Instead of presenting soft skills as desired qualifications of potential employees, we should promote their value and require all potential and current employees to develop and nurture them. Here are some of the reasons why.
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Affordable, efficient technology brought businesses to a point where faster was no longer an advantage. Now, advantages come from effective communication, adaptability and cooperation, which are all soft skills.
How much better your organization would be if key people in critical roles up and down your chain of command routinely demonstrated leadership competency?
Many employers underestimate the importance of soft skills, so how do L&D professionals gain buy-in from leaders and employees to play hard ball with soft skills?
Although traditional training methods will always have their place in employee learning, some things can’t be taught using simple knowledge transfer techniques. Soft skills do require knowledge, but they are really more about action.
Canon Solutions America, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc., and The Viscardi Center, announces the launch of their Enterprise Office Services Training Program.
Many soft skills can be developed through training, especially for people who are early in their career or in their first leadership job. The problem is that many companies wait a long time to develop people’s soft skills, if they do it at all.
Why is it easier to develop new hard skills, such as a new procedure or task, than it is to develop a new soft skill, such as active listening? Here are five key challenges to soft skills programs and how to overcome them.
Unfortunately, the process and approach that a learning leader uses to vet and select soft skills content is not as widely discussed or as widely accepted as other benchmarks in our discipline. Here are four steps to consider.
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