Tag Archives: soft skills
Soft Skills: What role are you going to play?
Whether you are in a large complex organization with lots of resources or a tiny business where you are the chief cook and bottle washer, the most important element in bridging the soft skills gap is the human element. If you are not an active champion of high priority soft skills behaviors in your…
Soft Skills: Teaching Personal Responsibility
When it comes to teaching personal responsibility, the key is shifting someone’s focus to the factors that are within their own control. Most often, when an employee struggles with personal responsibility, it is because they are unable to see beyond the factors that are outside their control. Of course, those outside factors will always be…
Soft Skills: Teaching Proactive Learning
Before any individual can possibly succeed at “critical thinking,” that person has to know some things. That way will have something — anything really — about which to think critically. Step one: Know something! Or know how to do something! Or have an appreciation for multiple competing perspectives about something — anything!