Month: August 2018

The Real Value of Soft Skills

What is the difference between hard and soft skills? Hard skills are technical skills, the “how-to” of a job or activity. They generally follow consistent rules, are teachable and easy to quantify. Examples of hard skills include computer programming, machine operation and learning a foreign language. What we think of as soft skills are better…
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August 29, 2018 0

Put Me In, Coach!

A CEO once commented that too often employee training amounts to nothing more than an “annual mandatory sheep dipping.” In effect, provide a day or two of training for employees so employee development can be crossed off the checklist. He clearly understood the downside of this approach: Training alone does not result in mastery of…
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August 8, 2018 0