Article Reflection

1. Provide the link (below) to the article in your reflection. 
   http://growingleaders.com/blog/first-soft-skill-develop-students/
    
2. Discuss several challenges youth may face in the workplace.
    Many youths lack the emotional ability to work.  Either they are too forward, loud, self-absorbed, or they lack self-awareness.  This makes them unsuitable candidates in a profession.  Many young people develop these characteristics as they grow up.  Children are always told they are special snowflakes, when in reality they are just like everyone else.  However, because they grow up with the "special snowflake" mindset, they believe that they are better than everyone else and only their beliefs matter.  This means that they believe their ideas are best, their look is ideal, and their abilities are supreme.  Who would want to work with someone so egotistical. 
   
   
3. Discuss social intelligence.
   Social intelligence is understanding what is going on with others around and acting accordingly.  This means understanding and being empathetic and also knowing the correct time and place to say whatever it is one is to say.  Social intelligence also includes knowing how to carry yourself in any given situation, which is to say knowing when to be confident and in charge and when to be quiet and ready to listen. 
   
4. Why is social intelligence important?
   Social intelligence is important because we have to understand the social ques that delegate our understanding of others current feelings in a situation.  If we cannot figure out how others feel, than we may come across as rude and unfriendly, which isn't just bad for the workplace, but is is bad for all of life.
   
   
   
5. Name one thing that spoke to you personally about the article.
   Being a decent human being.  This article is generally saying that young people are too boastful and believe that they are worth more than they are.  Because of this belief, people are loosing social intelligence.  So, basically the article is saying that people need to get a grip on reality and be more understanding towards others.