For years debates have raged about the values of hard and soft skills. Which are paid more? Which are most critical in current workplaces? Answers have changed radically. How so?
Along with compelling societal changes and emerging markets that expand across global landscapes, come new challenges for different skills.
Hard skill proclivities toward math, science, and technology … neglect people skills, tone tactics, and artistic components that oil key engines such as social networking.
Similarly, soft skill tendencies for art, communication and humanities … leave workers in the dust when science or engineering requirements surface. No longer do separate hard and soft skills equip workers for innovative solutions at work.
Simply put, no longer do traditional hard or soft skills … guarantee personnel or business benefits. So what capabilities will take a firm forward in the next era?
Luckily, along with new market demands for more diverse capabilities … come remarkable insights about the brain at work. For instance, people are drawing from their full mix of intelligences, and successful workers in today’s market cultivate what I call smart skills. There are 50 and with each one developed you also gain brainpower.
How many of these brain based competencies give your workplace a competitive edge?
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