现在，许多本土职业人士都已意识到在跨国公司中想要往管理岗位晋升，强大的软技能是多么的重要。然而，主要的挑战是找出怎么去培养软技能的方法。要极大地提高你的软技能，说起来好听，做起来却很难。
Most mainland professionals today recognize how important strong soft skills are for their career advancement into management roles in a global company. Still, the main challenge is figuring out how to develop them. Significantly improving your soft skills is a lot easier said than done.
说来容易做时难
Measured By How Strong They’re Viewed By Others
首先，软技能很难通过某一领域的知识来衡量或展示。软技能是要用实际效果来说话的。你可以用证书说明你有会计或工程方面的专业能力，但你却无法得到积极性、团队精神、职业化程度的证书。你是否具备这些素质，则是要取决于别人的观察和认可。
To begin with, soft skills aren’t simply measured or displayed through your knowledge of some topic. Instead, they’re demonstrated to varying degrees of effectiveness. So where you receive certifications for your accounting or engineering abilities, no such certificates exist for initiative, team-orientation, or professionalism. How much you possess these qualities depends entirely on the degree to which they’re seen and acknowledged by others.
比如，在别人眼里，你的团队精神无非是很强、不强，或者介于两者之间。就职业化程度而言，别人会认为你非常具有职业精神、一般、或者完全不职业。如果你的老板和同事都不认为你是优秀的沟通者，那么无论你自己观点如何，你的沟通能力就是不够好。
For example, you’re seen as someone who has a strong or not very strong team orientation, or who demonstrates it to some degree in between. You come across to others as being highly professional, somewhat professional, or not very professional at all. Or if your boss or colleagues don’t view you as being an effective communicator, then no matter what you may think personally, you’re not a very effective communicator.
软技能的提高需要一个好的方法和大量的实践
They Require A Good Approach And Lots Of Practice To Improve
此外，练就优秀的软技能也不是一日之功。软技能不是参加工作坊或读本书就能轻松得到的，着实没有捷径可言。你需要彻底改变对待事情的态度和方式。你要通过不断地练习来养成习惯，直到这些习惯变成你日常生活的一部分。对绝大多数人来说，培养软技能需要一个漫长的过程。
Strong soft skills also don’t come about overnight. There are really no quick solutions to acquiring them, such as by attending a workshop or reading a book on the subject. Rather, they require you to make fundamental changes to your mindset and way you approach and respond to situations. They involve good habits that are only developed through ongoing practice until those habits become a part of your behavior. For most, they involve a process that takes a good amount of time to happen.
所以如果你想提高解决问题的能力，那就需要先弄清有哪些方法或技巧能有助于解决问题，并在遇到问题时反复运用这些方法。同样的，要增强有效沟通能力，你需要先找到正确的沟通习惯，然后在真实场景中不断加以练习。通过坚持不懈地使用那些久经考验的技巧和习惯，你相关方面的能力也自然会得到提高。
So if you want to improve your problem-solving abilities, then you need to identify good techniques for doing that well and then apply them to the problem-solving situations you encounter. Similarly, to become a more effective communicator, you need to identify good communication habits and then practice them in the communication situations you’re a part of. Through the continuous process of using proven techniques and habits your capabilities in these areas will gradually improve.
找准要素，培养优秀软技能
Identify The Essence To Doing Them Better
在我们的职业发展工作坊中，我们反复强调一个关键词：要素。理解这个词有助于参与者培养取得成功最需要的软技能。在具体情境下，要素指的就是决定这一情况的关键因素。在指人时，要素指的是此人最基本的特质与性格。
In our career development workshops, we emphasize a key word to help participants develop those soft skills critical for their success. The word is essence. When applied to a situation, it refers to the key factors that define that situation. When talking about a person, it refers to those most fundamental characteristics or qualities that describe that person.
同样的，要提高某一项软技能，就必须深刻理解其要素，即这一软技能最本质的主要行为及特点。例如，成为好领导、好老师的要素是什么？拥有大局观的要素是什么？
Similarly, improving in a particular soft skill is tied closely to an understanding of the essence, or essential behavior or characteristics, behind what that soft skill is rooted in. For instance, what’s the essence to becoming a good coach or to developing a big picture perspective?
谈及成为一个好领导、好老师的要素，我认为乐于帮助别人取得成功这个因素非常重要。如果一个人不具备这一点，很难想象他能成为好领导或好老师。至于大局观，我认为最重要的是拥有一颗好奇心，始终渴望探究原因。有了这样一种心态和思维导向，你就能逐渐深入理解每一件事的本质。一旦理解了某一软技能背后的要素，你将能更好地判断哪些行动对提高该软技能最为重要。
If talking about the essence to becoming a good coach, I would identify the importance of being someone who enjoys helping others be successful. Without this basic orientation, it’s difficult to imagine anyone becoming a really strong coach. For the essence to gaining a big picture perspective, I’d say that it’s rooted in being fundamentally curious and always wanting to understand why. With such a mindset and orientation, you’ll definitely develop a deeper understanding and sense of the situations you encounter. As a result, by identifying the essence behind a soft skill, you’ll be able to better identify what’s most important for you to do to improve it.
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