What are the hardest soft skills to acquire, in your opinion? and why?

Negotiation the hardest one in my opinion 

The hardest soft skills is Creativity and Problem Solving Skills

Creativity and problem-solving skills are highly valued because they are hard to develop. There are many people who believe that creative thinkers are born, not made, and there are certainly some people who find these skills much easier. But, like other skills, you can develop them if you work to do.

Thank you Lamya Adam for the invitation.

Soft Skills according to my understanding refers to one's relationship with other people and one's ability to use emotional intelligence to act accordingly given different situations pertaining to work or general life as we know it. There is therefore a huge range of SOFT SKILLS that cannot be exhausted by a mere mention of a couple of them, but for the purposes of this question it is ideal to mention just but a few.

Some hard skills to acquire will include;

1) Leadership - This is enforced through social conditioning of one's efforts towards achieving such a state. The ability to influence individuals or a group towards certain organisational goals. this takes the form of genetic traits coupled with social conditioning. Choosing from the different leadership styles to suit a specific situation or organisational requirement. Not everyone can lead as required therefore it takes certain people and certain skills to do so.

2) Decision Making - Some people just cannot make up their minds and because of that they are in a constant state of stagnation. Employers actually need people that can make up their minds ideally making sound decisions in the process. Experience and past advancement is actually proof of progress through decision making.

3) Self Motivation - ideally being able to push one's self towards a set goal is admirable in that through resilience and one's ability adapt to changing situations one can find themselves progressing. One does not need to cling on to others just to get themselves going. Even though we may require a little bit of a push at some point the final decision and the will to actually get on rests on our shoulders, no one else's.

4) Communication skills - For as long as one is dealing with other people there needs to be some form of communication, all stakeholders of a business require set communication structures to enable progress. Communication is required in building and enforcing these relationships. Negotiations help in reaching conclusions, making deals, creating a sale and others without communication one would lose clients, colleagues and other stakeholders.

5) Esprit de corps / Building Team work - without teamwork projects would fail, ambiguity of instructions, conflict among peers would escalate, companies will fail to meet their goals.

6) Problem solving - essentially problems arise as part of our jobs as well as part of our relationships. being able anticipate and seek a recourse to one's actions or a resultant factor thereof is of paramount importance. Customer service also requires this type of skill to successfully resolve an issue with clients. One must be able to offer solutions and options to existing customer needs and queries.

Soft skills are essentially the skills of relationship management and creativity, underpinned by emotional intelligence. These include the ability to empathize with others, manage conflict, cope with ambiguity and paradox, and navigate a route through complex interpersonal and strategic scenarios. There isn't really a wrong answer to this question, there are different work set ups and so are people and their minds. It is constant work through relationships.

Communication skills is hardest to acquire. you can only be good in it with the passing of time and regular communication with confidence