind of soft skills. In fact, teamwork is one of the skills that has been most applied by  lecturers. However, lecturers often find it very difficult to assess learners fairly, objectively and comprehensively when applying this method while they are well aware of the fact that assessment is a particularly important stage and has a strong impact on both learners’ learning results and the quality of a training program. The paper presents the facts and recommends solutions to assessing learners through their teamwork skills in curriculum based on CDIO approach.

On Being a Patient

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-59
Author(s):  
Pranab Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Education System ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Patient Experiences ◽  
Medical Education System ◽  
Good Learning ◽  
Humanities In Medicine ◽  
Learning Points ◽  
Patient Narrative

Published narratives on doctor-as-patient experiences show that physicians become more empathetic once they have gone through the process of being a patient. In this article, in response to a published doctor-as-patient narrative, the author enquires into the possible reason for such empathy-in-hindsight. The objectified and structured medical education system which puts little emphasis on soft skills, a rapidly evolving technological-diagnostic revolution that is distancing the patient from the doctor and lacunae in development of communication skills in doctors come up as probable reasons for this. Narratives of physician-patients provide good learning points, especially with respect to the lacunae in the teaching of empathy, communication and humanities in medicine.

scholarly journals Assessing Students’ Knowledge and Soft Skills Competency in the Industrial Training Programme: The Employers’ Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lim Khong Chiu ◽  
Nor Idayu Mahat ◽  
Basri Rashid ◽  
Norhanim A. Razak ◽  
Hamimi Omar
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Industrial Training ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Service Sectors

<p>The importance of developing soft skills competency among students should be the priority of all the Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in order to ensure their graduates are marketable. Therefore, it is essential for HEIs to distinguish the knowledge and soft skill levels of their students so that strategies and intervention could be implemented to rectify their capabilities. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the knowledge and soft skills competency from the employer’s viewpoints on the Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) students participating in the industrial training programme. A total of 438 employers from different industrial backgrounds had participated in this study. A questionnaire consisting of five dimensions of soft skills which are basic knowledge, communication skills, practical skills, leadership, and attitude was utilized to collect data. The results of this study indicate that the employers were satisfied with the knowledge and soft skills competency portrayed by UUM students in preparing themselves for the real work environment. The employers from the service sectors were satisfied with students’ performance in all dimensions of soft skills measured. However, employers from the factory and commerce sector perceived as moderate satisfaction for all dimensions of soft skills. Additionally, the employers of the factory and commerce sector assessed by giving the lowest satisfaction score for “hands-on” skills, but generally they satisfied with the students’ communication skills. The information gathered can provide important insights from the perspective of organizations which is valuable in improving the overall hard and soft skills competency for future professionals and managers.</p>

scholarly journals PEDAGOGICAL INFLUENCE IN THE INTEGRATION OF SOFT SKILLS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (42) ◽  
pp. 329-344
Author(s):  
Ilangko Subramaniam
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
School Students ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
High Performing Schools ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Teamwork Skills

Soft skills are non-academic competencies that complement a student's academic achievement to face the world of work in the future. This study aims to identify ways of implementing soft skills and the kind of soft skills emphasized in the teaching and learning of the Malay language among secondary school students in nine selected schools in Kedah, Penang, and Perak. The study involved focus group interviews and individual interviews consisted of 119 students and 26 Malay language teachers. The findings show that soft skills apply directly and indirectly through various learning activities in Malay Language subjects. Respondents from normal schools received less exposure to soft skills compared to respondents from high-performing schools (HPS). Among the soft skills identified in this study are teamwork skills, self-confidence, communication, critical thinking, leadership, influencing skills, critical and creative thinking skills (CCTS), and problem-solving skills. Communication skills and teamwork skills were among the most detected soft skills in the three high-performing schools involved in this study. Meanwhile, the activities carried out to apply soft skills are group discussions, presentations, acting, poetry recitation, storytelling, public speaking, forums, and question and answer. Although this study is not comprehensive in terms of the number of schools and respondents, the findings of this study are important to explain the real scenario of the level of mastery and integration of soft skills, especially in the nine cases of this study.

scholarly journals ECOTOURISM AS A SOFT SKILL PRACTICE FOR MILLENIALS

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
I Dewa Gde Satrya ◽  
Thomas Stefanus Kaihatu ◽  
Lexi Pranata
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Interpersonal Skills ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Human Resource Capacity ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Resource Capacity

Traveling not only creates fun for tourists. Tourism activities are believed to also improving human resources ability. It is a significant aspect related to human resource capacity that soft skills ownership which can be trained to modern travellers through ecotourism activities. This descriptive qualitative study describes soft skills trained to tourists from among younger generation in ecotourism destinations. Statement of the problem in this research is what is the relevance between ecotourism and soft skill ownership? This study identifies soft skills trained in ecotourism activities that are interpersonal skills characterized by communication skills, like others, have empathy and concern, warm, forgiving, open, adaptive and self-control abilities. The interpersonal skills that are part of this soft skill are believed to be important and will help younger generation to succeed in living their lives.

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