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The Soft Technical Skills are a series of online lesson plans on generic technical competencies. These are advanced technical skills that apply to nearly every job in every occupation in every industry and require instruction for understanding and application. State directors of Career and Technical Education (www.careerclusters.org/) refer to these as essential knowledge & skills, an academic foundation, a common core required for career success. Every technician needs basic competence on all of the following topics.

Bench Mark Publications, LLC began publishing technical materials in 1983, consisting of technical books, training manuals, and workshop outlines. Bench Mark Publications is pleased to launch this new series of online lesson plans on Soft Technical Skills. Here, in alphabetical order, are the Soft Technical Skills.

Attitude on the Job
Bloodborne Pathogens
Climbing the Career Ladder
Common Sense
Communication: Written Technical
Communication: Verbal Technical
Communication: Non-verbal Technical
Communication: Graphic Technical
Computer Modeling
Concentrating on the Job
Confidentiality
Confined Space Entry
Conflict Resolution
Creating on the Job
Critical Thinking
Deciding
Designing a Career
Diagnostics
Digital Processing
Dress for the Job
Emergency Response
Estimating
Ethics on the Job
Getting the Job
Hazard Communication
Humor is No Laughing Matter
Initiative
Job Aid
Leading
Learning on the Job
Lock Out / Tag Out
Logic on the Job
Manners
Motivation on the Job
Networking
Perception
Personal Protective Equipment
Persuading
Planning
Preventive Maintenance
Priority Setting
Problem Solving
Productivity on the Job
Proposal Writing
Quality Assurance
Questioning/Interrogation
Responsibility on the Job
Self-employment
Shift Cycle Management
Standard Operating Procedure
Stress Management
Supervising
Systems Thinking
Systems: Organizing
Systems: Electro/Mechanical
Systems: Social
Systems: Biological
Teaming
Time Management
Train the Trainer
Whistle Blowing