Soft Skills : How to See, Measure and Build the Skills That Make Us Uniquely Human / Mihnea Moldoveanu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moldoveanu, Mihnea, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in management.

Business communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2024]

Summary:

Although communicative and relational skills are currently in the greatest demand in organizations large and small, we are as educators, executives, and talent developers very far away from the kind of precision in identifying, measuring, selecting and developing these skills that we have achieved with cognitive and technical skills. At the same time, the relentless automation of swaths of human tasks has placed a sharp light on the ‘quintessentially human skills’ – those that cannot and in some cases should not be subject to algorithmic automation. This book aims to ‘change the soft skills game’ by introducing language for identifying and describing them, ways of measuring the degree to which a person possesses them and selecting those who possess them in the utmost from those less skilled, and ways of helping students and executives alike develop them, through a methodology that has been designed and practiced for the past ten years. We need a ‘re-set’ in the way we think about human skill and in particular the ways we think about those human skills which cannot be sub-contracted to an algorithm running on silicon. This book aims to provide that re-set.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Chapter 1 ‘Soft’ Skills: A Trend, a Gap, an Opportunity

Chapter 2 What Are Those Skills We Call ‘Soft’?

Chapter 3 How Do We Measure and Evaluate Soft Skills?

Chapter 4 How Do We Develop Soft Skills?

Chapter 5 The Communicative Skill Development Lab: A Solution Concept for Higher Education

Chapter 6 The ‘Soft-Talent Machine’: A Solution Concept for Organizations

References

Bibliography: Additional References Consulted

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783111055527

3-11-105552-3