Soft skills compiled by Eastern Kentucky University from executive listings. Soft skills Soft skills are a combination of people skills, social skills, communication skills, character of personality traits, attitudes, career attribute, social intelligence and emotional intelligence quotients among others that enable people to navigate their environment, work well with others, perform well, and achieve their goals with complementing hard skills. The Collins English Dictionary defines the term "soft skills" as "desirable qualities for certain forms of employment that do not depend on acquired knowledge: they include common sense, the ability to deal with people, and a positive flexible attitude." Since 1959, the
Joshua Freedman (co-authored with Massimiliano Ghini) was released. "The Vital Organization: How to create a high-performing workplace" (2014) was also co-authored with Massimiliano Ghini and in 2015, Freedman published "Whole-Hearted Parenting: How to use emotional intelligence to create more peace, connection, and joy." He is also the lead editor of the management curriculum, Developing Human Performance. Freedman's work has been featured in both scholarly press, including a piece of the development of emotional intelligence for executive performance in the "Journal of Leadership Studies" in 2007. He is mentioned in the books "EQ from the Inside Out" and "Educating People to Be Emotionally