The 10 most in-demand soft skills to master if you want a raise, promotion or new job in 2020 | Work - CNBC

If you want to get ahead in your career in 2020, adopting a growth mindset should be at the top of your priority list, notes Jennifer Liu, work reporter for CNBC Make It.

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According to Udemy’s 2020 Workplace Learning Trends Report, a having a growth mindset — or the ability to continue learning in order to adapt to change — was ranked as the most important soft skill for career success.

The online learning platform analyzed user data from its Udemy for Business service, which offers several course packages and is used by more than 4,000 companies as a resource for employee training...

Here are the soft skills workers are practicing the most, according to Udemy:

1. Growth mindset: An ability to learn continuously and willingness to adapt to change
2. Creativity: Developing new ideas, applying new solutions to address existing problems
3. Focus mastery: Harnessing concentration to make better short- and long-term decisions
4. Innovation: Improving upon an existing idea, concept, process or method to achieve a desired outcome
5. Communication skills: Interpreting information though speaking, listening and observing
6. Storytelling: Organizing thoughts and data points into a comprehensive, holistic narrative
7. Culture awareness: Ability to effectively interact, work and develop meaningful relationships with those of various cultural backgrounds within the organization
8. Critical thinking: Objective analysis and evaluation in order to form a judgment on a topic
9. Leadership: Providing guidance within an organization
10. Emotional intelligence: Practicing control, expression and observation of interpersonal relationships among people in a workplace

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Source: CNBC