{"id":4945,"date":"2025-03-13T14:06:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/a-multifaceted-world-of-soft-skills.html"},"modified":"2026-10-04T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:54:11","slug":"a-multifaceted-world-of-soft-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/el\/blog\/a-multifaceted-world-of-soft-skills","title":{"rendered":"A multifaceted world of soft skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<div class=\"blog-content\">\n<div class=\"paragraph\">Nowadays <strong>soft skills <\/strong>are getting more and more important in the context of professional and daily life. It is essential to understand what <strong>key competencies<\/strong> we have and how to use them properly, what <strong>emotional intelligence <\/strong>and <strong>empathy<\/strong> is, how to build an <strong>effective group<\/strong> and maintain <strong>team spirit<\/strong>, how to <strong>manage<\/strong> <strong>conflicts.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">These were the topics explored during the course <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/soft-skills-for-education-staff\" target=\"_blank\">Soft skills and Emotional Intelligence<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(Tenerife, 13\/03\/2022-19\/03\/2022)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by 16 participants from all over the Europe: Olga from <strong>Rigas namu parvaldnieks<\/strong> in Latvia, Andreja, Petra and Kajia from <strong>Osnovna \u0161ola Bla\u017ea Kocena Ponikva<\/strong> in Slovenia, Toshko, Velichka, Anna, Dimitrina and Anna Maria from <strong>35 SEU Dobri Voinkov<\/strong> in Bulgaria, Virginija, Lora and Ligita from <strong>Gimnazijos 32<\/strong> in Lithuania, Alka and Katarina from <strong>Public Open University of\u00a0 Zagreb<\/strong> in Coratia, Hennele and Pirjo-Anneli from <strong>Hyvink\u00e4\u00e4n lukio<\/strong> in Finland.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"imageGallery\" id=\"536351390532806821-gallery\" style=\"line-height: 0px; padding: 0; margin: 0\">\n<div id=\"536351390532806821-imageContainer0\" style=\"float:left;width:33.28%;margin:0;\">\n<div id=\"536351390532806821-insideImageContainer0\" style=\"position:relative;margin:5px;\">\n<div class=\"galleryImageHolder\" style=\"position:relative; width:100%; padding:0 0 75%;overflow:hidden;\">\n<div class=\"galleryInnerImageHolder\"><a href=\"..\/uploads\/6\/5\/6\/3\/65630323\/img-1417_orig.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[gallery536351390532806821]\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"536351390532806821-imageContainer1\" style=\"float:left;width:33.28%;margin:0;\">\n<div id=\"536351390532806821-insideImageContainer1\" style=\"position:relative;margin:5px;\">\n<div class=\"galleryImageHolder\" style=\"position:relative; width:100%; padding:0 0 75%;overflow:hidden;\">\n<div class=\"galleryInnerImageHolder\"><a href=\"..\/uploads\/6\/5\/6\/3\/65630323\/img-1384_orig.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[gallery536351390532806821]\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"536351390532806821-imageContainer2\" style=\"float:left;width:33.28%;margin:0;\">\n<div id=\"536351390532806821-insideImageContainer2\" style=\"position:relative;margin:5px;\">\n<div class=\"galleryImageHolder\" style=\"position:relative; width:100%; padding:0 0 75%;overflow:hidden;\">\n<div class=\"galleryInnerImageHolder\"><a href=\"..\/uploads\/6\/5\/6\/3\/65630323\/img-1315_orig.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[gallery536351390532806821]\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"display: block; clear: both; height: 0px; overflow: hidden;\"><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">The first topics discussed in the course were the five pillars of <strong>Emotional Intelligence<\/strong>: we should be aware of our own emotions and feelings in order to understand other people better and communicate effectively.\u00a0\u200bA good teacher is also a good leader of the classroom because they have to foster motivation and guide their students to reach a specific goal. We studied different<strong> leadership styles<\/strong> and tried to apply them in different situations. Communication is essential when it comes to<strong> teamwork. <\/strong>That\u2019s why we dedicated our time to ways of communication: being able to show <strong>assertiveness <\/strong>can be tricky, however, by discussing this topic they saw that being assertive means to communicate what you want effectively.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wsite-multicol\">\n<div class=\"wsite-multicol-table-wrap\" style=\"margin:0 -15px;\">\n<table class=\"wsite-multicol-table\">\n<tbody class=\"wsite-multicol-tbody\">\n<tr class=\"wsite-multicol-tr\">\n<td class=\"wsite-multicol-col\" style=\"width:50%; padding:0 15px;\">\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:justify;\">Our participants had a chance to plunge into the world of <strong>public speaking<\/strong> and practice their communication skills, confidence and control. They learned tips and tricks on how to present yourself, how to control your body language and your nonverbal communication.\u00a0<br \/>\u200bThe last important point of this course was\u00a0<strong>Conflict management.\u00a0<\/strong>We learned what conflict is, why it arises, what are its positive and negative sides and what to do when you are stuck.<br \/>\u200bThis course allowed the participants to deep into their inner worlds and share their thoughts and feelings and the fact that the course was held in <strong>Tenerife<\/strong>, a wonderful location in the Canary islands, was our \u2018\u2019cherry on the cake\u2019\u2019 and participants enjoyed it a lot!<br \/>\u200b<br \/>\u200b<em>Thank you for being with us! Hope to see you again in the future!<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/em>More information on this and other courses at this link:\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/course-catalogue\">https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/course-catalogue<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"wsite-multicol-col\" style=\"width:50%; padding:0 15px;\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-none\" style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:right\"> <a>  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;font-size:90%\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-none\" style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:right\"> <a>  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;font-size:90%\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays soft skills are getting more and more important in the context of professional and daily life. It is essential to understand what key competencies we have and how to use them properly, what emotional intelligence and empathy is, how to build an effective group and maintain team spirit, how to manage conflicts. 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