by Amrit & Loralyn There they are – middle managers, trapped in the heart of the corporate battlefield. They are not mere foot soldiers but renegades. As middle managers, they are forced to navigate… Cracking the Code: Why Soft Skills Are the X-Factor in Middle Management
Going forward into 2024 and beyond, it’s all up to how your middle managers perform. Your company’s performance depends on the performance of your middle management layer. Will they lead or lag? Professional development and leadership training can make all the difference.
By Amrit & Loralyn These days, the world is weird and wonky. Earth has become a tough place to navigate. The spikey little virus wreaked havoc on just about every paradigm and social norm… Bot Got Your Job? Fight Back With Soft Skills
by Amrit & Loralyn If our cover photo made you uncomfortable, that’s okay – we had a hard time with it, too, and have an even more difficult time seeing the encampments on the sidewalks… Summer Camp – Hope for the Pandemic Kids
In our previous blog, you read that businesses in the USA are losing close to $ 500 billion on their employees’ tendency to embrace quiet quitting. These employees are leaving to take other jobs. Gallup cites retention losses by American businesses at over $1 trillion.
Quiet quitting and the state of unproductivity associated with it costs American businesses $ 500 billion every year.
The statistics make the workplace sound pretty bleak. Productivity is tanking. People aren’t communicating with each other all that often anymore – let alone effectively. What do you do? Employee training may be the only answer.
Everyone debates if we should call them soft skills or essential skills or human skills or people skills – but nobody debates how skills like critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and communication are for success in interviewing and building interpersonal relationships.
Adult temper tantrums are on the rise. Even celebrities like Zayn Malik, Gigi Hadid, and Yolanda Hadid are reportedly experiencing them. COVID has created so much stress for all of us – we need to readjust to the new world order and increase our own self-awareness and self-agency to ensure everyone has a safe place to work.
by Eleanor I’m an intern attending graduate school. Over the past year we have all witnessed the switch from in-person classes to online learning. Regular classrooms were traded in for zoom sessions, in person communication… How Starting Grad School During a Pandemic Taught Me Essential Soft Skills