Soft Skills Insights

During a board meeting I volunteer to attend, the treasurer presented financial projections that showed our fund balance would grow from under $2M to over $7M in 5 years. People were excited and...

As AI takes over additional tasks, we will increasingly focus our efforts on skills like complex problem-solving. This is one of the reasons problem-solving makes LinkedIn’s list of the ...

Miscommunication is one of the leading causes of project delays and failures. According to the Project Management Institute, “ineffective communications is the primary contributor to...

Critical thinking is providing a robust answer to a question. One of the most basic and widely used ways we come to answers is to learn from the past and from others. We call these...

How you make sense of the information you read online has a direct effect on your life and your job. Most knowledge workers and managers spend a significant portion of their day searching and...

You do a brainstorming session with your team, compile the list of ideas, and then have everyone vote on which idea they think is most creative (i.e., valuable and novel). The idea with the most...

It would make sense to assume that winning negotiations is the most productive – and therefore desirable – course of action. After all, if you get what you want, you will likely be more...

Procrastination – or at least chronic procrastination – hampers productivity. The reasons why are obvious. However, a moderate amount of procrastination when it comes to certain types...

Are critical thinking skills just a gift some are born with and others are not? Or do you just pick them up as you go through life and have more experiences?

That is the question that CEO Matt...

You may think that scrolling endlessly through social media is a harmless way to decompress after a long day of work and let your mind relax. And the latest research on the mental and...

In business, we often have the perception that brilliant ideas come either from the minds of geniuses or through intense, focused collaborative thinking. While both are sources of creative...

You are likely sabotaging the quality of your decisions if you lack a simple, repeatable decision-making process to ensure you approach decisions in a consistent way. When it comes to...