The Inventory for Critical Managerial Soft Skills (ICMS) is used to assess the critical managerial soft skills of a candidate. The tool is a self- rating standardized psychometric tool and is meant to measure the critical managerial soft skills of a candidate.
The seven critical managerial soft skills assessed in this tool are the following.
Communication Skills: This stands for the set of skills which helps a candidate to communicate for professional purposes using oral skills - which includes interpersonal communication, presentation skills, and writing skills in the form of reports or official documents
Leadership Skills: This stands for a set of skills which enables a candidate to take leadership roles, take initiative and responsibility related to the task at hand
Interpersonal and Teamwork skills: This stands for skills that are crucial for creating and maintaining a cordial relationship with colleagues and superiors.
Self – Management Skills: This stands for the level of awareness about self; including their perception of the individual’s strengths and weaknesses.
Goal Setting skills: This stands for the candidate’s capability to understand and articulate long term and short-term goals which is important at work
Decision Making Skills: This stands for those skills which enable the capability to solve problems and to take suitable decisions as per the need of the organization/situation.
Task Efficacy: This stands for the candidate’s capability to deliver results and task completion as per mandates.
