Bridging the soft skills gap : how to teach the missing basics to today's young talent / Bruce Tulgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tulgan, Bruce, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soft skills.

Generation Y--Employment.

Generation Y.

Business etiquette.

Personnel management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

How to teach the missing basics to today's young talent

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Jossey-Bass, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Solve the number one problem with today's young workforce-the soft skills gap The number one challenge with today's young talent is a problem hiding in plain sight: the ever-widening soft skills gap. Today's new, young workforce has so much to offer-new technical skills, new ideas, new perspective, new energy. Yet too many of them are held back-and driving the grown-ups crazy-because of their weak soft skills. Here's what managers say: ""They just don't know how to behave professionally"" ""They arrive late, leave early, dress inappropriately, and spend too much time on social media"" ""Th

Contents:

Bridging the Soft Skills Gap: How to Teach the Missing Basics to Today's Young Talent; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part One The Soft Skills Gap; Prologue Meet the Newest New Young Workforce; Chapter 1 The Soft Skills Gap; The Soft Skills Gap: Growing Steadily from Gen X to Gen Y to Gen Z; Something Much Larger Is Going on Here: The Post-Boomer Generational Shift; Globalization; Technology; Institutional Insecurity; The Information Environment; Human Diversity; Gen Zers Are the Ultimate Non-Conformists in an Age of Non-Conformism; The Soft Skills Gap: The Missing Basics in Today's Young Talent

1. Old-Fashioned "Professionalism"2. Old-Fashioned "Critical Thinking"; 3. Old-Fashioned "Followership"; Face the Hard Realities of the Soft Skills Gap; Chapter 2 You Can't Hire Your Way Around the Soft Skills Gap; Staffing Strategy and Hiring; Step One; Step Two; Step Three; Step four; Step Five; Step Six; On-Boarding and Up-to-Speed Training; Performance Management and Talent Development; Ongoing Training; The Human Element: What Role Are You Going to Play?; Become a Teaching Style Manager; Take It to the Next Level; Chapter 3 Unlocking the Power of Soft Skills

Drill Down: The Missing BasicsUnlocking the Power of Soft Skills; Unlocking the Power: The Rest of This Book; Part Two How to Teach the Missing Basics to Today's Young Talent; Chapter 4 How to Teach the Missing Basics of Professionalism to Today's Young Talent; How to Teach Self-Evaluation; Self-Evaluation: Lesson Plan 1-Introduction; Self-Evaluation: Lesson Plan 2-Evaluating Yourself on Ability, Skill, and Will; Self-Evaluation: Lesson Plan 3-Evaluating Yourself on Productivity, Quality, and Behavior; Self-Evaluation: Lesson Plan 4-Evaluating Yourself on the Key Soft Skills Competencies

Self-Evaluation: Lesson Plan 5-Drill Down on Understanding the Key Soft SkillsSelf-Evaluation: Lesson Plan 6-Explore Your Own Successes with the Key Soft Skills; How to Teach Personal Responsibility; Personal Responsibility: Lesson Plan 1-Introduction; Personal Responsibility: Lesson Plan 2-All the Factors That Are in Your Way; Personal Responsibility: Lesson Plan 3-Considering the Most Common Factors That Get in the Way at Work; Personal Responsibility: Lesson Plan 4-Response Power; How to Teach Positive Attitude

Positive Attitude: Lesson Plan 1-Considering Theories of How to Be Your Best at WorkPositive Attitude: Lesson Plan 2-Defining "Good Attitude" Behaviors with Your Team-or Any Individual; Positive Attitude: Lesson Plan 3-Considering Common Bad Attitudes; Positive Attitude: Lesson Plan 4-Considering Good Attitude Behaviors; Positive Attitude: Lesson Plan 5-For Individual Employees Who Need an Attitude Adjustment; How to Teach Good Work Habits; Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan 1-Introduction; Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan 2-Self-Assessment; Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan 3-Self-Improvement Planning

Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan 4-Wellness

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119138167

1119138167

9781119171409

1119171407

9781119138150

1119138159

OCLC:

915136001