Practice Makes Perfect
The key to developing your soft skills is to practice them. Practicing soft skills may seem daunting at first since it may be more difficult [...]
Top 10 Soft Skills for Success
It has been 100 years since the 85% soft skills, 15 % hard skills concept has been identified for job success. However, the importance of [...]
Talk the Talk, Then Walk the Walk
Talk the Talk Almost every community in this country has business leaders who have decided to make their feelings known about the lack of preparedness [...]
Employers’ Needs Are Forcing Colleges to Change
There was a discussion in a recent FastCo Article on how colleges and universities will look in the next 10-15 years. This is how the [...]
Three Step Process to Teaching a Positive Attitude
A manager of a medium sized manufacturing firm once said, “ I can teach my employees how to do most any technical skill, but I [...]
Examination of Technical Skills Training—Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills
Research conducted by Harvard University, the Carnegie Foundation and Stanford Research Center has concluded that 85% of job success comes from having well-developed soft and [...]
Soft Skills and Emotional Intelligence
Soft skills refer to a group of personal qualities that make up a good student or employee, personal qualities such as a positive attitude, communication, [...]
Soft Skills Are for All of Us
A 2011 study, The State of the Industry Report (Green & McGill, 2011), conducted by the Association for Talent Development (ATD), formerly known as the [...]
The Soft Skills Disconnect
Research conducted by Harvard University, the Carnegie Foundation and Stanford Research Center has all concluded that 85% of job success comes from having well‐developed soft [...]