GET STARTED

Soft Skills Insights

We unpack behavior science, habit research, and academic research to provide practical insight into how to upgrade your people's critical thinking, communication, people management, and time management skills

Critical Thinking Process: 4 Questions that Improve Any Idea critical thinking people management Feb 10, 2020

As a manager or leader, responding and giving feedback to others will always be a large and critical part of your job. You must know how to improve others’ ideas, and you must know how to do so in rea...

Continue Reading...
Critical Thinking Can Be Learned. Here’s The Evidence-Based Way How. critical thinking Jan 30, 2020

Can critical thinking be learned? This question stands at the core of most of the world’s educational systems with significant and obvious implications for the business world. In fact, many would argu...

Continue Reading...
Top 3 Skills Leaders & Managers Should Develop in 2022 critical thinking people management Dec 19, 2019

The average professional has just 28 minutes per week to focus on their development (1% of their workweek). In this limited time, you must choose between 5,000 courses on LinkedIn Learning and 32,000 ...

Continue Reading...
Key Questions about Critical Thinking Answered critical thinking Dec 12, 2019

Attendees at our online intensive training, How to Become the Best Critical Thinker in Your Workplace, asked several thought-provoking questions. The following is recordings of Zarvana CEO Matt sharin...

Continue Reading...
Critical Thinking Example: How to Become Someone Others Go to for Advice critical thinking people management Dec 11, 2019

Are you ever asked: “What do you think we should do?” and find yourself without an intelligent response? Have you ever wondered why some people get asked all the time for their advice on topics they l...

Continue Reading...
Critical Thinking Example in Action: Microsoft’s 4-Day Workweek Experiment critical thinking Dec 04, 2019

Critical thinking is one of the most in-demand soft skills, but it can be difficult to see how important it is on a day-to-day basis without going through a real-life critical thinking example. In the...

Continue Reading...
Why Critical Thinking is Important in 2020 critical thinking Nov 27, 2019

The modern professional must be very intentional about their own development. In today’s rapidly evolving economy, the “half-life of many professional skills” is just 2.5 to five years. At the same ti...

Continue Reading...
16 Critical Thinking Skills that Will Make You Stand Out critical thinking Nov 22, 2019

Developing your critical thinking skills is one of the best ways to set yourself up for ongoing professional and life success. In fact, it’s more important than IQ in determining how many negative lif...

Continue Reading...
Defining Critical Thinking: What is & Why that Matters critical thinking Nov 14, 2019

When it comes to the topic of critical thinking, the most searched for related term is “critical thinking definition.” Over 18,000 people each month use Google to try to find out what critical thinkin...

Continue Reading...
100 Questions that Build Your Team’s Critical Thinking Skills critical thinking Nov 08, 2019

In what many at the time considered to be the omphalos – literally the center of the world – stood the most important shrine in all of Greece: the oracle at Delphi. People from all over the Greek empi...

Continue Reading...
How to Build Your Team’s Critical Thinking Skills critical thinking people management Oct 30, 2019

Critical thinking ranks among the most in-demand skills for job candidates and leads to better life and job outcomes.

Value of critical thinking skills

However, both educational institutions and employers have found it challenging ...

Continue Reading...
Critical Thinking & The Science of Picking Winning Ideas critical thinking Apr 23, 2019

If you’ve been reading business publications like this Inc. or Harvard Business Review, you likely have a high value for creativity and innovation. You probably spend a lot of time on idea generation–...

Continue Reading...
THE SOFT SKILLS NEWSLETTER

Want Research-Backed Soft Skill Insights in Your Inbox?

We'll send you a monthly email with our latest articles and offerings.

We won't send spam. Unsubscribe at any time.