Nov 11, 20203 min read

SOCIAL SKILLS

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WHAT IS SOCIAL SKILL?

Social skill is nothing but a form of competence that consequences interaction and communication where social normative patterns are created and intertwined as it’s reciprocated and with the reciprocation, changes occur in terms of verbal and nonverbal way. Through the process of socialisation, this skill can be possessed by anyone and lack of skill can consequence in social awkwardness. Thus social skill facilitates communication, learning, asking for assistance or help thereby get along with others, and with all these traits healthy relationship accompanying protection for themselves and harmonious interaction with the society can be well-knitted. By possessing social skills an individual comprises of special character traits such as trustworthiness, respectfulness, responsibility, fairness, caring, citizenship accompanied by the development of allowance for making good choices in thinking and behaviour which results in social competence. Interpersonal skills are nothing engages and facilitate with interaction which is related to several categorical division such as dominance vs. submission, affiliation vs. Aggression, love vs. hate, control vs. autonomy.(Leary,1957) .Positive interpersonal skills involve factors like active listening, persuasion delegation, stewardship, and social psychology is dealing with research work related to social skills accompanied by study reports which reflect upon how skills are learned by individuals through attitude change, behavior, and thought process. Social skills being goal-oriented includes main goals and sub-goals.

Several significant social skills identified and reflected by the Employment and Training Administration are hereby noted below such as
1.COORDINATION

2.NEGOTIATION
3.PERSUASION
4.SERVICE ORIENTATION
5.SOCIAL PERCEPTIVENESS
6.MENTORING

TYPES OF SOCIAL SKILLS

BASIC COMMUNICATION SKILLS
EMPATHY AND RAPPORT SKILLS
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS
ACCOUNTABILITY

Behaviourists' opine social skills being learned behaviours facilitates individuals to attain social reinforcement. Schneider & Byrne (1985) showed in his study that Operant Conditioning has a greater Impact size followed by modelling, coaching as well as social cognitive senses.

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CAUSES OF DEFICITS Social skill deficits also create discouragement in children who are suffering from behavioural challenges in response to ideal adjustment In 1998 Gresham categorised deficits in social skills such as

ALCOHOL MISUSE
ADHD AND HYPERKINETIC DISORDER
AUTISM

ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION
ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOURS

Development of social skills is about being conscious of the mechanism of one’s communication with other people. The messages or information that individuals deliver and in what way methods of communication can be improvised in order to make the communication process more effective and smooth with greater impact.

Advantages of well-developed social skills

BETTER RELATIONSHIPS
BETTER COMMUNICATION
GREATER EFFICIENCY
ADVANCED CAREER PROSPECTS

INCREASE IN OVERALL HAPPINESS

IMPORTANCE OF ACQUIRING SOCIAL SKILLS

PROVIDING INDIVIDUAL’S OWN PERSPECTIVE FOR OTHER’S BENEFIT

GAINING IDEAS, MECHANISMS, AND INFORMATION THUS PERSPECTIVE FROM THE PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT REGIONS AND EXPERTISE
WORKING AS A TEAM TOWARDS SHARED GOALS
IN DIFFICULT TIMES PROVIDING MUTUAL SUPPORT IS IMPORTANT
EXPANSION OF NETWORK TO LEARN ABOUT NEW OPPORTUNITIES
WORKPLACE SHOULD BE ENJOYABLE

GAINING FEEDBACK AND REFERENCE FROM PEOPLE

EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL SKILLS

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
CONFLICT RESOLUTION

ACTIVE LISTENER
EMPATHY
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
RESPECT

HOW TO IMPROVE Improvisation can be attained by following certain aspects such as

GAINING FEEDBACK
SETTING AIMS AND GOALS
FINDING RESOURCES

IDENTIFYING AREAS OF PRACTICE

Image Source: Google Researchers from Penn State and Duke University reflected in their study that children lacking social and emotional skills were more prone to abuse issues, relationship abuse, legal trouble, etc and also dependent on public assistance but the good aspect is social skills can be taught through several ways such as sharing, cooperating, listening, following directions, respect towards personal space, having eye contact, learning and usage of manners. WAYS TO IMPROVE SOCIAL SKILLS