Soft Skills Insights

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...

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...

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...

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...

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–...

When we think of the greatest minds, we tend to default to those who see into the future and come up with history-changing ideas out of thin air. These are the people who possess unusual levels of cre...

Ranking number two on the World Economic Forum’s list of top skills required for the high-paying jobs of 2020 is critical thinking. And critical thinking is only beat by complex problem-solving, which...

When coaching or training people on how to reach their full potential at work, it’s easy for me to get them riled up in less than a minute: tell them they should have less than 3 email folders.

While...