Soft skills, also referred to as core skills or employability skills, are character traits used in a variety of contexts in both personal and professional life.

When combined with complementary hard skills, soft skills help people navigate their environment, get along with others, perform well, and accomplish their goals. Soft skills are a combination of people skills, social skills, communication skills, character traits, and personality traits.

In this article, we’ll share five soft skills your preschoolers need to succeed in today’s globalized world.

Public Speaking Skills

Your child needs to communicate, present, and persuade others throughout their lives, whether in school or when they start working.

Early on, one begins to develop self-assurance when speaking in front of an audience. Give them the chance to confidently express their thoughts and ideas during family dinners. They can learn to communicate their thoughts and ideas to others clearly and coherently by practising public speaking and presentation skills.

Creativity Skills

The imagination of a child is limitless. Imagination, an essential aspect of creativity, is necessary to every child’s cognitive and social growth.

Children have an inborn sense of creativity and imagination, which shows up in the way they use play to learn. Encourage your kids to use their imagination in any situation rather than discouraging them as they get older.

Imaginative play or pretend play allows children to explore their ideas and helps them to develop their communication and social-emotional skills while also streamlining their thought process.

Soft skills are crucial for your kids’ growth and prospects, and they can be improved with constant parental, caregiver, and educational support throughout childhood.

Adaptability Skills

Things change. The world as we know it can change abruptly, as we’ve seen over the past two years. The ability to adapt to change helps our kids succeed in a world where things change quickly, such as school, the workplace, and life.

Using examples from nature is one way to teach kids about change. Beautiful butterflies emerge from ugly caterpillars, trees change with the seasons, the sky changes, the moon changes, etc. All of these experience some degree of change while maintaining a consistent structural design. People are the same way. No matter what occurs in or around them, remind your child that change is a natural part of life and teach them to embrace it.

Teamwork and Collaboration Skills

It is important to emphasise to kids that teamwork requires everyone’s contribution to the group to succeed. People who collaborate effectively and work towards a common goal are preferred over lone wolves at every opportunity they are given, whether in school or at work.

Getting children to cooperate on a project, like putting together a puzzle or participating in a physical team-building activity, fosters teamwork in children. They can share their ideas and participate more actively in solving the problem at hand together while gaining knowledge of how to give and receive feedback during this process.

Communication Skills

Communication involves reading, writing, listening, and speaking effectively. For instance, if your child speaks with confidence no matter what they do, that confidence may one day help him or her win a job interview.

Relationship dynamics also heavily rely on communication abilities. Our kids need to communicate with other people throughout their lives. Therefore, parents need to teach them to be comfortable speaking in front of an audience by frequently giving them opportunities to do so from a young age.

More importantly, encourage your kids to read. They can read anything that piques their interest, including novels, biographies, children’s books, or articles. This type of reading behaviour benefits your kids’ language and grammar skills because, as they get older, the language and grammar they use are more formal than what is typically used in conversations and seen on social media.

Conclusion

Soft skills are crucial for your kids’ growth and prospects, and they can be improved with constant parental, caregiver, and educational support throughout childhood.

While we are aware that some children may naturally possess certain soft skills, Sunbird Child Care provides a variety of opportunities for students to develop a variety of soft skills. We created a proprietary preschool curriculum that promises a fun bilingual learning experience, giving each child a thorough and holistic education by developing core skills and knowledge, along with intelligent thinking habits and dispositions, to nurture well-rounded children with imaginative minds, positive attitudes, and strength of character!