Brian Lowery isn’t a fan of the term “soft skills.” “I feel like it has the connotation of not being important stuff,” Brian says. A professor of organizational behavior and a senior associate dean of academic affairs at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), he finds the label too dismissive and somewhat off-target. But as the recognition of the...
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A whopping 91% of talent professionals agree that soft skills are very important to the future of recruiting and HR. That’s according to LinkedIn’s Global Talent Trends 2019 report, which surveyed over 5,000 talent professionals around the world. But while there is near unanimity about the significance of soft skills, there is no consensus about how to evaluate...
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Royal Dutch Shell is a global energy company that has always valued soft skills, even as the particular skills it prizes have changed. For example, Shell once considered it important for employees to be able to engineer agreement among stakeholders because decisions at the company were driven by consensus. Over time, Shell began to see that consensus didn’t...
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The psychologist Nicholas Humphrey once stated that a person’s social intelligence — the soft skills they use to interact with their...
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Eight in 10 talent professionals say soft skills (like creativity, collaboration, and adaptability) are increasingly important to...
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Here’s a not-so-bold prediction: there’s a decent chance you’ll be searching for someone with cloud computing skills in the near...
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