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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (XV, 220 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783111050591
  • 9783111055633
  • 9783111055527
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.3/124 23//eng/20240418eng
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
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.

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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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