What is Social Skills

The interpersonal skills facilitating interaction and communication with others. Social rules and relations are created, communicated, learned, and adapted in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning these skills is called socialization.

Skills that enable humans to interact with each other; these include both verbal and non-verbal communication.

A set of learned abilities that enable an individual to interact competently and appropriately in a given social context.

The skills people usually use to interact and communicate with others. These include both verbal and non-verbal communication, such as speech, gesture, facial expression, and body language.

These abilities are related to being capable to interact in the collective, it may be a group, a team, informal and formal. These skills include listening, greeting, thanking, asking please, expressing thanks, apologizing, waiting one’s turn, cooperating, maintaining an attitude open to dialogue. These skills are the infrastructure of social intelligence and allow to manage, understand and balance the social system. It develops the person and his relationship with others, balancing the relational and social systems and becomes an immaterial social capital, sometimes referred to as social intelligence. This intelligence is a mechanism for improving social problems. Social skills are structuring for the new economy that is concerned with social issues and with the attunement of life as a “whole.” They are based on axioms of harmony and cooperation and consider that the processes of formation do not serve the principles of accumulation of information, but rather the development of life skills and their sustainability. They capitalize on individual, group and organizational performance, because they aim at unity and synchronicity. They seek to give life to the characteristics of acceptance and respect for the person as a whole. It also seeks to integrate people's knowledge into the processes of relationships and productive processes, not forgetting the environment and the community where it is inserted. With social skills, people are more empathic, more flexible, more caring and more responsible. They combine personal responsibility with social responsibility and aim to improve well-being, active, participatory, critical, responsible and committed citizenship. They help achieve balance, make better decisions, respect efficiency and raise emotional, social and personal well-being. In this sense, the social skills deliver deeply felt experiences for human existence, because it gives life to the spiritual realm, which considers that man is composed of body, mind, spirit and transcendence.

Interactive skills which we acquire by socializing with people in the society, use to communicate and significantly build relationship with people in the society.

Personal skills one needs in order to interact with others (e.g., shaking hands, nodding one’s head in recognition of another individual, looking at a person’s face when they are speaking, nodding and smiling when understanding what the other person is saying, etc.).

The skills needed to interact and communicate with others. They include verbal and non-verbal communication, such as speech, gesture, facial expression, and body language.

The set of abilities to successfully communicate, interact and build relationships with others.

The capabilities which children need so as to be functional in their everyday life.

One’s ability to competently read social cues and solve problems in social situations.

The personal skills needed for successful social communication and interaction.

The personal skills needed for successful social communication and interaction.

Social skills are competencies that include empathy, cooperation, verbal, and written communication, listening and speaking. Students learn these competencies with socialization.

Competencies to interact successfully with other people. Innovative communication technologies may contribute to this successful interaction.

Any competence facilitating communication and interaction with others where social rules and relations are created, communicated, and managed in verbal and nonverbal ways.

Skills used to communicate and interact with each other including speech, gesture, body language, etc.

The personal skills needed for successful social communication and interaction.

A set of competences underpinning communication and interaction in group-level and society-level. Social skills include communication skills, emotion regulation skills, cognitive skills, and social problem-solving skills.

The set of skills that allow students to communicate, relate and socialize with others.

Personal skills one needs in order to interact with others (e.g., shaking hands, nodding one’s head in recognition of another individual, looking at a person’s face when they are speaking, nodding and smiling when understanding what the other person is saying, etc.).

Skills that are used to communicate both verbally and nonverbally through gestures, body language, and personal appearance. Social skills are the abilities necessary to get along with others to create and maintain relationships.

They are the set of behavioural strategies and capacities to apply the said behaviours that help us to solve a social situation effectively, that is, acceptable to the subject itself and to the social context in which it is. This shows that the development of social skills has a significant influence to reduce risk behaviours.

It is defined as verbal or non-verbal behaviors that initiate and maintain social relations, facilitate the solution of problems experienced in social relations

The term refers to the skills and behaviors that allow an individual to interact with others in an effective and harmonious manner in a variety of social settings. As such it includes a range of communication, empathy, cooperation, and conflict-resolution skills that facilitate positive social interactions.

Ability to motivate people to pursue excellence, manage conflicts, and build strong teamwork skills.

A term referring to communication with other people daily in a variety of ways including verbal, nonverbal, written, and visual. Collaboration, personal relationships, and teamwork are included too.

the skills, knowledge, and processes needed to effectively cooperate with others

Competences that facilitate connection and communication with people.

Skills acquired in social networks that may affect group as well as individual performance.