Soft skills are skills that are not tied to a specific task or activity. Soft skills are skills that are not tied to a specific task or activity; They are general characteristics that help learners and teachers to communicate, interact and effectively carry out a task.
Essentially soft skills are a combination of social, interpersonal, communication and personality traits that enables people to operate effectively within a working or learning environment. As such soft skills are important for a multitude of purposes from negotiating and coming up with ideas to managing and being resilient.