What Soft Skills Do You Need?

Source: Accounting Today

Krista Remer and Jennifer Wilson identify the need for training in important soft skills such as:

• How to supervise people.
• How to manage time.
• How to motivate others.
• How to delegate.
• Networking.
• Using social media.
• Communicating with clients, especially under difficult circumstances.
• Managing engagements.
• Making presentations.
• Networking and practice development.

In accounting firms people usually learn these skills on the job by working with role models. But have these role models really learned the skills?

For the complete article, click here and select the article "Taking a hard line on soft skills" under the heading Accounting Tomorrow in the February 15, 2010, issue.

From Accounting Today, February 15, 2010, SourceMedia Inc., One State Street Plaza, 27th Floor, New York, NY 10004, 800-221-1809.