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Top 5 Soft Skills - What Successful People Know that Every Employee Needs to Know
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Presenter:
Chris Osborn
Vice President of Organizational Strategy
@chrisosbornstl.
Host:
Jessica Petry
Sr. Marketing Specialist
@JessLPetry
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Poll Question: What is the single biggest
obstacle you face improving the soft skills of your
employees?
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Soft skills aren’t optional.
75%
of long-term job success depends on soft skills
SOURCE: Stanford Research Institute International and the Carnegie Mellon Foundation
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6.8%of total economy per
year in gross value added
Soft SkillsSoft Skills are important in every sector.
especially…
Business services
Retail
Public services
23%
202044%
2025
Contribution to the economy is expected to grow…
SOURCE: January 2015 McDonald’s report on the economic value of soft skills
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CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK / LEARNING CULTURE 63%
CAREER ADVANCEMENT OPPORTUNITIES 60%
NON-TECHNICAL / SOFT SKILL TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 60%
EMPLOYEE KNOWLEDGE-SHARING 57%
SOURCE: Workforce.com, The Lego-ization of Learning. APQC “Training and Development Trends” Report
What They Need Now
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SOURCE: Workforce.com, The Lego-ization of Learning. APQC “Training and Development Trends” Report
What They Will Need in 2020
70%
Greater soft skills competence.
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9
Gender equality and diversity
Rise of the millennials
Strategic Business Challenges of 2015
Leads to need to truly innovate
Desire to update
cultures
Where does my company fit in this new market reality?
Rebranding
for customer engagement, sales,
marketing and more!
Mobile /online
channelsOutbound sales
doesn’t work anymore, inbound must be embraced
B2B sales /marketing
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Great! But…back-end struggles
Front-end innovation
Strategic Business Challenges of 2015
Leads to need to truly innovate
Desire to update
cultures
Survival in healthcare (and
likely other industries, too)
Adaptability
Outbound sales doesn’t work
anymore, inbound must be embraced
B2B sales /marketing
How can we meet these challenges?
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What are soft skills?
Sometimes, easier to say what they are not . . . .
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Methods, processes
or disciplines
Occupational skills
Knowledge
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What are soft skills?
Critical Thinking
Learning Agility
Accountability
Emotional Intelligence
Collaboration
…
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10 Things Successful People Do Differently1. They commit to goals2. And they persist until they achieve them3. They take responsibility4. They work hard5. Find people who are doing what they want and emulate them6. They believe in themselves and their vision7. They take care of themselves8. They rest and recharge9. They constantly learn10. They make mistakes and learn from them
SOURCE: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/10-things-successful-people.html
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10 Things Successful People Do Differently1. They commit to goals2. And they persist until they achieve them3. They take responsibility4. They work hard5. Find people who are doing what they want and emulate them6. They believe in themselves and their vision7. They take care of themselves8. They rest and recharge9. They constantly learn10. They make mistakes and learn from them
EQ AccountabilityCritical ThinkingCollaborationLearning Agility
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10 Things Successful People Do Differently1. They commit to goals2. And they persist until they achieve them3. They take responsibility4. They work hard5. Find people who are doing what they want and emulate them6. They believe in themselves and their vision7. They take care of themselves8. They rest and recharge9. They constantly learn10. They make mistakes and learn from them
EQ AccountabilityCritical ThinkingCollaborationLearning Agility
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10 Things Successful People Do Differently1. They commit to goals2. And they persist until they achieve them3. They take responsibility4. They work hard5. Find people who are doing what they want and emulate them6. They believe in themselves and their vision7. They take care of themselves8. They rest and recharge9. They constantly learn10. They make mistakes and learn from them
EQ AccountabilityCritical ThinkingCollaborationLearning Agility
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10 Things Successful People Do Differently1. They commit to goals2. And they persist until they achieve them3. They take responsibility4. They work hard5. Find people who are doing what they want and emulate them6. They believe in themselves and their vision7. They take care of themselves8. They rest and recharge9. They constantly learn10. They make mistakes and learn from them
EQ AccountabilityCritical ThinkingCollaborationLearning Agility
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10 Things Successful People Do Differently1. They commit to goals2. And they persist until they achieve them3. They take responsibility4. They work hard5. Find people who are doing what they want and emulate them6. They believe in themselves and their vision7. They take care of themselves8. They rest and recharge9. They constantly learn10. They make mistakes and learn from them
EQ AccountabilityCritical ThinkingCollaborationLearning Agility
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10 Things Successful People Do Differently1. They commit to goals2. And they persist until they achieve them3. They take responsibility4. They work hard5. Find people who are doing what they want and emulate them6. They believe in themselves and their vision7. They take care of themselves8. They rest and recharge9. They constantly learn10. They make mistakes and learn from them
EQ AccountabilityCritical ThinkingCollaborationLearning Agility
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6 Common Characteristics of Highly Successful People1. They never try – they do by setting goals, sacrificing and celebrating small
wins along the way2. They leverage everything – highly successful people have unique ability to
make use of every bit of their human experience3. They give more than they take4. They conquer hearts – it’s all about relationships5. They give up – what doesn’t work, they discard and try something else –
quickly.6. They are “A” students – they study LIFE; learn from mistakes, they read,
the study other people’s problems, they are curious!
