soft-skills
Training soft skills at scale is the key to transformation success
Research from McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC and Harvard Business School highlights how now is the time for bold moves in people strategy. Here’s how three organizations are making the right moves.
Build your workforce’s power skills
As C-suite and L&D leaders contemplate how to set up their workforce for success in an era of automation, research points to specific power skills needed to be successful.
Future-focused training: Are you committing learning malpractice?
No one wants a workforce with outdated skills. Most would say it makes sense to start important training now. But does it?
An arduous year and a half at work punctuates soft skills
The uncertain landscape of 2020 and 2021 so far shed a new light on why soft skills are critically important in the workplace, and how learning and development plays a huge role in forming a culture where they can grow.
‘Test and learn’: A powerful approach to measure the impact of soft skills development
Test and learn is a powerful approach that can help learning functions better measure the impact of their programs, contributing to more efficient upskilling in their workforce, accelerating transformation and building true competitive edge.
Prominent soft skills for the future of learning and work
Soft skills are the nucleus of a company’s people operations and productivity, but they must also be acknowledged as the most important interconnection between education and employability.
Start where you want to finish
When it comes to aligning soft skills with business measures, start with the “why.”
The future of leadership: Skills to look for in business leaders post-COVID-19
Just as we have reexamined the way we work in response to the events of 2020, so too should we reevaluate what a strong leader looks like.
Drop the hierarchy: Why people skills are more important than ever
As technology continues its rapid advance, those of us on the forefront of workplace learning are wondering: Are we, as humans, learning, pivoting and adapting fast enough to keep up? Enter people skills.
Why we must deliberately embed curiosity instead of conformity
Our environment is complex and constantly changing, necessitating the intentional development of meta-skills to adeptly navigate it. Organizations and their leaders must dismantle engrained conventional frameworks and legacy thinking, conformist approaches, and inflexible systems and deliberately embed curiosity if they are to succeed in the VUCA world.
Skills aren’t soft or hard — they’re durable or perishable
The heavy focus on short-term ROI and the delivery of narrow skill sets oft-evangelized in L&D circles may well be the source of the "skills shortage" industries face today. Approaching training from a durable-skills-first perspective empowers talent to make dynamic, longer-term contributions to an organization.
New benchmarking tool for higher ed seeks to address workplace soft skills gap
Quality Assurance Commons’ new Employability Self-Assessment will support higher education programs as they develop proficiency in teaching eight 21st century soft skills critical to today’s employers.
Onward … to the past?
Reflections on how our profession evolves (or not).
Emotional intelligence is a critical skill for development
The only way to build EI is through practice, practice and more practice.
What is the future of skills, roles and workforce development?
Celeste R. Smith, director of education at the American Association of Law Libraries, says every organization will need to play a role in providing continuous learning opportunities for employees.