Soft Skills are Hard Core
“Let’s stop calling them ‘soft skills.’ They might be skills, but they’re not soft.” Seth Godin A lot has been written about the stress, anxiety and uncertainty plaguing employees as…
“Let’s stop calling them ‘soft skills.’ They might be skills, but they’re not soft.” Seth Godin A lot has been written about the stress, anxiety and uncertainty plaguing employees as…
In a recent webinar titled Learning How to Learn, Kelly Palmer stated that it is necessary to go through the learning loop to build skills. She described the learning loop…
Vicky was a rising star. After a few short years in the operations department, she had the best skills on the team. When the manager of her section retired, it…
Education scholar John Dewey came up with the concept of collateral learning, where we learn from how we learn as well as from what we are being taught. Collateral learning…
New managers are too often set up to fail. They are typically high performing employees who excel in their technical knowledge. They are suddenly plunged into a new managerial role…
"It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." Charles Darwin Virtual Collaboration is a New…
Employees don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Why? There are so many reasons. They don’t feel appreciated. They don’t feel respected. They don’t see how they fit in the organization.…
“When done well, following the 70-20-10 model means offering effective, timely and cost-effective learning.” Jill W. There seems to be an assumption that learning on the job and in the…
“The only source of knowledge is experience.” Albert Einstein Numerous studies have found that people are their most creative when they meet informally on the job in groups of their…
“Anyone who’s ever taught a course is aware of the fact that the one who learns the most is the teacher.” Russell Ackoff In a professional environment, traditional training approaches…