7 Ways Soft Skills Keep Employees Engaged and Connected
When company leaders lack soft skills, this can have a negative trickle-down effect on the company's employees, culture, and bottom line....
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Being Overlooked at Work? Here Are the 7 Soft Skills You Need to Advance Your Career
Yes, hard skills—specific knowledge and ability, especially technological skill—are still important. But on their own they are not enough. Employers want to hire people who...
Workforce Development Programs Succeed at Teaching Soft Skills to Students
"Participants are promised an interview, not a job," Brown told me. Fortunately for him, last summer he was offered a job interning at the Chattanooga...
All Students Need Social-Emotional Skills Training
“Properly applied in schools all the good markers climb: grades, IQ, behavior, student engagement and satisfaction, teacher happiness … and all the adverse markers decline:...
Hard Times Ahead for Those Who Lack Soft Skills
Soft skills, also known as social, emotional, and behavioral skills, at one time may have been called character. Researchers like psychologist Angela Duckworth have identified...
3 Soft Skills You Need to Be Career Ready
There’s a lot included in this competency, such as clear, coherent writing and oral expression of your thoughts and ideas. But Barber includes another aspect...
Emotional Intelligence: Managing Your Emotions Are Vital to Success at Work, Home, and Your Community
BE Modern Man provides three tips for managing emotions to foster great performance at work, home and in life....
More Economic Facts Affecting Your Child’s Education: Fact 5
One year of additional schooling lowers the probability of a student later being unemployed by 3.6 percentage points, of being on welfare by 5.5 percentage...
14 Economic Facts Impacting Our Kids’ Education
The Hamilton Project has released 14 economic facts about education in America, including student poverty, teacher salaries, and education spending....
The Habits of Successful People
What are habits of success that can matter as much as the acquisition of academic knowledge? Critical habits include perseverance and social awareness....