This episode is the continuation of SOFT SKILLS MATTER. As mentioned in my other episode, soft and hard skills are equally important. Soft skills are necessary to lead and manage people effectively and hard skills are technical and domain knowledge skills necessary to perform your tasks.. I will continue today with team management, change management, negotiation and influencing and decision making.

Looking at Team management, A team is two or more people working together to achieve a common goal. There are different types of team namely functional, cross-functional, semi autonomous and virtual team. All these types of team were covered in one of my podcast. There is another type of team I didn’t mention is the project team

A Project management team comprises of.

For a team to perform well, you need a mixture of personalities.

- You need members who are thinking-oriented. They are thinkers, monitors/evaluators, specialists.

-  People-oriented members are coordinators, team workers, resource investigators,

- Action oriented members are shaper, implementers, completers.

The next soft skill is the ability to manage change. Change management process start with:

1. Recognizing the need for change and start the change process. If you are stubborn and you don’t start the change process your business can be out of business.

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