Bruce Tulgan

Bridging the Soft Skills Gap (eBook, PDF)

How to Teach the Missing Basics to the New Hybrid Workforce

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Nurture and develop well-rounded team players by focusing on soft skills development People entering the professional world are better educated than ever before. Their technical skills are often off-the-charts, helping them make short work of even the most challenging tasks. At the same time, however, many of these very same people lack soft skills we've often taken for granted. In the newly revised second edition of Bridging the Soft Skills Gap: How to Teach the Missing Basics to the New Hybrid Workforce, veteran business advisor, speaker, and consultant Bruce Tulgan delivers a practical and incisive roadmap to developing crucial professionalism, critical thinking, and teamwork skills. You'll also find: * A collection of 92 instructive lesson plans designed to break soft skills down into their component parts and teach them one manageable piece at a time * An exploration of the soft skills gap, including what it means and how its impact on your organization will be felt * Explanations of why you can't hire your way around a soft skills gap An essential leadership handbook for executives, managers, and other business leaders, Bridging the Soft Skills Gap is a must-read resource for human resources professionals, team leaders, and front-line employees who deal with promising, but unpolished, talent.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119912071
• Artikelnr.: 66253532

Autorenporträt

BRUCE TULGAN is a sought-after speaker, leader, and advisor to businesses and executives around the world. He is the Founder of RainmakerThinking, Inc., which works with top companies on improving their management practices, as well as the bestselling author of It's Okay to be the Boss, Managing Generation X, and Not Everyone Gets a Trophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One the Soft Skills Gap 1

Prologue Meet the Workforce of the Future 3

Chapter 1 The Soft Skills Gap 9

The Soft Skills Gap: Growing Steadily from Gen X to Millennials to Gen Z to Whoever Comes Next 11

Something Much Larger Is Going on Here: The Post- Boomer Generational Shift 11

Soft Skills Are - Sort of - About Conforming in an Age of Non conformism 14

The Soft Skills Gap: The Missing Basics in Today's Workforce 17

Face the Hard Realities of the Soft Skills Gap 24

Chapter 2 You Can't Hire Your Way Around the Soft Skills Gap 27

Staffing Strategy and Hiring 28

Onboarding and Up- to- Speed Training 33

Performance Management and Talent Development36 Ongoing Training 38

The Human Element: What Role Are You Going to Play? 43

Become a Teaching Style Manager 45

Take It to the Next Level 48

Chapter 3 Unlocking the Power of Soft Skills 49

Drill Down: The Missing Basics 52

Unlocking the Power of Soft Skills 54

Unlocking the Power: The Rest of This Book 59

Part Two Teaching the Missing Basics 61

Chapter 4 Teaching the Missing Basics of Professionalism 63

Teaching Self- Evaluation 63

Self- Evaluation: Lesson Plan #1 68

Self- Evaluation: Lesson Plan #2 - Evaluating Yourself on Ability, Skill, and Will 69

Self- Evaluation: Lesson Plan #3 - Evaluating Yourself on Productivity, Quality, and Behavior 70

Self- Evaluation: Lesson Plan #4 - Evaluating Yourself on the Key Soft Skills Competencies71

Self- Evaluation: Lesson Plan #5 - Drill Down on Understanding the Key Soft Skills Competencies76

Self- Evaluation: Lesson Plan #6 - Explore Your Own Successes with the Key Soft Skills 80

Teaching Personal Responsibility 84

Personal Responsibility: Lesson Plan #1 - Introduction 86

Personal Responsibility: Lesson Plan #2 - All the Factors That Get in Your Way 87

Personal Responsibility: Lesson Plan #3 - Considering the Most Common Factors, Mostly Outside Your Own Control, That Get in the Way at Work 88

Personal Responsibility: Lesson Plan #4 - Response Power 90

Teaching Positive Attitude 92

Positive Attitude: Lesson Plan #1 - Considering Theories of How to Be Your Best at Work 94

Positive Attitude: Lesson Plan #2 - Defining "Good Attitude" Behaviors 95

Positive Attitude: Lesson Plan #3 - Considering the Most Common Bad Attitudes 96

Positive Attitude: Lesson Plan #4 - Considering Good Attitude Behaviors 98

Positive Attitude: Lesson Plan #5 - for Individuals Who Need an Attitude Adjustment100

Teaching Good Work Habits 101

Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan #1 - Overview: Wellness, Self- Presentation, Timeliness, Productivity, Attention to Detail, Follow- Through, Initiative 104

Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan #2 - Self- Assessment 106

Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan #3 - Self- Improvement Planning 108

Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan #4 - Wellness 109

Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan #5 - Planning a Wellness Initiative 110

Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan #6 - Self- Presentation 113

Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan #7 - Using a Time Log to Learn to Start Living by a Schedule 115

Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan #8 - How to Make a Basic Project Plan 119

Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan #9 - Taking Notes and Making Checklists 121

Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan #10 - How to Do a Time/Motion Study on Your Own Work 123

Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan #11 - Spotlight on Follow- Through 124

Good Work Habits: Lesson Plan #12 - Going the Ex