Soft skills are personal attributes that support situational awareness and enhance a young person’s ability to get a business venture into reality. Soft skills are often synonyms for people skills or emotional intelligence. Unlike hard skills, which describe a person’s technical ability to perform a specific task, soft skills are broadly inherited or learned from home. Hard skills get the entrepreneur into the business,  but soft skills  help the entrepreneur build a sustainable business venture. 

Top Soft Skills for Young Entrepreneurs

• Creativity, 
• Trust, 
• Persuasion, 
• Collaboration, 
• Adaptability, 
• Resilience, 
• Patience, 
• kindness, 
•  Eloquence.
• Creative thinking
• Leadership
• Listening
• Time management 
• Critical thinking
• Conflict resolution
• Negotiation

Today’sTop Hard Skills for Young Entrepreneurs

• Scientific Computing, 
• Analytical reasoning, 
• Data Analytics, 
• Blockchain, 
• Cloud Computing, 
• Coding, 
• Online Marketing, 
• Artificial Intelligence, 
• Video production, 
• UX Designs, 
• Business Analysis 

All business ventures require a team, making employees’ abilities to interact positively with others a valuable asset required to accomplish any project. As a result, business leaders are seeking workers who possess teamwork, collaboration, communication, problem-solving skills, and other emotional and cognitive capabilities to work in multimember, multidisciplinary, geographically and/or culturally dispersed teams. Giving young people opportunities to practice and learn soft and hard skills gives them an advantage in their business ventures.