5 Essential People Skills You Need To Succeed

Do you communicate with people and connect to them personally and professionally?

Or are you book smart or people smart?

Do you maintain your authenticity in public?

Today I was searching about #socialskills on youtube on how you can become confident, memorable, and authentic while interacting with people in events, clubs, or meetups.

So as always I came across my favorite Vanessa Van Edwards 's video on 10 essential people skills you need to succeed.

People skills aka soft skills or interpersonal skills or social skills whatever you call are the most important and under-appreciated skills you need in your career to grow.

So in this article, I am going to share 5 people skills that you need to become memorable and confident in public.?

1.? Social Assertiveness

Do you stand up for yourself in social situations??

Do you express your thoughts and feelings in appropriate ways??

We have a limited amount of energy to spend daily. If you are socially assertive you can save and spend your energy in the right ways and,

if you lack Social assertiveness?You will be distracted and get into awkward situations and eventually, you will waste your energy.

Those who are high socially assertive?

• Have clarity while talking
• More focused on their social goals
• Are clear with boundaries
• Are able to say No
• Stand up for their needs

Those who lack social assertiveness

• Feels out of control in social situations
• Have more toxic people in their lives
• Are addicted to people pleasing

2.? Craft A Memorable Presence?

Are you memorable?

Do people remember your name after meeting you?

Do you make a strong first impression?

People with a great presence are good at making lasting connections.

Your presence with people has a direct relationship with building personal connections.

If you have a strong presence people get attracted to you and want to work with you.

People with low presence?

• Struggle to make friends and clients?
• Frequently deal with people forgetting their name
• Feel awkward in social interactions.

People with a memorable presence?

• Leave a lasting impression?
• Quickly build rapport
• Have a robust network

3. Be A Master Communicator

Do you like to talk in public??

Do you express your ideas??

Master communicators know how to express their ideas to a large group.

Poor communicators?

• Think they are unworthy
• Cannot get buy-in on their opinions
• Avoid sharing their ideas
• Are underappreciated for their hard work

Master communicators excel at

• Public speaking?
• Presenting
• Communicating big ideas to big groups

4. Overcome Social Anxiety?

Do you feel socially anxious?

Everyone feels anxious at some point in social situations

But

Can you overcome social anxiety and sustain lasting confidence?

Some people are so good at this and have conquered this either by getting into these situations a lot of times or they might have an internal strategy to overcome the situation.?

People have high social anxiety?

• Avoid social situations even if they would be beneficial to career goals
• Feel awkward and trapped
• Get stuck in their own head during interactions and conversations

People who excel at sustaining confidence?

• Can excel in most social situations
• Feel awkward and are able to overcome it
• Feel more excited than anxious when socializing

And last but not least my favorite…

5. Be Charismatic?

Most people think they have to be born charismatic?

This is so not true…

Charisma is a blend of two things

Work + Competence

Those who are charismatic are

• Seen as highly warm
• Are approachable
• Trustworthy?
• Likable
• Highly competent
• Dependable and capable
• Knowledgeable

People who are not charismatic are seen as

• Cold or Intimidating
• Trouble opening up, trusting, and getting to know them
• Seen as flaky?
• People do not depend on them easily

Conclusion

So these are the 5 essential people skills you need and the best part about these is they all can be learned.

Remember it’s a SKILL?

You just need to practice it whenever you get a chance.

If you find this helpful then do like and tell me in the comments which skill you think you need to work on??

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