Soft skills humans rather than quantitative intelligence. Many industries today give prominence to soft skills of their employees. It is through a 1972 US Army training manual identified formal usage of the term "soft skills" began. Soft skills are a cluster of productive personality traits that characterize one's relationships in a milieu. These skills can include social graces, communication abilities, language skills, personal habits, cognitive or emotional empathy, time management, teamwork and leadership traits. A definition based on review literature explains soft skills as an umbrella term for skills under three key functional elements: people skills, social skills, and personal career attributes.
The Emotional Intelligence Appraisal by The Emotional Intelligence Appraisal have been compared with those from the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT, an EI ability based assessment of emotional intelligence based on the model first proposed by Mayer and Salovey in 1990. While the results indicated a positive correlation this was non-significant. This suggests a distinction between the constructs being measured by these assessments. The MSEIT is ability-based whereas The Emotional Intelligence Appraisal adopts the mixed model proposed by Daniel Goleman. The model introduced by Daniel Goleman focuses on EQ as a wide array of competencies and skills that drive leadership performance. Goleman's model outlines