Main types of soft skills

If we would categorise soft skills, we can imagine four groups: cognitive and intellectual, communication, self-management, and team management skills.

Cognitive and intellectual skills for green transition are such skills as critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and environmental awareness that are aimed at fostering a green mindset and eco-friendly solutions.

Cognitive and intellectual skills include analytical skills, analytical thinking, creativity, critical thinking, learning from experience, and problem-solving.

Communication skills are activities or processes of expressing ideas and feelings or giving people information. Communication skills consist of active listening, influencing, leadership, negotiation, and presentation.

Self-management or more precisely self-regulation refers to the act of managing cognition and emotion to enable goal-directed actions such as organising behaviour, controlling impulses, and solving problems constructively.

Self-management skills comprise agency, commitment, goal orientation, planning, self-awareness, self-confidence, self-control, taking the initiative, and time management.

Team management is the process of leading a specific group of individuals toward the accomplishment of a common and predetermined goal. The term "team management" encompasses behaviors, approaches, and plans that inspire and unite a group to collaborate efficiently and achieve a shared objective. It involves various activities such as planning, organising, leading, and controlling team efforts.

Team management skills encompass cooperation, working in a team, adaptation, and other similar skills.