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3 Steps to Help Leaders Develop Soft Skills

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Assessments bring awareness to leaders’ behaviors and tendencies. In other words, they create self-evaluation. As facilitators work through the assessments with learners, they witness a series of lightbulb “Aha!” moments.
In one of my previous posts, I identified the soft skills that young employees are missing that their older colleagues value the most: professionalism, critical thinking and followership. Let’s take a closer look at followership.
In the last month, how many meetings did you attend in which someone participated via phone or video? How many team members, clients, vendors don’t reside within the four walls of your work location?
What are the soft skills that young employees are missing that their older colleagues value the most? They can be boiled down to some key behaviors in three “old-fashioned” categories: professionalism, critical thinking and followership.