SOURCE: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/6-common-characteristics-highly-successful-people.html
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EQ
Accountability
Critical Thinking
Collaboration
Learning Agility
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The one differentiator between high performing employees and others . . . a soft skill…
emotional intelligence
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Emotional Intelligence Defined:
The ability of individuals to recognize their own and other people's emotions, to discriminate between different feelings and label them appropriately, and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior.
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Emotional intelligence is the “something” in each of us that is a bit intangible. It affects how we manage behavior, navigate social complexities, and make personal decisions that achieve positive results.
Travis Bradberry, Emotional Intelligence 2.0
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Average IQ people outperform high IQ people 70% of them time…
90% of top performers are also high in emotional intelligence
People with high EQ make more money.$29,000 more per year than people with a low degree of EQ.
EQ is an important workplace skill and predictor of success in all types of jobs.
SOURCE: Travis Bradberry, Emotional Intelligence – EQ, Forbes, January 2014.
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Two most important factors: warmth and competence
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, by Amy Cuddy
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Emotional Intelligence EQCan be learned and unlearned
The connection and interaction of the emotional and rational parts of our brain
Strategies to adopt and improve
Attitudes, choices and behaviors
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WHAT I SEE WHAT I DO
PERSONAL COMPETENCE
SOCIAL COMPETENCE
Self-Awareness
Social Awareness
Self - Management
Relationship
Management
SOURCE: Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves
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Learning Agility Defined:
The willingness and ability to learn from experience
and the ability to apply what you’ve learned for
effective performance in new or unfamiliar conditions.
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Why is Learning Agility Important?The hallmark of someone with learning agility is that they learn lessons from diverse experiences and are able to distill those down to rules of thumb so that, when they’re put in an unfamiliar situation, they aren’t stumped by it. It’s almost become a price of entry for success now, especially in leadershipand executive roles.
SOURCE: Victoria Swisher, author of Becoming an Agile Leader, quoted in The Importance of Agility, Human Resources Executive
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…Agility is demonstrated by the ability to quickly solve day-to-day business
problems, to identify new processes and frameworks for speed of delivery,
to cross global and functional lines without faltering, and to accept, respond,
and initiate change.
Employees who can identify opportunities, adapt,
and thrive in the reality of change have a propensity
to be high performers. Given the right resources and
investment in learning, these traits are achievable
across the entire organization.”John Ambrose, Sr. Vice
President Strategy,
Skillsoft
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Collaboration Defined:
A framework for decision-making and communication
whereby individuals work together with others to
achieve common goals.
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Collaboration Defined:
Collaboration is characterized by transparent sharing
of information, proactive communication, open
environment where members of teams and groups are
free to ask questions, make suggestions and
communicate.
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Who is more valuable?
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Collaboration tends to…
Increase innovationBreak down silosSpeed to Market
Increase organizational IQ
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Critical Thinking Defined:
Critical thinking is the ability to identify an issue, dilemma, or problem; frame it as a specific question; explore and evaluate information relevant to the question; and integrate the information into development of a resolution.
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V U C AVOLATILITY UNCERTAINTY COMPLEXITY AMIBIGUITY
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Accountability Defined:
An obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions.
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Accountability can’t happen without agreement and ownership. It’s not about pointing fingers or discipline.Three keys to developing accountability:
1. Clear expectations2. Create clarity.
Does everyone understand the expectations?
3. Create ownership
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What, if anything, did this person learn that
was new?
How, if at all, did this person use the new
learning in some sort of job-specific behavior?
Did the usage of the learning help to produce any sort of worthwhile
outcome?
1 2
3
SOURCE: Telling Training’s Story by Robert O. Brinkerhoff
Measuring the Impact | Success Case Method
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Key Take-aways
Successful people and organizations share common characteristicsGoal orientedContinuous improvementEQOutwardly focused – collaborativeALL are competencies we can learn or raise our mastery level
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Questions?
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