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Soft skills are more valuable than hard skills

CLO Magazine

We know some people don’t like to use the term soft skills, implying that the skills may be inferior. While core skills or power skills may be better, soft skills is the term most people understand and use. Three important data sets suggest executives consider hard skills to be more valuable than soft skills.

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Business-aligned strategies for Leadership Development: An Interview with Dr. Yvonne Catino, VP, Leadership and OD, Infopro Learning

Infopro Learning

Empowering leaders is the key for organizational success in the cut-throat competitive business environment of today. For modern businesses, the key to successful leadership development is achieving an appropriate balance between knowledge-exchange, action and reflection. It addresses financial acumen as well as soft skills.

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Closing the Skills Gap: How to Find and Develop Capable Employees

KnowledgeCity

In 2018, we published an article about the skills gap in the United States – the difference between the number of unfilled positions and the number of people with the proper skills to fill those positions. These include soft skills like communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and basic reading and writing.

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How to Grow Your Business with a Membership Website: 6 Tips to Make it Happen

LearnDash

Are you looking to grow your business with a membership website? Or are you considering planting your business with a membership site as your foundation? If you’re in the business of doing business, then you’re probably looking at ways to make more money. And to make more money, you’re going to need to grow your business.

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How to apply active listening skills to your remote team

Poll Everywhere

In the business world, active listening is a critical skill that receives far too little focus and even less practice! Business leaders who can improve their active listening skills will be able to better connect with their remote team.

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The Degreed Vision: Automation, AI, and a Skills-first Future

Degreed

Are you skills-first or skills-last? But sometimes it can feel very all-or-nothing when you’re exploring skills-first principles, or focusing on the skills people have and gain rather than their job titles or the auspiciousness of their college degrees. Just kidding. It’s not that simple. And for good reason.

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5 Ways a business LMS supports learner engagement

Matrix

Now, the measures businesses took during the pandemic have cemented it as the new normal of corporate L&D. Here are some tips for making sure that your business LMS supports learner engagement. Let’s take polls as an example. Furthermore, polls can gather feedback from managers, team leaders, and coaches.

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