Emotional Awareness

Recognizing, labeling, and feeling emotions or affect labeling simply the act of recognizing and putting a name to an emotion.

Accurate Self-Assessment

The ability to accurately examine yourself knowing exactly what you are capable of and what your strengths and limitations are. Your perception of yourself is similar to what others think about you.

Self-Confidence

Self-confidence is trusting your own judgment and abilities, valuing yourself, and feeling worthy, regardless of your imperfections or what others may believe about you.

Self-Talk

Your internal dialogue, which is heavily influenced by your subconscious; it reveals your thoughts, beliefs, questions, and ideas. Self-talk can be both negative and positive.

Realization of Triggers

The ability to recognize that the emotions you are feeling in the current moment are connected to some significant event from your past.

Expressing Yourself

The ability to clearly portray your feelings or views through speech, writing, some form of art, or in your behavior to others.

Managing Emotions and Stress

The ability to realize, accept, and moderate your own feelings.

Controlling Reactions Due to Triggers

The ability to moderate your emotions and subdue triggers in order to thoughtfully respond as opposed to having an emotional outburst, which oftentimes can be harmful to yourself and others you interact with.

Realistic Optimism

Realistic optimists believe they will succeed, but also believe they have to make success happen, recognizing and planning for how they will deal with eventual obstacles and challenges.

Resilience

Adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or other significant sources of stress. Bouncing back up and also forward in your life even against troubling circumstances.

Intrinsic Motivation

An internal force that drives you to achieve a goal for the sake of personal satisfaction not because of external rewards or validation.

Adaptability

The belief that intelligence can be developed and is not a fixed state. Being able to adjust to uncertain or new circumstances and pivoting as needed. Cultivating a growth mindset, one understands that they can improve with hard work, the use of effective strategies, and help from others when needed.

Empathy

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference the capacity to place oneself in another’s position and relate.

Active Listening

A valuable technique that requires the listener to thoroughly absorb, understand, and retain what is being said. The listener may also pay close attention to the speaker’s behavior and body language in order to gain a better understanding of their message.

Removal of Ego

An egoectomy is the removal of ego, the unseating of ego from the driver’s seat of your life. Whenever things do not go the way your ego wants them to go, it can rise up to resist and drive behavior that is not always positive or productive.

Social and Organizational Awareness

Social awareness is the ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others from diverse backgrounds and cultures, to understand social, organizational, and ethical norms for behavior.

Acceptance and Tolerance

The allowance or acceptance of an action, idea, object, or person, with which one may disagree due to contrasting ideas and beliefs.

Non-Verbal Cues and Posture

Communication between people that does not rely on direct verbal translation. This encompasses body movements, body orientation, nuances of the voice, facial expressions, details of dress, and time and space in accordance with others.

Coaching

The ability to improve a professional’s on-the-job performance, looking beyond their current capabilities and being able to see the potential in them and finding ways to support their growth.

Leadership

Accomplishment of a goal by directing and orchestrating the efforts of a collaborative team. A successful leader is one who understands people’s motivations and achieves employee participation in a way that marries individual needs and interests to the group’s overall purpose.

Solution-Oriented

People who do not just solve problems, but help identify the source of a question or challenge and provide the right or a better way of doing things.

Influence

Positive influence is the impact you have on another person by pointing out strengths and virtues. The power you have on others to value what is best within themselves. Positive influence helps a person be better today than they were yesterday.

Conflict Management

The aim of conflict management is to enhance learning and group outcomes, including effectiveness or performance in an organizational setting.

Relationship Building

A combination of soft skills that a person applies to connect with others and form positive relationships. Relationship-building skills include getting along with co-workers, contributing to a team, and building an understanding between yourself and others.