When employees have significant gaps in their soft skills there are significant negative consequences: Potentially good hires are overlooked. Good hires go bad. Bad hires go worse. Misunderstandings ...

What, exactly, are soft skills? And why do soft skills even matter, when generative AI seems more skilled than most workers today? Soft skills are things like interpersonal communication, work ethic ...

Employers look for candidates who have both hard and soft skills. Hard, or technical skills, can be learned, but soft skills are innate and come naturally. Soft skills make candidates more valuable ...

Soft skills have always been essential to hiring, but their significance has reached unprecedented levels. By leading an entirely remote company, I’ve seen first-hand how necessary these skills are to ...

Soft skills like time management and interpersonal communication are crucial to career success. Creative thinking and leadership in the workplace can lead to promotions and recognition. Developing ...

Effective leaders of groups, teams, and organizations typically rely on a diverse collection of “soft skills” they’ve picked up over their careers that help them manage projects successfully, inspire ...

I am sitting in a bland conference room in Midtown Manhattan with twenty-nine so-called business professionals, and one of our instructors, Sharon, has just told us to imagine a huge rectangular brass ...

Building IT teams that blend technical know-how with an aptitude for communication and teamwork is crucial for successful business outcomes. Because technology changes so quickly, IT teams must ...

Soft skills, like any skill, can be practiced and improved. While we all have natural strengths and weaknesses when it comes to soft skills, that doesn’t mean they are static, immovable matters of ...