Tag: Soft Skills

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Your smart skills are those of relating, empathising, sharing feelings effectively, expressing feelings effectively, engaging others, influencing, persuading, inspiring, convincing and supporting. Wrongly dubbed ‘soft’ skills, these smart skills are harder than hard skills (trades, operations, sciences and professions) to master. Under our current global situation, with workforces more dispersed and stressed, […]

How come we call people skills ‘soft skills’ when they appear to be the most challenging, difficult and needed skills in commerce and government, requiring courage, authenticity and practice? I wonder if they were named by a boss who was scared to be seen as both caring and competent and wanted to be seen as […]